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whocares said:What's "4 Corners"?
It's a historical site where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona all join. There are lots of ancient Indian ruins there and it is quite a fascinating place.
A few pictures I took in London in November 2004 at about 7pm:
1. London Eye and City Hall
2. Charing Cross Station (with the BT Tower behind)
3. St. Stephen's Clocktower (Big Ben is only the name of the bell, y'know)
Then a couple more local sights:
4. Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol (designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel - he died before it was completed, unfortunately). This picture was taken at about 6.30am during the dawn ascent at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta 2005, the largest balloon meet in Europe. over 120 balloons took off within about half an hour and floated across Bristol - very cool, and very peaceful way to wake up.
5. Port Talbot Steelworks, S. Wales - a grinding edifice, but quite awe-inspiring, especially at night, where it can be seen for miles - August 2005, around 11.30pm.
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1. London Eye and City Hall
2. Charing Cross Station (with the BT Tower behind)
3. St. Stephen's Clocktower (Big Ben is only the name of the bell, y'know)
Then a couple more local sights:
4. Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol (designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel - he died before it was completed, unfortunately). This picture was taken at about 6.30am during the dawn ascent at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta 2005, the largest balloon meet in Europe. over 120 balloons took off within about half an hour and floated across Bristol - very cool, and very peaceful way to wake up.
5. Port Talbot Steelworks, S. Wales - a grinding edifice, but quite awe-inspiring, especially at night, where it can be seen for miles - August 2005, around 11.30pm.
All my own work
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adamb100 said:
Hey, now now, you can't post a landmark pic unless you actually took the picture yourself! Otherwise that defeats the purpose of the thread!
It's okay because it has been made to look like an oil painting, not a photo. Forgiven.
Y'all got it wrong. Four Corners is actually a current events program along the same lines as Sixty Minutes but with a more factual basis.
Y'all got it wrong. Four Corners is actually a current events program along the same lines as Sixty Minutes but with a more factual basis.
mad jew said:It's okay because it has been made to look like an oil painting, not a photo. Forgiven.
Well, I don't know about that, that's pushing it - it sounds pretty mad to me....
Not far from the four corners is Monument Valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley). Pictured here are the East and West Mittens.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame and Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio.
And on the other side of the stadium is my high school. My school district owns the field, and on really nice days in the spring and summer, my "boss" at the performing arts hall attached to the school will let me and my friends (also crew) go out on the field and toss a football around. What a feeling!
And on the other side of the stadium is my high school. My school district owns the field, and on really nice days in the spring and summer, my "boss" at the performing arts hall attached to the school will let me and my friends (also crew) go out on the field and toss a football around. What a feeling!
This is the coolest thread ever. I really enjoyed the pictures here, and can't wait to add some myself. What are the criteria to add? Do they have to be manipulated in photoshop some how, or just of interesting places? Plus what are good sizes to post?
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks,
Chris
The original is 2592x1944 at 180 dpi, taken on a Canon Elph 3.2mp. The file size is 1.1mbw_parietti22 said:
~Shard~ said:I still take pictures to serve as mementos and such but I definitely don't waste my travels by being behind a camera lens for 50% of the trip.
I don't consider it a waste to take some photos, especially when you just quoted Chip who loves his photography...... hmmmmm
And I've been to London 3 times now, and now it's my home away from home. I can also easily say that you don't experience anything within a city/country unless you have lived there for 3-4 months (minimum), but I don't bother. I'm lucky to be able to say that I can go to 5 completely separate countries and feel right at home, and I can look at others, maybe even yourself, and wonder why you've never experienced anything "more".
Different strokes for different folks. I also think photos are great and want to take more, not less.
Applespider said:
Completely agree.
~Shard~ said:Yes, it's truly a completely diferent ballpark - actually no, it's a different sport
Actually, travelling around your own country can broaden your view of the world, and maybe more importantly, your view of the society you live in. Talking to someone from Nova Scotia might give you a very different idea of how others view your own government. You won't get such different views when talking to other middle class folk in Regina, I'm sure.
