Photo Project: Your Part of the World

[tuliptree]

Thank you urst! Yep! We've got 2 little ones. They're pie pumpkins, too! Mmmm!

[urstwile]

I love pumpkin pie. :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Oh man me too ... rich and creamy topped with home made whipped cream ... mmmmmmmm :)

[tuliptree]

mmmm...it's almost that time of year! I don't want summer to end, but part of me is looking forward to all the good food! Apple donuts, pumpkin pie, mmmmmm!

If only it would ping pong back and forth between summer and fall. I'd take a sprinkling of spring to see the flowers bloom, maybe a week of good ole blizzards that shut the city down, then back to summer.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Oh me too ... I want to go apple picking again this year. I will go into my pie making frenzy :D

I love Fall fruits and veggies .. I am so looking forward to roasted squash and pumpkins and punkin pie, bread and cookies ... fresh cider and mulled cider oooh I gotta stop :D

[garricks]

Don't forget soups and stews. I love it when it gets cool enough to open the windows and have the stove going all weekend!

[tuliptree]

Oh yeah, Garricks! I love making soups and stews. Mmmm, hungry again!

[Red Kittie Kat]

oh most definitely ... thats when I go into my soup and stew and casserole mode including my homemade 4 cheese oven baked mac n cheese :D

[tuliptree]

*melts* (along with the cheese in the mac n cheese, sorry you now have MacNTulip!)

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao ... another new recipe :D

[garricks]

Messing with my camera's macro setting. I haven't shot seriously in years, so I'm easing back into it. Sony Cybershot 6mpx.

These are some flowers on my parents' lanai, unretouched.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/AF/DSC00080.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/AF/DSC00081.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/AF/DSC00082.jpg

[Red Kittie Kat]

Begonias!!!!

I haven't seen them in years. My Mom loved them and we had a wrap around porch with the railing lined with them in every color.

Is that last one Peonies or a rose hybrid?

They are wonderful Garricks .. brings back good memories :)

[fredrich]

Amsterdam, Netherlands

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_6647_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_6231_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_7426_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_6274_red_lite.jpg

[Red Kittie Kat]

Beautiful shot Fredrich ... that last one is cracking me up :D

[garricks]

More great shots, Fredrich. I especially love the railway shot.

Kittie, it's called a Rose of Sharon bush. The honeybees lurve it. ;)

[Red Kittie Kat]

It's just gorgeous Garricks :)

[Typically]

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/typically/omnom.jpg

[garricks]

dontcha mean oke toke toke toke?

[Typically]

that works too =]

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Typ :D

[fredrich]

Haha, great one Typically.

[urstwile]

Love the pics, garricks and fredrich. :)

[garricks]

Thank you, urstwile. I'm committing to shooting at least one good photo a day. I'm trying to unhook from the job a little and be more artistic on my own time. :D

[urstwile]

That sounds like a good plan, garricks. :)

[tuliptree]

Thank you, urstwile. I'm committing to shooting at least one good photo a day. I'm trying to unhook from the job a little and be more artistic on my own time. :D

:) Good for you, Garricks!

[CkretAjint]

Good idea garricks. I might have to attempt to do that so I get more into photography!

[morea]

just beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

[garricks]

Good idea garricks. I might have to attempt to do that so I get more into photography!
It's part of my nefarious plan to make myself walk around the neighborhood more. ;) Thus, getting some actual exercise.

Here are a couple of the hydrangea in my back yard.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/DSC00088.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/DSC00090.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/garricks/GDF/DSC00092.jpg

[Red Kittie Kat]

I love green Hydrangeas :D

Very nice Jooba darlin :)

[CkretAjint]

I hear you garricks, supposedly exercise is good. Who knew?!?!

Here are some pictures from my neck of the woods (South FL). I didn't touch any of them up in Photoshop and it shows. I need to work on my camera settings. Practice makes perfect, right?

