Finnish ww2 soldiers making a fire.
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/50/122950_r500.jpg[/img]
[quote]Knocking the tree with axe to hear if it's dry or rotten.[/quote]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/51/122951_r500.jpg[/img]
[quote]The viable tree is then cut down[/quote]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/53/122953_r500.jpg[/img]
[quote]The log is then sawed into two pieces of the same length[/quote]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/55/122955_r500.jpg[/img]
[quote]Both of the logs are carved like this to help the fire going[/quote]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/56/122956_r500.jpg[/img]
[quote]Then put on top of each other[/quote]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/58/122958_r500.jpg[/img]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/59/122959_r500.jpg[/img]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/61/122961_r500.jpg[/img]
[quote]"Rakovalkea" has been lit.[/quote]
[img]http://sa-kuva.fi/static/29/63/122963_r500.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/H5b8ESd.jpg[/img]
Power in the air, a squadron of 'Flying Fortresses' fly to their destination
I can't wait for Tom Hank's and Spielbergs' "Masters of the air".
[QUOTE=Recurracy;47048479]It had such a nice premise. The soundtrack sounds nice, the Ark looks wonderful and the story is somewhat interesting. But then they threw all that out of the window and did whatever caused Brink to become this horrible mess. I remember its main selling being mobility and character customization and they both suck.
[editline]31st January 2015[/editline]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Czt_B18aUU[/media]
case in point
god damnit, Brink deserves a second chance[/QUOTE]
Brink had a lot of good elements in it but it was ruined by a shitty campaign, shitty balancing and shitty maps. I think at some point it was going to be an amazing game but it was killed by either BS deadlines or some kind of internal thing.
Been having a huge amount of thunderstorms recently. Thought you guys might enjoy. I wish we had them more though so that I could brush up my skills on taking pictures of lightning and stuff.
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I'm not kidding when I say this was within 100 meters, most certainly within my house and the next street, which is less than 100 meters.
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[t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7297/15767600844_7ef9e97e32_k.jpg[/t]
Lightning looks so fucking cool.
Though not lightning this is pretty similar:
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/B96DSWq.jpg[/thumb]
[editline]2nd February 2015[/editline]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/aFe42Cn.jpg[/thumb]
[editline]2nd February 2015[/editline]
[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/wLeJVmK.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=Animosus;47059395]Been having a huge amount of thunderstorms recently. Thought you guys might enjoy. I wish we had them more though so that I could brush up my skills on taking pictures of lightning and stuff.
[t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7440/16232341739_460624ede3_k.jpg[/t]
[t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7297/15767600844_7ef9e97e32_k.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
How do you make these shots? Fast reflexes? Slow shutter speed?
-snip-
[QUOTE=Zotobom;47060298]Well, there are ''soundtriggers'' (don't know the actual name but there's also an app on the Apple Store you can link to your DSLR) that take a shot as soon as there's a sound that's above the set threshold (i.e thunder)
Possibly.[/QUOTE]
But thunder claps come seconds after the flash.
You can set it so a substantial change in brightness causes a burst shot
probably with special equipment
I think long exposure might do the trick
I think that's the only proper way to do it, just take a shitload of long exposures and throw out all the bad ones. It's mostly luck since you don't know exactly when or where they'll end up
One advantage is since it's basically a time lapse, you just set and forget, and if you don't get any good lightning strikes, you can make a neat video of the clouds rolling past
Maybe it's a freezeframe of a video taken during a lightning storm
He had the shutter speed at 30 seconds for all of those.
And really, it's not logical to do it any other way.
- Highly specialized equipment that reacts fast enough to capture the lighting at a high shutter speed likely costs a lot of money, and might need an even faster camera.
- Just filming and taking one frame would just give you less resolution and quality (no RAW files to work with)
- Long exposure gives you good resolution, great quality, and every DSLR can do it easily. All you need is a tripod (or something else to place the camera on)
[editline]2nd February 2015[/editline]
Lightning storms are very rare here. This is the best shot I've ever gotten:
[img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5568/14831940995_93106fa4a9_b.jpg[/img]
Kind of underwhelming compared to Animosus' shots. :v:
That looks like it's the end of the World or something.
[QUOTE=paul simon;47060661]He had the shutter speed at 30 seconds for all of those.
And really, it's not logical to do it any other way.
- Highly specialized equipment that reacts fast enough to capture the lighting at a high shutter speed likely costs a lot of money, and might need an even faster camera.
[/QUOTE]
The first image was more luck than anything, It was a 1/6th of a second shutter speed.
Also, the lightning triggers, which I'm going to invest in, don't actually cost as much as you'd think. You can pick up cheap ones for around $55 on ebay or semi decent ones for about $200.
Your shot is pretty great though, which it may not have a huge amount of lightning, the picture in itself is awesome as hell.
Maybe it's just me but old diving suits are terrifying
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Not sure of the exact dates since I found it on tumblr without context
[QUOTE=Sharker;47063576][t]https://41.media.tumblr.com/5f3193454d1e0ce7aba0e940958566ed/tumblr_niuj2hdECv1rtynt1o8_1280.jpg[/t]
Not sure of the exact dates since I found it on tumblr without context[/QUOTE]
I really like this one.
And these other ones that I found.