~Shard~ said:Yes, it's truly a completely diferent ballpark - actually no, .....I found it interesting how the tour guide was completely playing off the whole "Spanish and French influences" in architecture, and so forth. For other people on the tour, it was mind-blowing - for me, it was like, "Um, I've been to Spain and France and seen the real thing, so this isn't as big of a deal as you're making it out to be". Obviously it is still different and unique, as I said above, but you see my point.
The architecture in New Orleans is influenced by the Spanish and of course the French. They're not the same as the architecture in Spain or France at all. It's like a combination of two styles, with their own added twist, making it completely unique. If you went to France and saw a city with lots of Spanish and New Orleans influenced architecture, you'd say it's unique. You just don't think that way about New Orleans because it's not in Europe.
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"
Thanks Abstract, I do love my photography. Though my week in Reykjavik and London gave me an appreciation of where Shard came from.
I went on this trip with great expectations of between 800 to 1000 images shot during my stay in these two great European capitals. I might have 200 tops. A day sick in London probably could account for my either taking less or more. Haven't decided yet.
Instead my time in Reykjavik was spent with the people of that city. In fact it was thought that I was more European than American by a couple of people I met. I can only guess at the reasons, surely it wasn't my accent .
Maybe it was I was not in "cool" printed t-shirts or sweat shirts, but dressy casual. Or maybe it was answering "afsaki?, (af-sah-kith) ensku" (sorry,english). It could be that I was not afraid of approaching someone to talk - to compliment them on their fine dog, to simply ask for suggestions on where to go for food or drink. Or maybe it was realizing that the world does not revolve around the US only - having an understanding of a little of what was going on with their country, both at home and abroad in conversations.
For a variety of reasons, I did not make it out out the city of Reykjavik during my stay. So no great landscape shots coming soon from this trip.
For many of my US travels I like to capture the people going about their day to day lives. Maybe it was the cold, efficient service on the flight over that gave me pause on getting in "their faces" with my camera. Or it could have been the eye contact that the locals made in my passing. But I felt that I was intruding in some way by lifting my camera.
So in some ways Shard is right. For some in my situation would have gone and done what they have done before (as I have done to) and spend time behind the lens. Missing the opportunity that I think was the greatest so far in my travels last week.
For I met some that I may meet again (we exchanged email addresses). In other cases, just the memories of seeing people interact with each other was enough.
I was asked t work today on my return what was my greatest experience for my first overseas adventure. It took a moment; but I responded that it was maybe meeting the people - but the thrill was flying over Iceland on my way to London and flying over the UK, Ireland, Iceland (again), the Arctic Circle, and Greenland on the way back.
I guess in some ways it is like my trip this past summer to SF. There are two high points that I have no pictures from. The first was on my arrival for my connecting flight at Chicago. Seeing the farm lands give way to villages, then to small towns, on to industry and the city. It was like watching a film in school as to how our nation developed.
The other was meeting the SF twins (they are two older women that have been used in advertising for the likes of Virgin Atlantic, among others. I confused them for subjects of Diane Arbus' "Twins" series. Some came up wanting photographs with them, I left with great stories of their going through WW II and their living their lives together in SF.
Abstract said:
Thanks Abstract, I do love my photography. Though my week in Reykjavik and London gave me an appreciation of where Shard came from.
I went on this trip with great expectations of between 800 to 1000 images shot during my stay in these two great European capitals. I might have 200 tops. A day sick in London probably could account for my either taking less or more. Haven't decided yet.
Instead my time in Reykjavik was spent with the people of that city. In fact it was thought that I was more European than American by a couple of people I met. I can only guess at the reasons, surely it wasn't my accent .
Maybe it was I was not in "cool" printed t-shirts or sweat shirts, but dressy casual. Or maybe it was answering "afsaki?, (af-sah-kith) ensku" (sorry,english). It could be that I was not afraid of approaching someone to talk - to compliment them on their fine dog, to simply ask for suggestions on where to go for food or drink. Or maybe it was realizing that the world does not revolve around the US only - having an understanding of a little of what was going on with their country, both at home and abroad in conversations.
For a variety of reasons, I did not make it out out the city of Reykjavik during my stay. So no great landscape shots coming soon from this trip.
For many of my US travels I like to capture the people going about their day to day lives. Maybe it was the cold, efficient service on the flight over that gave me pause on getting in "their faces" with my camera. Or it could have been the eye contact that the locals made in my passing. But I felt that I was intruding in some way by lifting my camera.