Road near a friends house
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/2826666154_720b38ceb3_o.jpg

Look, PALM TREES!!!! OOoooooo
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2826666166_2f6199f3d6_o.jpg

Random flower
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2826666168_acc76c3125_o.jpg

Went on a road trip this weekend and on the way to our destination some drunk guy was walking along the highway and got hit. Traffic stop on the highway means midnight pictures. YAY!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2826666174_8c8d656f96_o.jpg

Dock in Jacksonville (said road trip destination)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2826666176_99c52292c7_o.jpg

More borken dock
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/2826666182_fec8aa902a_o.jpg

Boat house
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3145/2826674734_d814c44a56_o.jpg

[Red Kittie Kat]

Those are really nice CA ... I love the pier shots :)

[urstwile]

Nice indeed, CA, and garricks too. :)

[fredrich]

Nice ones Ckret, the road photo is my favorite.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_7201_red_lite.jpg
Erasmus Bridge

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_7225_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_7360_red_lite.jpg
The Euromast

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_7293_red_lite.jpg
Rotterdam seen from The Euromast

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_7308_red_lite.jpg
Europe's largest port seen from The Euromast

[CkretAjint]

always wanted to visit the Netherlands and those photos only make me want to go more!

I was planning on wandering around tonight and taking some pictures when I got home and the light was still out. But of course this being FL as soon as I got home, grabbed my gear and darted down the stairs the rain came. Yay for rain and the impending doom of Hurricane Ike!! :mad:

[Red Kittie Kat]

Oy .. well only two more months and hurrican season will be over ;)

Hopefully this one will die out too CA :)


Awesome pics as always Fredrich :)

[tuliptree]

Beautiful photos Fredrich and ckret!

Ckret, boy does that area look familiar! My sister and brother-in-law lived in the Miami area for 7 years and I spent a lot of time visiting during that time.

[CkretAjint]

Yepp yepp... Everything down here just about looks the same. The road/trees/flower are actually from the Sunrise (its a city) area. Pretty much the same as Miami only not as dirty! :p

[tuliptree]

I know where that is! We did enough trecking around south Florida when they lived there (they were in four different apartments and a house in various locations during that time and we were always exploring). They never lived in Miami proper but in places like Coral Gables and other places close to UM as my brother-in-law went to grad school there and then was a prof there for a few years.

Speaking of . . . one place we used to go eat a lot was Opa in Ft. Lauderdale. OMG I loved their food. Geez, I almost wish I wouldn't have remembered that, now I am really hungry for some Greek cooking!

[CkretAjint]

haha... I was there a few weeks ago with a bunch of my girl friends. They were all dancing on the tables. It was AWESOME!!! ;) :D

[Typically]

haha... I was there a few weeks ago with a bunch of my girl friends. They were all dancing on the tables. It was AWESOME!!! ;) :D

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/ericrwalker/pichers1.jpg

[CkretAjint]

LOL! :D

I didn't have my camera then! :(

[tuliptree]

Aw rats!

I actually have photos from the first time we went there . . . ugh 9 years ago (I'm getting old! :D). Hang on!


http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/miami45.jpg

Table dancing!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/miami32.jpg

More table dancing!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/miami38.jpg

Fava bean appetizer . . . YUM!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/miami33.jpg

[tuliptree]

A few more. I love the atmosphere of the restaurant. Although, ckret, my sister tells me the one that is in my photos burned down, and they rebuilt? She said that supposedly it was because of the table dancing and napkin throwing, coupled with people's cigarettes? Have you heard this?

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/miami24.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/miami25.jpg

[CkretAjint]

*shrugs* I have no idea if the place burned down. I just know that I walked out alive... barely! :p

I'll ask next time I go though. Besides, cigarettes are not allowed IN S FL restaurants. :)

[tuliptree]

When did the smoking ban go into effect? It may have happened after we were there when these photos were taken (1999), and it was soon after that that the incarnation of Opa we went to burned down. Just curious. My sister only heard that that's what happened, but who knows.

[CkretAjint]

A year or so ago.

