F4 instructor station
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That is TOO cool!! 
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Where is this? I need to start saving my penny’s for a visit.
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I might be able to get you a discount.
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The Dutch Schooner Amazone passed through the strait. She’s flagged in Finland and earns her pay as a charter in the polar regions.
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That’s a beautiful vessel
Dragonfly (I think it’s a common darter but it might also be a ruddy darter since I don’t have a photo that clearly shows the front or the legs)
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Not the best photos but I’m happy I got close enough to take them 
Satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)
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A few from the last week or two that came out okay-ish.
Still trying to get the hang of the camera (and trying to remember to clean the lens!) I swear I don’t touch it but somehow there’s always stuff on there.
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No photos allowed. Inside ‘Speakers House’ at the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament). Incredible tour that I highly recommend.
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One of our cycling tour of old Farts likes the idea of a Netherlands tour. He hates climbing as he’s a big unit.
Looking at your ride 455m (~1490ft) of climb in 106.9km (~66.5 miles) definitely has its appeal. Where I live in deepest darkest Wales, I have a rule of thumb of about that amount of climb per 16km/10 miles.
Great ride and what does Oorlog sauce taste like? Looks good and seems to be a satay sauce.
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Yeah, it’s a peanut based satay sauce, very tasty and perfect to quickly fill up your batteries on a ride.
I know not everyone likes peanuts but I love them .
You have wind instead. I prefer climbs over a strong headwind but the cycling paths are just incredible in the Netherlands and today we rode against the wind for the first half of our ride and then had a tail wind on our way home.
Edited for clarity
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Oorlog is the Dutch word for war. So a patat oorlog means ‘war fries’. Yup. The etymology of it is murky, sources disagree on the origin.
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I was on stand-by duty today and was called out to help out at another base of operations. As I travelled there my colleagues flew south of the Håkøya island, where Tirpitz met her demise.
You can still see the craters from some of the Tallboy bombs that missed…
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This makes me want to fly Mossies in Kola (even though it’s not technically accurate).
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The even more amazing thing is you got the prop in the picture. Mine always come out looking bendy or weird.
Unless…
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“Feather #2, Troll’s taking a picture”
Well, perhaps not… I guess the lighting was bright enough for a short exposure and I was sitting more or less in the rotational plane of the blades.
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Any common electronic shutter like on a cellphone will cause rolling shutter artifacts when taking pictures of rotating objects like props or wheels or any other fast moving objects.
There are techniques to almost eliminate the effect but they are only common on very high end modern mirrorless cameras like the newest Sony A 9II, Canon EOS R3 or Nikon Z9 that feature stacked sensors which have much faster readout speeds than normal sensors. The next step up would be a global shutter but they require mind boggling readout speeds and much more complex circuitry. You won’t find them on any mainstream cameras (yet).
Even professional cameras that are not top of the line models will have some rolling shutter when using their electronic shutter. You can see it as a deformation on any fast moving objects. Using the mechanical shutter avoids this problem.
I think as stacked sensors are getting cheaper we will see the tech trickle down to lower end bodies, maybe even cell phones, but until then you can simply use a camera with a mechanical shutter if you want to avoid funny looking rotor blades, props or baseball bats mid swing.
I hope you enjoyed my little ted talk on electronic camera shutters
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