Outside for Humungus

fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
edited January 6, 2005 in Wildlife
No rain today. :clap

But I had to play hooky to get some outside shots for Humungus. Yes, hummer...we have an outside here. I was really glad to see that it hadn't all washed away.

Please join me as I take you for a little stroll through my outside.

We'll start our tour with a wheel done in camera with Sepia (b/w parameter, yellow filter).

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The suspension and traction on this thing is terrble, but it did a pretty good job of tilling the soil in its time.


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My favorite bridge, built in 1924, the year my father was born. Clearly, someone felt the need to attach some barbwire to it to keep it from floating away down the creek to the Guadalupe River.

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One really nice thing about all the rain we've been getting is that everything is growing, including the redwood fences...

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...and the rocks.

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And that concludes our brief tour of my outside. Please climb back in the tour bug and securely fasten your seat belts for the ride back home.

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hey humungus...
:bad
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson

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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Nice stuff fish. I enjoyed it.
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    GREAPER wrote:
    Nice stuff fish. I enjoyed it.
    Thanks greaper. It took about 100x longer than it should have, because it seems I had the wrong color profile embedded into my images by Capture One (adobe 1998 vs sRGB), which required reprocessing most of the RAWs six or eight times and uploading a bunch of them to smuggy to get it right. 11doh.gif

    Thanks the onethumb for setting me straight.

    Lesson learned: sRGB in camera. sRGB in Capure One. sRGB in Photoshop.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited January 3, 2005
    Alum Rock?

    ian
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    Alum Rock?
    Quicksilver.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited January 3, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Quicksilver.
    Have you tried shooting in the town of New Almaden?

    Ian
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    Have you tried shooting in the town of New Almaden?
    Not a whole lot there.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,948 moderator
    edited January 4, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Not a whole lot there.
    I thought there were a few historic buildings? The creek was
    pretty nice.

    Ian
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  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2005
    Great photos - love these ones the most! Lovely mosses!

    ann
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    One really nice thing about all the rain we've been getting is that everything is growing, including the redwood fences...

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  • ysr612ysr612 Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2005
    fish wrote:
    No rain today. clap.gif

    But I had to play hooky to get some outside shots for Humungus. Yes, hummer...we have an outside here. I was really glad to see that it hadn't all washed away.

    Please join me as I take you for a little stroll through my outside.

    We'll start our tour with a wheel done in camera with Sepia (b/w parameter, yellow filter).





    The suspension and traction on this thing is terrble, but it did a pretty good job of tilling the soil in its time.


    13684543-L.jpg




    My favorite bridge, built in 1924, the year my father was born. Clearly, someone felt the need to attach some barbwire to it to keep it from floating away down the creek to the Guadalupe River.






    One really nice thing about all the rain we've been getting is that everything is growing, including the redwood fences...





    ...and the rocks.







    And that concludes our brief tour of my outside. Please climb back in the tour bug and securely fasten your seat belts for the ride back home.





    hey humungus...
    blbl.gif
    that's a rake used to windrow hay I think??
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2005
    About time ! Now i want a photo of an owl.
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    ysr612 wrote:
    that's a rake used to windrow hay I think??
    I think you're right. What I don't understand is why the wheels seem to be pointing in the wrong (90 degrees off) direction. On the far left (can't be seen from this angle) are toothed disks that look like tillers. I had a shot of them, but it's gone now. I guess I'll have to go back and see if I can get a couple more complete shots so you farmboys can teach this city slicker about hay rakes.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    About time ! Now i want a photo of an owl.
    very funny. here you go.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ysr612ysr612 Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    fish wrote:
    I think you're right. What I don't understand is why the wheels seem to be pointing in the wrong (90 degrees off) direction. On the far left (can't be seen from this angle) are toothed disks that look like tillers. I had a shot of them, but it's gone now. I guess I'll have to go back and see if I can get a couple more complete shots so you farmboys can teach this city slicker about hay rakes.
    If I remeber right there is a bar with detent holes so you can make it swing out and rake at an angle. It has been a long time.
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    fish wrote:
    very funny. here you go.
    Steve must always have his camera at the ready :roll :roll :roll

    He looks like he's never missed an owl.
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    ysr612 wrote:
    If I remeber right there is a bar with detent holes so you can make it swing out and rake at an angle. It has been a long time.

    Here are some other shots. What are the disks for?


    It looks like a sculpture.

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    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ysr612ysr612 Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    fish wrote:
    Here are some other shots. What are the disks for?


    It looks like a sculpture.

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    I love the pics but am more confused then ever sure looks like a cross between a rake and a manure spreader.

    edit the disks like that are on the spreader and breakup and throw $hit a long way.
  • philspacephilspace Registered Users Posts: 59 Big grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    ysr612 wrote:
    I love the pics but am more confused then ever sure looks like a cross between a rake and a manure spreader.
    Very good. It's hard to tell, but it's either a cultipacker on top of a spreader or an old roller, rake and spreader.

    (I'm a farm boy).

    Nice shots thumb.gif
  • ysr612ysr612 Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    philspace wrote:
    Very good. It's hard to tell, but it's either a cultipacker on top of a spreader or an old roller, rake and spreader.

    (I'm a farm boy).

    Nice shots thumb.gif
    that is exacly what it is someone put the rake in a spreader wagon but the wood is gone from the spreader and the rake is just sitting on the rails.

    edit ps the wheels are missing from the rake.
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    ysr612 wrote:
    that is exacly what it is someone put the rake in a spreader wagon but the wood is gone from the spreader and the rake is just sitting on the rails.

    edit ps the wheels are missing from the rake.

    so now you're going to make me go back and look for the wheels?! umph.gif
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • ysr612ysr612 Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    fish wrote:
    so now you're going to make me go back and look for the wheels?! umph.gif
    they are likely broke and won't work anymore anyway. however You may have left more good shots there untakenne_nau.gif
  • philspacephilspace Registered Users Posts: 59 Big grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    ysr612 wrote:
    that is exacly what it is someone put the rake in a spreader wagon but the wood is gone from the spreader and the rake is just sitting on the rails.

    edit ps the wheels are missing from the rake.
    If you look under the rake you will see a roller. I never saw a roller with a spring rake - that's why I thought it might be some kind of cultipacker, but knows.

    I think fish should bring it home and put it in the front garden - fishwife will love it.
  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2005
    Great pictures. I also really like the mossy ones.


    dave.
    dave.

    Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
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