Picture Thread: here are a few of mine, please post a few of yours

[WilliamPitt]

From the Pacific Coast Highway north of San Francisco:



Duh:



Dusk at the NH cabin:



A little chapel on the far side of the lake above:



Boston at mid-summer dawn from the Mass Ave bridge:



At Camp Casey, TX:



The three best pictures I've ever taken:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. OK, Will..........here's some of mine!

Yours are truly beautiful, BTW...

[WilliamPitt]

2. I'm in awe

That wave pic is just astonishing.

What is this?:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Thanks!

Wave pictures (the ones that turn out anyway) are mostly luck!

As to this picture...I'm not sure what it was. I took this in Berlin last summer. I was just walking around when I happened to look up, and there it was.

You can see me taking it partway up...

I appreciate your praise!

:hug:

[Parche]

40. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy

Yours are a vision of beauty, and made my day.





"The persistence of Man's curiosity led him into new worlds. Without conquering his own, he invaded the sub-world of the microscope, and the outer-world of space. It is said turnabout is fair play... but is it?"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. My dear Parche!

Oh, sweetie...

You just brought tears to my eyes with your thoughtful praise...

Thank you...:hug:

[MissMillie]

77. I love your view of the world

every time you post pictures... I just love them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

80. Thank you, my dear MissMillie!

You just made my day, sweetie...:hug:

[Heidi]

3. Beautiful photos, Will, especially the chapel. Here are a few

from me:


Two of our koi: Pflotch and Trotsky


The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger


View from the window a hotel in Lausanne, along Lake Léman (Lake Geneva, Switzerland), May 14, 2007


My favorite place to go Christmas shopping: Bahnhofstrasse, Zürich


Our village


Dork

[SeattleGirl]

5. w00t! Hey dorkilicious gf!

Your pictures are beautiful! (And so are you, you know.)

[Heidi]

10. No, SG, I must INSIST:

I am a dork. It's my badge of honor. :rofl: :spray:

How you doin', sweetie? :loveya: :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

12. All right, you're a dork.

But a loveable dork! :rofl:

I'm doin' okay. A bit under the weather today, but otherwise, doing just fine. :loveya: :hug:

[Heidi]

13. Thank you for validating me.

:rofl: :spray:

Sorry you're under the weather, dear. Okie-speak: "My, but you do look a little peak-ed." :rofl:

I'll light a white candle for you, m'kay? :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

14. Ha! You sound like my grandmother who lived in Arkansas.

And thanks. A little light always helps. :hug:

[Heidi]

15. I was born in Arkansas.

Sshhhhhhhhh. Our (and Oedi's) lil secret. :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

16. OMG, no kidding!

Where? My dad was born in a little don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it town called Oil Trough. He then moved to Newark, where I lived when I was in 1st grade (I had the same teacher my dad had). Most of my dad's immediate relatives have passed away, but my dad's brother Jimmy still lives there.

[Heidi]

17. Just outside of Little Rock.

:)

Still have lots of family there, bless their hoarts.

[WilliamPitt]

6. Did you use a filter for the hotel in Lausanne picture?

Or did the sky actually look like that?

I'd have been under the bed.

:)

Wonderful stuff.

[Heidi]

9. No filter.

I think CMW did some kind of HDR post-work on the photo, which I took with my cell phone. But the sky really was very ominous. No hiding for me, though: I was raised in Oklahoma (tornado alley).

Nice to see you, Will. :hug:

[WilliamPitt]

11. You, too

:hug: right back. :)

Bedtime.

[kwassa]

21. what is your little village?

My wife did a year of study in Lausanne, many years ago.

We visited her best friend in Bern a few years back, and took the train over to Lausanne for the day. I remember all the little villages along the shore of Lake Geneva.

We later took the TGV to Paris on that trip.

edit to add: my Lausanne pictures suck, because it was a hot and very hazy summer day, and we couldn't see far across the lake.

[Heidi]

22. Hi, kwassa.

The village is where we live: in the Italian-speaking, southernmost canton, Ticino. Our village is about 100 meters above Lago Maggiore. The Lausanne photo is from business travel to Geneva and Lausanne this past May. I speak very little French, so I made it a short trip. I love the French part of the country, but the weather was stormy those two days, hence the ominous scene from my hotel window. :P

[AnneD]

78. Switzerland....

is one of my favourite places. I have spent a small amount of time there...not as much as I would like. I told my Swiss friends that if there was such a thing as reincarnation....I wanted to come back as a cow in Switzerland. Thanks for the beautiful pictures and making me remember happy times and good friends.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Great pics, Will. Here are a few of mine:

Oregon coast:


Snow in my yard:


The house in Springfield, Oregon, where I lived in high school:


A picture from an anti-war protest in Seattle I went to a few years ago:


A photo my daughter took from her balcony:

[WilliamPitt]

7. I love the Seattle protest picture

and damn, I do wish your daughter's picture was larger. That looks amazing. I think, maybe, one could accidentally drop a camera in Seattle, have it accidentally start snapping shots, and you'd still wind up with gorgeous images. Seattle is just wonderful...and, sadly, 3,200 miles away from me. Boo.

