Your Canon Photos No.2: 14th to 20th May 2023

Visited a National Trust property called Nostell in Yorkshire, UK yesterday. Didn't go in the house but had a lovely walk round the gardens and parkland.

Great photos @HessleHiker. I enjoyed seeing them.

I posted an iPhone photo in the older thread. I am reposting it here. I have kind of abandoned my DSLR camera in the past year due to health issues. Hope I’ll be able to get better and use it again. Here’s the text and photo from the other post. I often post photos from my whereabouts rather than stellar art. I hope it’ll be ok here.

Let’s see if I remember how to post something here…

I’ve been busy in the past month selling a house (my mom’s house, the family house my dad had bought in 1962). As you can imagine, the house was loaded with things from the past. Gigantic job. Now I’m exhausted…

So I’m living in the last of our family houses, built in 1964. Beautiful place but the electric grid has become fragile and we’re plagued with power failures all the time.

I finally decided to go with the ultimate generator as moving and cranking the portable ones has become too much for me. I hope it will serve me well. We had another power failure yesterday but it is not connected to the liquid propane tanks yet!!!

I see DPReview is still up and that the closing banner has disappeared. This is silly. They say they’re closing, then they give an extension and now no more closing banner. Are we supposed to go back there?

I seem to be struggling uploading files here. Just trying again and again…

I think I may be hitting the save button too fast. I’ll have to resurrect my photo site I think and link photos instead of uploading.

What you need to do @benjilafouine is press on this button when uploading:

This button will add some computer code to your post, which, when posted, is your photo (s)

Thanks Dunlin

Thanks David. We only live about 45 miles from Nostell so not too far off

benji,

After hitting the two little rectangles to insert a photo into your post that Dunlin showed, over on right side the will see a button that says :Preview.
You can hit that and preview what your post will look like before you actually post it.

If you are trying to insert a photo that sits on an external web site (and not on your computer), you have to hit the little icon that looks like an mountain, and type in the url address of the location where your photo is sitting.

Steve Thomas

Yes, I figured that out already. What bugs me with the upload method is the file size limit. More work.

I may resort to Flickr in the end.

Well, it is very complicated here. I live by the country side and I have to have the whole house working. In the past year, we were without power for 11 days in all with one episode of six days, can you believe that?

And I have an artesian well functioning at 240 volts. No power, no running water. Even more, I have no decent cellular signal so when the power goes out I’m totally isolated from the world!!! I have to set my phone on wifi calling at home and even this doesn’t work well because I have a 4 mbps on 800 kbps Internet line!!!! We’re supposed to have fibre very soon. The wire is one post away from my home!

And keep in mind that our winters are freezing cold with 3-4 feet of snow on the ground. Also, from November to February, a simple night light powered by a little solar panel cannot even last for more than a couple of hours on 16 hours night.

On our lake there is a 1.5 miles long island with only summer cabins. A lot of solar panels there.

David,

I was curious, so I looked it up.

The City of Vienna
www.wien.gv.at/english/cityhall/rathausmann.htm

The Rathausmann and the Tower of the City Hall
The Rathausmann
"Atop the 97.9-metre-high steeple, an iron standard-bearer - the Rathausmann - guards the City Hall. Cast from melted-down Russian kopecks, he is 5.4 metres tall (3.4 metres without his flagpole) and weighs 650 kilograms. The statue of a medieval knight was modelled on the armour of Emperor Maximilian I. A sphere weighing approximately 800 kilograms (a kind of giant pendulum acting as a counterweight) helps him to keep his balance and defy even the fiercest storms.
In 1985 the workshops of the Vienna gasworks were commissioned with the restoration of the Rathausmann. As a surprise, the the gasworks craftsmen produced an exact replica of the Rathausmann. This replica is on display in the Rathauspark.
A bit of trivia:
The Rathausmann would have some trouble finding comfortable footwear - he takes size 63 (size 29 in Great Britain."

Interesting fellow.

Steve Thomas

HessleHiker,

I like all of that green grass. It's very pretty around there. The building is interesting too.