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Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 2:54 pm
by Scottie
That is to say, our own photos. Too often, photos taken by the lads get lost in Random Images or "At the . . . " threads. So post your pics!

These are nine quickies from the enormous "International" Night Market in Vancouver last night. And by "International" they mean "Chinese". Not so easy to shoot at night (I never use flash) with the Sony CyberShot I brought along but a few turned out alrightish. Wasn't up for lugging the bigger gear around. And those Sony's take a worthy snap.

1. The night market is much, much, bigger than it used to be. And far more crowded. It's also annoyingly brighter. The lighting on each vendor's stall is now just glaring. They switched the booths to some sort of planet friendly bulb that has the consequence of blinding anyone who looks directly at one. And the crowds this year have been huge. There's also loudspeakers on the streetlight poles (far right upper corner on pic below) that are turned up to distortion level so everything sounds just like a street market in Beijing or the ceaseless propaganda one hears at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. And there's fifty of them all torturing different announcements or pop music at the same time.

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2. Typical vendor. Although sellers of cell phone covers, those rubber things with cutesy images, are omnipresent; three bucks per. This is a knock-off jewelry vendor. She also has a booth that sells knock-offs of Hermes and Louis Vuitton purses which (authentically) run hundreds if not thousands of dollars; she sells them for $40.

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3. Knock-offs. Sock-offs. Who wouldn't want Gangnam Style socks? Or, better yet, Shin Ramyun socks (Upper right corner). Those are ten pairs for eight bucks. Pretty cheap when you consider that they were made somewhere in Taiwan or mainland China, sold, put on a container ship, crossed the Pacific, sold again, sold again to whoever that vendor bought it from, ended up at a market for eighty-cents per pair. What a world.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 2:59 pm
by Scottie
4. Food. The food court takes up about half of the space at night market. It is massive. The smells are incredible. Squid on a stick? You betcha. Anything and everything on a stick. Cup'o'octopus? Yup. Every type of quickie Chinese food imaginable. Kimchee pancakes. Bubble tea. Roasted corn. Deep fried anything. Dukk. Duck. Fish-flavoured ice cream. Various unidentifiable street market staples. Grilled fish, whole, ungutted. Spit roasted mystery beast. Ramen gelato. Red hot spicy pepper soda.

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5. More . . .

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6. Steamed pork buns in the shape of piggies and porcupines. Clever, eh.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:02 pm
by Scottie
7. The loneliness of the Pokemon-costumed, Ren & Stimpy knock-off purse wearing, soap-bubble gun wielding sales girl.

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8. Making "Dragon's Beard" candy apparently takes years and years to learn. I can see why; it is certainly delicate looking stuff, thinner than silk or angel-hair. Then powdered, dyed, and shaped into some fascinating edible art.

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9. I gotta get one of those signs for my office. Please Feel The Balls.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 4:59 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Scottie wrote:9. I gotta get one of those signs for my office. Please Feel The Balls.
Probably lifted from Kranepool's doctor's office.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:08 pm
by Shrew
DSafetyGuy wrote:
Scottie wrote:9. I gotta get one of those signs for my office. Please Feel The Balls.
Probably lifted from Kranepool's doctor's office.
or your friendly neighborhood "Reynolds Nap" office.

That one still kills me.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:37 am
by Pruitt
Great shots of the night market.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 7:42 am
by A_B
Those are cool. My best shots would all be family. I don't do a lot of shooting the surroundings.

I bet PDX would have some nice sumbissions.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:54 pm
by rass
The end of summer at the Jersey shore.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:09 pm
by cerrano
rass wrote:The end of summer at the Jersey shore.

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well done, rass.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:37 am
by Gunpowder
That is a nice photo.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:28 pm
by Steve of phpBB
That's really great work, rass.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:41 pm
by rass
Thanks guys. As per AB, I usually just end up taking pictures if my kids, and in this case was trying to get the camera set to get a shot of them leaning against the railing there in the foreground.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:39 am
by Shirley
This is a shot of my son climbing on playground equipment right by the London Eye. (hope it's not too huge)

Like others, I normally just use my phone and take shots of the family, so it's rare to take a "good" picture.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:42 am
by Scottie
Nice shot. Good one, Dave.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 1:19 pm
by govmentchedda
Cheating a little bit, because he's not a swamper, but good friend of Oiler and I, James Boone, had a few of his weather shots retweeted around the webs a bit in the last few weeks. It was strange to see Erin Andrews and a Washington political reporter retweet a good friend's work.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:20 pm
by rass
The lightening shots are really cool.