[fredrich]

Some photos of my city:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_2080_red_lite.jpg
Torgalmenningen - the main square.

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_2086_red_lite.jpg
Sundt shopping mall

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_2048_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4375_red_lite.jpg
Old Bergen - an outdoor museum located a few minutes outside the city center

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4400_red_lite.jpg
Old Bergen

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4440_red_lite.jpg
Old Bergen

[bismal]

Nice pics fredrich, I really like the last one there, nice lighting

[Red Kittie Kat]

beautiful shots Fredrich :)

[tuliptree]

You live in a beautiful city! And your photos are simply amazing.

[CkretAjint]

*adds Norway to his "places to visit" list.* :)

Simply gorgeous!

[rickself]

I captured this sunset as the west side spin-off of now Tropical Storm Ike blew across Mustang, Oklahoma September 13, 2008. It was incredible to watch as the southbound winds met a cold front coming down from the north. It reminds me that although there was massive damage, nature also provides some eye candy. Amazingly enough, there almost appears to be an eye in the center, even though the hurricane was hundreds of miles away
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i44/rickself/PICT9407.jpg

[Kool]

Wow Rick, that shot is awesome. :)

[garricks]

Nice, rick! It doesn't look nearly as pretty this morning! ;)

[Tea]

I've really enjoyed the photos in this thread. Some of these recent ones are very nice.

[urstwile]

Cool shot, Rick! The colors are amazing!

[Red Kittie Kat]

gorgeous Rick :)

[fredrich]

Nice one rickself. I'm actually listening to George Carlin now, before I saw your avatar. ;)

Some photos of my city from yesterday:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4235_red_lite.jpg
Sverresborg Fortress

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4237_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4260_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4294_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4296_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4314_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/IMG_4358_red_lite.jpg

[Typically]

it's not fair fredrich your town is beautiful so all you pics are too! :D

[Virgo Nightingale]

Yeah, you need to move someplace ugly. :p

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao yeah what they said :D


I don't think I can find that many nice places in my town to keep posting photos ... maybe I need to just look harder ;)

Gorgeous shots as always

[garricks]

Beautiful, Fredrich. I recently found out that my mother's mother's family is from Norway. I hope to visit some time and see it for myself! :)

[urstwile]

Lovely shots as always!

[frankster]

It's great to see this thread livening up again. It's one of my all time favourites.

Here are a few shots from lately around the San Francisco bay area.

Update to the wild flower trail photo from a year and a half ago. They still like holding hands ;)
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/219/june0825es8.jpg

View of Pacifica from the wild flower trail.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3508/june0822yo5.jpg

Boats at the oyster point Marina in Brisbane CA.
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8250/may083jw5.jpg

Jellyfish tank at Monterey Aquarium. I think this awesome exhibit is closing down soon. Very big shame, because it is mind blowing.
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/6909/july083lh7.jpg

[frankster]

Wales. Up a mountain at the bottom of my inlaws garden. Wind swept gorgeousness. I love it there!
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5903/dec079zi4.jpg

Freshly ploughed feild outside Sacramento
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/4303/mar0866if4.jpg

Downtown San Francisco from the San Bruno Mountains, with a bank of fog coming in over the top of the mountain.
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/2373/april086gj2.jpg

Mount Tampalpais from the marina at Oyster Point.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/832/may081al7.jpg

[urstwile]

Wow, those are great shots, Frank! And aww, I do love your wee ones' penchant for holding hands. :)

[frankster]

Indian rock in Berkeley
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3638/august0811aa1.jpg

Veiw from Indian rock
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8659/august088pf6.jpg
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/9581/august0810pk1.jpg

[frankster]

Thanks Urst :D I hope they remain good buddies.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Frank they are awesome shots. The girls are just too incredibly adorable :D

I love the Marina Shots and the Jelly fish.

That last one of the fog covered bridge very cool :)

[fredrich]

Cool SF shots. Love the jellyfishes and the view from San Bruno Mountains.

