The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

[nimnarb]

Taken in St.Thomas 2011.











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[nimnarb]

[UncleEbenezer]

Snorvey, what are you on? Those upside-down pics are disconcerting! Have you been downunder or summat?

[nimnarb]

This was in real time and not speeded up on an iPhone 6 plus and not the best pics and should have done much better but had to be quick. Could only load around 30 seconds here but originally filmed this at intervals over a period of 2 hours and there was virtually nothing left.

https://i.imgur.com/tiFZxBP.mp4

[kiloran]

Sgor Gaoith

Sgor Gaoith is a distinctive peaked summit on the eastern edge of an area of vast, rolling plateaux. It has an amazingly dramatic location right on the edge of a huge wall of broken crags which collapse down to Loch Einich, and makes for one of the finest shorter hillwalks in the Cairngorms.

It was a really pleasant, if unspectacular walk up to the summit of Munro No.2 (for me). As the caption says, the real view is at the top when you peer over the edge of the ridge looking down to Loch Einich and across to the mass that is Braeriach. I haven't seen a picture anywhere that does it justice. It really does take your breath away.

You lucky devil!
Did you get to see the Argyll Stone, about 2-3km north of Sgor Gaoith (photo taken around 1980, but I guess it's still there!)



Here's Loch Einich on a rather more moody day. Sgor Gaoith is in the clouds to the top-right.



--kiloran

[nimnarb]

Top of the World Ma! Great pics.

[kiloran]

Glorious!
Don't you feel so sad for those who live in the flatlands of East Anglia and the Lincolnshire fens? They don't know what they are missing

--kiloran

[Itsallaguess]

A nice place for a spot of lunch

Brilliant Snorvey - the first photos on your last couple of posts are absolutely stunning.

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[nimnarb]

Snorkeling in the Bahamas and had noticed quite a few Manatees. A local gave me this huge lettuce to break off. 2 Others had already taken the offerings from the sea floor but this guy(female?) came back with a part of the leaf in it's mouth to say thank you. It was quite an experience but was pleased that it wasn't a shark. Gentle creatures but saw many that had been previously injured from boat propellors.

[Mike4]

Snorvey, what are you on? Those upside-down pics are disconcerting! Have you been downunder or summat?

I wondered what you were on about originally....but just now i see a couple of the pictures are upside down (they werent earlier on).

I have no idea why that is.

If you long press on the pic and tap view image it shows the correct way up

How curious. All your photos are showing the right way up for me, and have done from the get-go.

[Itsallaguess]

Snorvey, what are you on? Those upside-down pics are disconcerting! Have you been downunder or summat?

I wondered what you were on about originally....but just now i see a couple of the pictures are upside down (they werent earlier on).

I have no idea why that is.

If you long press on the pic and tap view image it shows the correct way up

How curious. All your photos are showing the right way up for me, and have done from the get-go.

I wonder if this is something to do with the EXIF orientation tags on those specific images, and if those images were taken with the portable device turned 'upside down' when compared to the others?

I see that Snorvey is not using IMGUR to host his images, which usefully strips out all EXIF information from their hosted images (good from a security point of view...), but I suspect that the host Snorvey is using might not, and I wonder if it might be useful for someone who is seeing an upside-down image to specifically post the URL for one of those images so that Snorvey can check this?

I also suspect that this is only affecting some specific devices and/or browsers as well, because I'm using Firefox on a Windows 10 PC, and all the images are appearing in the correct orientation, so it would also be interesting to hear which device and browser is being used by anyone seeing Snorvey's photos in the incorrect orientation...

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[scotia]

so it would also be interesting to hear which device and browser is being used by anyone seeing Snorvey's photos in the incorrect orientation...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess

I'm OK with the Edge Browser on Windows 10

[UncleEbenezer]

It's only happened to my on my Android phone. It's fine with my Linux Mint / Firefox laptop-tablet

FWIW, I was using chrome on a Macbook when I saw the upside-down photos.

