Show me your BEST Picture

[PhillyB77]

Thought to start this. One pic, one pic only. Could be a cell phone pic, fancy pic, whatever. What you got? Here's mine. BTW, love my boy Zeus.

 

[DaveInDenver]

 

[DouglasVB]

 

[cbranch]

just outside of eagle. one of my favorite areas to explore

 

[Cruisertrash]

I always go back to this photo for some reason. I pressed the button at the right time - it was luck. Her head turning just so, the archway framing her, the light.

My daughter at Denver Botanic Gardens. Scan of 35mm print; Pentax K1000 and Ektar 100.

 

[CardinalFJ60]

I love taking photos. This was from the Big Island a few months ago. I also captured the green flash! Maybe I’ll break the rules and post it.

 

[shellb]

I was influenced by your Greek God GSD!

 

[Cruisertrash]

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This has an almost an abstract look to it. It also reminds me of some of the early- and mid-20th Century desert SW/Santa Fe paintings with huge horizontal color blocks. Really cool.

 

[DouglasVB]

This has an almost an abstract look to it. It also reminds me of some of the early- and mid-20th Century desert SW/Santa Fe paintings with huge horizontal color blocks. Really cool.

That's just a photo on my cell phone from a week or so ago. It looks like that here in Monterey most evenings and some mornings.

 

[damon]

One of my favs - Badlands Natl Park

 

[damon]

Another one

 

[IoN6]

 

[PhillyB77]

This is amazing. Great pics all, looking forward to more.

 

[DaveInDenver]

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Did you or do you know who took that photo (maybe your dad)? Are you the guy in it or related to him? Might be a small world if so.

You know what that is, I assume? Pretty sure it's an unassembled early VELA Hotel experimental payload for the Ranger spacecraft from the early 1960s.

https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2020-summer/vela-feature.shtml

https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/vela.htm

 

[CardinalFJ60]

Untouched straight from my D700. 😁 green flash.

 

[IoN6]

Did you or do you know who took that photo (maybe your dad)? Are you the guy in it or related to him? Might be a small world if so.

You know what that is, I assume? Pretty sure it's an unassembled early VELA Hotel experimental payload for the Ranger spacecraft from the early 1960s.

https://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/national-security-science/2020-summer/vela-feature.shtml

https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/vela.htm

I did not (will be 40 next month). It was a picture from Sandia Labs back in the early 60's but I believe this one might have been in the late 50's. The gentleman in the picture is my Grandpa. Who to the best of my knowledge is one of the designers and builders of the VELA satellites. So you are correct that it is half of a VELA.

Here is another one of a half in the assembly stage:
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No idea why it is not posting the picture as an embedded image. Suuuuuper frustrating when it does this @#$^. Literally the same process for posting as the previous post. 🤷‍♂️

So you will have to click the attachment to see it. First world problems.
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[Cruisertrash]

I did not (will be 40 next month). It was a picture from Sandia Labs back in the early 60's but I believe this one might have been in the late 50's. The gentleman in the picture is my Grandpa. Who to the best of my knowledge is one of the designers and builders of the VELA satellites. So you are correct that it is half of a VELA.

Here is another one of a half in the assembly stage:
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No idea why it is not posting the picture as an embedded image. Suuuuuper frustrating when it does this @#$^. Literally the same process for posting as the previous post. 🤷‍♂️

So you will have to click the attachment to see it. First world problems.
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Long ago I picked up some Honeywell testing instruments with Sandia Labs ID tags - at a Goodwill of all places. I’ve gotten rid of most of it, but still have one piece, a tube-driven signal amplifier. Presumably it was used to amplify signals from testing transducers that would be recorded to magnetic tape for later analysis.

 

[BritKLR]

Outrunning the storm......and losing.

 

[AimCOTaco]

Best is too hard, I'd be searching 'till my eyes fall apart for something decent. As truck pics go, this one feels pretty good:

 

[Hulk]

I don't know about best, but I'm pretty pleased with this shot from Long Canyon.