When we are first into fog;
http://foto.no/linkeddata/bildekritikk/images/356000-356999/356211_1280x1024.jpg
Warsaw, Poland.

[fredrich]

London, UK

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4534_red_lite.jpg
Hyde Park

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4665_red_lite.jpg
Piccadilly Circus

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4601_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4921_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4800_red_lite.jpg
Palace of Westminster

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4738_red_lite.jpg
London Eye

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_5104_red_lite.jpg
Tower Bridge

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_5063_red_lite.jpg
City Hall on the left, The "Gherkin" among other buildings to the right

[garricks]

Wow. These last two pages have me speechless, they're so beautiful.

Thank you so much for sharing, everyone! :)

[frankster]

Ooooh! Your photos are always great Fredrich! I have no clue how to approach night time photography like that.

[Mynock]

Tripod and a star filter for the lights.

[fredrich]

Tripod and a star filter for the lights.

No need for a star filter. ;)

[Mynock]

You didn't use a star filter? I would have guessed you did.

[fredrich]

You didn't use a star filter? I would have guessed you did.

The shutter in cameras are somewhat star shaped, so at about f6 and up there can be nice results with small light sources (like lamp posts etc.)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Beautiful shots Fredrich.

I wish London had better weather at times ... I've never seen Big Ben in blue skys :(

[Tea]

You have a great eye! Nice, nice photos!

On a different slant, does anyone else feel sad when they see those huge signs covering up the gorgeous architecture? It bums me out so as the architect I'm sure never designed the building to be covered up by huge TDK or Coca Cola signs.

[fredrich]

You have a great eye! Nice, nice photos!

On a different slant, does anyone else feel sad when they see those huge signs covering up the gorgeous architecture? It bums me out so as the architect I'm sure never designed the building to be covered up by huge TDK or Coca Cola signs.

It's a bit ugly, but also sometimes a part of the view itself. I don't think Times Square in New York would have been the same without all the advertising and flashing lights.

Red Kittie Kat: The bad weather is an important part of UK the way I see it, as it is in my city - which goes under the nickname Rain City. The atmosphere is almost southern-like those few days the sun actually shines, so it makes us forget the rainy days.

[Tea]

It's a bit ugly, but also sometimes a part of the view itself. I don't think Times Square in New York would have been the same without all the advertising and flashing lights.

Oh, I don't disagree at all; it IS part of the view. Sometimes there is beauty in it, but it has always bothered me. I'd be so bummed if my artwork all of a sudden had a corporate sponsor plastered all over the bottom of it. I look at architectural works like this as masterpieces and to deface it is something I struggle with. It was just a comment on commercialism, not your work.

[urstwile]

I love the Tower Bridge shot. Actually, they're all great, but I really like that one a lot!

[bismal]

Rule Britania

[tuliptree]

Beautiful! I love the color, or actually the lack of color in the photo with the ferris wheel, punctuated by the bits of red and green. I also like the one of the underground a lot, interesting perspective!

[longboy]

Took the Jeep up in the hills this last weekend to play tour-guide for some Australians here on a teacher exchange. We took them up McClellan Mountain (outside of Georgetown, CO) to 12,800 feet to take in the view.

A couple of pics-
At Waldorf Mine:
http://www.long-boy.com/images/09.20.2008McClellanMtn/McClellan3580.jpg

At 12,800 feet:
http://www.long-boy.com/images/09.20.2008McClellanMtn/McClellan3581.jpg

http://www.long-boy.com/images/09.20.2008McClellanMtn/McClellan3583.jpg

[Virgo Nightingale]

Mountains.... *drool*... I miss hiking.

[bismal]

great pics, jeeps rule.

I can't stand the new type of 4x4 that are just for looks and wouldn't stand a chance on anything off-road.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Very nice longboy :)

[tuliptree]

Nice shots longboy!!