:)

Thanks for posting those.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Thanks, Will.

I'll see if she'll email me some of her pics. I have two of them hanging in my livingroom that she gave me for Christmas last year.

She is a great photographer, and of course, she has a great city to photograph.

[Mugu]

19. Very nice photos all.

Don't know why, but I like to take pictures of bugs. Strange I know, but that's what I like.

Regards, Mugu

[Mugu]

52. The predator.

The prey.



Dinner is served.

[Tuesday_Morning]

71. They're beautiful!

Thanks for sharing...is that a honeybee?

[Mugu]

73. I'm not very good with my stinging insects (or any others for that matter,)

but I believe that the photo is of a Yellow Jacket. Still a very attractive creature. This is a Bald Faced Hornet, another photo that I have posted before.



Regards, Mugu

[DS1]

20. some

[Ariana Celeste]

23. here's my latest...

I got my hair done so...







:)

[Inchworm]

24. I've been on a bird kick

I just like looking at em :)

Hummer


A Sneaky Trixy Cat


Cardinal


Carolina Chickadee and Goldfinch


The Enemy


Holding Breath


Two Minutes Ago from where I Sit


Out Back


Top Three I Like the Best

Back Yard


Goldfinch Lookin at Me


Woody


LoL.. I'll stop :)

:hi:

[WilliamPitt]

28. I gotta think you need to be real quick to capture those images

Wonderful. I especially like the row of bird houses surrounded by Fall foliage. As you can see from my OP, I'm a sucker for Autumn leaves. One of the best parts about living in New England.

Over the eight weeks of October and November, we're blessed with the chance to watch this vast masterwork of a mural get painted in slow motion, day by day and leaf by leaf, on a canvas that's all around you for miles in every direction...under the bluest skies anywhere on Earth.

Yeah. October is the art gallery for trees. :)

[Inchworm]

35. I hear you

I'm in the NC Mountains. My favorite time is the mornings because you get the misty fog on ground as a kicker.

Thanks

:)

[livetohike]

29. Beautiful!!!!

Thanks for posting these :hi:.

[Inchworm]

36. Thanks for the complement

:blush:

[BarenakedLady]

33. Wow those are awesome!

I love birds too.

:thumbsup:

[Inchworm]

38. That means a lot

Coming from one who sees beauty in the mirror every day.

Thanks!

:loveya:

PS: Layed it on a little thick huh? Thanks though :P
:rofl:

[Mugu]

41. A Robin nest in my back yard.

From beginning to end.

[Inchworm]

43. Wow! That is cool!

I watched Moms(or dads) all summer. The little one aimlessly following the parent and repeating a squawk, tweet, or chirp. Very cool to watch them mimic the adult.

This one was out of the nest flying already. It flew into my house cause all my stuff is usually open.When I was trying to catch it under the bed I heard similar chirps outside. I got bird and went out there. It was a sibling looking for him. I snapped this pic right before I heard the adult chirp and they flew off.



:loveya:

[Mugu]

45. The first flight is always exciting.

Here's one that I had heard about, but had never seen before. What would you guess?

[Inchworm]

46. I wouldn't know

I never thought to do that. I am for sure going to try nest watching next spring though.

:yourock:

[Mugu]

49. It's a Gold Finch nest

that some Cow Birds have laid their eggs in. Once the eggs are laid the Cow Birds are gone and their parenting is done. When the Cow Birds hatch they have the instinct to push the other birds out of the nest. The Finch never figures it out and runs herself ragged feeding the much larger birds.

This is her on the nest with no clue.

Regards, Mugu

[Inchworm]

50. Ahhh- I've read a little about those cow birds

nature is amazing :)

:thumbsup:

[Mugu]

53. Yes it is.

Some new born Red wing Blackbirds. Just a few hours old (don't know why the photo is so small.)

[Mugu]

55. The same nest a couple of days later.

[Inchworm]

57. Awesome!

Do the parents ever attack you for doing that?

:shrug:

[Mugu]

59. The Robins just squawk and fly close.

The Red wings will come from behind and attack your head. It feels like fingernails on your scalp when washing your hair.

A Dove on her nest in a cherry tree (I've posted this one before.)




