It's hard to balance a rainbow on the Washington Monument

[SportsFan68]

This was hard to draw, but belittle away.....

lb13

That is wonderful, LB. A definite winner. Makes me smile. I hope it's up a long time.

Yeah, but it needs Matias.

LB can make that happen.

[Snaxx]

Hey, wait for me!

[ulysses5019]

Hey, wait for me!

I bet Rocket J. Squirrel could do that too.

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

And this was an easy avatar to post...

No wonder unicorns don't exist anymore.... the cavemen roasted them all.....

lb13

Only after they self skewered themselves.

I keep envisioning a stack of unicorns impaled on the monument. And kittens crying.

[Beebs52]

That picture is just too cool for school-uplifting even!
And the avatar is awesome, too!

[Jeemie]

Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.

I suppose the photo of the plane being flown into the tower wasn't all that hard to take either. Or the little girl running naked through the street in Viet Nam. Or the soldier dipping the nurse for that Victory kiss. Or the student crying on her knees at Kent State. What the hell, someone just hurriedly snapped those pictures, after all!

This is an amazing photo and that was a ridiculous comment. Sometimes not only lenses need filters.

Sometimes all you need is luck, too.

I mean- isn't the Iwo Jima photo great?

But guess what? Joe Rosenthal didn't even SEE his shot- he took it without looking in the viewfinder because he was so busy setting up rocks to stand on so he could have a better angle, he nearly missed the shot.

Yeah- maybe I need a filter- but sometimes my irritation at seeing every accomplishment praised on these boards like it's the Greatest Achievement in The Entire World overcomes my inner filter.

Sorry about that.

[ulysses5019]

Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.

I suppose the photo of the plane being flown into the tower wasn't all that hard to take either. Or the little girl running naked through the street in Viet Nam. Or the soldier dipping the nurse for that Victory kiss. Or the student crying on her knees at Kent State. What the hell, someone just hurriedly snapped those pictures, after all!

This is an amazing photo and that was a ridiculous comment. Sometimes not only lenses need filters.

Sometimes all you need is luck, too.

I mean- isn't the Iwo Jima photo great?

But guess what? Joe Rosenthal didn't even SEE his shot- he took it without looking in the viewfinder because he was so busy setting up rocks to stand on so he could have a better angle, he nearly missed the shot.

Yeah- maybe I need a filter- but sometimes my irritation at seeing every accomplishment praised on these boards like it's the Greatest Achievement in The Entire World overcomes my inner filter.

Sorry about that.

From wiki:

On Friday, February 23, 1945 at around 1:00 PM, five days after the Marines landed at Iwo Jima, Rosenthal was making his daily visit to the island on a Marine landing craft when he heard that a flag was being raised atop Mount Suribachi, a volcano at the southern tip of the island. Upon landing, Rosenthal hurried toward Suribachi, lugging along his bulky Speed Graphic camera, the standard for press photographers at the time. When he got about halfway up, he was told that a flag had already been raised on the summit. He continued up anyway to photograph the flag flying.
On the summit, Rosenthal discovered a group of Marines attaching a larger flag to a length of pipe. Nearby, another group of Marines stood ready to lower the smaller flag at the same instant the larger was raised. Rosenthal briefly contemplated attempting to photograph both flags, but decided against it, so he focused his attention on the group of Marines preparing to raise the second flag.
Rosenthal piled stones and a sandbag so he had something on which to stand, as he was only 5 feet and 5 inches (1.65 m) tall. He set his camera for a lens setting between f/8 and f/11 and put the speed at 1/400th second. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the group of Marines start to raise the second flag. He swung his camera around toward the action and pushed the shutter. To make sure he had a worthwhile photo to send to the AP, he took another photograph showing four Marines steadying the flag, then he gathered all the Marines on the summit for a posed shot under the flag.
In later years, when asked about the photo, he would say "I took the picture, the Marines took Iwo Jima."

