Thread: The 11th Serious Compacts Salon Challenge

This desert rat is going to have to think about this. Hmmmmm.

Originally Posted by Lawrence A.

This desert rat is going to have to think about this. Hmmmmm.

I guess that you'll have to wait a long time for high tide in New Mexico! Living as I do within 5 miles of the sea I did contemplate making it more difficult for myself by avoiding the obvious type of picture but in the end I gave in, so good luck and I wait with interest to see how the landlocked amongst us rise to this challenge.

Barrie

Poor quality puns also accepted

I always wave at passing aircraft

On board a ferry at the Hong Kong harbour

AZK9lover did a good job of it, and he's in Arizona, but the scene is more verdant than anything locally -- especially in mid-winter. I could go to my archives and pull out something I took when I lived on the Atlantic coast (Boston), but I really want to see if if can come up with something now. Of course it IS mid-winter, and my brain is frozen along with the rest of it, so I'll just have to see.

Originally Posted by Lawrence A.

AZK9lover did a good job of it, and he's in Arizona, but the scene is more verdant than anything locally -- especially in mid-winter.

Thanks Larry, but I need to confess that the photo was actually taken on a trip to Whidbey Island, off of Seattle, WA. Living in the Southwest desert like yourself, I couldn't rely on any significant local bodies of water or lush greenery for waves...

Originally Posted by AZK9lover

Thanks Larry, but I need to confess that the photo was actually taken on a trip to Whidbey Island, off of Seattle, WA. Living in the Southwest desert like yourself, I couldn't rely on any significant local bodies of water or lush greenery for waves...

Well, I know there are waves other than those made by water, but the ones I can think of are invisible -- sounds waves, light waves, etc. I know lights waves ARE, in fact, visible, at least the -- um -- visible spectrum, but not really as waves. If the point of a challenge is to be challenging, this one is very successful. I still have about 10 days, so all is not lost -- yet.

Originally Posted by Lawrence

iI know lights waves ARE, in fact, visible,

but are they waves or are they particles?
if the latter, then this challenge has no logical basis for existence ...

"Light is a disturbance of electric and magnetic fields that travels in the form of a wave. Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond and watching the circular ripples moving outward. Like those ripples, each light wave has a series of high points known as crests, where the electric field is highest, and a series of low points known as troughs, where the electric field is lowest. The wavelength is the distance between two wave crests, which is the same as the distance between two troughs. The number of wave crests that pass through a given point in one second is called the frequency, measured in units of cycles per second called Hertz. The speed of the light wave equals the frequency times the wavelength."

With all that going for them, then they are waves, so stop throwing pebbles Paul and causing ripples.

Barrie