Regards, Mugu

[Inchworm]

60. Hehe!

Darn! Now I want attacked by a bird! It sounds fun :)

:)

[redqueen]

25. Oooh I love the best ones at the bottom... superb.

I also love Cal Peggy's! :loveya:

A few of my pics, which are most likely quite craptacular, but which I still love, regardless. :P

Pics during an ice storm last year:




A *very* sweet & friendly goat, whom I would love to have as a pet... saw this cutie at the state fair:


Couple more state fair pics:




A beautiful sunrise. I take WAAAAY too many pics of the sky:

[WilliamPitt]

26. *gasp*

*boggle*

Amazing.

[redqueen]

27. Hah... see why I take so many?

I no longer live in the house where I had such a wonderful view of the gorgeous sunrises down here, sadly. :(

Glad you like. :)

[lizziegrace]

30. From October 24th

Taken with a 3 year old Fuji digital camera. I just got lucky...

[AnneD]

79. WOW....

knocks my socks off.....

[graywarrior]

31. Ok, I am partial to the Boston one. Outstanding.

Mt. Washington from a mile north of Pinkham Notch on route 16


Turkey buzzard in Crystal River, Florida

[seemunkee]

32. Love the graveyard

A couple of mine
Costa Rica


Mexico


Cherry blossoms

[livetohike]

34. Here are a few recent ones

Near our house:



Mr.Livetohike and Murphy on a road near our house:

[Burma Jones]

37. Here are some of mine.......

My Girls


My Boy


This Spring


Down near the Smithsonian Castle


Fun in Central Park


Costa Rica, La Paz


Costa Rica, Volcan Arenal


Some ugly local vandalism


my 100 year old Grandmother


Finally, me at three...I got over the whole "sensitive to noise" thing

[SeattleGirl]

39. Hey Will, here you go!

Three more from my daughter:

[otherlander]

44. A few

A skull


A diner


A sky


A flower...kind of

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. Delete

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

48. A few of mine:

Sailing on Lake Pepin


Marina on Lake Pepin, October


Lake Pepin, October


My little water garden


A330 departing AMS


My late cat Teddy (RIP)

[Amaya]

51. some recent pictures

:hi:

[XemaSab]

54. I like this thread!

[redqueen]

61. Ooooh what beautiful pic of the sky and the water...

*loves*

[XemaSab]

64. That's Humboldt Bay in California

As seen from the Arcata Marsh. :)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

56. My very best work...

:evilgrin: :rofl:

[LSK]

58. Dick Durbin is yelling at me

:cry:

[Mugu]

62. What it looks like when you put 200Kv to a light bulb and CD.

[Capn Sunshine]

63. OK Mr. Pitt

BTW I talked with the Dad who lost his son Jesus Suarez De Solar for several hours at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles (I think) I hope his fight diminishes his considerable pain. Did you write about him? He's fascinating.

backyard

pacific corbina-that's a baseball sized lemon

The Palouse in Idaho near the Washington border

old mill in Elk River, Idaho

the desert floor near Lancaster CA in spring

[DemReadingDU]

65. grandson go-kart

I'm new posting pictures, let's see if this works


edit: hm, didn't work, how do you get the photo to appear?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

68. My dear DemReadingDU...

You need to use a photo hosting site, such as PhotoBucket.

First it will direct you to Browse...

And then you will Open...

And finally, you will upload...

Then you will be able to post your pictures!

Good luck...

:hi:

[DemReadingDU]

70. Thank you! Here are my pics

Grandson in go-kart. He is almost 6




another



Senator Kennedy and me!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

75. My dear DemReadingDU...

You are a quick learner!

I had to have over the phone help from a friend to figure it out!

And these are great pics!

Thanks for showing your face too......esp. next to Senator Kennedy!

:hug:

[Ptah]

66. Here are two from downtown Tucson. You photos are very good.

[fizzgig]

67. great pics, will

from the american museum of natural history


from the metropolitan museum of art


thompson pond, pine plains, ny


near crescent city, california


lincoln city, oregon


the rose garden in portland, oregon

[bridgit]

69. Wee Goody!! Pictures!! I have pictures, wanna see some...

[TK421]

72. I really like the last one of the forest....

Kill them ................

[JTG of the PRB]

74. Here's a few I'm fond of:

On a beach in Florida this past May:



The Las Vegas strip at night, as seen from the top of the mini Eiffel Tower:



Sunset, as seen from my balcony, a few weeks ago:



From Game 3 of the World Series:

[redqueen]

76. Love the sunset...

Those colors look so rich.

[applegrove]

81. Little chapel at the far side of the lake reminds me of this:

by Emily Carr