Kevin's Watch

Menolly wrote: *nodding*

I grew up running around barefoot, so was doing the same the first night I spent in Israel on the Moshav outside Tel Aviv when I was 13. Until we had the lecture about native wild life. My shoes stayed where they belonged the rest of the trip.

I grew up the same! I was always barefoot. Even now I tend to opt for barefoot when I can but much harder in London. I much prefer my African days even though I did get stung/bitten/scratched etc every so often!

Matrixman wrote:(Disclaimer: I recognize that I have an irrational fear of the arachnid kingdom. This post does not in any way intend offense to any spiders, whom I respect and acknowledge as one of Nature's most awesome creatures, and who may at this very moment be comfortably residing in my closet and other dark places.)

I have a friend who would be fumigating that closet if she thought there were any living spiders in it! Poor things!

4 taken today while out with a friend.

ohhhh, so pretty!!! i can handle fish.

KiGirl wrote:ohhhh, so pretty!!! i can handle fish.

I figured people would prefer fish to spiders!

fish often EAT spiders!

More Photos!! More Photos!

more you say? Ok here are a couple of other randoms.
I'm sure there are other people who use their phones to snap away at stuff!

Battersea Power Station - shown on the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals album and The Beatles Help! video:


strange mountain of flowers in the town square in Rotterdam.

Ah, so that power station is a real place.

Chrysalis wrote:
I'm sure there are other people who use their phones to snap away at stuff!

Unfortunately, I don't have a phone camera (my cell is an ancient 7-year old model) so I can't contribute to this thread.

An emperor scorpion! By that name, does that mean it's the largest of its species?

Pandinus imperator is indeed one of the largest (if not the largest) scorpion species.

A good rule of thumb is: that heavier the claws, the weaker the sting. Hence the Pandinus imperator is not very poisonous.

Doar: I think the mushroom might be an Amanita ceacarea. It's one of the fly agarics that we, unfortunately, don't have around these parts.
Disclaimer: DON'T eat it though!!!!

Prebe wrote:

An emperor scorpion! By that name, does that mean it's the largest of its species?

Pandinus imperator is indeed one of the largest (if not the largest) scorpion species.

A good rule of thumb is: that heavier the claws, the weaker the sting. Hence the Pandinus imperator is not very poisonous.

Doar: I think the mushroom might be an Amanita ceacarea. It's one of the fly agarics that we, unfortunately, don't have around these parts.
Disclaimer: DON'T eat it though!!!!

I have been trying to find out what it is. That looks close!

We need a "What is it" thread!!!!!

Now, I NEVER picture google fungi, at least not for identification purposes, but here's a good shot

The correct spelling is (of course) Amanita caesarea. Thank you Google!

Let's have a "what is it" thread. That'll give me a chance to:
A: Show off
B: Make a fool of myself
C: Expose my ignorance

Or all of the above

Matrixman wrote:Ah, so that power station is a real place.

Chrysalis wrote:
I'm sure there are other people who use their phones to snap away at stuff!

Unfortunately, I don't have a phone camera (my cell is an ancient 7-year old model) so I can't contribute to this thread.

I have found that anytime people I know need a phone upgrade its hard to get a phone WITHOUT a camera/mps/gps/radio/internet connection/everything including the kitchen sink. The days of the plain old phone seem long gone, which is a real shame!

I don't take many pictures on my phone, but I do have a few old ones sitting on it I might upload. Unfortunately, most of them were taken with the camera set to its smallest image size.
Here's one I put on my comp a while back, showing the chruch and graveyard across the road from the house I was living in last year:

A shame it's such a small one, though.


Edit: Ah, here we go, some decent ones.

Rainbow over Central Hall, University of York (taken 2 years ago):

You can just about make out the ducks and geese in the foreground.

Streetlit foot/cycle path on edge of campus, taken at about 3am (more than 1.5 years ago):

Saw it lit up in contrast to the pitch black around and thought it would make a good image, but it came out quite yellow and fuzzy because of the lighting and the way the phone auto-adjusts for brightness.


View from my bedroom window at sunset (taken about 1 year ago, while visiting home rom uni):

That one could have come out a lot better than it did.

Murrin - I really like the double rainbow and the church! Pity the church wasn't bigger as you say.

Here is one I snapped yesterday while out visiting for work. There were 2 whole walls and that didn't even cover the lot. The person they belong to sold over 30 million albums worldwide and these are kept at his parents flat:

how cool is that, chrys! i need to get a better camera phone.

KiGirl wrote:how cool is that, chrys! i need to get a better camera phone.

which do you have at the moment? Most are around the same picture quality. I much prefer an actual digital camera.

Chrysalis wrote: which do you have at the moment? Most are around the same picture quality. I much prefer an actual digital camera.

i have some LG phone. the camera on it is really really bad. i am like you; i prefer the digital camera. but you guys are taking so many cool pics, i want to too!

KiGirl wrote:i have some LG phone. the camera on it is really really bad. i am like you; i prefer the digital camera. but you guys are taking so many cool pics, i want to too!

In that case...your mission for tomorrow is 3 phone pictures! Any random ones are fine. I tend to just make sure there is enough light and try keep as still as possible so the quality is not as horrible.

**cue mission impossible music**

i accept this mission.

KiGirl wrote:**cue mission impossible music**

i accept this mission.

Your time starts now!
If you fail to complete your mission ... *attempts to think of suitable punishment but fails*

Chrysalis wrote:

Your time starts now!
If you fail to complete your mission ... *attempts to think of suitable punishment but fails*

lol! well, hopefully i won't have to be punished and then you don't have to think of anything. my pics won't be nearly as cool as yours though. just warnin' ya!