just snapped this pic of a penny, had no idea
 

i guess i never rly looked close!

http://oi49.tinypic.com/152e4vb.jpg

I never knew he was sitting there either. Pretty cool.

i did not now that.

http://www.biography.com/imported/im...9714-1-402.jpg

I dig macro lenses! Cool pic!

Slow night in LA?

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its 4:30 in LA :error

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh


yes.

i will be eating ~3 slices of sashimi later, so things will be getting very exciting.....very.

wait, i hear a siren.

You never knew there was a statue of Abe at the Lincoln Memorial?

Or didn't know he was depicted on the penny?

really?

are you also curious about the others in the thread that didn't know either? do you think i shot a close-up of a penny to start a thread about my not knowing about the statue at the actual memorial? what do you think i would think would be at the abe lincoln memorial?

Very cool. Looking for pennies and a camera now :)

right on!

i have to look super sharp to even see a little blob there without any magnification, but my eyes aren't the best.

Holy fuck...take a Midol.

It was just an honest question.

Skip it - I don't really give a fuck what you had no idea about.

umm, bra, i post a fun pic for fun and even state that i never looked close enough and you question whether or not if i know there's a statue of abraham lincoln in the fucking abraham lincoln memorial and you tell me to take a midol?


riiiiiiiiiiight.

is that beetle juice in there? :helpme

and for the record,

i was aware that there is a statue there, i did see the movie national treasure.

stand-by for my next thread about the landing on the moon! wow!

Never knew that! I got a cnc machine with a microscope on it.. gonna try this :)

Oh, I see. When you said "had no idea" - you meant you had no idea someone would ask what you had no idea of.

Good we cleared that up.

My question wasn't intended as an insult to whether you knew there was a statue there or not. I don't assume everyone knows there is. It was an honest question asking what you "had no idea" about.

That's all. I liked the macro - never knew it showed the statue on the penny myself.

I knew.

Next time ask a Canadian.

no, communication can be both words and pictures, i stated i had no idea, then my next communication was the extreme close-up picture showing an object most cannot see without magnification, then stated i never looked close enough, taken together, as most have taken it in this thread, is that the statue is represented on the penny.

:2 cents:

good to know, just don't include any comments about burning down the whitehouse!

http://0.tqn.com/d/coins/1/0/-/G/-/-...Example-HA.JPG

Bring back the Indian head penny... :2 cents:

:stoned

ADG

gotcha, i see, you're the one who posts those cool photos of abandoned structures right?

i always enjoy those.

this pic certainly is not up to that level but it did take effort on my part, these macro shots have a learning curve for me.

That's ancient history. :1orglaugh


Funny story (to me anyway) about a US penny I found up here in Kanuckistan a couple years ago in a McDonalds parking lot. I was taking my son there for lunch, an letting him out of the car, I looked down and saw a weird looking penny. It was an indian head US penny. I mean what are the odds of that?

Wheat Penny
http://en.numista.com/catalogue/phot...unis/g1117.jpg
New Penny
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nt_reverse.jpg

The US needs to get with the times and get rid of their penny.

They should also move to the metric system like the rest of the world.

Yep, I've been into the abandonment photography for a long while. Thx for noticing. :)

Macro is something I want to get into more. Need to get myself a more suitable lens, though.

Why would an Indian head say Liberty on it?

that's gotta be pretty rare eh?
dude, we missed our chance on the metric system, jimmy carter had it all mapped out, i was in grade school at that time and had to learn it, then boom, gone, keeping standard system, it messed with my head.

I'm not sure where I put it, but I did keep it. Probably somewhere here in my desk. But yeah, gotta be rare.

it's fun sorting out the equipment for close-up.

the lens: getting a longer focal length is good because you can move back a bit and still get 1:1, and not have the lens get in the way of your lighting, but the dof will be tiny at all stops.

on the other hand, a shorter focal length means having to get super close to the subject to get 1:1, then your lens gets in the way of your lights but you get more dof range.

fun stuff to sort out.

$5
 

Don't know about the new fives, but the old style, if the bill was new, you can make out the names of the states going around the upper areas. Gotta have good eyes or a good lens.

Just remember. Since you saved that penny, you earned that penny.

Looks like a big dude taking a hovering deuce with a turtle looking up at him..:upsidedow

I learned that in 3rd grade.
Ds

and you are obviously very proud of your accomplishment.

Indeed!
Duke

:2 cents: right on ................:thumbsup

that's really cool

I learned that in like third grade lol.

i was in accelerated learning, i tested out of the 3rd - 8th grades and they put me directly in the 9th grade so i didn't get to learn the crucial factoid that there is a tiny embossed abe lincoln on the back of a penny.


kinda sad rly. :=

You need a wallet without coinholder... :1orglaugh

Doesn't it cost $.03 to make a penny?

That makes a lot of fucking sense.

Nice find :thumbsup

:) nice pic