# SDMB Photo Thread - Show us a photo! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** photo\ **Created:** [October 17, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641 "2021-10-17T13:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Amikejo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/amikejo/32/13637_2.png) [@Amikejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amikejo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/365 "2023-02-17T12:49:34Z")
A pensive photo I took at a marina a while ago. [![](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/um3pifpu1xvtn1t/10488278_647734475316784_1487016087834916740_n.jpg?dl=0) ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/um3pifpu1xvtn1t/10488278_647734475316784_1487016087834916740_n.jpg?dl=0) ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/366 "2023-02-17T13:33:26Z")
I’ve never connected the problem of map projections with photography before but that’s really interesting. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/367 "2023-02-17T17:21:59Z")
This is Sally, a yellow spotted salamander that lived in our basement. Here she had wandered out to the bulkhead stairs, far from the sump hole where she was normally seen We haven’t seen him or her for a while though. [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/zUHvETt.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/TEcmBxR) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/368 "2023-02-17T19:19:05Z")
Here are two different rendering options. Neat, but not really what I wanted… [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/MTyy4Dy.jpeg "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/MTyy4Dy) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/nNXoNMT.jpeg "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/nNXoNMT) This may help illustrate the problem. I was directly in front on the wall, and rotated left and right to take multiple images, which were then stitched together. Since the camera was rotated (and not panned along the length of the wall), there is unavoidable distortion: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/jAUSQWX.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/jAUSQWX) ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/369 "2023-02-17T23:01:00Z")
You would be able to achieve a straight wall by moving the position of the camera laterally rather than rotating from one spot. But then I suppose the people will have moved. Of course there are also tools that can fix the distortion of this image at the expense of the sharpness of the image at each end. But at least you have options is what I’m saying… the option you’ve chosen is as good as any. EDIT: sorry you gave voice to the moving along the wall option, and here am I telling you as if you didn’t know. It’s late here in London is my excuse. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/370 "2023-02-20T00:25:15Z")
Continuing that theme, here’s a Miata photo I took on Highway 1 in the Big Sur region a few years ago. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52699403044_36f90bbc43_b.jpg "IMG\_0537") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/52699403044/) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/371 "2023-02-21T09:25:56Z")
Tell me what you guys think of [this](https://photos.app.goo.gl/XPMa9WV6FnLNZG5dA). It’s not exactly a “photo.” If it loads as a (distorted) rectangular photo, click/tap on it and it should load a 360 degree view. I’ve really enjoyed making those shots over the last year and they’re super cool in VR. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/372 "2023-02-21T22:49:08Z")
That’s a very nice 360° pano. Where is that? ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/373 "2023-03-04T22:27:15Z")
Since this has kind of turned into the “pictures we didn’t submit for this month’s contest” thread, this is the other picture I thought about using for the “water” theme. The harbor in Morro Bay, California, taken in 2020 on my socially distant outdoor pandemic vacation. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52724731193_3c6e458fee_b.jpg "IMG\_0542") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/52724731193/) I also thought about just using the same sea otter picture I thought about using for the “animals” theme, which was actually also taken in Morro Bay on the same trip. > [@SDMB Photo Thread - Show us a photo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/344): > > And one a little closer to home, a sea otter in Morro Bay, California. [[Imgur] ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/66423490@N08/52666892562/) ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/374 "2023-03-05T13:38:55Z")
I entered an image of Niagara Falls into the competition but I recently photographed an even mightier waterfall - Victoria Falls. However because it was the dry season it felt less suitable to enter. Had I taken this photograph at a different time of year the whole length of the falls would have water cascading over it but you would have seen mostly mist, so probably still wouldn’t have entered it! Clickity click for bigger… [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52699856007_955b738b59_k.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52699856007_955b738b59_k.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/375 "2023-03-05T14:19:48Z")
Here are a couple I considered for the Water theme. [![](https://i.imgur.com/b8yXyys.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/b8yXyys.jpg) This one is hard to see, but if you can enbiggen the photo you will see a barracuda. [![](https://i.imgur.com/CYmnZvy.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/CYmnZvy.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/376 "2023-03-18T04:16:18Z")
Went Skiing at Snowbowl yesterday. The sky was so azure, it didn’t look real. [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/vzDzADA.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/vzDzADA) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/377 "2023-03-18T13:13:10Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > The sky was so azure, it didn’t look real. And the way the clouds are shaped around the trees like that looks unreal as well. Nice photo! You could have entered that in the ‘Water’ competition— nothing that said it had to be the wet kind 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/378 "2023-03-18T13:40:23Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > And now for something completely different. I have absolutely no idea what this is or how it happened. Username checks out. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/379 "2023-03-25T02:59:44Z")
Peridot Mesa today: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/dC4NUGW.jpeg "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/dC4NUGW) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/ocfdP8E.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/ocfdP8E) [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/ejdDXYB.jpeg "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/ejdDXYB) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/380 "2023-03-25T03:40:58Z")
One more: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/aAZoeEb.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/aAZoeEb) ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/381 "2023-03-25T04:00:45Z")
Beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/382 "2023-04-17T05:37:32Z")
From a few years ago, during a long weekend in Coronado CA. We were staying across the street. [[Album] Villa Capri Hotel, Coronado CA ![](https://i.imgur.com/ArZxD0v.jpeg?fb "Villa Capri Hotel, Coronado CA") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/gc2UEMF) ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/383 "2023-04-17T06:16:13Z")
Kookaburra sits on Princhester’s welding table. He has been fed by people I think. They wouldn’t normally let people get this close. [[Album] Imgur: The magic of the Internet ![](https://i.imgur.com/vzEDcMv.jpeg?fb "Imgur: The magic of the Internet") ](https://imgur.com/a/YVpV7dO) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641/384 "2023-04-17T06:39:11Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > The sky was so azure, it didn’t look Remarkably fortuitous cloud formation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-photo-thread-show-us-a-photo/952641.md?page=20)