I just came back from a walk around town this evening playing with my new camera.

Here's the Result

I think a cool idea would be to show pix of where we all live....

City Skyline from Circular Quay. This is where you can take a ferry to other parts of Sydney.

This is the famous Coathanger :)

The blotches of light are Luna Park - Sydney's version of Coney Island....

This is Hyde Park - a very pretty park in the heart of Sydney's CBD.

For me, it's easier just to refer anyone to watch the Travel Channel. Every other program is about Las Vegas.

:rolleyes:

You could say the same about sydney... but still nothing wrong with posting your own pix ;)

In a sense, its a cool way for each of us to have a new look at our city.

CK

Ckelly,,,you live in the city? that is cool.....

I miss living in the city,,,,I was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Buenos Aires, then NYC, Baltimore also,,,living in smallish places can be a drag.....I miss just walking out of my apt and just walk around....And soon I am moving to the city of Nowhere, GA...G'd help me!!!!

Don't think I have a picture of our little hamlet handy, but I do have some from Elbowgeek's vicinity (Bermuda). Actually, this photo was taken by me in Feb. to record some of the damage from last year's big hurricane. These are tennis courts at the (former) Sonesta, next to the hotel where we stay when we go to Bermuda. Perhaps you can see the erosion...

On March 24 (still having effing snow at that point)!

mhardy

That Picture of your street reminds me of when I lived in USA when I was a teenager. I lived in Westford, MA.

I dont miss the snow one bit... pretty to look at but no fun to shovel...

CK

In Harvard... and herewith, a picture of the town's main intersection at the foot of the town common, taken in the fall of 2000 (as part of a school project my son was doing at the time). Quintessential little Massachusetts town, white clapboard churches, general store, and all.

Plus one of the best public school systems in the state.

Originally posted by ckelly
City Skyline from Circular Quay. This is where you can take a ferry to other parts of Sydney.

Thats farkin aawesome -- can u email me the full size/?? tommyboisxty9@aol.com

A picture of the Boston Skyline from Mt. Hood in Melrose. Melrose is a 'bedroom community' approx. 10 mi. North of Boston.

Great little city, pop. approx. 27,000 plus, dry, no gin mills, close to the Lynn Fells Reservation, 2060 acres offering a retreat for city dwellers.

A picture of downtown Melrose after a snowstorm in 2003.

A picture of City Hall.


That's it kids. That concludes our travelogue for the day. :D

snow storm 2003

City Hall

Corner of Portage Ave. and Main St. - the center of Winnipeg, Canada

Winnipeg from the Red River

Gonna take some nice ones tomorrow.....here's my desk though :)

Are those standard issue phones in Buffalo?

Alan:D

Detroit

Welcoming committee

an everyone drives these:rolleyes:

Originally posted by opt80
Are those standard issue phones in Buffalo?

Alan:D

Nah, I just like to use them......better than the crappy plastic cheapo ones ;)

an everyone drives these

Why is it when I see something like that with a pearl paint job
I want to take a key out of my pocket? :p:

Carl

Grumpy

Your place looks nice :D


We get those idiots too - Norton St at night is like f@#ing "hero's drive" a sort of competition on who has the shiniest wheels and the most annoying subwoofer. Here most of the riced "Bling Bling" cars are japanese, thought you occasionally see nice cars like BMWs with paint jobs/big wheels like that and some lame numberplate like "2JELOOS" :puke:


CK

I'm gonna bore you guys to death with Sydney Pix ... and you know what? I dont care! :tongue:

This is a Nice Picture - and a not as common view of the Opera House

:)

I then decided to catch a ferry to Milsons Point, just across the bridge...

This is a more cliche photo of the Opera House

And finally a pic which I liked a lot...

i like the 3rd one alot, all of your pics look awsome. nice city!!!

white rock lake, ... dallas, TX
panasonic dmc-fz10
1/640s f/8.0 at 44.3mm iso100

Surreal picture, Zobsky, I like it alot. I'll post a picture of Gent one day on this thread.

Are those standard issue phones in Buffalo?

Alan:D

Yeah, whats that round thingee? :lmao:

I'll skip posting a pic of Fargo since we were voted least photogenic city in the USA AGAIN! :sigh:

Well, until I go for a wonder around Enfield....here is my 'Office' :D

Of course I didn't take it, would have been a bit hard :yes:

Bit ironic....note the advert on the side :lmao:

My town is lost somewhere in the bottom of the fog. I took the picture this winter during a temperature inversion. It was about 70 degrees in the mountains and 50 degrees down in the valley. The horizon is 80 to 100 miles away.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/timoteus/tempinversion.jpg

cool pic timoteus!!

