Just got home last night from a trip to Moab, UT and Ouray, CO. We took a 4WD trip through Corkscrew pass near the peak of Red Mountain in the San Juan mountain range, where I took this panoramic shot.

Thank you! That does much to ease the pain and keep the world in balance.

I love Moab!

Great pic! :thumb:

Thanks, me too. This was our 3rd trip there and definitely not the last. This time we did a night time hike up to delicate arch. The stars up there were amazing with no light pollution.

https://i.imgur.com/eaLabSo.jpgI took this yesterday.

Hefty storm went through. Killed my well motor so I went out to start it. Lightning also struck an oil tank battery. Out here they just have to let those burn. FD makes sure nothing else is at risk and then let it go. There just isn’t the equipment to put those out out here.

So there’s a lot of smoke right? Well the air was doing weird shit. It was dead ass calm where I was several miles away, but obviously it wasn’t calm the whole way.

The fire is in the bottom right of the picture.

That's a really cool photo.

uh.....about all I see in the bottom right is grass or wheat or whatever the hell you're growing.

On the topic of meteorology, we had this rainbow a few weeks ago. I thought the color difference over and under the rainbow, and between the two bands of the rainbow, were quite unusual.

Rain man and buehler great pictures!
Brings back memories of watching the storms at Fort Hays State
We had a lightening strike once and the clouds were on the other side of town

Corn, fool.

LMAO
HEY! Just because you don't know up/down from left/right is no reason get testy.

It’s the bottom/ right on the horizon man. You know, where the smoke is coming from. :D

Y'all want to see a great pic? Look at my avatar, you simps!

Damn. That's a crazy look.

Especially that big fire in the bottom right corner of the picture. I'm surprised the photographer wasn't burned to death.









:D

Eh, I knew what he meant (bottom-right of the smoke cloud).

I did too, I just wanted to poke some fun at him.:thumb:

ROFL Yeah yeah yeah.

Not mine...
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Got hassled for taking this one:

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This was a weekend trek into the woods from last week.

Did you take it from the road? Federal Penitentiaries frown on coming on their grounds snapping pictures. The public road that can't do much about.

For those who don't know that's the Big House Leavenworth Federal Penitentiaries.

This is the last in the series as I moved closer. Would have gotten a closer pic if I wasn't rolled upon on all sides by security jeeps and guards running towards me with their hands on their guns. Proceeded by a very unpleasant discussion.

I'm very lucky I wasn't arrested.

Just phone shots but the sunrise downtown this morning was really nice.

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I have done a lot of work on the Army base it a really cool historic base. The Fed Pen sucks but in 2008 got out the survey instrument out and we watched mike Vick in the yard throwing the football with the other cons.

I had a run-in working on the new army max disciplinary barracks that was going to be one of the sites to house Guantanamo prisoners of war when Obama was to close them. It didn't happen and became the permanent home of the Army bad of the bad prisoners. The existing Military Disciplinary Barracks is where I had my run in. I was told by construction super I was free to go anywhere on the base that wasn't inside a security fence. I drove my truck around a ring road outside the perimeter of the barracks. I took a dirt trail up a steep 3:1 slope that was at about 80 feet above the Disciplinary Barracks. Then a military ring road guard pulled up while I was setting a tripod with GPS unit. Sternly told me to spread legs facing my truck with hands against topper side panels. He slowly walked toward me with an M4 rifle frisked me and took my leatherman. Then questioned me while holding his finger outside the trigger. This was a kid that couldn't be 20 years old but he meant business. Anyway, I was cuffed taken to the office questioned we had permits and I had gone through Federal background checks. I was released and allowed to retrieve my truck and equipment. I went to JE Dunn supers trailer office and gave him a piece of my mind and he wouldn't get his control point in that location. He blew his stake and was on phone to base commander. I got an apology and was able to go about anywhere outside the fencing.

Did you get the leatherman back?

NEOWISE over the San Tan mountains just outside Phoenix this morning.

https://i.imgur.com/pCDrhBa.jpg

Galaxy S10e. Pro settings: F/1.5,4". ISO400. 6 stacked frames (burst shots) to produce the final image using CombineZP.