A praying mantis came to visit about an hour ago, here's some pictures I took . . .



http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/Picture092-1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/Picture098-1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/Picture100-1.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/Picture099-1.jpg


http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a114/w1lc01g1rl/Picture104-1.jpg

[Bladez]

Very nice Tulip! I love the last one.

Mantis' are so cool.

[tuliptree]

Thanks! That's my favorite too. It was hard getting as close as I wanted to, my macro isn't the best. And I'm not the most adept photographer.

They are cool aren't they? They just look right back at you very curiously. This guy put up with my daughter and I taking tons of photos. It eventually hopped on her shoulder and she took it to that flower, and then it ran into the garden.

[Red Kittie Kat]

nice pics Tulip :)

You are a lot younger than I thought you were :p


;)

[tuliptree]

lmao! If only I were 5 still!

[CkretAjint]

Yeesh, talking about robbing the cradle then! :eek:

[garricks]

Great shots, tulip!!! Love the second-to-last where he's saying "cheese" into the camera!

[tuliptree]

Thanks Garricks!

My daughter ended up naming him Prang! I thought that was pretty funny.

[Typically]

i brought my raw files to work to touch them up some but didn't even think that photoshop cs doesn't support raw images. sooooooo here is one of the few that wasn't raw.

view from the rumson bridge. i got there a little later than i was hoping so there isn't much sun left but the sky looked nice. touched up in photoshop of course =]
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/typically/rumson_bridge.jpg

more to come later =]

[Virgo Nightingale]

Oooo, that is purty Typ...

[Bladez]

Awesome colour and horizon Typ :)

I'm gonna try and get some of the city and mountains this weekend. I'll post some in here that don't make it into my other thread.

[tuliptree]

Really nice, Typ!! The pier looks so cool, and the colors are beautiful!

[garricks]

Typically, you need to watch the kerning on those pier supports! LOL

Beautiful work, man!!

[fredrich]

Nice sunset Typically.

Copenhagen, Denmark

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Kobenhavn/IMG_7605_red_lite.jpg
Carlsberg Breweries

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Kobenhavn/IMG_7791_red_lite.jpg
Copenhagen canal (reminds me of Amsterdam)

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Kobenhavn/IMG_7832_red_lite.jpg
Nyhavn at sunset

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Kobenhavn/IMG_7812_red_lite.jpg
Freetown Christiania, a partially self-governing neighbourhood in a squatted military area, with open cannabis trade until 2004 (officially)

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Kobenhavn/IMG_7817_red_lite.jpg
Freetown Christiania

[Red Kittie Kat]

they are beautiful :)

[Typically]

Typically, you need to watch the kerning on those pier supports! LOL

lol i don't build em just take pictures :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Typ ;)

[morea]

Heron! These were taken tonight with a little panasonic point-and-shoot, at the expense of my fingers. I may have a touch of frostbite, but I'm okay with that. :D



http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c343/gdfmorea/birds/P1000764-heron.gif









http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c343/gdfmorea/birds/P1000851-heron.jpg

[WannaBrie]

Fabulous, Morea, Frederich and Typ! Is it that cold there already Mo?

[Red Kittie Kat]

great shots Mo :) .. now warm up those poor fingers :)

[morea]

the high temp was around 50°(F) today, but very windy and damp. Not too bad yet, but the temps dip below freezing at night. Brr! I only shot for about half an hour, but afterwards I couldn't use my hands properly for a while. :D

[fredrich]

I like the first one morea, fun detail with two birds going separate ways.

Malmö, Sweden

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Malmo/IMG_7931_red_lite.jpg
Old buildings downtown, with retro commercials on the side

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Malmo/IMG_7943_red_lite.jpg
Canal in the city centre

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Malmo/IMG_7984_red_lite.jpg
Shopping street with St. Peter's Church in the end

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Malmo/IMG_8061_red_lite.jpg
HSB Turning Torso

[morea]

that last building is really neat!