Here is what we find, 10mins drive from my house, was trying to take a photo of frost on the spiderwebs, but don't know if it came out too well

Nothing like a walk on a crisp morning

Pitures of Saskatoon area.
This is of Beaver Creek 5 miles south of the city which is a nature preservation site. Birds that I'd never seen in the city reside here. And as I found out getting a close up picture of them ain't easy even with a 400 mm zoom. I only will post 2 as the others weren't close enough for detail.

Beaver Dam at Beaver Creek

What I think is a Wren at Beaver Creek.

Black-Headed Chickadee

Grasshopper.

1st Gopher of Spring 2005.

that's a beautifull place you live, can you imagine I haven't placed a foot in a wood in the last 10 years or so.

Here is '60's "bloc" = apartaments (flats) buiding in my area.

Cupertino Crossroads, Cali & Bros. Feed & Grain. c.1930s

http://www.onepixeldesign.com/stereo/crossroads30.gif


Cupertino Crossroads, now Cali Mill Plaza 2007. The building in the back used to be Apple Computer's headquarters, now part of the Cupertino City Center.

http://www.onepixeldesign.com/stereo/crossroads07.jpg


Fremont Older Open Space Preserve/Silicon Valley. My backyard, is at the base of these hills and about 4 miles from the Crossroads. You can see San Jose downtown in the distance.

http://www.onepixeldesign.com/stereo/FremontOlder.jpg

Not often that clear in San Jose. We lived in Milpitas, just at the edge of the foothills (a few hundred yards from the Hayward Fault) when we lived out there.

Brings back memories.

This looking directly east from the office, which is located about a mile from the center of town. I thought the nearly continuous line of palm trees was interesting.

Murray

Assorted shots from around town. Some of the shots include a local legend and landmark called The Sleeping Giant. Google it, it's really cool :)

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/IMG_0740.jpg

The Sleeping Giant

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/1DSC00916.jpg[

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/IMG_0738-1.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/IMG_0398.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/DSC00922.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/DSC00920.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/IMG_0743.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/DSC00915.jpg

Some cool shots Carl and BB! Thanks for posting.

Murray

Some cool shots Carl and BB! Thanks for posting.

Murray

I really like your palm tree shot, we don't get many of those around here ;)

I wish I could share a cool shot of Sioux City Iowa..... but it would probably be me parked in front of my stereo!


;)



Matt

I really like your palm tree shot, we don't get many of those around here ;)
Thanks. I just snapped that about 45 minutes ago when it was (and still is) 115 F outside. Yeah, probably not very many palm trees up there in the cold country. :p:

Murray

Not to derail this thread as there are some fantastic pictures here, but could someone tell me why I'm only seeing some of the pictures? I see the ones on the last page from Broonsbane and Onepixel but I don't see most of the rest. I've checked and I can't find anything going on here. Browser is usually Opera but I tried in Explorer also and no difference. Images are turned on in my profile (or I couldn't see the pics that I can).

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'd love to see the rest. Like I said, I don't want to derail so please reply via PM if you can help and we'll keep this on topic.

Thanks!
Ray

And just to show I want to stay on topic, here's one from me. I don't have a town. It's about 3 miles to a town of ~50 people, 7 to the nearest gas station/general store, and 25 to the nearest real grocery store. This is off my back deck at sunrise.
http://www.perihelionaudio.com/personal/audio/pond%20sunrise.jpg

From above and below.

Not to derail this thread as there are some fantastic pictures here, but could someone tell me why I'm only seeing some of the pictures? I see the ones on the last page from Broonsbane and Onepixel but I don't see most of the rest. I've checked and I can't find anything going on here. Browser is usually Opera but I tried in Explorer also and no difference. Images are turned on in my profile (or I couldn't see the pics that I can).

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'd love to see the rest. Like I said, I don't want to derail so please reply via PM if you can help and we'll keep this on topic.

Thanks!
Ray



Ray:

It's not a problem with you or your computer. Sometime in the past and I don't recall exactly when, many pictures from older threads were lost. Seems like it was some kind of server problem or something that caused it.

Terry

Ray, there are thumbnails posted by Telecolor, Murray and Meggy. 1, 1 and 2. Plus the links posted by Carl and BB.