You just happened to be outside with your camera? Amazing.

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Originally Posted by eDave (Post 15060168) Neowise heading NE over the San Tan mountains just outside Phoenix this morning.

How long (time) was it visible?
Cool Shot

Planned trip out of the city lights to see it. There were about a dozen other people there with many cars pulled over on the highway. It was visible about 90 minutes before sunrise for the last two days and will return after July 15 but after sunset.

Overall it looked static in the sky with the sunrise washing away the view.

I just read that this thing can be seen every morning? I assumed it was going to be here and gone like a thief in the night.

Left the house to go exercise. The house next door had an Osprey sitting on a pole with its lunch, a sea trout.


https://thumbnails-photos.amazon.com...=AKC04QMBKJKS0

I hadn't heard of it either, so looked it up. Can't believe I hadn't heard of it.

The only thing more amazing than that photograph is that Dave was sober enough to take it.

You owe us a picture or 977 more words.

bummer I can see the picture.

There it is!

It was odd. When I quoted you I could see the link, but the picture didn't show up.

They are some very aggressive birds. All the other animals and birds(besides the crocs) give them a wide berth. Some bird happens into an Ospreys sight, if the Osprey looks at the bird, no matter how far away it is, it immediately takes off. Some bald eagles are nesting around here but they usually go somewhere else instead of fighting the Ospreys.

We have the tallest tree on the Island where we live. An Osprey built a nest there. It seems to have squawking babies there year around for the last 3 years.

So, if you want the geekyness behind it (and perhaps useful considering this thread is all about posting pics)...

If you go to the link, you get HTTP ERROR 401, which is 'unauthorized'... so, it's not public beyond BRC's Amazon.

BRC might be able to see it though, because it's his picture and cached in the browser.

Also, image tags don't do well if the URL doesn't point directly to the picture... in this case, instead of CP trying to hit and display amazon.com/TroutUpAPole.jpg, it's just going to some page, and one that it can't reach.


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thanks man, I thought I’d changed the rights to public. I was hoping to use it instead of imgur etc. sites.

I threw 20K+ pics up on Amazon for safekeeping. They are pretty liberal with their pic storage options. Vids, not so much.

yes, it was returned.

Hell, my truck went through security every day had to open all doors and hood. I was to stand to the side present my driver's license and JE Dunn contractor ID card couldn't miss it on my belt. That truck is full of sledgehammers shovels brush hooks and machetes all sorts of sharp pointy things. I dont blame the guard just doing his job.

Thats a great pic! Better than anything I ever saw from Dave Lane.

Thank you for the last picture of the Amelia Earhart Bridge...I grew up in Atchison Kansas. I never remembered it looking like that though.

about a mile from me. Skyview bridge. Its what the cruise ships go under to get out onto the open water.

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Nowhere near as good as yours, but here's my cell phone shot from this morning.
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Nice. Such a thrill to see wasn't it?

It was a lot easier to see than I had expected. I kept seeing suggestions to bring binoculars to help you find it. I did, and they were nice to have, but I spotted it as soon as I stepped out of the car (and I wasn't out of the city's range of light pollution at all).

A genuinely impressive bridge, wow... I’ve never seen one that steep before

That looks nice because they had to rebuild the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay. Here's what happened to the original in 1980 when a freighter hit the bridge and 35 people died.

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Looking north east from the area of 9th and Main downtown KC.

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WOW!:(

I was at my local Sunfresh to get lunch supply's for work. I caught this rainbow over the building along with a giant thumb racking for me.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5727d35951.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ec3602ec98.jpg

typed with my trusty nose picker using Tapatalk

Phoenix sunset last night through California wildfire smoke.
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Very pretty and nicely framed!

Speaking of smoke, here is a live cam of SF right now. It looks like it is still night time.

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/califor...anciscoskyline

Here's a shot from this morning at 7:30 out my brothers back door.

Wow, he lives in a bowl!

This is where I am right now, Inn on Fall River, Estes Park, CO. It's a slice of heaven.

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The golf course I played last Friday in The Villages, drove my own cart to the course. It's not as tough as it looks, didn't lose one ball. This is Belle Glade, we have 12 championship courses and 10 are 27 hole layouts like this one. We have 40 executive courses, which are 9 hole layouts of Par 3 and Par 4's, they're free. Summer rate was for this course was $36.

