PHOTO THREAD.

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Tasmania is out there somewhere... and Antarctic beyond that..From Cape Woolamai Victoria.

 

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Tooradin. Vic.

 

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View attachment 8230Queenstown New Zealand

Wow you can seee the galaxy!

 

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Tasmania is out there somewhere... and Antarctic beyond that..From View attachment 8233 Cape Woolamai Victoria.

Beautiful

 

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Wow you can seee the galaxy!

Yes, the southern hemisphere seems to face directly into the Milky way... Is a beautiful sight from down Under.

 

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Wow you can seee the galaxy!

I do wonder if that pic was Photoshopped to a certain extent.

 

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I do wonder if that pic was Photoshopped to a certain extent.

230 million years for our solar system to orbit the galaxy

 

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I do wonder if that pic was Photoshopped to a certain extent.

You guys have some phenomenal oil painters

Ken knight,

 

[brakelite]

You guys have some phenomenal oil painters

Ken knight,

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Like that. So interesting watching him paint and how he puts it altogether. He's Australian, there's also a favourite of mine Kiwi water colour Peter McIntyre who died 20 years ago but was commissioned as a war artist and painted new Zealand landscape.

 

[brakelite]

Beautiful

That pic was taken with just my Phone... And it ain't a flash one either... Quite cool what you can get with the right conditions.

 

[Yehren]

Mrs. Barbarian's shot of Bainbridge Island, WA harbor, with Olympic Mountains behind. Shot with a telephoto lens from West Seattle.

 

[Yehren]

Puget Sound from downtown Seattle

 

[brakelite]

Mrs. Barbarian's shot of Bainbridge Island, WA harbor, with Olympic Mountains behind. Shot with a telephoto lens from West Seattle.

Nice light effect on the snow.

 

[Triumph1300]

Shelby lee Adams is one of my favorite photographers

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Snake handlers church.

 

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Lots of snow:

 

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Fort Steele Historical Site in BC, Canada

 

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Bonaparte Indian Reserve near Cache Creek, BC

 

[Helen]

When the middle of a lake becomes your only refuge... This was the middle of the day a few hours ago... And that motor may not even run through lack of oxygenView attachment 8229

Oh my goodness bless their hearts.
It is so dangerous for the old people when the air is that thick with smoke.
Very sad

Is any of this normal ...or are fires abnormal for you there?

 

[brakelite]

Oh my goodness bless their hearts.
It is so dangerous for the old people when the air is that thick with smoke.
Very sad

Is any of this normal ...or are fires abnormal for you there?

I remember 20 years ago the US went through a similar scenario of mega fires and great destruction. Over the course of 3 years many millions of acres of forest were destroyed, lives lost, buildings gutted. I well remember the answer of a forest service spokesman when asked... Why? I remember because I wrote a sermon on it. Good answer... Because we've been too good at putting out fires. For 60 years since the second World war, the USFS were granted almost unlimited funding and resources to fight fires. Remember Smokey Bear? He was a part of the fight. And they got very very good at putting out fires. The problem with that was that it left them with a major build up of fuel on the forest floor, which meant those mega fires were inevitable.
It's been the same here. The Aborigines knew what was at stake. They for 1000s of years had backburned the forest and grasslands to control the danger. So from the second World war in the US when they recognised that burning forests was a weapon the enemy could use against them (there a whole very interesting story about that where Germany did attempt to do just that) and the year 2000 was 60 years. From the time Australian authorities ceased backburning, (possibly as a result of misguided environmentalism) to the present time...60 years. Go figure.

 

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I remember 20 years ago the US went through a similar scenario of mega fires and great destruction. Over the course of 3 years many millions of acres of forest were destroyed, lives lost, buildings gutted. I well remember the answer of a forest service spokesman when asked... Why? I remember because I wrote a sermon on it. Good answer... Because we've been too good at putting out fires. For 60 years since the second World war, the USFS were granted almost unlimited funding and resources to fight fires. Remember Smokey Bear? He was a part of the fight. And they got very very good at putting out fires. The problem with that was that it left them with a major build up of fuel on the forest floor, which meant those mega fires were inevitable.
It's been the same here. The Aborigines knew what was at stake. They for 1000s of years had backburned the forest and grasslands to control the danger. So from the second World war in the US when they recognised that burning forests was a weapon the enemy could use against them (there a whole very interesting story about that where Germany did attempt to do just that) and the year 2000 was 60 years. From the time Australian authorities ceased backburning, (possibly as a result of misguided environmentalism) to the present time...60 years. Go figure.

Yes still waiting for the greens to show there faces, they have being hiding for sometime since this stared.