I can maybe revisit from my (linux) desktop box when I'm up there later.

[scotia]

It's only happened to my on my Android phone. It's fine with my Linux Mint / Firefox laptop-tablet

FWIW, I was using chrome on a Macbook when I saw the upside-down photos.

I can maybe revisit from my (linux) desktop box when I'm up there later.

No problems with Chrome on Android in both portrait and landscape displays on my Moto-G phone.
Some time ago I remember producing a .jpg photo which insisted on displaying on its side - even although I had rotated it and saved it in a photo editor. The cure was to save it as a .gif file - presumably that got rid of its original orientation tags

[AndyPandy]

Comet Neowise. Not the best of zooms, I have a better one but have focusing issues with it in the daytime, never mind this time of day. Still, happy with the results.

Above it you can see the quadrilateral that makes up part of Ursa Major

[jfgw]

Well, if that isn't a six...

The batsman's gone home and the ball hasn't even landed yet!


Julian F. G. W.

[servodude]

Being a fan of shiny things (and having a bit of time on my hands)
- I've put a solid stainless steel bridge on one of my guitars (and flatwound strings)

Got it from this chap: http://www.truarcbridgeworks.com/ and was very impressed with the "forever" guarantee

I think it's quite pretty:



- sd

[swill453]

Just back from a walking holiday in the Maritime Alps (the south-western bit of the Alps, straddling the French Italian border). Stunning scenery there, seems to be very little known here - although the paths were busy at times it was mostly Italian and French walkers, we didn't hear a single other person speaking English outside of the coastal towns and cities. Though probably affected by Covid I suppose.





Scott.

[Mike4]

Being a fan of shiny things (and having a bit of time on my hands)
- I've put a solid stainless steel bridge on one of my guitars (and flatwound strings)

Got it from this chap: http://www.truarcbridgeworks.com/ and was very impressed with the "forever" guarantee

I think it's quite pretty:



- sd

Yes VERY pretty!!

Prompts a question been in my head for decades. Why do ordinary bridges have individual length adjustments for every string, including perhaps the bridge you took off your Gretsch and binned? Or maybe not as you have the Bigsby type tremolo. Does anyone ever adjust them?!

Coincidentally I just bought myself an Epiphone Casino, with normal bridge... not as pretty as yours



(Edit for speeling.)

[servodude]

Coincidentally I just bought myself an Epiphone Casino, with normal bridge... not as pretty as yours

Congratulations! P90's are God's own pickup

Prompts a question been in my head for decades. Why do ordinary bridges have individual length adjustments for every string, including perhaps the bridge you took off your Gretsch and binned? Or maybe not as you have the Bigsby type tremolo. Does anyone ever adjust them?!

They're adjustable to compensate for intonation.

When you play at the 12th fret you should be getting exactly double the fundamental frequency of the open string

The problem is that because you have to press down the string you are not exactly halving the length
- and the amount that it it off will be different based on string height (action), string gauge, nut height, bridge height, height and shape of the fret and how the neck and bridge are positioned
- if you don't get it right the guitar goes out of tune with itself as you move up the neck (or from open to fretted notes) - it only becomes a problem if you notice

So adjustable bridges (among other things) are used to compensate
Even on acoustics you'll notice that the saddle is normally angled and shaped to cope - or is sometimes in two parts because the B and E string are "unwound" (which changes how the string behaves)

If you ever need to adjust it:
- tune the open string to pitch
- pick the harmonic above the 12th fret
- compare it to the 12th fret note
- if the fretted note is flat move the bridge forward

To adjust on things like the Gretsch you slide and twist the whole bridge and saddle until it's more or less in the correct place (which is satisfyingly old school)
- having all the strings flatwound helps with this as well as cutting out all string squeak as you move about the board
- with the new saddle they even make the bigsby usable (they just slip over the top when you use it instead of pinching)

- sd