I always enjoy your photos, fredrich. Nice and crisp, and you have a great eye for composition and balance. :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

I want to visit Sweden so badly ... I want to see where the Great Grandparents grew up :)

These just make me want to go even more now :)

[fredrich]

I want to visit Sweden so badly ... I want to see where the Great Grandparents grew up :)

These just make me want to go even more now :)

If you're ever going to Malmö (not the Swedish city with the best reputation, but still worth a visit), remember to visit Copenhagen (capital of Denmark). In about 20 minutes you'll be there with train.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I want to tour all of those areas ... I really need to start playing the lottery so I can just travel for a few months :D

[urstwile]

I have to concur with Morea, fredrich, your pictures are delightful. :)

[fredrich]

Thank you all for comments.

The pictures under are from the ruins of Lyse Abbey, a couple of miles from where I live. The abbey was founded in 1146.

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Lysekloster/IMG_6163_red_lite.jpg
A nearby house

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Lysekloster/IMG_6174_red_lite.jpg
Inside the abbey

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Lysekloster/IMG_6178_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Lysekloster/IMG_6180_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Lysekloster/IMG_6219_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Lysekloster/IMG_6209_red_lite.jpg
A path in the woods behind Lyse Abbey

[Red Kittie Kat]

I don't know why it fascinates me so but I adore seeing old stone work. Thanks Fredrich .. they are awesome :)

[Virgo Nightingale]

I absolutely love abandoned places. Silent stories just begging to be told.

[urstwile]

Those are beautiful. They somewhat remind me of the old monastery my sister toured me around in Liége.

[Tea]

You really live in a part of the world that is so fascinating. Nice photos and thanks for sharing.

[MikeHun]

I saw a great documentary on CBC TV newsworld the Passionate eye series. It was about that tower, it was designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava and was quite a technical challenge to complete.
A stunning building. I understand that it was commissioned by the local people or a public investor group in Malmö, Sweden.

[fredrich]

I saw a great documentary on CBC TV newsworld the Passionate eye series. It was about that tower, it was designed by the architect Santiago Calatrava and was quite a technical challenge to complete.
A stunning building. I understand that it was commissioned by the local people or a public investor group in Malmö, Sweden.

Correct. The HSB organization (hence the name HSB Turning Torso) owns the building. It was mainly built because of Malmö lost it's landmark when the 138-metre-tall Kockums Crane (used at the former shipyard not far from the tower site) was sold to South Korea.

[morea]

We went a local bog preserve today for a walk. Didn't see a whole lot of wildlife because it was fairly crowded and people were being unfortunately loud, but as we were leaving we stumbled across this garter snake.

I really like the sharpness of the head, though the bit right behind the head is out of focus due to narrow depth of field. Granted, when I stumble across fast-moving wild critters I don't have a lot of time to fiddle with the camera settings if I want to get any pictures at all... so I am pretty happy with the shot. (I took a few before he took off, and was excited that I got one with his tongue out!) :D


http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c343/gdfmorea/pics/bogsnake.jpg

[urstwile]

That's a cool shot, Mo!

[morea]

Thanks urst! Here's another, DOF seems better in this one, though I am still partial to the one with his tongue sticking out. ;)

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c343/gdfmorea/pics/bogsnake2.jpg

[urstwile]

That's a nice one as well, although I agree with you on the tongue sticking out shot.

[Red Kittie Kat]

They are both great but I love the tongue one too :D

[garricks]

Mushroom, mushroom!

ROFL

[Typically]

awesome pics!

[tuliptree]

Wow!! Amazing photos Morea! I agree, I love the tongue in the first one.

[CkretAjint]

Wow Mo, too cool. What kind of camera?

[Bladez]

those are great pix Mo. And such a beautiful snake too!

[morea]

thanks everybody! I've always liked snakes. Most people look at me like I'm crazy when I get down on the ground next to one to take its picture. :D

[Bladez]

just be careful of things like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3cYSbsLXgY) Mo *LOL*

[morea]

they don't grow 'em that big up here, Mr.Bladez, and you know it. ;)

[garricks]

:eek: Holy CRAP!

