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OldBob1957 wrote
Thanks for the info. I figured it was a long shot. Just one of those odd happenstances, then.
--OB
Synchronicity, I guess (similar but unrelated events).
This photo is the most New York City thing i've ever seen: a person sitting on a subway bench and looking at their phone/reading their book while a literal ceiling is COLLAPSED in front of them. Krystie Lee Yandoli on Twitter: "this photo is the most New York City thing i've ever seen: a person...
Gene that is so yesterday. Get with the program, and adopt him as a Yoga Pig
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Proving real life can be stranger than fiction. The event two minutes in is beyond priceless. 
It'll surely be on every news channel tonight, but here's a link just in case
Ussnorway wrote
wow she needs to lay off the chips
If you are referring to the moment when she clambers into the space above the suspended ceiling, and the ultra wide angle lens on the CCTV camera only just manages to contain her disappearing rear end? Well I am not even going to go there.
Except I just have. 
Whoops!
Trevor, everything about these two are so mind numbingly insane. They start off trying to use stolen credit cards in a convenience store, where every petty thief in town tries their luck. Their idea of an escape plan involves running, trying out doors, climbing into ceilings and fighting off experienced cops.
I hope they have parents. They ain't gonna make it on their own. Anyway on with the thread.
Those poor old French. It all went horribly wrong for them on Bastille Day of all days, with millions watching. First we had La Collision
Then one of the crack pilots, of their airforce display team, pressed the wrong button, and reinvented the French flag colours!
Not a good day for them. I blame Macron for buddying up with Trump. Actually, I though that Macron was doing a Sun Tzu and keeping his enemies close to him. Trump would totally take at face value anyone pretending to admire him after all.
Speaking of The Trumpkin, he reached an all time low when he met The Queen yesterday. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when he turn his back on her, and walked ahead leaving her, no doubt fuming, in his dust. This took his narcissist behaviour, and self importance, to a whole new level. Way to go Donald.
I expect he was getting his own back over the Baby Trump that flew over London during his visit.
For all our photographers out there; remember that it is nice to take turns.
gener7 wrote
I'm tempted to think that was a photo-edit OB, but I would not be surprised if that was one of those "great moments."
Or one of those 'peanut on the hot shoe' tricks. 
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Peru+Bob wrote
Even if they were done in Photoshop, they are still great images .
It still takes something away from the picture IMHO.
This image by premier NZ landscape Photographer Andris Apse is an all time favourite of mine. and some of what makes it so is the story behind it. It cost Andy Apse NZ$10K in helicopter flights to finally get the image he'd for so long envisaged. Like many of his pictures, it was staged with the fishing boat bobbing about in stormy waters just outside Doubtful Sound in Fiordland.
When I got to hear him talk about this picture, it turned out that it is a composite with the waves braking on the rocky shore line, came from a different shot to the fishing boat. He also told us that it nearly cost him his life. The helicopter was holding position against a strong wind coming from directly behind it. At one point the wind blew out the turbine (does that make sense?) and the helicopter started to fall towards the water. At that moment Andris said his thoughts were that no one would get to see the pictures he'd just taken. The pilot was obviously able to recover, but it was apparently a very close run thing.
This was also set up. He'd driven past the field and could see there was a shot in it, so called on the farmer who agreed to run the combines especially for the photograph. It pays to be as famous as Andy Apse!
Of all his 'staged' images, this one has to be the most involved. It was commissioned by Otago Tourism, and he agreed to take the picture for nothing if he kept ownership. The location is across the lake from Queenstown. Each day the Earnslaw crew had to start at 4AM to get the boiler fired up, and volunteer 'tourists' would gather at Queenstown. The biggest problem was the sheep — they can only be kept penned up for two days without feed, and I think it took longer than that for the light to come right.
On the day it all came together, the Earnslaw took the tourists across the lake, the musterers and their dogs got the sheep into position, and Andy got his picture. It has been one of his top sellers.
I'm lucky enough to have full res versions of about 200 of his pictures, because I set up optimised slideshows for various display sizes for him, but I obviously have to use only online versions of his images in threads like this. Hearing the stories behind his best known images was interesting, but I still felt a bit disappointed after finding out the fishing boat picture was a composite — even if the source images were taken within a few minutes of each other.
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