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The original thread closed earlier this year, but perhaps you have taken some pictures since then. Please share!

Moon and Mars, September 5, 2020​

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I finally figured out how to manually control the focus, aperture, and shutter speed on my camera (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35). Manual mode is essential for moon photos. The 18x optical zoom is all right as an amateur telescope, but the optics are not really telescope grade (too much chromatic aberration).

On Sept 5, the Moon and Mars approached closely in the sky (not so close distance-wise). In Brazil, Mars actually was eclipsed by the Moon, but where I live, north of Boston, this picture shows approximately the closest approach that night.
 
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When the cherry blossom was in bloom in the town centre .

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I don’t know about all the technical photography stuff, just know that it is an enchanting photo. Beautiful!
 
That is so lovely! But, I thought cherry blossoms were naturally white, and only appear pink on postcards because they’ve been colorized.

Guess they actually do come in pink, as well.
 
Tall bearded Irises…
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Mother Cabrini Holy Hour Soldier Field, Chicago 1946

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My Godson and cousin Tony , on the right , when he was our town’s mayor a few years ago . He died in March this year .

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June , our mayor this year . She is one of our parishioners . She was the town’s mayor last year and is doing an extra year because of Covid-19 messing things up .

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Found this funny, during lock-down …

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This is the lizard that hangs out on my patio. She has a sister. They both patrol the perimeter of my home and eat any offending bugs.

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I have a question for ya’all. I’m originally from Ohio and our family always called Irises of this type Flags. Has anyone else heard them called this…and if so, in what area?

I’ve since lived in Florida Wyoming and Colorado and no one calls them Flags…so, I’m wondering if it was an Ohio thing or a family thing?
 
I have never heard them called flags, but an online search tells me that some irises are also called flags.
 
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I’ve never heard of that, but I guess in some places they’re called that.
 
Well, I guess I’m glad I’m not the only one calling them that. I remember going to nursery in Wyoming and asking if they had flag bulbs. The guy looked at me like I was from another planet. No one had heard that before so I assumed it was an East thing…then an Ohio thing…then just my family? I’m glad it’s a few more than my family! 😂😂😂. My mom loved to grow them and would share with neighbors when she had to thin them. They look lovely towards the back of flower beds and then hidden by the later flowers! ❤️
 
This is one of my quarantine projects

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@tad The next project that you should build is a plethora of WBCs in order to surround that gigantic corona model and contain it!

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Mr. and Mrs. Beryllos at the beach, Scarborough, Maine.

@Quasi_Tenebrous, our shadows salute you.

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That’s not what white blood cells looked like to me! I’m a retired medical technologist and spent hours every day looking at blood smears. Here’s my view…a leukemia patient producing an over abundance of white blood cells. We would cringe when seeing one like this as we knew their day would really be ruined when the doctor got a phone call about it…it’s considered a critical result if it’s the first one!

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It is hard at times. The lab techs are the first to know and call the doctor. We know that within an hour that patient will be checked into the hospital and undergoing a bone marrow. Usual symptoms just don’t seem that serious…persistent sore throat, tired, maybe some bone aches. Usually they think they have some virus they can’t shake. Then Wham! Hospitalization, needles stuck in your spine and starting chemo.

The biggest joy for med techs is …we confirm you’re pregnant! One of our male techs always liked to brag that he knew his wife was pregnant before she did…pointing out that she suspected it didn’t matter. He knew! 🤣 She wasn’t impressed! 😲
 
Yes, @Pattylt You having been a med tech are technically correct! But Tad’s Lego coronavirus model isn’t real world either. (Don’t tell him I said that! I don’t want to disillusion him.) I never could get the hang of microscope viewing. My normal vision is monocular and I had trouble focusing. Instructors would tell me to keep both eyes open but when one is near sighted and the other is far sighted it gets difficult. 😵 Luckily for me the most that I had to do with microscopes as an RN in a Drs. office was look at at slide from a patient with a UTI and write down next to WBC’s as TNTC! Which usually was the truth. If a count was needed on cells then I deferred to our lab tech.
 
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