Too close for comfort – or a really good telescope lens and some work done on the resulting photograph.
Otherwise some serious work would have been to be done on the photographer. ER-like.
I see exactly what Susan is talking about, and agree that it looks like the shortened focus of a telephoto lens. Look along the left leg; there are dark, distinct rocks(?). If you keep going up along the left side, they no longer appear; instead there are slightly browner, indistinct shapes.
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White rhino?
I think so…. Not that I know much about rhinoceroseses.
I only know that black ones and white ones are pretty much the same color as the other kinds, ie, kind of rhinoceros-colored.
And they both have two horns, UNlike some other kinds.
But white rhinos have wide mouths for grazing and black rhinos have pointy lips, instead… for eating grass.
If that sounds confused… Yes I am.
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So I just looked at Wikipedia.
It was way too complicated for this hour, and didn’t make me any less confused.
But this one here does look rhinoceros-colored with two horns and what I’d call wide lips, unless there are wider lips out there.
ML?
good morning dennis! it’s only 7:40 in the a.m. so the message is…..
NOSE!!!
Too close for comfort – or a really good telescope lens and some work done on the resulting photograph.
Otherwise some serious work would have been to be done on the photographer. ER-like.
Pretty sure it’s telephoto at long range…
The background goes completely out of focus a yard from their feet.
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What I said to meadowmary.
And I meant to say, “a yard from his feet”.
I’m on a tablet… autocorrect and typos are rampant.
Maybe it’s at a zoo, the whole rhino looks in focus to me.
The whole rhino is in focus… and it could be in a zoo, but I still think it’s a telephoto lens.
Close up, with a regular lens, you’d see the surroundings.
Maybe the rest of the enclosure, a wall or cage bars behind the animal… or distant scenery in the wild.
A telephoto lens focuses tightly on what you’re shooting, with very little depth…
everything is blurry starting not far behind (and in front of) the subject.
You can see those little rocks start to blur out a couple of feet back.
Nothing blurry here.
I see exactly what Susan is talking about, and agree that it looks like the shortened focus of a telephoto lens. Look along the left leg; there are dark, distinct rocks(?). If you keep going up along the left side, they no longer appear; instead there are slightly browner, indistinct shapes.
I suggested tele in my initial posting, but I don’t see anything blurry.
Yes, that’s why my post is a reply to you.
You said either too close OR a telescopic lens.
I was responding, by guessing which.
My choice was telephoto.
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I don’t want to keep discussing it, but just to explain…
If nothing is blurry, what’s behind him?
In non-telephoto pictures of rhinos, you see the sky, and distant grasses or scrub trees.
The camera is aimed straight at him, on the level.
There should be a horizon line.
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If it were shot from overhead, that tan nothingness might be the ground stretching away, but we’d be seeing his back and his tail, not his front.
Instead it’s whatever’s in the background, blurred together.
Surely you see those little black rocks(?) on the ground start to blur very quickly a few feet behind him?
They get a few feet more distant, and fade into the rest.
That’s how you recognise which nature photographers are using long lenses.
If you don’t see it, you don’t see it, I guess.
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I don’t think I would want to see that swimming toward me.
Rather that than a shark. We aren’t on the menu.
But seals are; how good is it’s eyesight?
Orca, I think….
I’ve watched seals checking out the surfers here.
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Is that a Norwegian blue? Beautiful plumage.
I don’t know, and yes. In that order. 🙂
Beautiful!
great shot!
Is this for real?
I think so.
The Magnificent Seven
I always had problems with Yul Brenner as a western hero, but he excels in this movie.
he was pretty badass in “Westword” as robot gunfighter
here he gets his comeuppance
even as a bad guy, yul is still sexy …
That one, I never could see. Not even when I saw him with hair.
I’ve heard it from others, too… but to me it’s surprising.
i agree … i don’t like him with hair either.
Sentient frosting?
Just a little strange.
i always enjoy listening to the bros.!!
Two basset hounds?
Took me a moment to figure out what you were commenting on…
But yes!
It’s for the strip.
Cleo asks what else Claude wants TWO of.
Correct answer: “Basset hounds!”
Ka dum tish!
Most psychopaths are male, for some reason.
There are exceptions…
there are other similar uncomfortable facts….
how true!!!
Does Claude generally expect to be served two pieces at once, rather than one large piece, and whether or not there’s enough for Clara?
Maybe Cleo isn’t the only spoiled Clifford.
German chocolate cake
guess we’re not going to get a recipe for it this morning
German chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany and is far sweeter than most European desserts (too sweet for me, in fact).
It’s called that because the recipe came from German’s baking chocolate, which is named after a Mr. German.
It was either on their wrappers, or in a cookbook they put out, and was originally called “German’s Chocolate Cake.”
scrape off all that coconut, and i like it!
I love coconut, but not that sticky goo it’s mixed with.
And that goo also replaces the fudge frosting I’d much rather have.
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world geography course!
we do it all on Cleo and Company!
I love the happy ending for Rocky Racoon. He didn’t need that low-down skunk. He got himself a real vixen.
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