Flashlight Selfies - around the world :)

[Nyctophiliac]

blueled - I would really like to see that wine light!!!


Meanwhile back in London.

the platforms at Paddington Station - with a Astrolux S3 on the left.

At the Barbican - Art, apparently...

A little closer...

Closer still...

DQG defaces modern art!!!

 

[Nyctophiliac]

The Barbican from another angle.

With the old O Light attached to the railing.

Later the same day - BT Tower from a back mews.

And then time for lunch, this is 'The Prospect of Whitby' a fine old pub in the borough of Wapping.

This pub was established in 1520! They have got through plenty of pies and beer since then.

The torch is a Fenix CL05 Liplight! Kind of a camping area-light which glows in white, red and green with a couple of strobes chucked in. Weird, but inexpensive.

(You'll have to go to the CPF cafe to see the pics of the pie I had.)

 

[Monocrom]

DQG defaces modern art!!!

LOL

Impossible to deface modern art. Tis but an improvement indeed, good Sir.

 

[D6859]

Travelling by train in Finland is often joked about. The trains are delayed often and for such ridicilous excuses. Sometimes it's too hot, sometimes too cold. Some autumn there were too many leaves on the track. One midsummer someone had made a bonfire on the tracks near Helsinki. It's our capital and due to the topology of to the trail network it delayed almost every train in the country. Fortunately the trains are comfortable but tickets are pretty expensive. This time my train was almost on time (<5min).

I'm travelling home at the moment, here is picture of my 26 kg backpack with my TN12 attached to it and Pihlajavesi (lake) on the background.

Here's another shot where you can better see the size of the backpack compared to my EDC. I estimate the train was moving over 100kmph so the picture got a little shaky

 

[RedLED]

Can you guy's in London get photos at No. 10?

 

[jorn]

My favorite water, well maby it's open sometime in the next month..

https://youtu.be/f_1scqCwXKg
The ice melted two days ago, went up yesterday and got myself a dinner. If you guys wonder what the dude that holds my phone filming underwater is saying at the end, it's: #¤%&* this water is cold!! ¤#&!!!

 

[BloodLust]

Why did I see this thread just now? I should take more pics of my lights when I travel.

So I don't have much pics of them in scenic places. I'll take more pics soon. I'm heading to London and Hawaii this month.

Just some stuff I bought from REI in LA.

Got this a while back from San Francisco. The GE lantern from Costco and the Energizer from Target.

 

[Nyctophiliac]

Can you guy's in London get photos at No. 10?

Nope - all gated off. (You can see the gates/barrier in post #185, I'm not sure if you can see 10 Downing St from them, I'll try later. )

Meanwhile, here's Astor House.

Built in 1895 to celebrate the link between the United States and Europe, now a public Art Gallery, an often overlooked gem. Rather like the Quark CR2!

Which is a little jewel of a light - now sadly discontinued.

 

[RedLED]

Nope - all gated off. (You can see the gates/barrier in post #185, I'm not sure if you can see 10 Downing St from them, I'll try later. )

Meanwhile, here's Astor House.

Built in 1895 to celebrate the link between the United States and Europe, now a public Art Gallery, an often overlooked gem. Rather like the Quark CR2!

Which is a little jewel of a light - now sadly discontinued.

How times have changed. In the late 70'syou could walk right up to the stoop of the door and take photos, by the 90's, you could walk up to the gate on the street...now nothing.

Thanks for trying. Otherwise nice work from London, thanks for the memories. Hopefully, I'll get a gig there soon.

 

[D6859]

Two weeks to midsummer and the nights are almost as short as they get. Walk outdoors tonight made me wonder why I am carrying EC4SW with me. It's hard to say if it's night, dusk or dawn if you didn't know the time. This picture was taken at 1 am which (due to daylight saving time) is supposed to be the darkest hour of the night.

TN12 waiting for the sunrise. I am too tired to wait and should go to sleep right away. Good nightless night fellow CPFers!

