Tag: photography

THE Family Photo

“My great-grandmother worked for a photography studio in the 80’s. She was watching us one day and decided to surprise my mother with professional photos of the three of us. This gem was one of the pictures. It’s safe to say that my mother never put this one in a photo frame and it’s the center of family laughter when we bring out the photo albums around the holidays. I love how my sisters look so cute in the corner of the photo while I am in a food coma floating in the sky.”

THE perfect office desk family photo.

[Image & caption found here.]

El Lobster Fabuloso

Cropped image of a Rainbow Lobster Panulirus ornatus.
[h/t Jaime G.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Most were previously posted elsewhere.

Lost Portraits

Baby’s seen some shit.

[Found on Facebook with caption, no additional info, h/t Pam M.]

Yeti

[Found here.]

Santa’s Elves?

Sailors combat a simulated fire during a general quarters drill aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) on Dec. 8, 2022.

[Found in here.]

7 December 1941

USS West Virginia BB-48 and USS Tennessee BB-43.

Enhanced color image posted at View From Lady Lake. Original un-enhanced photos here. Previously posted items are in the archive.

My late father’s stamp, used on almost all of his U.S. Mail correspondence.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

 

 

Collared Aracari (Pteroglossus torquatus)

[Found here.]

Ghost Apples

KENT COUNTY, Mich. (WOOD) — The freezing rain created an unusual phenomenon in the Fruit Ridge area of Kent County: “ghost apples.”Andrew Sietsema sent in photos of the hollow ice apples to ReportIt late Wednesday night. He said he came across the interesting formations while pruning apple trees earlier that day.

Sietsema said the freezing rain coated rotting apples, creating a solid icy shell around them. When he pruned the trees, they would shake, causing many of the frozen apples to fall off, ice and all. However with a few of them, the mush slipped out of the bottom of the ice casing, leading to a “ghost apple.”

Sietsema says the temperature provided the perfect recipe: it was cold enough for the ice to remain, but warm enough for the apples to turn to complete mush, since apples have a lower freezing point than water.

Sietsema said Jonagolds are one of his favorite apple varieties, “but we’ll call these Jonaghosts.”

“Ghost Apple” photos were posted on Facebook by Andrew Sietsema on 06 February 2019. The following day the story (w/ photos) appeared on the website of WOODTV Channel 8, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
[h/t Pam M. via FB]