[frankster]

Now that I'm nearly over the jetlag of the trip to the homeland, here are some piccies from our vacation back in North Wales...

From the top of the Great Orme in Llandudno just before a storm.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/5456/wales2kw3.jpg

Overlooking the victorian promenade in Llandudno from the foot of the Orme.
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/167/wales3kd7.jpg

Main street and clock tower in Chester.
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/2292/wales4tu5.jpg

Sunset at Rhosgadfan.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/2691/wales1at3.jpg

[frankster]

Just a few more. I have a butt load, but I'll limit myself to a couple of posts...

Ducks on the lake in Llanberis.
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/3708/wales5pv0.jpg

Llanberis Pass.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/5847/wales6dk5.jpg

Caernarfon Castle.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/11/wales7gr2.jpg

Slate workshops in Llanberis.
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/8247/wales8xs0.jpg

[garricks]

Wow, frankster, those are amazing pix! I especially love the Chester photo—they're ALL great! :D


Edit: You added more while I wasn't looking...love the new shots too! :D

[frankster]

Thanks Mr G. The subject matter is so utterly gorgeous that it would be hard to take a bad photo of it though ;)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Really makes me want to go there Frank ... just gorgeous. Pleaseeeee post more for us :)

[artbypeloke]

Don't live there any more...but I thought I'd post.

Central Park, NYC

6061

[Tea]

Frankie...what a cool place to go to. I love the one at Rosgadfan and Chester. Wow...I could live in either place, just because of the view. (I live in a such butt ugly town).

Nice shot artbypeloke.

[fredrich]

Really nice pics frankster. I've always wanted to visit either Wales, Scotland or Ireland.

London (the views you wont find on postcards):

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4869_red_lite.jpg
From our hotel room window towards Hyde Park

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4885_red_lite.jpg

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/London/IMG_4806_red_lite.jpg
One Nation under CCTV

[Red Kittie Kat]

Good stuff Fredrich :)


that last one is great is awesome :D

[Bladez]

How "Big Brother" 1984-esqe....

[Totem-Media]

Hummingbird in the Texas Hill Country (SW of Austin).

http://www.totem-media.com/images/hbird_0908_01.jpg

[Typically]

they stop moving???? awesome shot dude or dudet :D

[Totem-Media]

they stop moving???? awesome shot dude or dudet :D

Dudette. :) Thanks! They stop to feed (for five to ten seconds), look at me (for two seconds), and stake their territory (quite a while sitting on a little branch). I have lots of empty scenery pictures in between the good pics I got. :D I don't have a super hi-speed camera, so catching their wings clearly in mid-flight isn't possible.

Fast li'l buggers!

[Red Kittie Kat]

When I lived down in Texas they would dive bomb us on the porch ... they were amazing to watch :)

Awesome shot Totem :)

[Yossarian]

Super glue on the perch works wonders.

[Virgo Nightingale]

They look so different while not flying! :eek:

[Totem-Media]

Hummingbirds dive bombed (dove bomb?) you, Kittie? Wild! :eek: :D

Thanks!

[urstwile]

Great shot, Totem!

I was actually buzzed by a hummingbird, they're extremely territorial if they feel you're jeopardizing their food source. I was sitting right near our hummingbird feeder, it hovered parallel to my face and made a couple of quick feints, apparently to move me away from its food source.

[Red Kittie Kat]

See.... Urst went through it too ... The feeders were hanging off the porch and when they were feeding the would zoom by us and almost right at us on occasion just to make sure we weren't going to bother their yummy red juice :D

[Totem-Media]

That's kinda...cool. :) I've always thought hummingbirds lived in another dimension because they move so fast. I wonder if they see us move or are we too slow for them to notice?

Heck, if mice can be pan-dimensional beings, why not hummingbirds? LOL!

