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Post by Scott on Jan 28, 2013 21:54:18 GMT -8
Flugel Horn, here's an idea for the next time you get to pick a holiday - try and improve on this! This was shot with stills every 10 seconds, not video, but it's still interesting. I didn't have half an hour, so I just watched some clips along the way:
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Post by SolDuc on Jan 29, 2013 17:35:09 GMT -8
Nice found! I wonder how you make the camera do that!
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 29, 2013 17:41:24 GMT -8
Nice found! I wonder how you make the camera do that! There is some hardware called an invertalometer. This wiki article helps explain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-lapse_photographyI've stopped calling my video work "time lapse" because it's not true time-lapse (which is when still shots taken at regular intervals are then shown in sequence). Instead, my style is known as "sped-up video" which is a more accurate term. |
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Post by SolDuc on Jan 29, 2013 18:09:18 GMT -8
Nice found! I wonder how you make the camera do that! There is some hardware called an invertalometer. This wiki article helps explain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-lapse_photographyI've stopped calling my video work "time lapse" because it's not true time-lapse (which is when still shots taken at regular intervals are then shown in sequence). Instead, my style is known as "sped-up video" which is a more accurate term. Ok, thanks for that Flugel! Seeing the price for this pretty much convinced me that taking a video is still the easiest option, since I have enough memory, battery and on-field equipement (tripod) to film something (with my other camera). |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2013 19:46:18 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 4, 2013 17:36:13 GMT -8
Today is Monday. Tomorrow is Tuesday.
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(just doing a V5 test to see if Proboards actually accepts posts that are more than 1 sentence long. Perhaps once they fix the bug, people will be able to do multi-paragraph posts once again.)
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Post by Neil on Feb 7, 2013 21:39:47 GMT -8
Perhaps Dane, or someone else who's familiar with military or search and rescue operations, could enlighten me on what it was I was looking at tonight here on the north end of Hornby Island.
Over toward Powell River, low on the horizon but too high to be land based, were a series of brilliant yellow lights, sometimes one, sometimes two at a time. In a span of fifteen minutes or so, I saw perhaps six of them. They appeared to be stationary, and there seemed to be smoke associated with them, so apparently they were burning as opposed to just being electrical. Far brighter than anything I've ever seen in the sky, they flickered and caused rather amazing 'pulsations' in the cloud cover, and they illuminated the land behind me. Each one died out after a few minutes.
A woman who joined me had been driving back from the pub, and had wondered what was causing the sky to glow. (She didn't appear to be in a state where perhaps it was the pints, and I had only had two with dinner.) She is a long time resident here, but couldn't remember seeing a similar display before. The magnitude of the light really was amazing.
Comox Base is of course on the other side of the water, so our guess was it had something to do with them. Any ideas?
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Post by Curtis on Feb 7, 2013 22:45:20 GMT -8
I saw the exact same thing from my house. I presume they were Flares... what purpose they were for, I'm not sure though. Some type of Search and Rescue practice is my guess.
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Post by Nick on Feb 8, 2013 4:20:04 GMT -8
Coast Guard and military both use what we nickname "midnight sun" flares in Search and Rescue operations. They are extremely bright burning rocket launched flares, and will normally remain aloft for 3-5 minutes before burning out. They emit an orange/yellow coloured light, similar to that of a sodium streetlamp.
Based on what you said, I'd guess either a SAR exercise, or an actual SAR case.
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Post by WettCoast on Feb 15, 2013 12:01:51 GMT -8
Off shore oil rig Ocean Ranger photographed in Alberni Inlet near Port Alberni on the 10 th of May 1979. 
photo © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr
Over the past week CBC Radio has been doing their annual 'Canada Reads' thing. This year the winner is an east coast book (from Newfoundland) entitled February, by Lisa Moore. It is a work of fiction about a woman widowed after she looses her husband to drowning when he and many others were lost in the sinking of the oil rig Ocean Ranger on the 15th of February 1982, exactly 31 years ago today.
www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/02/14/canada-reads-turf-wars-final.html A few years earlier that rig had spent a winter sheltered at the upper end of the Alberni Inlet. I shot this photo near the end of a'cruise' from Bamfield aboard the Lady Rose. I had just completed my first 6 day hike on the West Coast Trail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Ranger
JST
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 27, 2013 20:18:43 GMT -8
Here is a music video that I think is pretty cool.
- song is recorded on Earth and in space.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 4, 2013 19:32:36 GMT -8
A sign of BC Ferries vessel life extension plan. - Chinook is back in service....  |
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Post by WettCoast on Mar 6, 2013 22:57:21 GMT -8
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Post by Mike C on Mar 9, 2013 14:22:32 GMT -8
But in my experience, I've found that keeping posts on-topic is a bit more difficult than herding cats. Meow. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 12, 2013 14:18:20 GMT -8
The Tallequah to Buckley Bay route looks to be a winner. 1500PDT Now arriving at her final destination:  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 25, 2013 18:58:44 GMT -8
I've noticed that the day/night ratio of daylight is now a bit on the daylight side, signalling that vernal equinox happened recently.
I've also noticed that the moon is almost full, and will be full tomorrow.
So the combination of these things tells me that Passover begins tomorrow and that Easter happens next Sunday.
