Outside for Humungus

[fish]

No rain today. :clap

But I had to play hooky to get some outside shots for Humungus. Yes, hummer...we have an outside here. I was really glad to see that it hadn't all washed away.

Please join me as I take you for a little stroll through my outside.

We'll start our tour with a wheel done in camera with Sepia (b/w parameter, yellow filter).

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13668824-L.jpg



The suspension and traction on this thing is terrble, but it did a pretty good job of tilling the soil in its time.


http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13684543-L.jpg




My favorite bridge, built in 1924, the year my father was born. Clearly, someone felt the need to attach some barbwire to it to keep it from floating away down the creek to the Guadalupe River.

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13668838-L.jpg




One really nice thing about all the rain we've been getting is that everything is growing, including the redwood fences...

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13684544-L.jpg



...and the rocks.

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13682175-L.jpg





And that concludes our brief tour of my outside. Please climb back in the tour bug and securely fasten your seat belts for the ride back home.

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13668868-L.jpg



hey humungus...
:bad

[GREAPER]

Nice stuff fish. I enjoyed it.

[fish]

Nice stuff fish. I enjoyed it.
Thanks greaper. It took about 100x longer than it should have, because it seems I had the wrong color profile embedded into my images by Capture One (adobe 1998 vs sRGB), which required reprocessing most of the RAWs six or eight times and uploading a bunch of them to smuggy to get it right. :doh

Thanks the onethumb for setting me straight.

Lesson learned: sRGB in camera. sRGB in Capure One. sRGB in Photoshop.

[ian408]

Alum Rock?

ian

[fish]

Alum Rock?

Quicksilver.

[ian408]

Quicksilver.
Have you tried shooting in the town of New Almaden?

Ian

[fish]

Have you tried shooting in the town of New Almaden?

Not a whole lot there.

[ian408]

Not a whole lot there.
I thought there were a few historic buildings? The creek was
pretty nice.

Ian

[Ann McRae]

Great photos - love these ones the most! Lovely mosses!

ann
http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13668838-L.jpg




One really nice thing about all the rain we've been getting is that everything is growing, including the redwood fences...

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13684544-L.jpg

[ysr612]

No rain today. :clap

But I had to play hooky to get some outside shots for Humungus. Yes, hummer...we have an outside here. I was really glad to see that it hadn't all washed away.

Please join me as I take you for a little stroll through my outside.

We'll start our tour with a wheel done in camera with Sepia (b/w parameter, yellow filter).





The suspension and traction on this thing is terrble, but it did a pretty good job of tilling the soil in its time.


http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13684543-L.jpg




My favorite bridge, built in 1924, the year my father was born. Clearly, someone felt the need to attach some barbwire to it to keep it from floating away down the creek to the Guadalupe River.






One really nice thing about all the rain we've been getting is that everything is growing, including the redwood fences...





...and the rocks.







And that concludes our brief tour of my outside. Please climb back in the tour bug and securely fasten your seat belts for the ride back home.





hey humungus...
:badthat's a rake used to windrow hay I think??

[gus]

About time ! Now i want a photo of an owl.

[fish]

that's a rake used to windrow hay I think??
I think you're right. What I don't understand is why the wheels seem to be pointing in the wrong (90 degrees off) direction. On the far left (can't be seen from this angle) are toothed disks that look like tillers. I had a shot of them, but it's gone now. I guess I'll have to go back and see if I can get a couple more complete shots so you farmboys can teach this city slicker about hay rakes.

[fish]

About time ! Now i want a photo of an owl.
very funny. here you go. (http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Metz/)

[ysr612]

I think you're right. What I don't understand is why the wheels seem to be pointing in the wrong (90 degrees off) direction. On the far left (can't be seen from this angle) are toothed disks that look like tillers. I had a shot of them, but it's gone now. I guess I'll have to go back and see if I can get a couple more complete shots so you farmboys can teach this city slicker about hay rakes.
If I remeber right there is a bar with detent holes so you can make it swing out and rake at an angle. It has been a long time.

[gus]

very funny. here you go. (http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Metz/)
Steve must always have his camera at the ready :roll :roll :roll

He looks like he's never missed an owl.

[fish]

If I remeber right there is a bar with detent holes so you can make it swing out and rake at an angle. It has been a long time.

Here are some other shots. What are the disks for?


It looks like a sculpture.

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13821607-L.jpg



http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13821616-L.jpg

[ysr612]

Here are some other shots. What are the disks for?


It looks like a sculpture.

http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13821607-L.jpg



http://coyfish.smugmug.com/photos/13821616-L.jpgI love the pics but am more confused then ever sure looks like a cross between a rake and a manure spreader.

edit the disks like that are on the spreader and breakup and throw $hit a long way.

[philspace]

I love the pics but am more confused then ever sure looks like a cross between a rake and a manure spreader.
Very good. It's hard to tell, but it's either a cultipacker on top of a spreader or an old roller, rake and spreader.

(I'm a farm boy).

Nice shots :thumb

[ysr612]

Very good. It's hard to tell, but it's either a cultipacker on top of a spreader or an old roller, rake and spreader.

(I'm a farm boy).

Nice shots :thumbthat is exacly what it is someone put the rake in a spreader wagon but the wood is gone from the spreader and the rake is just sitting on the rails.

edit ps the wheels are missing from the rake.

[fish]

that is exacly what it is someone put the rake in a spreader wagon but the wood is gone from the spreader and the rake is just sitting on the rails.

edit ps the wheels are missing from the rake.

so now you're going to make me go back and look for the wheels?! :wxwax

[ysr612]

so now you're going to make me go back and look for the wheels?! :wxwax
they are likely broke and won't work anymore anyway. however You may have left more good shots there untaken:dunno

[philspace]

that is exacly what it is someone put the rake in a spreader wagon but the wood is gone from the spreader and the rake is just sitting on the rails.

edit ps the wheels are missing from the rake.
If you look under the rake you will see a roller. I never saw a roller with a spring rake - that's why I thought it might be some kind of cultipacker, but knows.

I think fish should bring it home and put it in the front garden - fishwife will love it.

[davev]

Great pictures. I also really like the mossy ones.


dave.