 

[Poppy]

jorn,
As always, I appreciate your knowledge and insight in your posts. Here and everywhere.

BloodLust,
Welcome to the thread!
I look forward to more of your posts :thumbsup:

Nyctophiliac,
I think by now, you know how much I love your posts.
Not only are they beautifully composed, but of such interesting objects/topics.

Rather like the Quark CR2!

Which is a little jewel of a light - now sadly discontinued.

The above selfie of your Quark CR2, brought an interesting depiction of how some large cities around the world handle parking.

You help to make this thread, not only beautiful, and interesting, but educational as well.
Thank you!

D6859,
This post was particularly expressive.
It brings new meaning to your sig file.
:thumbsup:


This picture was taken at 1 am which (due to daylight saving time) is supposed to be the darkest hour of the night.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u9gL6Zc.jpg
TN12 waiting for the sunrise. I am too tired to wait and should go to sleep right away. Good nightless night fellow CPFers![/IMG]




I hope to be able to add to this thread after this weekend.

 

[Poppy]

The site puked twice while trying to make the above post stick.
This was a double post.
deleted

 

[BloodLust]

My Jetbeam/Nite-Eye Mini-1 on both sides of the world straddling the Prime Meridian.

 

[D6859]

Poppy: I was actually looking at my signature and wondered should I update it, but then I made that post and found it fit for it aswell. I think I wrote the signature during some really dark autumn night when it was pitch black outside. Now, in northern parts of Finland the sun sets next time in July.

 

[peter yetman]

Please keep the sig line D6859, it's very evocative.
P

 

[Poppy]

My Jetbeam/Nite-Eye Mini-1 on both sides of the world straddling the Prime Meridian.

BloodLust,
Although my kids think that Poppy is a little quirky for starting this thread, they both agreed, that this picture is really cool!
:thumbsup:

D6859,
Your's too!

 

[Poppy]

A balloon festival of tents

I guess you'll have to take my word for it that there are many flashlights at this event. Sorry that I didn't get one to pose for the picture.

The cub scouts watched a minor league baseball game and then slept in the outfield for the night. The lights went out @ 11:00 and they chased each other around with flashlights and lanterns for another hour or so.

I brought a Magical G700 zoomie with me to show the dads the light that is being scam advertised all over the net. Fortunately, another dad had an identical $10.99 UltraFire zoomie. We were able to compare them.

Mine was twice as bright with an 18650, than his was with 3AAA batteries, but his also showed a remarkable improvement when I put a spare 18650 in his. Mine was still 20% brighter, and with a neutral white tint because I swapped out the emitter to a XM-L2 T6 4B emitter. I was able to demonstrate the difference that tint makes. His made the grass look gray, mine made it look green!

Mine was that little blue and white two man tent in the middle of the photo. Although the temps dropped to 52 degrees F, we slept as snugly as two bugs in a rug. We had full size pillows, slept on 1 1/2 inch thick lawn chair pads, we were each in a sleeping bag, and then covered with a down comforter, and another sleeping bag. Others complained that they hadn't slept well because they were cold. LOL... not us!

 

[BloodLust]

Thanks for the appreciation, Poppy. My wife and I were lucky enough to scratch visiting the Prime Meridian off our bucket list.


I miss sleeping in a tent and going camping. Haven't been up in the mountains lately and it's an effort to convince my wife.

Last time I was in one of those family festivals though with my dad, LED lights weren't mainstream yet but I've always had this fascination with flashlights. Even as a kid, I already had a few lights and the light I had then was a gift from my grandmother. It was a 4x AA powered 4W mini flourescent compact lantern. I was the only kid with an area light while all of them had the old school krypton bulbs.
Good memories those festivals and it's nice to see that you're making memories with the young generation.

 

[BloodLust]

Double post. Phone browser had a hiccup.

 

[D6859]

My brother took me onto a boat ride. We visited an island where I've been camping as a little boy scout about 20 years ago. I still have the knife that I got there.

Here's picture with my keychain light, Olight i2 EOS. I rarely use it, but it's my trusted backup light