[TheConfessor]

"It was like shooting a football game. You never knew what you got on film."
. . . Joe Rosenthal, Photographer

http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm

If Rosenthal had been of average height, say 4 inches taller, would that really have made much difference in the shot?

[littlebeast13]

That is wonderful, LB. A definite winner. Makes me smile. I hope it's up a long time.

Yeah, but it needs Matias.

LB can make that happen.

No, I can't draw Matias.....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

Great photo...don't mean to belittle the accomplishment...but it probably wasn't all that hard to take.

I suppose the photo of the plane being flown into the tower wasn't all that hard to take either. Or the little girl running naked through the street in Viet Nam. Or the soldier dipping the nurse for that Victory kiss. Or the student crying on her knees at Kent State. What the hell, someone just hurriedly snapped those pictures, after all!

This is an amazing photo and that was a ridiculous comment. Sometimes not only lenses need filters.

Sometimes all you need is luck, too.

I mean- isn't the Iwo Jima photo great?

But guess what? Joe Rosenthal didn't even SEE his shot- he took it without looking in the viewfinder because he was so busy setting up rocks to stand on so he could have a better angle, he nearly missed the shot.

Yeah- maybe I need a filter- but sometimes my irritation at seeing every accomplishment praised on these boards like it's the Greatest Achievement in The Entire World overcomes my inner filter.

Sorry about that.

The first comment about the "accomplishment" in this thread came from you. Everyone else was admiring what an awesome picture it was.....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

Hey, wait for me!

Well done. The Squirrels weren't surviving very well on the Stinkerball....

lb13

[littlebeast13]

No wonder unicorns don't exist anymore.... the cavemen roasted them all.....

lb13

Only after they self skewered themselves.

I keep envisioning a stack of unicorns impaled on the monument. And kittens crying.

I'll get to work on that avatar tomorrow.....

lb13

[SportsFan68]

Yeah, but it needs Matias.

LB can make that happen.

No, I can't draw Matias.....

lb13

You can get all the Matias pics you can handle with one little promise . . .

[peacock2121]

I suppose the photo of the plane being flown into the tower wasn't all that hard to take either. Or the little girl running naked through the street in Viet Nam. Or the soldier dipping the nurse for that Victory kiss. Or the student crying on her knees at Kent State. What the hell, someone just hurriedly snapped those pictures, after all!

This is an amazing photo and that was a ridiculous comment. Sometimes not only lenses need filters.

Sometimes all you need is luck, too.

I mean- isn't the Iwo Jima photo great?

But guess what? Joe Rosenthal didn't even SEE his shot- he took it without looking in the viewfinder because he was so busy setting up rocks to stand on so he could have a better angle, he nearly missed the shot.

Yeah- maybe I need a filter- but sometimes my irritation at seeing every accomplishment praised on these boards like it's the Greatest Achievement in The Entire World overcomes my inner filter.

Sorry about that.

The first comment about the "accomplishment" in this thread came from you. Everyone else was admiring what an awesome picture it was.....

lb13

I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.

I was impacted by the photo and had no thought about the photographer.

[Ritterskoop]

This is about a moving video shot and not a photo.

Guy who produced the World Series on TV in 1975 says the shot of Carlton Fisk waving his home run fair came about because of a rodent.

Cameraman was supposed to follow the flight of the ball, but there was a rat about to crawl o his foot, so he had to keep an eye on that, and couldn't chance changing the shot from home plate.

So we get one of the iconic reaction shots of all time, instead of action, and now in every sport, we see reaction much more than action, if the moment allows it.

[peacock2121]

This is about a moving video shot and not a photo.

Guy who produced the World Series on TV in 1975 says the shot of Carlton Fisk waving his home run fair came about because of a rodent.

Cameraman was supposed to follow the flight of the ball, but there was a rat about to crawl o his foot, so he had to keep an eye on that, and couldn't chance changing the shot from home plate.

So we get one of the iconic reaction shots of all time, instead of action, and now in every sport, we see reaction much more than action, if the moment allows it.