BTW, nice pic of your pond. Baptismals?

Murray

Edit: What Terry said. I thought Ray meant just on this page.

Wow a wonderful diversity of neighborhoods... I like the nature ones best!

Yep. Nothing is more natual than asphalt - petroleum and rocks.

Murray

Murray... good thing you don't live in Petroleum Springs.

:D

It's not a problem with you or your computer. Sometime in the past and I don't recall exactly when, many pictures from older threads were lost. Seems like it was some kind of server problem or something that caused it.


Ah, thanks Terry. I hadn't even looked at the dates and put them together with the missing pictures.

BTW, nice pic of your pond. Baptismals?


Thanks. I don't know if you'd want to do a Baptism in that particular pond. It's built on the side of a hill and the bank goes almost straight down. It's 35' deep. You can walk out about 6' and you're neck deep. Another step and you're swimming. However, you can dive off the pier without fear of breaking your neck. At least on the bottom. If you hit one of the catfish you might get hurt.

Ray

nice shot of camelback, megs. i've been up and down it many times over the years.

Monterey, California. This picture looking toward down town Monterey was taken near my home.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k206/xtcdriver/Monterey/Relax.jpg

This photo shows the plaza near the wharf. One of the many car events during the year:
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k206/xtcdriver/Monterey/MontereyPlaza.jpg

One of my dream cars of my youth... the Jensen Healey Interceptor. Nice!

Here are a few shots of Kent, OH, where I live now. Not a place that's easy to make look scenic. I took these photos to be used for the web site of my wife's research group some time ago.

http://dept.kent.edu/chemistry/Faculty/Research/Brasch/about/Downtown-Kent-1.jpg

http://dept.kent.edu/chemistry/Faculty/Research/Brasch/about/Kent-Student-Housing-1.jpg

http://dept.kent.edu/chemistry/Faculty/Research/Brasch/about/Downtown-Kent-2.jpg

This is the village in Germany where I come from originally. This picture was actually taken by my Dad in the 1960s using a Dacora Super Dignette rangefinder - a camera I later dropped, which my Dad is trying to forgive, but will never forget :D

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3105056-md.jpg

And since the images of Sydney by the OP are no longer visible, here are some of my own favorite shots of Sydney.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/340596-md.jpg

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/340602-md.jpg

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/340603-md.jpg

I never actually lived in Sydney, but used to live in Canberra, which is close by Australian standards. Oh heck, since we are at it, here is a shot of that place too :D

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3105044-md.jpg

From above and below.

Wow! What a view from the pool.:thmbsp:

.....really nice shots, FMueller....did you compensate the exposure for the night shots?.....

nice shot of camelback, megs. i've been up and down it many times over the years.

Thanks. That's my refuge. I estimate I've made the trip a good 2000 times. Been pretty much over every inch of that mountain.

Wow! What a view from the pool.:thmbsp:

Thank you. We got really lucky in finding the house and we re-did the pool. We're exactly 1 mile from the mountain. You know who we bought the house from? The daughter of the owner of the Arizona Cardinals. What's really weird is she also had two dobermans (just like us).

more info than anyone wanted, but WTH.

From above and below.

Ah, the praying monk! :thmbsp:

.....really nice shots, FMueller....did you compensate the exposure for the night shots?.....

The night I took those three shots I went through at least three rolls of film in the Circular Quay area in Sydney. The place around the famous opera house is just magic for night shots! I bracketed exposure to make sure I got my shots, but curiously the camera's automatic exposure was spot on in all cases! I was using my trusty old Minolta XD-7 that night - my favorite, and most used camera for many, many years. Since I got my Canon Digital Rebel XT it's collecting dust, but slide film is just too expensive and scanning it is a royal PITA :sigh:

Here is another night shot taken with the XD-7 and MD 50mm 1.4 lens. It shows the Houses of Parliament in London. I had no tripod on that trip, so I propped up the camera with tissues on the wall of the Thames embankment, f=1.4, A-mode, no exposure compensation.

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/746623-md.jpg

Frank

We're about a mile from "town", which is essentially a Post Office, a Church, a Bed 'n' Breakfast, and a scrapbooking store. We're about 8 miles from the "city", which is about 22,000 people unless the University is populated, in that case it's about 44,000 people. Not what we're used to in NYC, which is a good thing.

