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Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds

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Here are five special photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, chosen because they're both neat and could possibly be used in a Consumerist post. Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click "Join Group?" up on the top right, and start hitting "send to group" on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.

By: Danno @ The Photo Collective

Title: dolla
By: donbuciak

Title: Cold Winter's Mourning
By: jayRaz


Title: Chevron Tanker
By: So Cal Metro


By: bradym80

Add your shots to The Consumerist Flickr pool, and perhaps they'll get featured in a future story, or even highlighted in a Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds post. See previous winners of the Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool finds here.

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umm visible credit card details anyone? -_-

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Sign that guy up for fraud protection quick. Looks like it was pulled from the site, but my newsreader still has it.

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Sorry to be self-centered, but is it the one where I'm burning a Bank of America VISA on a Char-Broil grill? That's an expired card from over two years ago tied to an account that doesn't exist anymore with key info blurred out. Sounds like you were talking about the image I submitted.

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@Hyman Decent: One photo was someone's debit card, artfully arranged on what appeared to be a sewer grate. Looks to have been removed.

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@defeatism: Never mind, it wasn't a sewer grate, obviously! I didn't see the coals.

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@defeatism: Although - and this is the last time I'm going to post consecutively like a nerd - if this was your photo, then the key info most definitely wasn't blurred out. At least 12 of the 16 numbers were clear, if I recall.

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Ha, we all came to talk about the credit card digits being visible. I'm assuming it's a canceled card, though, right? Won't it just get denied if someone tries to use it?

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That chevron truck photo looks like a photo shop job... sky and foreground are much too dark for the light just behind it. A cool effect though...

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Yes, but it was unclear at first... besides that all of the numbers on the card were easy to see despite being slightly unclear. ._. One didn't know if it was expired or not. (Short answer: Yes, it would be denied...")

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I had that Fisher Price cash register when I was a kid.

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@dakotad555: Probably photoshop enhanced, a bit. But that sort of lighting is usually seen in the early morning (say, 5:30am) on a cloudy day.

@Matt Redacted: Hell yes! I loved that thing.

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@dakotad555: Looks like a hurricane sky to me.

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@shockwaver: I agree, also that light in the back is from the gas station. That is a wonderful photo BTW.

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For the last time, and I'm sorry for having to repeat myself, it is a cancelled card from over two years ago. I thought it would be funny, but I guess some people didn't get the joke. But I agree with the editors for pulling it to avoid a major controversy.

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@defeatism: First thing I thought when I went to see the controversy in my newsreader was "Oh, they mean this credit card? On a Melting? Perhaps it's not active." Anyway, nice shot.

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@Michael Belisle: Note to readers: Please mentally insert "barbecue?" between "On a" and "Melting?" Thanks.

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"Just be a registered Flickr user, go here"

I assume "here" was meant to be a link? Or was it a metaphor for some obscure sexual reference? Or perhaps it was just a cigar? ;)

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I had one of those cash registers as a kid. Granted, it was a hand me down toy but it was fun when my siblings and I played store.

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dakotad555: That chevron truck photo looks like a photo shop job... sky and foreground are much too dark for the light just behind it. A cool effect though...

Could be a long exposure.

All of the bright areas look like they're near light sources.

/never attribute to photoshop what can be explained by regular photography.

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@dakotad555:

As lordargent said, it could be long exposure. As night falls, the sky darkens and street lights can keep the truck lit, meaning you can get a number of sky/foreground dark/light mixes depending on what time of evening you take the photo. Ideally you take a photo when the brightness of the sky matches that of the foreground so you don't blow out the sky and you still keep details in your subject.