The "What in the world is that ? ! ? !" thread - Feb 05, 2010

[tjfuss]

<p>John: getting closer! A thin film trapped between sheets of glass (but there's a third piece of glass involved).</p>

[tjfuss]

<p>#6 looks like what the film might see as it exits a film cartridge ;-)</p>

[john_macpherson]

<p>Would the third piece of glass be a mirror to reflect some of the confusing stuff back even more confusingly?</p>

<p>6 - not even close!</p>

[tjfuss]

<p>Okay, I think I've got it. The foreground is the tall grass on the near side of a creek or channel and the top is the reflection of grass on the other side.<br>

Another hint: the third piece of glass is responsible for the color.</p>

[john_macpherson]

<p>Timothy - nailed it perfectly! Take another turn sir!</p>

<p>Third piece of glass? Traffic light on red!</p>

<p>My number 1 is an old gravestone with trails made by snails which have crawled all over it to eat the moss/lichen.</p>

[tjfuss]

<p>I think we've hit our limit for back & forth on my red ripple. It is an old Voigtlander polarizing filter. The polarizing film has shrunk & shriveled - trapped between the two pieces of clear glass. The red color comes from a blown glass ornament hanging in the window.<br>

I'll see if i can dig up another obscure shot.</p>

[john_macpherson]

<p>That was waaay obscure Tim!</p>

[sarah_fox]

<p>A bit less obscure. It's a 100% crop of a very high ISO image, so don't be too critical of image quality!</p><div></div>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Sarah - Glass vase, possibly molten?</p>

[jgalyon]

<p>I actually don't know what this is myself...so if someone knows with a certainty...PLEASE SPEAK UP!</p>

[jgalyon]

<p>Sorry, tech problems...let's try this again! I have no idea what this object is...so if you feel you can identify it with certainty...PLEASE FEEL FREE to speak up and say yea or nay to those you guess. Thanks!</p><div></div>

[sarah_fox]

<p>Tom got it! :-) It's a bell jar being made in the Jamestown glass house:<br>

<a href="http://www.graphic-fusion.com/phglassblower02.htm">http://www.graphic-fusion.com/phglassblower02.htm</a></p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>OK, it looks like Sarah and I get another chance to submit, so try this one p'netters ....</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

<p>PS - I think I may have posted this before in photo.net, so if you happen to remember this image, pls. say so, but don't give away the answer ... at least for a while. ;-)</p>

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[john_macpherson]

<p>John's looks like the well-weathered interior workings of a piano.</p>

<p>Sarah's is some form of glass-blowing activity?</p>

[john_macpherson]

<p>Looking up from below a bridge or crane?</p>

[robert_landis]

<p>John Gaylon's post- I think it is the parts to a pipe organ.</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>John, you've got the "looking up" part right, and you've got the scale about right, but definitely not a bridge or crane.</p>

<p>Tom M.</p>

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[john_macpherson]

<p>Hmm the leg of an electricity pylon?</p>

[sarah_fox]

<p>John, that's it! :-)</p>

<p>Tom: Some sort of a conveyor belt?</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Sarah - Not quite a conveyor belt, but things do come down it *very* fast. ;-)</p>

<p>Tom</p>

[john_macpherson]

<p>Roller coaster ride in a funfair!</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>John - You're getting warmer. People do come down the structure very quickly, but the people are not in cars, cabs, gondolas, or other mechanical conveyances such as you would find in an amusement park. The people come down one at a time.</p>

<p>Best hint of all (... almost a give-away) this structure is only used in the winter, and you'll be seeing a lot of this type of contraption in the next month or so, even though there are only a handful of them in the world!</p>

<p>:-)</p>

<p>Tom M</p>

<p>PS - I just looked at the "about" section of your personal web site. After what I read about your background, you, OF ALL PEOPLE, should now be able to ID this structure. ;-)</p>

[tjfuss]

<p>Is it a ski-flying jump (as seen at the Olypics)?</p>

[john_macpherson]

<p>Well that'll be a ski jump then?</p>

[tom_mann1]

<p>Tim, John - Exactly! It's the larger of the two jumps at Lake Placid, shot from directly below. A more conventional view is here: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2015/1845834285_65259389c9_o.jpg.</p>

<p>Since you both ID'ed it, if eithr of you feel like submitting another image to the thread, go for it!</p>

<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Tom M.</p>

<p>PS - John, I also used to be a certified ski instructor. I usually wound up assisting a few adaptive lessons per season, and was quite attracted to it, but never went for certification in that specialty. My hat is off to you and anyone who does that sort of work. PPS - I've been to western Scotland, Skye, etc. a few times and absolutely love your area. Generations ago, I presumably had family from there, but never tracked them down.</p>

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