WORLDWIDE PHOTO WEEK: Part 826 - Enormous

Every week we select a new theme, and then go out and shoot that theme. This week the theme is Enormous. As always be as imaginative/creative as you like when interpreting the theme, creativity is what we're looking for.

Show us something Enormous...

Here are the rules:
1. Because this activity is supposed to encourage us to get out and shoot, please don't post old shots from your archives.

2. Shots need to be taken between Tuesday, after the new theme is posted and the following Monday by sunset (Whenever that is for you).
3. Snapshots and art are equally welcome -- just get out & shoot, and then share!
4. Post your shots at any time during the week.
5. Post a maximum of two shots if you're uploading them to POTN (i.e., attaching them). You can post more than two if you're linking to shots that are not hosted by POTN (i.e. embedding them) but keep within POTN rules. Also keep within POTN rules about size. A copy of the size rules can be found here: IMAGE POSTING RULES
That's it! Have fun! As always be as imaginative/creative as you like when interpreting the theme, creativity is what we're looking for.
An index to previous weeks can be found here: POTN WORLDWIDE PHOTO WEEK INDEX

That's it!
Have fun!

A moderately enormous cruise ship (2,450 Pax) leaving port through the mists tonight.

I always have the feeling that in the Netherlands there are not really enormous structures. Not like in countries where there is more space available. I was stunned by the Louvre, Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower in Paris how gigantic they are. In Stockholm you have the Nordiska Museum, Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace) which are massive buildings. And in London of-course the Natural History Museum, St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster. Yeah, in The Netherlands we have the Port of Rotterdam which is huge however it is not a single entity. We have the Rijksmuseum which is huge, but not as massive as for instance the Nordiska Museum. I guess that since space is more scarce here, we try to be more practical with it.

Anyway, I digress. I tried to find the biggest thing here in Amersfoort and tried to give it a more menacing stance. As the clocktower is looking down on the common house.

Well Done Jeroen!

One is enormous, one is not.

Got to tour a dam for work on Friday. We got to drive across it and it's enormous. Bad pics but we had fun.
This particular dam is 606 feet tall. 26 feet wide at the top and 240 (if I recall correctly) at the bottom.

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Photographed this morning, this Northern Pacific Rattlesnake is the largest rattler I have photographed here in my home state for many years. . Because it is so thick, relative to its length, and because of the time of year, I suspect it is a gravid female.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19415689
Because it is so thick, relative to its length, and because of the time of year, I suspect it is a gravid female.

Nice maternity shoot.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19415689
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Photographed this morning, this Northern Pacific Rattlesnake is the largest rattler I have photographed here in my home state for many years. . Because it is so thick, relative to its length, and because of the time of year, I suspect it is a gravid female.

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... and shot at just 67mm! Hope that frame was heavily cropped!!

I'm in an enormous forest of enormous trees.. The trees bases are several hundreds of feet below me in the ravine... It's like living in the trees...

Full moon is pretty enormous

Top of an enormously tall century plant. Object at center bottom is a chimney on a two-story building, suggesting the height of the flower stalk.

Below the century plant, fallen flowers/pods on an enormous puddle of nectar–well, enormous for a puddle–that started to accumulate days ago.

I will be out and without internet for a few days.. sooo
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NEW THEME

RDWP wrote in post #19415791
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... and shot at just 67mm! Hope that frame was heavily cropped!!
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Nope, not cropped much at all. . Gotta get physically close, instead of using focal length to fill the frame, in order to get the background and surroundings to look the way I like them to look. . It helps when a Rattler is this big, because then I don't have to get as close as I do when it's a regular* sized one.

I spend a fair amount of time with Rattlesnakes, and handle them regularly, so I know what I can do safely and what I can't.

* I purposefully used "regular" instead of "regularly" because it sounds better to my ear, even though it is not as grammatically correct.

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