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Anything that eats hundreds of mosquitoes daily gets a thumbs up from me. Taken at Carlisle Lake in Onalaska, Washington using an iPhone 14 Pro. Took around 20 minutes to get it to perch on my thumb.
A spectator at the Boston Breakers game at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, MA.
This is the second time that a hand signal acknowledges my camera.
Abstracting at the West Thumb Geyser Basin. Color, shapes, patterns, texture, color, shapes, patterns, texture ... keeps running through my head while looking through the view finder. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2017
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Mike!! thank you thank you thank you!! this was such an awesome surprise today. I was so tickled I had to put it up immediately. front and center of my desk - will grab a frame very soon!
I owe you a payback print! let me know what I can send your way! :)
I am always amazed at the variety of geology found at each of Yellowstone's geyser basins. The West Thumb Basin is unique and fun because things are fairly close together. I need to keep track of the names of these hot pools though. Maybe on my next visit! ;-)
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I don't know which I prefer less: trying to spell its name, or trying to catch it in my lens when it's feeding. It's the smallest and nippiest of our regular hummer visitors. But today I finally learned that it likes to sleep late, and will remain oblivious to humans if found with a hangover from yesterday's nectar. So all is forgiven, N. h. s.
The crew of a Royal Saudi Air Force Boeing F-15SA Strike Eagle acknowledge the mass of spotters along the fence at RAF Waddington as they wait their turn for the runway at the start of a Cobra Warrior mission.
In the great room swap of October, I have unearthed lots of photo props like this giant wooden hand-carved hand of which this thumb could be a possibility for the Macro Monday theme of fake. Maybe I should take another picture so you get the sense of the size.
.. hier möchte ich euch meinen linken Daumen vorstellen:
.. Tataaa !! ..
Nein, was er da oben hat ist nicht direkt eine Krone .. es ist eine Kappe von einem Füllanschluss der Kältemittelleitung eines AUDI's .. 😎👍
.. here I would like to introduce you to my left thumb:
Tataaa!!
No, what he has up there isn't exactly a crown.. it's a cap from a filling connection on the refrigerant line of an AUDI.. 😎👍
One of the fun things about taking photos at a parade is that the participants sometimes play up to the camera.
The Devil's Thumb is the rock tower on the Continental Divide, at 12,150 feet. It is a scenic climbing destinations, with views of both the eastern and western slopes, and a view of Devil's Thumb Lake, 1,000 feet below the summit of the tower.
A dawn shot from the porch of the Lodge at Devil's Thumb Ranch, at 8,333 feet, on the western slope, near Tabernash, Colorado. DTR maintains miles of groomed trails for classic and skate cross country skiing, bicycling, and snowshoeing.
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Quarter-plate tintype by an anonymous photographer. A lensman captured this Union officer giving the time-honored gesture of derision or disdain. His technique matches an instruction printed in an 1863 issue of the Semi-Weekly Wisconsin of Milwaukee: “Put thumb to nose, and gyrate the extended fingers for a moment.”
Though Oxford Dictionary dates the origin of the phrase to 1854, Newspapers.com reveals examples in England as early as 1840, and the United States in 1841.
One Civil War example involves Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard after the First Battle of Manassas in 1861. As the story goes, a member of the 11th New York Infantry—the rowdy Fire Zouaves—was hauled before the victorious general and “manifested his contempt for that chieftain by putting his thumb to his nose and gyrating with his finger.” The Zouave then kicked and knocked about a few nearby soldiers, challenged Beauregard to a fight, and then took off running. He was soon apprehended and tossed into solitary confinement.
The yarn finishes, “The rebels seem to admire the cool audacity of the chap, and Beauregard laughed heartily at his pranks.”
In a Facebook post on March 19, 2019, John Laking noted, "In England this is called 'cocking a snook ' if he used his left to extend the gesture that would be ' long bacon .'"
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They call her Grand Theft Grandma, and she is about to hand you your ass. Her right thumb has a name: Law. Her left thumb: Order. And she has a license to unload the wrath of the Playstation Gods on you. She may be 94, but that will hardly stop her from teaching you a lesson about pain, humility, and manners.