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That is pretty cool!
It would be fun to try to track it with a telescope. I recall I got a kick out of watching the first Crew Dragon go by chasing the ISS shortly after they launched.
Thanks for posting it.
Ah, the dolly repairs just never end. I would love to have such a diligent crew.
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11-28-2022, 07:28 AM
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(11-27-2022, 02:09 PM)Alliecat Wrote: It would be fun to try to track it with a telescope.
Tracking the rockets from here with a telescope would be challenging because the rockets rise and disappear quickly. Good binoculars, however, reveal considerable detail and are reasonable to manage.
27 November - A Doll A Day 2022:
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Here's an interesting, and tangentially related, online blog post about proper quotation attribution:
https://suebrewton.com/tag/do-what-you-c...e-you-are/
Which leads to this:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1205...ek-widener
Which leads to this:
https://www.millpictures.com/mills.php?millid=2883
Because Internet rabbit-holes.
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11-28-2022, 01:16 PM
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Yeah, you'd have to swing the telescope pretty quickly. I've tried it with planes. Not too successfully. But if the rockets are in decent binocular range, then that's cool!
I don't believe your crew is ever pau.
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28 November - A Doll A Day 2022:
28 November - Bratz Yasmin Takes a Walk on the Wet Side
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Great perspective here; she doesn't look that small. My favourite is the one with the seashells, just the way the composition lines lead your eye.
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(11-21-2022, 06:04 AM)davidd Wrote: (11-20-2022, 10:31 AM)Alliecat Wrote: Funny I read this while waiting for a fruit fly to chill in the freezer....
Okay... that was a real head-scratcher! My first impression was that you are taking your Glorious Leader's Great Reset demands to heart and shifting your diet to weeds and bugs. Then I read the rest of the sentence and it made more sense.
More sense to a point. Where do you get the fruit flies... in Canada... in the winter? Have you been raising those, too? Laying the groundwork for a carnivorous plant nursery?
Once in a great while I see Venus Flytraps for sale in the greenhouse section while shopping, and I'm always tempted. I haven't had one since I was a little kid, when the one we had didn't last very long. I don't know that I would have the facilities to properly care for one, though, when it came to managing temperature and humidity.
20 November - A Doll A Day 2022:
20 November - "Ermm... This Kinda Stuff Usually Isn't My Job!"
Yeah, but she fit in the available space. I'm sure everything will be fine. It's only 110 volts.
If you want to raise a carnivorous plant, Saracena purpurea might be a good selection.
For, uh, reasons.
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11-30-2022, 08:48 AM
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(11-29-2022, 03:47 PM)Alliecat Wrote: Great perspective here; she doesn't look that small. My favourite is the one with the seashells, just the way the composition lines lead your eye.
The shells were nice! I have not seen many intact shells on this beach, but there are lots of interesting broken bits!
(11-30-2022, 07:06 AM)fishy Wrote: If you want to raise a carnivorous plant, Saracena purpurea might be a good selection.
The Dolly Market Forum may be slow, but the conversations that arise are endlessly fascinating.
Or maybe they're just weird.
29 November - A Doll A Day 2022:
29 November – Pinky Street Beach Days are the Best Beach Days!
Be advised, there are reasons to avoid using an ex-pensive camera and high-end collector dolls for water-related beach photos.
Fortunately, I was using a water resistant camera and Pinkys are competent swimmers.
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That first shot is gorgeous. The foam, the shells... wow.
It's currently 36 degrees here, so I'm living vicariously through the Pinkys...
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11-30-2022, 03:51 PM
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I love that photo too, especially that you captured the little splash in the background.
Oh dear! Pinky did the faceplant that I ex-pected with Yasmin.
Are you crawling around on the beach with these?
There are some pitcher plants in one of the bogs here. I had some fun photographing the flowers once upon a time. There were also tiny sundews in a tiny spot along my favourite trail, but last time I went it looked like the ever-destructive ATVs had widened the trail enough to demolish them
Nice to "see" you, fishy! Come back and hang out with us
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(11-30-2022, 11:07 AM)dargosmydaddy Wrote: That first shot is gorgeous. The foam, the shells... wow.
It's currently 36 degrees here, so I'm living vicariously through the Pinkys...
I often live vicariously through the Pinkys!
Thanx! I got lucky with the pic, but I'm happy with it!
(11-30-2022, 03:51 PM)Alliecat Wrote: .
Are you crawling around on the beach with these?
There are some pitcher plants in one of the bogs here. I had some fun photographing the flowers once upon a time. There were also tiny sundews in a tiny spot along my favourite trail, but last time I went it looked like the ever-destructive ATVs had widened the trail enough to demolish them
Yes.
You have sundews and pitcher plants growing wild on your island? I've never seen sundews in the wild, and I haven't seen pitcher plants since I was a kid! Now I really wanna live where you live!
Except, yeah, the ATVs can be really annoying!
30 November - A Doll A Day 2022:
30 November - Random Snapshot: Action Figure on Table under Desk Lamp
Because I'm busy and lazy and that's what was near at hand.
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Well, according to your rules for doll-a-day, of course it counts.
Trying to figure out how you still got cool lighting with this, and didn’t have the whole desktop lit up. Did you take a reading on the lightbulb?
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12-03-2022, 08:01 AM
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(12-01-2022, 02:20 PM)Alliecat Wrote: Trying to figure out how you still got cool lighting with this, and didn’t have the whole desktop lit up. Did you take a reading on the lightbulb?
Yes, I used a point-n-shoot camera, but measured ex-posure directly on the bulb. I should have tried different ex-posure compensation settings, but I didn't, 'cuz, as noted, this was kind of a rush job. Then I tweaked the contrast and black point in the photos software on the computer. I don't have the skills or the software to do a lot of fancy editing but I often use the slider controls to adjust ex-posure and to enhance contrast and saturation.
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1 December - Crow's Nest Duty (on top of the fridge)
2 December - When Dudes Do the Decorating
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Well, your “rush job“ lighting worked.
The girls look cute sitting on top of the fridge. Dudes probably shouldn’t be allowed to decorate
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12-04-2022, 09:46 AM
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(12-03-2022, 04:24 PM)Alliecat Wrote: Dudes probably shouldn’t be allowed to decorate.
Except, like, maybe in a garage or someplace, yeah.
3 December - A Doll A Day 2022:
3 December - Photo-Story: Behind the Scenes
I'm attempting to make a photo story. The "screenplay" ended up being much longer than I ex-pected or intended, so it's gonna be an enormous project. I'm hoping to get it done this weekend, or by early next week, but considering it's already Saturday night....
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I'm looking forward to seeing the photostory. I often end up with longer stories than I intend, too.
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