The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

[melonfool]

I saw this earlier (and the Tweet about Wile E Coyote) and think it's incredible!

Mel

[Itsallaguess]

Time Magazine's latest cover contains a drone photo of 958 illuminated drones -



Link to larger version of the above picture - https://i.redd.it/apmm3749i7111.jpg

Link to the Time Magazine 'behind the cover' article - http://time.com/longform/time-drones-behind-cover/

Link to Time Magazine special-report - 'The Drone Age' - http://time.com/collection/drones/

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[Itsallaguess]

A gyroscopic, self-stabilising pool table on a cruise-ship -

http://i.imgur.com/7KK7QFA.gifv

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[Leothebear]

That's amazing. Mind you, playing on that would make me feel decidedly seasick.
LTB

[Itsallaguess]

That's amazing. Mind you, playing on that would make me feel decidedly seasick.

It's great isn't it. Clearly I'm taking the wrong type of holidays....

Mind you, given the engineering involved, I'm not sure why they can't open it out a little more and create a small, self-levelling platform for the players and the table, so the table wouldn't look to be moving all the time to those taking the shots...

But then, everything else around the platform would still be moving, so they'd really have to have a completely self-levelling pool-room to get over that.

Cheapskates!

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[Itsallaguess]

The Devil's Ladder - Carrauntoohil, County Kerry, Ireland



https://tinyurl.com/y97h2s6e

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[melonfool]

RAF 100 - St James Park today, sadly not a brighter day!
(my own photo, taken about half an hour ago)

[Itsallaguess]

RAF 100 - St James Park today, sadly not a brighter day!

(my own photo, taken about half an hour ago)

Great stuff Mel.

Not sure if it was obvious from your location, although you can see it in the photo you took if you tilt your head, but from a different angle the same flight spelt out the 100 year anniversary celebration -



It must have been a very impressive sight!

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[AleisterCrowley]

That's a good one melonfool- looks a bit cloudier than Slough(!), although its cooler here than it has been, with a fresh breeze

[melonfool]

Yes, we could tell - you can see it more in my other pictures but, ironically, that one came out best in term of all the planes being in sight and zoom etc.

I've got some good red arrows ones, but, you know, you can just Google those!

This morning I thought 'oh, I'll wander over to the park about quarter to and watch the planes', and somehow it never occurred to me that about 2 million other people would be doing the same thing, so we didn't get quite as far into the park as we would have liked.

Mel

[DiamondEcho]

RAF 100 - St James Park today, sadly not a brighter day! (my own photo, taken about half an hour ago)

Wow, well done, you got the timing spot on; a difficult thing to do with a lowish level fly-past in a built-up area!

[melonfool]

RAF 100 - St James Park today, sadly not a brighter day! (my own photo, taken about half an hour ago)

Wow, well done, you got the timing spot on; a difficult thing to do with a lowish level fly-past in a built-up area!

Thank you - I'd had quite a bit of practice by the time they came over, pointing the camera at the exact right gap in the trees. It was nice to take on my new phone too - the old one never took a good photo and I thought it was me, but I've only taken a few on this new one and they've all come out nicely, so am looking forward to seeing my favourite band again at Latitude on Friday so I can, at last, take a decent photo of Tim!



Mel

[AleisterCrowley]

Boyzone?

[Slarti]

Half an hour ago and an almost unheard of 23 degrees.

…...The only downside is the swarms of campervans dotted all over the place.

Its sunk under the weight of the camper vans

Slarti

[AleisterCrowley]

Next stop. The Arctic

Wouldn't you bump into Orkney/Shetland?!

[PinkDalek]

Half an hour ago and an almost unheard of 23 degrees.

…...The only downside is the swarms of campervans dotted all over the place.

Someone keeps nicking your image of the tank traps. They were there when you first posted, then reappeared in both your and Slarti's reply, at some stage, but have now gone again.

[Clitheroekid]

I enjoy cycling, but I'm basically lazy and I don't like slogging up hills, so my perfect cycling is a canal towpath.

I was out for a ride yesterday afternoon along the Leeds Liverpool Canal, near Barnoldswick. I'm sure that the average denizen of the lands south of Watford would expect this to be a journey through a smoky hell of belching chimneys and dark satanic mills!

Not quite:

[melonfool]

Ironically, the 'dark, satanic mills' of which we sing, were in London.

Mel

[AndyPandy]

When I'm working I usually drive as I have a carload of stuff. This week, new customer, everything in a rucksack so was able to train into London, 2 stops on the Underground then a 10 minute walk. This is the Grand Union Canal, Paddington Arm at the moment. I've had worse commutes in my time, fewer nicer than walking along this towpath.

[Leothebear]

What's that boat doing on the bowling green?