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My courtyard villa home in The Villages I bought new 9 years ago for $157K. I do my own landscaping, no grass to cut, so it's not that hard. The screen on the garage door keeps out lizards, snakes and bugs and yet you can leave the door up all day. Yes, the Sylvester Palm on the right needed trimming, I took care of that last week. The way to retire is to clear enough off your last house to pay cash for this one. No mortgage and amenity fee, TV, water, sewage, electric and phone/internet maybe $500 a month. This photo is about 2 months old and all the shrubs have just about doubled in size since then.

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Maybe some of you guys can post a photo of your home, it would be interesting to see how everyone else lives in the various parts of our country.

Nice place, DeepPurple. When I did my retirement location study in that thread a while back, Florida ranked pretty high for me. My wife has given it the spousal veto due to humidity, but if I was the king I'd definitely consider it as an eventual retirement location.

No humidity, I guess you're going to Arizona. I've never been there, but I grew up 100 miles from here in St. Petersburg, so I knew Florida would be my final location. I'm away from the water, which makes it nicer during hurricane season, but it's only a 90 minute drive to the Gulf beaches if I want to go. We are one hour from Orlando and an hour and half from Tampa. It's a good central location and we are at the intersection of I-75 and the Florida Turnpike, which makes everywhere accessible.

When I lived up in Maryland, I found half of the days in August it would hit 100, it never goes above 95 here. Humidity, isn't that what air conditioning is for? Come January when it's bitter cold in most places, we're about 70 degrees, if it goes down to 50 then that's really cold.

The Villages is still the fastest growing area in America, they sell about 200 new homes a month. Unfortunately all the homes are across the Florida Turnpike, they had to built three golf cart bridges for everyone to get from the new area to the established areas. This bridge crosses SR 44. The established area is 35 square miles and 2020 census was 127,000 people.

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My golf cart, 2011 Yamaha I bought new. I think we'll go to McDonalds for lunch and get an Egg McMuffin.

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^^^

You're living the life of Riley and deservedly so, good for you.

The Stanley Hotel under the backdrop of forest fire smoke.

https://i.imgur.com/MBc3oQ6.jpg

Hope you weren't planning on spending much time in the Park. And that the smoke isn't terribly bothersome.

I love storms. This was 2 years and 2 weeks ago, just east of where I live. Pretty sizable rotation in the rear with a massive powerful downdraft in front of it.

Here's a couple of photos of a shelf cloud as a strong storm rolled through. The first photo is of the cloud itself. The 2nd is a closeup of the front edge, where the wind gusts were strong enough to create a debris cloud.

Probably the only thing I ever really miss about KC are the storms. Thanks for the pics. They are really good.

Glad you like them. I'll just dump a few of my favorites here. I apologize for the yard clutter, we live on a farm. :D

Can only upload 5 at a time.

Finally, this really isn't weather but it's cool.

It's not the sun, it's actually the moon and it was pitch black outside save for a black light behind me. I was testing the night mode on my iPhone 11 Pro.

First one made me go woah.

It was about 2.5 miles away at the time I snapped that. I was out in the yard watching it form. Went to the house and told the kids to take cover and then went to the back door. It took me a couple second to recognize that it was not moving left or right, which meant it was either moving directly away from me or directly towards me.

Turns out it was moving right at me. I took cover after snapping the picture. The NWS damage path the next day showed it got about a mile from us and then cut hard to the southwest and dissipated.

That first one is pretty scary. I hope you survived.

We don't really see big storm fronts in Denver. The mountains are to our west and they tend to disrupt things. While approaching storms are sometimes scary looking, they were interesting to see when I was growing up in the Midwest.

None of those storms hit us directly. The last one that did was the August 10th derecho.

I wasn't home when it happened but I do have pics like this:

Well, shit. Looks like a lot of Estes is getting evacuated. Hope you're well.

Mandatory evacuation called around noon. Holy crap, coming down that mountain was a surreal experience. You have to be able to see smoke cloud, it was like driving into the night.