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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

White rhino?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 years ago

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.

Last edited 2 years ago by SusanSunshine
dennisinseattle
Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

ML?

MontanaLady
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Reply to  dennisinseattle
2 years ago

good morning dennis! it’s only 7:40 in the a.m. so the message is…..

NOSE!!!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

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.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

Pretty sure it’s telephoto at long range…

The background goes completely out of focus a yard from their feet.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

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.

meadowmary
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Maybe it’s at a zoo, the whole rhino looks in focus to me.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  meadowmary
2 years ago

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.

Tigressy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

Nothing blurry here.

P51Strega
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

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.

Tigressy
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 years ago

I suggested tele in my initial posting, but I don’t see anything blurry.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Tigressy
2 years ago

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.

….

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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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I don’t think I would want to see that swimming toward me.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

Rather that than a shark. We aren’t on the menu.

P51Strega
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
2 years ago

But seals are; how good is it’s eyesight?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Orca, I think….

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I’ve watched seals checking out the surfers here.

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Is that a Norwegian blue? Beautiful plumage.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

I don’t know, and yes. In that order. 🙂

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Beautiful!

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

great shot!

P51Strega
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Is this for real?

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  P51Strega
2 years ago

I think so.

dennisinseattle
Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

I always had problems with Yul Brenner as a western hero, but he excels in this movie.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

even as a bad guy, yul is still sexy …

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  MontanaLady
2 years ago

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.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
2 years ago

i agree … i don’t like him with hair either.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

Sentient frosting?

Just a little strange.

StelBel
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2 years ago

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2 years ago

MontanaLady
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Reply to  StelBel
2 years ago

i always enjoy listening to the bros.!!

Liverlips McCracken
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2 years ago

Two basset hounds?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
2 years ago

Took me a moment to figure out what you were commenting on…

But yes!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

It’s for the strip.

Cleo asks what else Claude wants TWO of.

Correct answer: “Basset hounds!”

Ka dum tish!

happyhappyhappy
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2 years ago

Most psychopaths are male, for some reason.
There are exceptions…

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

how true!!!

SusanSunshine
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2 years ago

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.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

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.”

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

scrape off all that coconut, and i like it!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  MontanaLady
2 years ago

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.

MontanaLady
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Reply to  nighthawks
2 years ago

world geography course!

P51Strega
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2 years ago

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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