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Name: Russell
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Birthday: 11/26/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Computers, camping, sleeping, eating. You know, typical daily functions that keep me alive.
Expertise: Making people hurt, physically.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  remooore
Member Since:
7/24/2004
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And here is the latest cache of photos.
The first few photos are macro photos. Macro photos, despite the connotation that "macro" brings about (large scale, big, etc.), are extremely close photos. It's a little known trick in the world of photography that if you have a wide angle lens (one that you can remove from the camera body), and flip it around, it turns into a makeshift microscope.
Some of these were done holding both the camera and lens by hand (crappy). Others were done after I purchased an adapter ring for 10 bucks.
Did you know you can see Lincoln on the back of a penny?:
Now you do!
Lincoln on the front:
Unfortunately, the depth of field is ULTRA shallow, so you only have ~1.0 mm or less of focal range. Pretty tight.
Then some pics from 11th street + areas near or approaching Miami, Oklahoma.
Some lonely building on 11th street:
Various neon lights:
Get the best insurance at Best Insurance:
My favorite:
Early morning. Venus is visible in the sky in the first photo, as well as the pond:
Now on to fall photos.
Sweetgum leaves and their spiny balls (yeah, laugh. Go ahead, it's encourage):
Fall colors on the ground:
Tibbits:
Coins:
IT IS DONE. I am caught up.
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So, obviously I haven't updated in a while. I imagine a lot of my posts start like that. "Oh, sorry, busy!" or "Shit, I forgot about this place! It's so dusty!" And I bet even continue with my observation that I usually start a post with some sentence stating that I haven't been here for a minute ("minute" being the new-wave term that -- contrary to the classical meaning of precisely sixty seconds -- indicates a long passage of time).
In my digital absence, I have taken some photos. I've been to San Diego, again. I've taken summer time photos at Oxley Nature Center. I've taken in the neon life of Tulsa plus some early morning fog photos. From policing reptiles to fall leaves in the yard; it's some good stuff, too.
Now that I've written some bullshit and got my obligatory em dashes and semicolon use already in place, it is picture time!
Starting from the earliest pictures, those from San Diego...(image me saying that with a deep voice, with wisps on the vowels, as if they're trailing on an ancient, flashback-y breeze).
The Grand Canyon, as viewed from my window seat:
The beach somewhere between San Diego and Los Angeles:
And a few hundred feet from the beach:
Lego Land got a little boring, so I started taking pictures of its plants:
But then I saw Chewbacca:
The Chrysler Building:
The Empire State Building:
All of Manhattan, or at least the important parts: 
The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. What a shitty place to have an observatory...:
I was quite impressed by this feat, until I was told that it was on the visible part that was Legos. What a let down...:
For some reason, Lego Land is some sort of joint venture. The other part of the duo? An aquarium of all things.
I don't know the names of most, if not all of the fish, so if you do know, let me know.
Fish:
Fish routinely confused as a condiment (Moon Jellyfish):
Fish commonly confused with a giant, self-sustained fiery ball of gas and plasma undergoing proton-proton cycle or CNO cycle nuclear fusion (Starfish):
Red fish:
Ok, I was completely fascinated by this when I saw it and I swear I read somewhere it was like some sort of shark cocoon. If ANYONE has an ANY IDEA what the FUCK this is, I would love to know:
Motherfucking shark (I also have HD video of this shit, too):
Silver fish:
Small, colorful aquarium:
After a nice day at the aquarium:
Ok, so there is another aquarium, the Scripps Aquarium. It's more of a down-to-business, wreck-your-concepts-of-the-sea-and-the-shit-that-lives-in-it aquarium.
Here are some pictures from that S.O.B.
Blue fish:
Bluer plus some yellow, fish:
Don looking up at the colossal piece of glass holding back hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. It looks like it was lit by the outside, or they have some 5,000,000+ candle power flash light in that thing:
Mini garden eels:
Scary eel:
See that guy at the top? From what we could surmise, that's a grouper. Doesn't look too big way up there does it? Keep in mind that where that fishes head is probably 13 feet up. And also keep in mind that the thickness of the glass required to keep us, the patrons, from drowning and being sliced up by weaker glass, is probably 8 to 12 inches, which means MASSIVE REFRACTION and makes him look a lot smaller. I reckon he weighs like 200-300 pounds:
Gray fish, or Lesser Grouper:
Orange fish. I'm starting to sound like Dr. Seuce:
Plant like seahorse thing:
School of fish:
Underwater geography of the region:
Yellow fish (fair photo entry):
More fish:
Pictures from Catalina Island:
This may be from the mainland actually:
And four random shots:
Bird of Paradise flower:
SAND:
BUILDINGS:
DRINK:
Ok, there is Phase 1.
