The Lemon Fool

I took this slightly surreal pic a couple of weeks ago at the apartment where we stay in Ibiza.

It's not, as it appears to be, a pool of water with some sand in the foreground and a pot of plants floating in it. It's actually a painted concrete surface - a trompe l'oeil, but a pretty good one. (And yes, that's the real sea in the background!)

What amazes me most about the UK is how sometimes things are so...green.

I am not sure if this is "pic of the day worthy", but a quick shot out of a bus window.....to you...means nothing, but to me...

it is hard to take a bad picture at the basin during Cherry Blossom time.

RowdyReptile wrote:What amazes me most about the UK is how sometimes things are so...green.

I remember the first time I went to Ireland. Flying in to Shannon Airport and looking out the window..... now THAT'S green.

--kiloran

RowdyReptile wrote:What amazes me most about the UK is how sometimes things are so...green.

I am not sure if this is "pic of the day worthy", but a quick shot out of a bus window.....to you...means nothing, but to me...

You've obviously never visited upstate New York, Vermont...etc or Washington state, Oregon or Wyoming...etc. As for Minnesota? You should try it. Well worth the trip.

Clitheroekid wrote:I took this slightly surreal pic a couple of weeks ago at the apartment where we stay in Ibiza.

Wow, it tricks the eye It reminded me David Hockney's contemporary series of paintings centred around azure Californian swimming pools.

I know the one(s) you mean. I'm a fan of his later landscapes, Yorkshire Wolds area
Not sure if this link will work...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hockn ... RwwheH6tyM:

AleisterCrowley wrote:I know the one(s) you mean. I'm a fan of his later landscapes, Yorkshire Wolds area
Not sure if this link will work...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hockn ... RwwheH6tyM:

It worked for me!

As most Fools already know, one of the most famous Trompe L'Oeils (hope the s is acceptable) must be this at Chatsworth:

http://www.handoflight.co.uk/trompe.htm

Even better in the flesh.

We have spent quite a lot of time in the Lower Saxony area of Germany. Some lovely countryside and views there. This is a field I photographed whilst out walking:

AleisterCrowley wrote:I know the one(s) you mean. I'm a fan of his later landscapes, Yorkshire Wolds area. Not sure if this link will work...

Thanks, I haven't seen that aspect of his work before. I reminds me in ways of an evolved Edvard Munch style.
Example:

A Heron standing on a canal towpath. A good degree of optical zoom was used for the photograph:

A mutated daisy that grew in our garden a couple of summers ago (the bottom-left insert shows the whole plant):

Looking down through the glass floor of The Spinnaker, Portsmouth:

Photograph of a PCB that was made in the days of being able to repair them at component level when they went wrong:

Is that a TV chassis ? Looks a bit open , but I think I spy an EHT cable on the left. The big 100R power resistor (fuseable?) whiffs of power supply

AleisterCrowley wrote:Is that a TV chassis ? Looks a bit open , but I think I spy an EHT cable on the left. The big 100R power resistor (fuseable?) whiffs of power supply

That black thing far left certainly looks a lot like a line transformer.

Julian F. G. W.

Yes, that is a television PCB/chassis. It is a line output transformer and EHT lead that can be seen. I might still have the PCB somewhere but probably buried somewhere in the loft. A throwback to when I used to repair them for a living (and video recorders). I stopped calling the innards 'the chassis' when, on portable televisions, everything got smaller and really did become just a PCB with no metal bits. Maybe it is still a chassis though.

I worked for Tatung (who bought Decca's TV business) back in the early 90s - mainly on QC/testing
They are long gone - I think the manufacturing part was moved to Thailand ...

A past era now isn't it? Mine were the days when the TV/video recorder rental companies were big and every town had a few small secondhand sales and repair shops. I stopped being a repairer in 1995 after 33 years of doing it.