Photo of the Day - November 2025

[fooferdoggie]

I think this jewlery store is serious about shoplifters. a double door setup.

 

[Katbel]

 

[oldBCguy]

"... wolf appears to show an interest in that package ... " -- view from within a Christmas village setup at the local Mall last year.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fischersd]

It'll be here before you know it! (Feb 2019)

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Eric]

San Francisco on a nice day.

 

[oldBCguy]

.. lighted display on building, -- from an early-morning walk in local neighbourhood (Grand Promenade, Burnaby), last fall.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[Katbel]

 

[fooferdoggie]

filming for a movie called whodunnit. I got a kick out of it as I make a few things for the movie then on my way to work 2 blocks from my shop they are filming.

 

[fischersd]

Well, we've turned the corner. Not a single day with double-digit high temperatures in the forecast for the next week. I just wish we could have fall for 3/4 of the year.

 

[Eric]

Chasing a cable car - this is not photoshopped, it's shot using a long exposure while matching the speed of the cable car as closely as possible using a ND1000 filter, everything else naturally blurs with the 1 second exposure. It takes several attempts to get just right.

 

[cbum]

First male of the year able to get to the nectar

Just came across a hilarious bird article in the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/science/pheasants-blind-spot-vision.html?searchResultPosition=2

The issue must have "tormented" the ornithologists for a long time - certain birds have incredibly extravagant feathers to attract mates (of course).

You would think that there is evolutionary strategy competition between wanting to maximally stand out and to not get eaten, right?

So on top of that, some scientists just had to find out if these massive ornaments could actually measurably decrease survival by seriously impeding the birds field of vision.

So they developed a contraption to measure the field of vision (since it's hard to get the birds to push the button when they see the light....) and compared males and females of the same species.

And indeed, males of some species had significant visual field defects, particularly looking up, which is not ideal when you spend most of your time pecking at the ground...

Bottom line, one has to assume that attracting mates is a stronger selector than avoiding predation - I guess after the deed is done, your genes propagate and evolution doesn't care if you get eaten faster after that.

Food for thought, so to speak.

 

[DT]

Pardon?!

I love it The homestead is making the changeover to Xmas mode Bannisters just got lit up, tree up (initial tree, then we swap to a real move that one to the front room).

 

[DT]

Disney HS Tower of Terror gets an Xmas exterior by way of an animated projection