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Over a month has passed since I went to San Diego. I put this off for far too long, so here's my trip, in no specific order:
Big ol' cruise ship heading out while our ferry was pulling in:
That shit that's on beaches:
My favorite clock ever. The gears turn and everything:
Building with changing lights on the roof:
More architecture:
The Hotel Del Coronado on Coronado Island, reached by way of ferry:
It's right by the beach:
Speaking of the beach:
Speaking of concrete:
Colorful flowers (I wish I knew flower names):
Especially this one:
Omg, more beach:
Omg, something that should avoid the beach:
Omg, something that doesn't have to do with the beach:
Omg, something flying over the beach:
Omg, the beach:
Omg, the U.S.S. Midway:
Flowers again:
Ok, now that the bullshit's out of the way...
ZOO PICS!!!
I'm going to do my best to name these damned animals. Some I've never seen or can't find names for, so if any one would care to enlighten me (I'm talking to you, Sam Martin), I would really appreciate it.
Here goes.
Animal #1: Bird (possibly an eagle). Behind a dense cage, I took this picture of the bird in question eating a pine cone or some other tree fruit/nut:
Animal #2: Sulwasi Imperial Green Pigeons. These colorful -- and apparently imperialistic -- pidegeons were in the gigantic aviary just looking around stupidly, like most pigeons. Don't let their colorful feathers and beady black eyes fool you: they're dumb.
Animal #3: Collared Lory: Stunning green and red colors. Also in the aviary. This bird was within grasping distance eating what I believe was water melon or some other berry-like substance.
Animal #4: Bird (I remember something that said "eagle", but this looks like a vulture like bird to me). Obviously this was not in the aviary, because it would fucking murder the other birds (unless it was a vulture, then it would just eat the murdered ones). Also taken through a fine mesh that is not conducive to good photography or viewing:
Animal #5: Asian Elephant. Just about the happiest animal in the zoo, I swear it was doing a stupid, smiling dance by itself when I came upon it. For like 2 minutes, I've got video:
Animal #6: Flamingo. Stunning birds. Pink because the zoo keepers feed them shrimp. They're actually naturally white:
Animal #7: Caracal (a.k.a. Persian Lynx). Commonly called the Persian Lynx, it's actually not in the lynx family. As wikipedia says, they're "fiercely territorial", as demonstrated by this bucket of caracal: 
Animal #8: Galápagos Giant Tortois. The largest living species of tortoise, they look like a 600+ pound bundle of fun. I think every kid wanted one of these and ride around on at striking slow speeds. This particular dude (or dudette, I'm not an expert at tortoise gender identity), was struggling with the weeds growing between the rocks for at least five minutes. I'm not sure if he ever got his food:
Animal #9: Giraffe. The long-necked, goofy looking deer relative of animal kingdom, it stands taller than all other land animals. At an average height of 14ft to 17ft, this guy gets the best views at outdoor sporting venues:
Animal #10: Gorilla (either Western or Eastern Lowland Gorilla, probably Eastern because they're darker). One of our closer relatives (3rd in line after the two chimpanzee species), these are bouncers of the primate world. These beasts weigh in at 310-450 pounds, on average:
Animal #11: Heron (I'm not entirely sure, did some studying). Just some bird chilling by the flamingoes:
Animal #12: Iris Lorikeet. Another spectacle of a bird in the awesome aviary. This bird was also very close to the camera, giving me ample room to work with:
Animal #13: Kingfisher. In the aviary far away, I spotted a very assertive specimen: The Kingfisher:
Animal #14: Komodo Dragon. Perhaps where all the legends of yore come from, the Komodo Dragon can fuck you up with its septic bite. Thankfully this one was peacefully resting behind a think plate of glass:
Animal #15: Giant Panda. Last time I was at San Diego, I was rather excited to see one of the rarest, coolest animals in the world. There are anywhere from 1500 to 3000 in the wild today, and thankfully on the rise. Last time, I waited in line for 30 minutes to catch a glimpse at this guy (or girl, again, not an expert). When I finally got to the second area of the Panda exhibit, this asshole was passed out in the corner asleep, hidden by a sharp bend the wall, with only his/her ass sticking out. Dissapointed, I took the best pictures I could and left the exhibit. Once outside the fenced area, the baby Panda came out and was climbing around in the trees. Everyone in the exhibit starting talking and laughing, "oo"ing and "awe"ing. Fuck that. So I came back, with the hope that they won't be napping and being dicks. Thankfully, that was the case. Also, I may be one of a few people in the world right now that has 1080p HD footage of a Panda:
Animal #16: Primate of some sort (I have no idea what kind). These guys strangely shared the hippo exhibit. They're just cool looking, with their 'staches hanging down like they don't give a shit. They also have sagely poses, comtemplating the deeper meanings of the universe, like why they have to hang out with Hippopotami:
Animal #17: Koala. This might be the cutest thing in the world:
Animal #18: Some sort of mountain deer/goat/thing. This guy just looked cool on top of this rock looking down. I have no idea what it's called:
Animal #18: White and green bird (again, no idea). Any idea what this is?:
Animal #19: Zebra. Zebra:
So there, it's done.
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