[IMG]http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-45343854.jpg?size=67&uid=6d7dae31-512a-4994-9442-f00a3d41ba9a[/IMG][IMG]http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OiXNYHyO6es/UXnBG1E_aQI/AAAAAAACFqc/Sfs1ExtbgUc/s800/ewrgwegewgewgwergergergerger.jpg[/IMG]
please im about to go to bed
[QUOTE=godfatherk;47050568][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/MPL85_GorgeDeLoup_TCL.JPG/1024px-MPL85_GorgeDeLoup_TCL.JPG[/t]
Automatic subway train with no driver![/QUOTE]
Pfft.
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/SkyTrain/main-st.jpg[/IMG]
[i]A prototype of a driverless Canadian built "Intermediate Capacity Transit System" rolls along the kilometer long guideway of the Greater Vancouver Rapid Transit Terminal Avenue Demonstration Line. Free public rides were available for the summer months of 1984.[/i]
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/SkyTrain/vlcsnap-2014-12-20-10h16m22s214.png[/IMG]
[i]Technicians in Spring 1985 work to assemble the large control room where operators will monitor the day to day operations of Greater Vancouver's new Rapid Transit system. While impressive, the majority of all operations from opening doors to emergency braking are managed by three central computers and only serves as the humanoid safeguard to the system.[/i]
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/SkyTrain/01-princessdianaskytrain.jpg[/IMG]
[i]Princess Diana, followed by Prince Charles, is guided onto a waiting train during a demonstration of the worlds longest driverless transit system, SkyTrain, during their visit to the 1986 World's Fair in Vancouver Canada. A small bronze plaque is mounted to the wall of train 014 remembering the event.[/i]
[QUOTE=Sonic Fan;47063650]I really like this one.
And these other ones that I found.
[IMG]http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-42-45343854.jpg?size=67&uid=6d7dae31-512a-4994-9442-f00a3d41ba9a[/IMG][IMG]http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-OiXNYHyO6es/UXnBG1E_aQI/AAAAAAACFqc/Sfs1ExtbgUc/s800/ewrgwegewgewgwergergergerger.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Man I I wish I was born in a time where they thought a diving suit needed a sword and a fucking axe.
Also Keith Thompson.
[url]http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/surfaceking.html[/url]
[quote]SURFACE KING
King & Son's Oceanic Surveying Co. folded late in the year, unable to stave off the debts incurred by constant delays. The delays were caused by a disturbing casualty rate among the deep sea divers; they simply stopped returning to the surface. The company's assets and few remaining dive suits were sold to a competing group. They scrubbed off the suits' distinctive crown logos and immediately put them to good use in successful dives arranged in the same previously unlucky waters.
During the course of these new untroubled ventures two divers working at the absolute limit of safe diving depth happened upon a building of sorts; some type of oppressive colonnade sheltering a row of seated figures. A tentative investigation discovered that within the building were seated the drowned remains of the missing divers, chained in stone thrones. In front of each corpse drifted bundles of kelp, crustacean meat and other seemingly edible offerings. The dead diver's bodies themselves were coated in a thick layer of silt, with the exception of the still shining, as though regularly polished, stylised crown markings on the dive suit's outer plating.
Upon return, with the intent of winching up the men's remains for proper burial, it was revealed that the entire submerged building had seemingly collapsed, dragging most of everything down with it into an unfathomable trench below.[/quote]
Thats gotta be fucking scary, imagine just falling to the depths of the sea floor; being held down by the weight of the suit itself. With no chance of going back up, just eventually waiting for your death
fuck that, those guys have serious balls
[QUOTE=Mr Shadyface;47064200]Man I I wish I was born in a time where they thought a diving suit needed a sword and a fucking axe.
Also Keith Thompson.
[url]http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/surfaceking.html[/url][/QUOTE]
What ever happened to Keith Thompson? Has he really not done anything publicly in a year and a half? Is he retired? Is he dead?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/x1i7yEB.jpg[/img]
French civilians thanking American soldiers during the First World War
those poor people...
having to bring a chauchat into battle...
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;47065178]those poor people...
having to bring a chauchat into battle...[/QUOTE]
Thankfully for them they at least have the French version, the American ones were a disaster.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;47065341]Thankfully for them they at least have the French version, the American ones were a disaster.[/QUOTE]
I hope this isn't totally off topic, but just to back asteroid's point up:
[video=youtube;GAMRV0FGWHM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAMRV0FGWHM[/video]
It was primarily in the American Expeditionary force where the Chauchat gained its bad reputation. The conversion to 30-06 had improper chamber dimensions, leading to a very unreliable gun. In many other countries, the Chauchat was used extensively after WWI. That would not have been the case if the weapon was as unreliable as some people claim it to have been, based purely on american accounts on the gun.
The French version still had its problems, mainly the fact that it was 8mm Lebel and feeding from a windowed box magazine, meaning it was very susceptible to feeding failures and dirt/mud which produced more feeding failures. But yeah, the Chauchat only really deserves to be remembered as a nightmare to use when we're talking about the American model. Heck the whole reason the American version even existed was because we liked the ones we borrowed from the French and wanted one in our standard caliber so we could make more use of it.
[img]http://rt.com/files/usa/news/russo-american-hero-beyrle/joseph-in.jpg[/img]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/JBeyrlePOW.jpg[/t]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/J._Beyrle3.jpg[/t]
Joseph Beyrle
A US Paratrooper in the 506th, who got dropped into france, blew some shit up, got captured, escaped from several POW camps, came across a Soviet tank brigade, and helped kick some German ass with them, before getting wounded, came across Mr Zhukov himself in the hospital, and was able to return home.
[url]http://rt.com/usa/russo-american-hero-beyrle/[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beyrle[/url]
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