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    A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    Think of the fun Gomez Addams and Pugsley would have with these trains and trestles...!
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    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    It's a nice trick, but the novelty effect is wearing out.
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    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    Wow, King Friday has really done wonders with the place.
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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    OK, I think I'm on the verge of figuring out why this plays such a trick on the mind:


    With the HD capabilities of the camera, objects that are quite far away are focused on in amazing clarity giving the impression that they are a lot closer...as in inches away. Can this only be successful with HD?

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    06/25/09

    @DonLuc: HD has nothing to do with it. It's because you are used to seeing a very short depth of field in macro photography.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    For those of us who had model trains, this is quite a flashback. I had little fake trees that look realer than these do in Tilt-Shift.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/25/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: "realer?" Were they a gooder shade of greenity or something?
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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    Wait, where's Thomas? Percy? James? Gordon? What have they done to my Thomas show?
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    06/25/09

    @OldeEnglishD gets no hat tip love: And I don't see Sir Topim Hat anywhere! Someone has caused confusion and delay!
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    06/25/09

    @OldeEnglishD gets no hat tip love: My kid has a Thomas the Tank Engine musical toothbrush. I can't wait for the non-replaceable batteries to die on that thing.
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    06/25/09

    @combat chuck: My kid stopped watching the show a year ago, and I still have the theme song stuck in my head. "They're 2 they're 4 they're 6 they're 8, shunting trucks and hauling freight, red and green and brown and blue, they're a really usefull crew..."
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    Tilt-shift photography, tit-shit pornography, whatever.
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    Image of superbadd75, now I remember why I left... superbadd75, now I remember why I left...
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    What happens if one tilt-shifts Matchbox cars or a Lionel train? Do they look real?
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/25/09

    @superbadd75: No, they look like bacteria.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/25/09

    @superbadd75: That depends on how good a job you do with the paintwork and such (for a standard Matchbox).


    I ought to take a shot at it, I suppose.

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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    06/25/09

    @superbadd75: I think the universe would implode.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    Welcome to PhotoTrickopnik.

    I guess "Tilt-shift" is the new Transformers.
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    Image of Steve Neill Steve Neill
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    I'm so sick of tilt shift this tilt shift that. Whatever happened to SHIFT Jalopnik. You know? The thing you do in a CAR? Not a TRAIN?


    Excuse me while I go projectile vomit.

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    06/25/09

    @Steve Neill: Ray: the secret to avoiding these sorts of complaints is to have a blog with no defined theme whatsoever (as well as no readership, which is the really effective p...
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    I think I Gotthard just watching that.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    06/25/09

    @Ash78: Well enjoy it while it lasts: in about ten years, all these tracks will be replaced by a base tunnel...
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    06/25/09

    @Dwegmull, preview free since March 2009.: That's a shame, because that is some of the most beautiful countryside in the world. I guess, like the Chunnel, it's all about speed and efficiency. Not that riding across the English Channel on a hovercraft was that great to begin with, but still.


    But if you consider the current tunnel is ~130 years old, it's had a pretty good run.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/25/09

    @Dwegmull, preview free since March 2009.: But they'll still need them for local service, right? RIGHT?!?!
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    That is so cool. When/where can I find some tilt-shift pr0n to view on the lcd in my Nitro?
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    Image of xAnarChisTx xAnarChisTx
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    Big whoop. Everyone is now doing tilt-shift shots, and it's starting to get old.


    Next thing you know, people will start taking scenic pictures while submerged in jello.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/25/09

    @xAnarChisTx: I've done that before.


    There was a girl-on-girl-on-girl Jell-O fight, I grabbed my camera, and took some great shots of the scenery.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    @pauljones: I was there, did you see me? I tried to break it up.
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    06/25/09

    @pauljones: Yet for some strange reason you still have to post these pictures here...
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    Image of Joshuman Joshuman
    06/25/09

    @pauljones: Where is the Flickr link?
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    06/25/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Yeah, I was the one that kicked your ass for trying to stop it. :p


    @Dwegmull, preview free since March 2009.: Do we need some Jell-Ofightlopnik?

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    06/25/09

    @Joshman Gesamtstrecke: @Steve Neill:


    I haven't even figured out how to get my pictures onto my computer yet. Do you really think I am going to figure out Flickr sometimes before, oh, say, the next 18 months?


    Also, it occurred at a frat party at UMASS Amherst.

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    Image of benrobNU benrobNU
    06/25/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: I was there but I was licking steak sauce of some girl in a bikini.
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    Image of Steve Neill Steve Neill
    06/25/09

    @benrobNU: Oh yeah? Well I was there too, but a girl in a bikini was licking MY sauce.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/25/09

    @Steve Neill: Was this before or after you slipped her a hundred dollar bill?
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/25/09

    @benrobNU: @Steve Neill: I'm developing a new rub.
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    Image of benrobNU benrobNU
    06/25/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: I've been making and administering a protein based rub for years now. Clean up can be messy but it's great for the skin.
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    06/25/09

    @benrobNU: You are the only man I know that uses a protein-based rub. :p
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    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    How long until somebody uses this for pron?


    If Nascar was shot in this- I'd watch it.


    Also boxing. I'd like to see a boxing match shot in tilt-shift.

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    06/25/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: See this is what I'm talking about. I was interrupted while commenting, and two other people already mentioned pron.
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    06/25/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: There are two more after you, so don't feel too bad... Unless that does it for you too, in which case, feel as bad as you need to.
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    06/25/09

    In reply to A Tilt-Shift Romp Through the Train-Dotted Swiss Countryside
    In Socialist Switzerland, miniature trains deliver YOU...


    ...affordably, in comfort, on time and with low emissions.


    COMMIES!

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