.....it happens like this, every Spring.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Mar 26, 2013 13:05:49 GMT -8
I've noticed that the day/night ratio of daylight is now a bit on the daylight side, signalling that vernal equinox happened recently. I've also noticed that the moon is almost full, and will be full tomorrow. So the combination of these things tells me that Passover begins tomorrow and that Easter happens next Sunday. .....it happens like this, every Spring. Going to howl at the moon tomorrow evening from Neck Point or howl from the Departure Bay ferry dock? Howling is fine but full mooning I wouldn't recommend. I am not so enthused on the dark in the morning still, but very happy at the light in the evening. I find myself eating dinner a bit later and it is nice bbq-ing in actual daylight. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 31, 2013 20:16:21 GMT -8
YouTube has a great April Fool's joke going now.
- the premise is that YouTube was just one big contest to find the "best video", and now they are ready to announce the winner and to delete everything else.
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Post by Mike on Mar 31, 2013 21:27:16 GMT -8
YouTube has a great April Fool's joke going now. - the premise is that YouTube was just one big contest to find the "best video", and now they are ready to announce the winner and to delete everything else. Google also has a great one. www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/ |
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Post by Mike C on Apr 5, 2013 15:20:56 GMT -8
I am having problems finding the buffet... Attachments:
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Post by Neil on Apr 5, 2013 16:37:43 GMT -8
I am having problems finding the buffet... It's under the seat, second from the door... three French fries and the remains of a Baconator, in the Wendy's bag. |
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Post by Neil on Apr 17, 2013 22:29:32 GMT -8
So... just out of curiosity... has anyone else done anything this stupid in the last year or so?
This morning, when loading up my car to leave for the 7:45 ferry to Duke Point, I apparently left my computer on the trunk, and it fell off somewhere close to my Surrey apartment, before it dawned on me that I didn't remember loading my device into the car. Retracing my route, the computer was nowhere to be seen. Even at that time of the morning, someone was opportunistic enough to pick up the free bounty... if it hadn't been crushed in the meantime. Luckily for me, I'm pretty much computer illiterate, and had very little of value on the lost device, other than some photos of questionable worth.
Still, when something you use on an almost hourly basis goes missing, there is a sense of loss, and a sense of ... well, as I said, stupidity. My loss is London Drugs' gain. I'm back on line.
A slightly mitigating factor: the hash browns with my 'all aboard' breakfast this morning actually tasted like oniony potatoes and not so much like deep fried hockey pucks, so the Universe was obviously working to even things up.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 18, 2013 6:45:26 GMT -8
So... just out of curiosity... has anyone else done anything this stupid in the last year or so? This morning, when loading up my car to leave for the 7:45 ferry to Duke Point, I apparently left my computer on the trunk, and it fell off I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive about perfect packing of the car for a trip. So instead of leaving something on the trunk, I usually take 3 times as long to pack it, and annoy my spouse in the process with my stupid-agressive "don't you put anything in the trunk yourself, because I need to pack it just right" schtick. My stupidity is in the wasted time & emotional-energy spent on something that doesn't really matter. |
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Post by Scott on Apr 18, 2013 17:00:34 GMT -8
So... just out of curiosity... has anyone else done anything this stupid in the last year or so? Sounds like something I did a few years ago. I was changing my jacket while on vacation and took my wallet out of one jacket and put it on the roof of my car, intending to put it in my new jacket immediately after. But I got distracted and forgot it. A few miles down the road I heard something knock against the side of the car but didn't think about it until I stopped at a gas station a few minutes later. I retraced the route, but couldn't find it. That was in Kamloops. The next day we continued our trip (after a few more hours of searching) and made it to Mt. Robson Provincial Park. We checked our voice mail at home that evening and found a message from someone who found it. So the next day I actually drove (without the wife and kids) all the way back to Kamloops and back to Mt. Robson in the afternoon/evening to pick it up. The cash was gone (not a whole lot), but everything else was there. So it was a fairly happy ending - with a lot of extra driving! It was a memorable drive though - driving most of the return trip at night with heavy rain. Not being familiar with the road, I spent most of the trip following a semi-truck around the twists and turns of the road. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 19, 2013 19:29:19 GMT -8
One of my favourite websites is a daily blog called "Uni Watch," which is about the fine detail of sports uniforms and logos. The writer, Paul Lukas of New York, is a decent guy who does great writing. Today's blog subject was an interview that he did with a persistent and profane/vulgar troller of his blog website. The interview is an interesting read into the mind of a "typical?" internet troll. Us moderators deal with some junk on this ferry-forum website, but thankfully we've never had a vulgar & persistent troll like the guy referenced in this article. Sure, we've had some vulgar & sad recurring characters over the years, some disgruntled ex-members who became short-term persistent spammers, and some kids with a bit too much time (and daddy's computer) on their hands, but nothing too bad. Here is the link. I'll warn you that Paul gives real samples of the troll's posts, which are very vulgar and rude, and may not be suitable for everyone (rated R, reader discretion advised). But if you find internet forum issues and psychology interesting and can handle some rough language, then check this article out. www.uni-watch.com/2013/04/19/an-interview-with-uni-watchs-most-prominent-troll/#comments- the link will take you to the bottom of the page; you'll need to scroll-up to the top. |
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