I looked it up - the photos were great!

[littlebeast13]

This is about a moving video shot and not a photo.

Guy who produced the World Series on TV in 1975 says the shot of Carlton Fisk waving his home run fair came about because of a rodent.

Cameraman was supposed to follow the flight of the ball, but there was a rat about to crawl o his foot, so he had to keep an eye on that, and couldn't chance changing the shot from home plate.

So we get one of the iconic reaction shots of all time, instead of action, and now in every sport, we see reaction much more than action, if the moment allows it.

I remember hearing about that on some sports show about 15-20 years ago! I always wondered if I had just imagined I'd heard that story since this is the first time I've heard of it since then....

lb13

[peacock2121]

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/weeki ... arltonfisk

[mrkelley23]

And I'm glad I read this thread. I wasn't even going to bother since I saw the pic on Facebook and knew how awesome it was, but this thread was totally worthwhile for other reasons.

[peacock2121]

And I'm glad I read this thread. I wasn't even going to bother since I saw the pic on Facebook and knew how awesome it was, but this thread was totally worthwhile for other reasons.

That was uncharacteristically vague.

What other reasons?

[mrkelley23]

And I'm glad I read this thread. I wasn't even going to bother since I saw the pic on Facebook and knew how awesome it was, but this thread was totally worthwhile for other reasons.

That was uncharacteristically vague.

What other reasons?

The Fisk story. The Iwo Jima story. The paraleipsis smackdown. Tackle football for fun. I would have missed all of that if I'd just appreciated the picture on FB.

[littlebeast13]

And I'm glad I read this thread. I wasn't even going to bother since I saw the pic on Facebook and knew how awesome it was, but this thread was totally worthwhile for other reasons.

That was uncharacteristically vague.

What other reasons?

The Fisk story. The Iwo Jima story. The paraleipsis smackdown. Tackle football for fun. I would have missed all of that if I'd just appreciated the picture on FB.

I guess you aren't a fan of rainbow donkeys......

lb13

[peacock2121]

And I'm glad I read this thread. I wasn't even going to bother since I saw the pic on Facebook and knew how awesome it was, but this thread was totally worthwhile for other reasons.

That was uncharacteristically vague.

What other reasons?

The Fisk story. The Iwo Jima story. The paraleipsis smackdown. Tackle football for fun. I would have missed all of that if I'd just appreciated the picture on FB.

This is one of the main reasons I am still here.

Reading a thread between you and AJ got had me win 64K. Without that, I am pretty sure I woulda been a thousandaire.

[mrkelley23]

That was uncharacteristically vague.

What other reasons?

The Fisk story. The Iwo Jima story. The paraleipsis smackdown. Tackle football for fun. I would have missed all of that if I'd just appreciated the picture on FB.

I guess you aren't a fan of rainbow donkeys......

lb13

It's funny/sad how unartistic I am. When Pea didn't understand what I meant, I typed out the first few things that came to mind. I'm glad that avatars exist, and you and uly and Snaxx have really livened up the Bored with them. But my mind is so verbal, I don't remember pictures very well. Years from now, if the subject of the Washington Monument comes up, or rainbows, I'll remember the concept of the rainbow atop the Monument, but I won't remember the actual pic.

[ulysses5019]

The Fisk story. The Iwo Jima story. The paraleipsis smackdown. Tackle football for fun. I would have missed all of that if I'd just appreciated the picture on FB.

I guess you aren't a fan of rainbow donkeys......

lb13

It's funny/sad how unartistic I am. When Pea didn't understand what I meant, I typed out the first few things that came to mind. I'm glad that avatars exist, and you and uly and Snaxx have really livened up the Bored with them. But my mind is so verbal, I don't remember pictures very well. Years from now, if the subject of the Washington Monument comes up, or rainbows, I'll remember the concept of the rainbow atop the Monument, but I won't remember the actual pic.

But will you remember this avatar?