* The Weekly Image Thread 25 05 18 #971 *

19andrew47 · May 18, 2025

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Cloudforest · May 20, 2025

Thanks Roy. It is still a working church and is sited in a tiny village at the end of a valley next to England's deepest lake and close to England's highest mountain.

The area is visited by a lot of walkers and climbers.

Cloudforest · May 20, 2025

Thanks Chris.

Cloudforest · May 20, 2025

Thanks Rich. I'd never been in it before and it was nice to spend a few minutes in there.

Rich Z · May 20, 2025

Thanks, Pete. I also tried it quite a few years ago. It didn't go nearly as well as before. That's because my Dad wasn't there. Rich

Rich Z · May 20, 2025

Nice, grass makes a great subject when it's going to seed. Rich

softmarmotte · May 20, 2025

Rich Z said:
Nice, grass makes a great subject when it's going to seed. Rich

Are you saying I am going to seed Rich ?

softmarmotte · May 20, 2025

This first one is a really impressive sight Rich. How do they not all get tangled ?

Rich Z said:
It was a kite flying weekend on Humboldt Bay at Halvorsen Park in Eureka. A nice day with a nice, constant breeze and great skies. People fly kites here every suitable weekend, but this day was organized and advertised.

Looking N, the clouds coming from the W (left), moving fast to the right. You won't see the same clouds in these pictures. They came and went very quickly to be replaced by new ones.

This one would be good for video. It is spinning fast, like a pinwheel.

That's all. Rich

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Rich Z · May 20, 2025

Thanks, Rich. I hadn't thought about that before. I've watched and photographed the kites there for 50 years and I can't remember seeing any get tangled. It must happen, but not often. Rich

Rich Z · May 20, 2025

Gettin' old ain't fer sissies, Rich. I've learnt that the hard way. Rich

dt27348 · May 20, 2025

I took the bike over over on the ferry Rich. Lochbuie is about 14 miles from the ferry terminal.

Maybe there's an opening for pizza delivery by drone to the island.

Dave

dt27348 · May 20, 2025

Looks like a fun event Rich with lots of opportunities for pics. The kites are works of art and a huge step up from the kites of my childhood made from brown paper, canes and string.

Dave

dt27348 · May 20, 2025

Very nice light Rich and the grass looks healthier than the grass over here. We are in real need of some rain. Now that's something I don't say very often.

Dave

19andrew47 · May 21, 2025

51 years Rich, he must have died very young. He obviously means a lot to you. While I miss my parents I don't think of them often. My childhood was spent waiting to escape. Years after I had left home it was better but not enough for me to experience the feelings that you have for your dad. I wish it had been different for me but you can not change some things. As we get closer to the end of the line I find myself looking back often. Especially to our kids and the grandson. If we live long enough perhaps that four year old granddaughter will join in those thoughts. The grandson has his learner's permit and has saved enough money to be looking for a car. He is sensible beyond his years and looking for something that will be reliable and give good fuel economy.

Andrew

Rich Z · May 21, 2025

He was 61, Andrew. I was 24. He was the best friend I have ever had. Thankfully, I realized that when I was a young boy, so I always treated him like a friend and with great respect. He had colon cancer and it spread before he realized it and got treatment. The last few months would have been awful, but he had a fatal heart attack before the last. He was always good at cutting his losses, and I learned that from him, along with so much more. He had surgery and had a colostomy for the last few months. He was a big, powerful and athletic man and I had a knot in my stomach with butterflies for six months watching him waste and knowing what was coming. My late little brother Bill was 17. My Dad was as good to Bill as he was to me. Bill was devastated and went into a shell. I put him on the back of my Moto Guzzi 850 every day and took him for long rides. That helped him, and me, too.

Yeah, a long time ago, but a big part of me is still back there with him, especially when I sit and remember, like now. Now I'll blow my nose and wipe my eyes and get back to today....most of me. Rich

19andrew47 · May 21, 2025

Hope it is sunny and nice there Rich! It will help. Raining here and not expected to stop today or tomorrow.

I have some window shots of very wet birds. No doubt no feather detail!

Andrew

Rich Z · May 21, 2025

It was fun, Dave. Mostly families with children, they invigorated me. My Dad made our kites out of brown paper, string, and canes, too. He used flower and water glue he made up in a bowl to fasten the paper folded over the strings. I remember waiting impatiently for that glue to dry. He was there with me while I photographed the kites on Saturday, as he still is, all the time. Oh, do I miss him. Rich

Rich Z · May 21, 2025

In fact it is sunny and nice here today, Andrew, and that does help, and forecast to get to 59°. There's not a cloud in the plain blue sky and the fog has pulled back to the beach. I prefer a few clouds for photography, as long as they're up in the sky and not on the ground. Days like today with such bright and direct sunlight dazzle my fouled up eyes which can no longer contract the pupils enough to deal with it. I have a pair of prescription sunglasses that are very dark which help with that, but too dark to read the speedometer with them when driving. I stay a little slower than the other drivers and that sure brings out the bawstids who get right on my bumper. Then I slow down even more and watch in the mirror as they become apoplectic.

Note: I used to work with an English girl and that's what she called damn near everybody, bawstids. I liked it and say it her way instead of our way. Rich

meow · May 21, 2025

That looks like fun. Didn't you have your own kite?

19andrew47 · May 21, 2025

Still have been no where so these are from the property.

Andrew

all with the EM1ii with the 12 - 40 mm f/2.8 mark 1, exif did not show for some

the usual suspects

a native trillium, but not the usual one

cherry blossoms

Bartlett pear blossoms

as above but with a gamma adjustment. Which do you prefer???

meow · May 21, 2025

I know of Drambuie... Didn't know there were more of them.

That critter there, what is it? A cross between a horse, a cow and a pig? Or a plain mutant? An essential haggis ingredient, I presume. Nice hairdo though.

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