There was a bloke south of Tenterfield on the property line of his farm, as his mailbox, built a replica of a Black Daleck, and it was fantastic, it was there for 3 years, until one night someone came with a backhoe and got it, and  the 1 metre of concrete it was bolted into the ground to and knocked it off. The quality of that Daleck, and the effort put in to building it, just for someone to nick it. Can't have nice things in Australia anymore.

Bicyclecamper wrote:

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There was a bloke south of Tenterfield on the property line of his farm, as his mailbox, built a replica of a Black Daleck, and it was fantastic, it was there for 3 years, until one night someone came with a backhoe and got it, and  the 1 metre of concrete it was bolted into the ground to and knocked it off. The quality of that Daleck, and the effort put in to building it, just for someone to nick it. Can't have nice things in Australia anymore.

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 That is so sad and really annoying. I think that there are some people who should never be allowed into society for doing things like that.

I was in a little town once. I think it was Hall in NSW. I walked down the street and there was a full sized TARDIS in the front yard of someone's home. I laughed so much. Sorry about the orientation. It was the right way around when I inserted the image.

dabbler wrote:

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A bloke in the next suburb had a full sized Tardis on his front lawn. I finally stopped to take a photo after passing it for years and was invited inside to view some of his collection. After that I drop in with a coffee every few months. Turns out he used to own a comic book store and that morphed into doing monster creations and prop work etc for the Movieworld studios. He really needed a Tardis ! His real interest was Star Trek and he had every incarnation of Trek comms and weapon used on TV and movies. He moved to a care facility and sold much of it the fellow collectors to ensure they went to good homes.

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This forum's software does not honour the "Exif orientation flag" in JPEG images.

https://jdhao.github.io/2019/07/31/image_rotation_exif_info/

Exif (Exchangeable image file format) is a protocol to store various meta-information about the images taken by digital cameras. Exif are stored along with the actual image data. Some of the meta info in Exif includes camera maker, shutter speed, focal length, orientation, shooting time etc.

Here, we are interested in the orientation meta info. When we are taking photos with a camera, we may not always hold the camera in such a position that the camera top corresponds to top of the scene.

But no matter how you are holding the camera, if you check the image on your computer, the image is shown in correct orientation. This has something to do with Exif orientation flag. When you are holding the camera with non-upright position, the raw photo you take is stored as a rotated image. The digital device (be a smartphone or digital camera) has a sensor to record the orientation of the camera and writes that information into orientation flag in Exif.