Here's the view from our front deck, and then the reverse view from the Blue Ridge down towards the valley. The pale blue hump on the horizon over the passenger seat of the bike is the hill we live on.

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=95924&d=1213964168

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=62419&d=1190416549

je

That first shot with the view from your deck is beautiful, Fred! Just wants to make me sit on that deck and enjoy some fresh bread rolls with jam and a good cup of coffee! :yes:

Some classical music would be nice with that - maybe Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'! Have you got some nice outdoor speakers installed on that deck, or do you wheel you main rig out for those occasions? :D

Frank

That first shot with the view from your deck is beautiful, Fred! Just wants to make me sit on that deck and enjoy some fresh bread rolls with jam and a good cup of coffee! :yes:

Some classical music would be nice with that - maybe Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons'! Have you got some nice outdoor speakers installed on that deck, or do you wheel you main rig out for those occasions? :D

Frank

Thanks, that view was certainly a selling point. My living room windows are right there, and you can easily hear my bi-amped JBL 4333As from the deck...

Only the local systems are up, the house system is still under way. Front deck will likely get a nice NIB pair of Sonance Mariners, rear deck has some KLH now but will probably get four Canton Patio 160s. Lots of work still to do on the house wiring & system programming.

je

Thanks. That's my refuge. I estimate I've made the trip a good 2000 times. Been pretty much over every inch of that mountain.



Thank you. We got really lucky in finding the house and we re-did the pool. We're exactly 1 mile from the mountain. You know who we bought the house from? The daughter of the owner of the Arizona Cardinals. What's really weird is she also had two dobermans (just like us).

more info than anyone wanted, but WTH.

Must be nice living with a view like that:scratch2:
I only see things like that if I get the expensive room when on vacation!
My avatar is a good example of what my view was a good part of my life.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/poohsan_2007/DSC_3018.jpg

Damn it Poo... can I come live youz?

Great pic there, poo. The dark blue sky contrasting with the green/blue water is neato.

Murray.

Man, now I'm gonna have to go drop a Buffett disc in the player.

"water so green and the air was so clean he just stuck right to his task. Havana daydreaming...oh he's just dreamin...his life away"

Ray

In contrast to the water so green..., here's a pic of some desert energy production. This is looking northwest, about 1/2 mile south of I-10.

For perspective, the dark area in the front of the building that is behind the generator in the center, is about 7' high.

I just snapped this pic this morning.

Murray

Here's my home town (since 1983) - Pacific Beach, Calif.:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=96142&stc=1&d=1214082696

Great shot of the PB pier..

Lived in PB in the 60's and 70's.

c'mon over Carl, though I must warn you you'll eventually tire of eating fresh ahi, wahoo and mahi mahi. :D

Here's a road runner that was, well, crossing the road. This one was pretty skittish and wouldn't let me get any closer than about 20'. They ones that hang around the office usually are more comfortable around humans and will let you walk right up to them, as close as 10' or so.

Canon SD1100, 1/250, f4.9

Murray

poohsan... you'll get tired of me way before I get tired of eating fresh fish and aquamarine waters!! :D


Murray, cool pic... beep beep!

Some 4 years ago approx 30 minutes B4 sunrise, start of a very sunny day

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/Snapshots/levensnevelbewerkt.jpg

This is my back yard... Lake Hickory in North Carolina. My nephew out for a tow.

Camera is a Pentax K100D. Lens is a old Takumar-A 70-200 with UV filter. Effective length on a digital SLR is 300mm. Shot was taken from the gunwale of my boat going about 35 mph. About 1 in 10 comes out this nice. Stabilization seems to help, but you bounce around awful bad. That lens is a real sleeper, IMO.

Here's a few from DC

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97355&stc=1&d=1214775769

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97356&stc=1&d=1214775801

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97357&stc=1&d=1214775812

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97358&stc=1&d=1214775819

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=97359&stc=1&d=1214775828

How do you guys post big picture files like that? I have to shrink mine down. ???.

poohsan... you'll get tired of me way before I get tired of eating fresh fish and aquamarine waters!! :D

No worries, we have our own ways of dealing with guests who have overstayed their welcome... :yes:

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/poohsan_2007/DSC_2569.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u135/poohsan_2007/DSC_2568.jpg

About 20 miles from my house:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/IMG_1358.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/IMG_1366.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k163/Graciefloydie/kashkabouin2.jpg

The marina about one mile from my house in Burns Harbor, IN

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm40/clydeselsor/_DSC0661copy.jpg