The awesome picture thread

[hardtail]

Glad you are getting moisture, we finally are, should help the fires and grazing, crops will be reduced though

[lorenzo]

Oresund tunnel/ bridge. 
From Sweden to Denmark.

[hardtail]

No worries about rising sea levels over there 😳 and yet plymouth rock still same level 400 years later 🤔

[mike newman]

...driving from   Queenstown   to the West   Coast   (South Island ...)   this is Lake Wanaka...(or part thereof...)

Mike

[Captian Kirk]

This iceburg has been sitting in the same spot for 2 weeks. It has grounded itself in 250' of water.

 

[mike newman]

On 2/3/2023 at 1:40 AM, hardtail said:

Going through the slides must be a great exercise? 😊

You and other?

Yes, Indeed, Lance...but as usual, after going through several hundred, I was delighted at the results...but.....seeing I set up the ''machine'' after a lull of several months, upon going to post the odd picture, I found..to my chagrin, that they are waaay too big....supposed to be about 3-5 kilopascals or whatever...I have done the impossible ...these are 17 to 20 kilobites...or whatever....If they could be posted...(they can't ...)   ..it would rip the sides out of the computer.....so ...sigh...I have had the machine sorted at the computer shop....awaiting the next   few raining and snowing    'daze'  for another attempt....

Mike

...(the electronic   wizard....)

[Gearclash]

On 6/12/2023 at 11:31 AM, sandhiller said:

Spitfire wing tipping a V1 to knock it off course.

 

On 6/12/2023 at 12:38 PM, stronger800 said:

Wouldn’t that thing auto correct and get back on course?  

I believe the V-1 just had a simple gyroscope to control it.  Pretty much just went in a straight line once launched.  If the course got altered, that it the way it continued.  It is my understanding, though, that the preferred method was to take the plane wingtip and carefully “flip” the V-1 wing so as to make it spin out of control and spiral down to earth in a remote area.  This trick was found to be preferable to trying shoot the thing down because being close enough to hit a V-1 meant that if it went BOOM when hit, the explosion was massive enough to take down the plane shooting at it.

[hardtail]

13 hours ago, mike newman said:

Yes, Indeed, Lance...but as usual, after going through several hundred, I was delighted at the results...but.....seeing I set up the ''machine'' after a lull of several months, upon going to post the odd picture, I found..to my chagrin, that they are waaay too big....supposed to be about 3-5 kilopascals or whatever...I have done the impossible ...these are 17 to 20 kilobites...or whatever....If they could be posted...(they can't ...)   ..it would rip the sides out of the computer.....so ...sigh...I have had the machine sorted at the computer shop....awaiting the next   few raining and snowing    'daze'  for another attempt....

Mike

...(the electronic   wizard....)

Never as easy as they claim, hoping you get the resizing sorted out, I'm sure they don't advertise that, you would think they would have settings? 

[mike newman]

.....The Northburn Station......one of several iconic   South Island Stations....I don't have a spare    33  to 35  Million   Dollars , or I would be tempted to buy it....although   the Homestead   /  HQ    area is not included in the sale.....

13, 177    Hectares   in total  ...around 35 thousand acres....running Merino Sheep and Cattle...

Pinched these pics off Real Estate  Brochure.....My favourite   sort of country.....!!!!!

..imagine the feral deer numbers on there ....

Mike

[superih]

For the 4th!

[mike newman]

.....Rainbow Station  ....Gene, the Station  boss, doing what he loves best...out on a horse with his hounds ,  ..no  other distractions.....

Mike

[sandhiller]

[sandhiller]

[Alan Dinan]

On 7/12/2023 at 3:59 AM, sandhiller said:

He’s being raised right!!

[sandhiller]

[jass1660]

Sunset during a storm from this spring I took. 

[mike newman]

....Abel Tasman    National Park....couple of winter time pictures.....'

,,,about   40 minutes from where I (we )   now live.....

..plenty of small secluded  , sandy beaches...were one can find ...large 'unsecluded '    tanned    bit...  ahh   Girls....

...those were the days when I had a big fizz boat , with the 200 HP    Johnson  clamped on the back....

...just a fading memory now...sigh

Mike

...someplace that @acem  in his misspent youth   would have thrived....

[sandhiller]

[Roossinck]

When my friends Sam & Raelynn got hitched last fall, Sam's 1086 was among the guests of honor. I was really glad that I decided to bring my camera gear along. 

Hoping to see this tractor on display at the CIH booth at the Iowa State Fair in a few days!

[Pete1468]

Here's one my son took of me cutting a building pad.

[mike newman]

14 minutes ago, Pete1468 said:

Here's one my son took of me cutting a building pad.

Caterpillar   reign supreme   !!     What model #      8  ?   

Mike

[Pete1468]

D7R, it's high hours, 2000 year and 19,700 hours and still gets it done.  Biggest down fall is the blade has been reskined and doesn't scour very easy.  The cab is much nicer then the old d7E open station I had started with.

[mikem]

On 7/27/2023 at 2:03 AM, sandhiller said:

So THATS where I left my cannon!!!!🤔

Mike

[lorenzo]

On 7/27/2023 at 2:03 AM, sandhiller said:

Thats an artificial reef with military items purposely placed for recreational diving. Theres army tanks, airplanes, Armored personnel carriers, and just about everything else you could Imagine scattered around.

Just off shore of Jordan .

[iowaboy1965]

On 7/29/2023 at 10:29 PM, mike newman said:

those were the days when I had a big fizz boat , with the 200 HP    Johnson  clamped on the back..

Fizzboats and a  big Johnson motor...there is a t shirt logo there somewhere.....