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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 4, 2022 4:54:48 GMT
Misty and frosty around here today.  |
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Post by jackscrap on Jan 4, 2022 5:58:23 GMT
Looks very chilly, but pretty all the same.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 4, 2022 6:07:48 GMT
Thanks.
Yup, fresh today. 3 or 4 cold days before some warming again. At 11 PM, it is -22°C ...
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Post by Sydney on Jan 4, 2022 6:13:21 GMT
That's a top shot Clive and looks very inviting to me given all of the heat and humidity in Sydney today which I am none too fond of.
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Post by tourerjim on Jan 4, 2022 13:33:50 GMT
Beautiful capture, Clive
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Post by cats4jan on Jan 4, 2022 13:41:39 GMT
I really like the composition of this photo
...the subject matter - not so much (been there - way, way too often - don't miss it at all)
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Post by hmca on Jan 4, 2022 17:17:01 GMT
Beautiful image, Clive. I like the way the frost defines all the branches.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 4, 2022 19:06:19 GMT
Thanks. It was quite pretty yesterday. I will look at some more frost photos later today. Yesterday would have been fabulous had the sun been shining. It is shining today, but cold and windy. According to the weather station at the local airport the wind chill is -40°C. Brrr. (Don't get me started in use being forced to pay a carbon tax on the natural gas that keeps us alive. Seems more than immoral especially since there are no other options to keep us alive, eh?!) Someone inquired about the image: I am trying to figure out why the bottom of the trunks don't show through the fence? Well, I never saw the optical illusion. That horizontal black line is not a fence rail but a paved road surface on the other side of the barbed wire fence and in front of the tree trunks! The road surface was at my eye level and lined up with the fence posts that are about 30 feet closer toward me. I never saw that and now I can't unsee it.   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 4, 2022 19:56:49 GMT
Is the road surface on higher ground than the trees ?
Whoever clipped the post tops did a good job considering they line up perfectly with the road.
I never put posts that far apart, though; I am adamant about them being no more than six foot apart; but then, that may be an illusion as well and they be closer than they look.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 6, 2022 2:11:50 GMT
Is the road surface on higher ground than the trees ? Yes a bit. All of our roads are on an up grade with a "ditch" between the road and the adjacent field. Invariably county roads are a bit higher than the surrounding area. This photo might also exaggerate the elevation difference. It is generally very flat here so the ditches are needed for drainage when it rains. The higher road grade is probably also a benefit for snow removal....less drifting when it snows. All road allowances are mowed late in the summer because tall grass along the road causes drifting into the road. That looks like a standard fence post spacing. Cattle people might place them closer. Screenshot of that road, trees and fences.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 6, 2022 6:52:19 GMT
Is the AB-512 actually painted on the road ? if so = very beneficial.
Around here, you are lucky to have a single sign really close to where you turn onto a road and then nothing more for miles; if you make a wrong turn, it may be fifty miles before you figure out your mistake.
Although I see it all the time, it always amazes me how a photograph can make things that are far apart appear as if they are in close proximity.
In your frozen tree photo, to my eye, the fence looks very near the trees; when I see the real lay of things in the above photo, it is not at all what the tree photo led me to think.
Often, there will be two barns in one of my photos that appear to be within the same barn lot, with maybe walking room between them; when I look at the scene in overhead satellite view, quite often the second barn may be separated by miles, with rivers, roads, and valleys between the two.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jan 7, 2022 3:47:49 GMT
Is the AB-512 actually painted on the road? No, that screenshot is from Google street view and the software sometimes overlays a highway name/number. You are correct about perspective and a telephoto lens can really distort things. The trees are ~120 feet from the fence. That's a standard double-width road allowance of 132 feet. County roads are normally 66 feet which is 4 rods ... from days of yore. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jan 7, 2022 5:07:53 GMT
County roads are normally 66 feet which is 4 rods ... I doubt many of our state highways are as wide as 66' ; many of our county roads are barely eight feet --- one just hopes they don't meet anyone. Yes; I very well know what a rod is as I have pulled the chain on many a survey, up steep hill and down, through brier thickets and swamps. The chain is 66' = 100 links A rod is 1/4 of that = 16' 6" People cannot understand why their new survey loses ground and I would not buy property by the acre with an old survey. Dragging the chain up and down hill, and often around obstructions, covers a lot more territory than the modern way of point-to-point, as the crow flies measuring. |
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