Ferris wheels are cool, huh? I tried taking some shots like Shirley managed to nail, with the wheel blocking the sun. As you can tell from the picture above, the wheel is West-ish from the boardwalk, but it was too far away to entirely block the sun.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:41 am
by Gunpowder
I don't know why but I think this picture is awesome.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:55 am
by The Sybian
Gunpowder wrote:I don't know why but I think this picture is awesome.

It's the ass. Actually, that is a really cool picture.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:57 pm
by Scottie
Fast and ferocious action on opening night at the Royal City Curling Club in New Westminster, British Columbia; a six-sheeter with ice reputed to be the lower mainland's finest.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:32 pm
by Scottie
Walked around Vancouver's Chinatown for a couple of hours this afternoon; it was a gorgeous Autumn day. Took a few shots with a tiny little Sony Cyber-Shot (14.1 megapixel) just to play around with the camera. Here's a dozen of 'em:

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:35 pm
by Scottie
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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:39 pm
by Scottie
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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:46 pm
by Scottie
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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:22 am
by howard
Dude, you've got a fine eye for framing and composition. Very nice.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:59 am
by Pruitt
Great shots of Chinatown.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:50 am
by DSafetyGuy
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I love this one. Just a hint of juxtaposition with the graffiti-tagged barrels in the bottom corner.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 10:56 am
by Scottie
Thanks. I got very, very, lucky on that shot for a couple of reasons. One is the guy sitting bottom center as if he just finished painting the mural or was posing for an album cover and second, which is almost unthinkably rare for bustling Chinatown, there was nobody else around thanks to the holiday.

(Dude on the bull is Lao Tzu)

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:06 pm
by Scottie
Here's a few shots from the Vancouver International Buddhist Temple, a remarkable (and lavish) temple down in Richmond, BC, from a couple of days ago. It was done up for Chinese New Year:

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:09 pm
by Scottie
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Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:13 pm
by Scottie
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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:53 pm
by Rush2112
Don't know why but I really like this photo.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:23 pm
by Scottie
Rush2112 wrote:Don't know why but I really like this photo . . .
Colorado has seagulls? Then again, they were all over the place in Edmonton.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:33 pm
by Rush2112
That was taken at Alcatraz Island.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 1:14 pm
by Jerloma
My female cat is straight from the gates of Hades, but she's pretty nonetheless.

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:06 pm
by Keg
Watching the sunrise in Punta Cana:

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:37 pm
by govmentchedda
Jerloma wrote:My female cat is straight from the gates of Hades, but she's pretty nonetheless.

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Maine Coon? We've got one too. Great fucking cat. Ours is half dog. Easy temperment, loves to cuddle, really loves running water.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:14 am
by rass
Not as pretty as Keg's, but it's Jersey, not the Caribbean.

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I did earn this one. I rolled out of bed a little after 5AM, biked down the boardwalk to the primary route out of town, and ran over the bridge connecting the island to the mainland (and back, about 5 miles total). There was a great view of Atlantic City to the right/East, but it was a little overcast in that direction and I couldn't get a great shot right at sunrise. I rode the bike back down to the beach, took a quick swim waiting for the sun to climb above the clouds, and got a couple of pictures once it did.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:11 pm
by rass
Sorry for two posts in a row, but I can't find another appropriate thread.

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One of those is the moon. The other is an annual memorial.

Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:18 pm
by Steve of phpBB
Had an awesome moose encounter at our cabin weekend before last.




Our kitten getting ready to pounce:

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Different perspective:

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The young one mugging for the camera:

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Meanwhile, Momma is not amused:

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Re: Swamp Photography

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:21 pm
by Gunpowder
Those are cool.