So in some ways Shard is right. For some in my situation would have gone and done what they have done before (as I have done to) and spend time behind the lens. Missing the opportunity that I think was the greatest so far in my travels last week.
For I met some that I may meet again (we exchanged email addresses). In other cases, just the memories of seeing people interact with each other was enough.
I was asked t work today on my return what was my greatest experience for my first overseas adventure. It took a moment; but I responded that it was maybe meeting the people - but the thrill was flying over Iceland on my way to London and flying over the UK, Ireland, Iceland (again), the Arctic Circle, and Greenland on the way back.
I guess in some ways it is like my trip this past summer to SF. There are two high points that I have no pictures from. The first was on my arrival for my connecting flight at Chicago. Seeing the farm lands give way to villages, then to small towns, on to industry and the city. It was like watching a film in school as to how our nation developed.
The other was meeting the SF twins (they are two older women that have been used in advertising for the likes of Virgin Atlantic, among others. I confused them for subjects of Diane Arbus' "Twins" series. Some came up wanting photographs with them, I left with great stories of their going through WW II and their living their lives together in SF.
This rather run-off-the-mill post a photo thread is turning it to a very enjoyable discussion obout travel philosophy and ethic (and obviously a nice series of great photos).
It's a very enjoyable read, and great to see how other's like to travel.
I always take a camera on my travels (the rare times I didn't I *really* regretted it). However, using of the camera depends on how the travel turns out: more of a meeting people thing, or more of a landscape/cityscape/etc experience.
The best way IMHO is just to pack a versatile photo bag, and leave all expectations at home.
It's a very enjoyable read, and great to see how other's like to travel.
I always take a camera on my travels (the rare times I didn't I *really* regretted it). However, using of the camera depends on how the travel turns out: more of a meeting people thing, or more of a landscape/cityscape/etc experience.
The best way IMHO is just to pack a versatile photo bag, and leave all expectations at home.
Chip NoVaMac said:
Thanks Chip, and for the record, I was by no means trying to downplay the importance of photography - I know what a passion it is for you, and that's great. As Abstract said, different strokes for different folks. I love taking photos as well, however I don't take many. I see far too many people on my travels who are simply experiencing their vacation through their viewfinder, taking no doubt thousands of shots, and that's just wrong - they are missing out on so much. Take a lot of photos if you like, but don't let that rob you from the actual experience.
And thanks for the update on your travels, it is much appreciated! I love reading about other people's adventures, as it always acts as a catalyst to go travleing again myself.
In the past, I've done that, spent most of a vacation or most of an event behind the viewfinder and then after I've gotten home find that (1) I have a zillion images to process and little time to do so and (2) that I've really missed out on the actual experience of the vacation or event. When I went to SF for this last vacation I tried to make it a point to have the camera at hand, yes, but not always at my eye. Still shot an awful lot of images but I also actually did take the time to experience SF, too.
A couple of years ago I attended an event, a gathering of a lot of people, and I spent most of the time shooting away like mad. Got some great photos, but then later, friends were talking about various aspects of the event or meeting different people and what they'd chatted about and I'd think, "huh? Gee, I missed that!" That brought it home to me that my initial purpose in attending the event was not really to have been the "photographer," official or otherwise, but to have enjoyed the opportunity of meeting a lot of people I'd known from online. Yet somehow I'd totally missed out on a huge chunk of that experience because of my obsession with taking photos to record the event for posterity. Sad part of that is that of course I came home with a zillion images, many of which still to this day remain unprocessed....
A couple of years ago I attended an event, a gathering of a lot of people, and I spent most of the time shooting away like mad. Got some great photos, but then later, friends were talking about various aspects of the event or meeting different people and what they'd chatted about and I'd think, "huh? Gee, I missed that!" That brought it home to me that my initial purpose in attending the event was not really to have been the "photographer," official or otherwise, but to have enjoyed the opportunity of meeting a lot of people I'd known from online. Yet somehow I'd totally missed out on a huge chunk of that experience because of my obsession with taking photos to record the event for posterity. Sad part of that is that of course I came home with a zillion images, many of which still to this day remain unprocessed....