Half Dozen Game

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Bionic Poster
6. Haka
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Should this count? You’re showing the All Blacks, my #2 on the list. Anyhow, it’s your turn either way.
 

Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
6. Aalborg Airport

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Aalborg Airport in north Jutland, Denmark, has become famous worldwide because of its ‘Kiss and goodbye’ parking zone near its entrance. Here amorous travellers can squeeze in one last smooch before parting ways. Be warned, though: As stated by the sign, Aalborg puts a strict three-minute limit on the kisses!

Interestingly, according to one Danish paper, a photo of the sign from December 2011 does not include a time limit, suggesting that the three-minute cut-off was introduced sometime between then and now.

So what event precipitated the change? Søren Svendsen, Aalborg’s Airport Director, explained that the time limit was not implemented after lengthy kisses led to missed flights; rather, passengers had parked cars there too many times, causing a nuisance. Aalborg Airport has had the zone for approximately five years.
https://www.ittn.ie/news/kiss-and-goodbye-sign-at-aalborg-airport-a-social-media-hit/

Famous Kisses:

1. The Kiss (Auguste Rodin)

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Mike Bulgakov

G.O.A.T.
2. Nikon

I was recently looking at a Nikon freak of a camera with a huge lens, decent image stabilization, and tiny sensor, thinking it would be useful for spotting ships off the coast and coming into the San Francisco Bay. It's the Ivo Karlovic of cameras, great for one thing.

Nikon Coolpix P1000

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Four years ago, the typical superzoom 'bridge' camera had a zoom power of around 50x. Over the years that number has slowly risen, before leveling out at 65x. And then came the Nikon Coolpix P900, whose 83x, 24-2000mm equiv. lens suddenly took zoom ranges from 'really long' to 'absurd'.

Nikon's new Coolpix P1000 has moved the zoom needle to 'ludicrous,' with an equivalent focal length of 24-3000mm. That's right, 3000mm. This is a lens so long that we were able to fill the frame with a 1 meter (3.3 foot) tall monkey that's 70 meters (230 feet) away.

This does come at a cost, though. For one thing, the P1000 is huge and its lens is challenged by a slow maximum aperture (and thus diffraction) and image quality can be compromised by the same thermal and atmospheric issues that are typical of images taken at extreme distances with any super telephoto lens.
Besides the lens, the P1000 features a 16MP 1/2.3" BSI-CMOS sensor, a fully articulating LCD and high-res EVF, Raw support and the ability to capture 4K video.
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikon-coolpix-p1000
 
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