Comments for Continuing a theme from yesterday...

Continuing a theme from yesterday...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:44:39 -0600

Yesterday I posted the picture of the "Gypsy Kind" Stryker vehicle - not because I have an objection to the cluttered look, but because I used to build models and that picture is of a vehicle that *screams* to be built - and the guy or gal who can do it right has an IPMS Nationals winner on their hands. I just like the tools of the trade.The part of the picture I showed you yesterday was cropped and focused. So is today's - and it's from the same photo. This time it's of the Iraqi security force HMMWV that was part...

Comment from Leslie Applegate on 2009-07-01

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:20:51 -0600

Thank God it is the camera lens, I thought it WAS my butt....

Comment from CAVSCT on 2009-07-01

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:22:08 -0600

The Humvee pictured above, it looks to be a Iraqi Army Truck. Who knows what those guys did to it. But I think your picture is skewed and that fact that it is sitting on a bank has something to do with it as well.

Comment from Alan D. Briley, RN on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:26:48 -0600

Drink enough whiskey, and you can make anything look distorted! (That's why I was sober the first time I ever asked any woman on a date. I have never woken up with an ugly woman. Now that I'm happily married, I never will have the opportunity..., OR the desire!) I was a Top Team Sniper graduate, (Fort Bragg, NC, 1985,) and my wife shoots well enough to keep me honest - plus, I love her!

Comment from olga on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:10:39 -0600

Thanks G-d it was the wide angle lens, for a moment I thought I had finally succumbed to the consequences of a late night work...

Comment from Chuck Simmins on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:48:53 -0600

OK, yep. Wide angle lens. Vehicle is at outside of lense, distortion is less as you approach center.

And, yes, the camera lens does make my butt look fatter.

Comment from Fishmugger on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:45:12 -0600

No....for that I would need a telephoto lens.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:27:08 -0600

So, you call it a 'fish' huh?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:11:37 -0600

The Echo still works, though.

Comment from Fishmugger on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:08:41 -0600

Take a look at the passenger side windshield and you can easily see the degree of distortion. It's like how I take pictures of the fish I catch. Push the fish closer to the camera and lean back.

Comment from BillT on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:05:20 -0600

I should have seen that right off.

You may also have subconsciously assumed that the turn signal on the passenger's/vehicle commander's side had been modified into a TOW missile launcher...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:24:28 -0600

Sorry about the Moderation Monster, everybody. One of the spam-blocking services we subscribe to is suddenly reporting a huge block of IP addresses as spammers. Including this comment, which just went into moderation... We're trying to sort it out. Pogue - Now I feel stupid. I should have seen that right off. I guess I was distracted by the Gypsy Caravan.

Comment from BillT on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:32:38 -0600

Yup. Distortion, enhanced and compounded by the way the asymmetrical turret's turned.

Comment from KCSteve on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:20:11 -0600

If the distortion had been caused by something other than the camera the windshield would have been broken.

Comment from Chris H. on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:01:30 -0600

I know my truck never had that unusual slope. Had plenty of other idiosyncrasies, but never looked "srcunched". I suspect you're correct about the camera introducing distortion.

r/
Chris H.

Comment from Chuck Simmins on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:58:12 -0600

I think the driver's side is actually caved in a little. The vehicle, if not a Hummer, would be leaning to the passenger side because those wheels are in the ditch. Not only is it not, the driver's roof if leaning the opposite way. Ergo, caved in.

I knew Ergo, a fine fellow. Fell into a vat of whiskey and drowned. We pulled him out four times.

Comment from Oldloadr on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:46:15 -0600

John, I'm 6 foot and, at the time I was in Iraq weighed about 240. From my perspective, every position is scrunched. Heck, I was scrunched in the 1st gen "field modified" armored HUMVs.

Comment from Pogue on 2009-06-30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:18:45 -0600

Wide angle lens - look at the difference in apparent size of the left and right tire and lights.