[writeaboutbetty]

On the grounds of rustic Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Texas today for a Photoshop class, I found myself in the path of a flock of Peacocks. I wish I had a photo! Decided to stand still and take my chances -- didn't know if they'd attack like swans or what. There were males and females and they came right up to me and then just parted around me. I was inches away from ten or so gorgeous peacocks, all around me. Very cool. - b -

[Tea]

Nice photo.

[Totem-Media]

That is so cool, WAB! Peacocks are so beautiful! Noisy - have you ever heard their call? - but beautiful. I've never been that close to one.

Thanks, tea!

One more hummingbird photo - this is the same bird, but he's all puffed up (all three inches of him!) to intimidate other hummingbirds who may approach the feeder, about two feet behind him.

http://totem-media.com/images/hbird_0908_04.jpg

[urstwile]

Man, nice hummingbird shots, Totem. I need to get me a tripod, we get tons of them here, because we have a jacaranda tree in the front yard, and hang the feeder from that.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Another awesome shot Totem :)

[Totem-Media]

Thanks urstwile and RKK. :)

[synthetik]

http://fc87.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/084/0/b/Lone_Dock_by_taintedxnekosinh.jpg
http://fc44.deviantart.com/fs29/f/2008/139/5/3/Simple_Pleasures_by_taintedxnekosinh.jpg
http://fc94.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/266/7/a/Shout_From_The_Hills_by_taintedxnekosinh.jpg

[WannaBrie]

What a cutie! :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Great shot at the top and what a cutie pie Syn :)

[urstwile]

Yup, that little one's cuteness overload just waiting to set in. :)

[tuliptree]

Nice photos synthetik, and yes, much cuteness!!!!

[fredrich]

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Bergen/IMG_5467_red_lite.jpg
Mariakirken (St Mary's Church) in Bergen, the oldest building in town still standing. It was built around 1180.

[redneckrodney]

Fredrich, wonderful shot. Such a beautiful place, and a great capture.

Synthetik, what a precious child. The last shot is IMHO the absoute best, what a great expression and photo. That is the kind of shot we all are after when we get a camera in our hands. Great job.

[Tea]

Great shots synthetik! That is a cute kid! Love the docks.

frederich...I hope I get to see those buildings some day. I'm amazed at those structures.

[Red Kittie Kat]

fredrich .. your pictures make me want to travel so badly.

What a lovely shot :)

[fredrich]

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll307/flippart/Bergen/IMG_5451_red_lite.jpg

A cat relaxing outside a pub.

[morea]

love it! :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

That is awesome :D

Do they provide blankets at the pub so you can sit outside in the snow?

[fredrich]

That is awesome :D

Do they provide blankets at the pub so you can sit outside in the snow?

I think the blankets are there because of the smoking ban, which means you have to go outside pubs and bars to smoke a cigarette. Not sure if you are allowed to bring alcohol outside.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Ahh ok that makes sense ... I forgot about not being able to smoke in bars anymore.

Now that I don't smoke anymore and don't go to bars ... I have sort of put all those thoughts out of my head.

;)

[Ned]

They've pushed the laws in my city so far now that you can't even smoke outdoors on the patio anymore, if it's on the property of a restaurant or bar. When you go into a convenience store in any part of town, it looks like you're in the worst inner-city slum neighborhood, and that they've boarded and barricaded themselves up from robbers. Those barricades though, are in fact a law in this city to hide tobacco products from sight. Even in a frickin' smoke shop.

By the way... I love how that cat's hair gives it such a radiant halo effect in the low sunlight in that last picture. :D

[abundant_photo]

http://abundantphoto.com/root/abundantphoto/iphoto/photos/homeimage/AB-342%20(640%20x%20480).jpg

Here is my very first photo after I decided to do the stock photography thing. It was taken with a Sony Cybershot S650 and edited with Corel Paintshop Pro 12.
Let me know what you think.

[Red Kittie Kat]

Looks like a comfy teddy :)

[Virgo Nightingale]

I love the kitty Fredrich!! He looks like he wants to say "Where's my beer?" :D