Amateur Photography

[Tsatu]

Post any interesting photos you've taken recently, and care to share.

Note: Professional photographers are welcome too.

[Tsatu]

I'm going to get the ball rolling here. I was thinking of using one set of photos, but I'm holding on.

Here is a picture taken with my phone from last month though. The subject is the "harvest moon" over Manhattan from the NJ Turnpike.

[flighter]

Nice!

[vanyahaheights]

[Bogo]

Traveled thru Mobile, Alabama today. Got some shots of the Gulf of Mexico from the interstate.







And got some shots of the USS Alabama.













I had the pleasure of touring the ship some years back(even though most of the cool areas were off limits), and I must say, they must not have been thinking of people taller than 5' when they built her back in the 40's. I bet there were a lot of head and knee injuries. And for those who thought banging your head against a brick wall was sufficient, try one of the main turrets, All in all, it was an experience to go back in time and view a machine from a time long past.

[Kiyevanie]

Gulf of Mexico: Nice ones... I'd rather be there at the moment instead of my office!

USS Alabama: It looks so huge from the distance. Makes me wonder that they built it for such short people... in the 1940's people can't have been that much smaller than today. Especially not soldiers... there must have indeed been a lot of headbumps there
Have you ever seen original medieval knight armour? It's made for people more or less the same size, today's people would never fit in.

[Xacoon]

So not a boat for me as I am 6.43'

[Elyris]

Nice pics.

@gulf: Hmm. Is there still a lot of oil under the surface of the beach?

@boat: Looks pretty frightening. And such things are usually build in a way like this. After all it's a battleship and not the Queen Mary II. It's about efficency and firepower ('n stuff) not about comfort. (I'd prefer a tour on this over one in and U-boot anytime - if I'd be forced to - thoug.)

(There are benefits if being small after all - I never had any problems with fitting through doors at any of the sightseeing trips I made during my life.)

[Bogo]

Well, Elyris, right next to the Alabama, is a sub from WW2. I went thru it too. I'd rather be on the battleship. And I aint that tall.

[Bogo]

Went over Snoqualmie pass in Washington, yestarday going west in the morning and then east in the afternoon.



This is going east.



Christmas trees.



Notice the guardrail on the right.

[Kiyevanie]

I'd take the Christmas trees

P.S. Guardrail? What guardrail? All I see is piles of snow...

[Elyris]

Oh noes -- this reminds me way too much of the day before yesterday and me driving a long (much too long) distance at once.

Nice trees though

[flighter]

I love driving

In January I drove from Serbia to France, 1300 kilometers in one go (with onl;y refueling and short rest stops). 18 hours there, 14 hours back. Including 17 kilometers and over 2 hopurs holdup in Torino, Italy.

[Bogo]

I wasn't able to get any pictures on my way going west earlier. It was far worse, including a 3 truck pile-up on the downgrade. Fortunately, Washington has a lot of snowplows and anti-icing vehicles. But the USA has a lot of idiot drivers.

[Elyris]

@flighter: g..g..gah @_@

@Bogo: The joys of driving in winter weather.

[Kiyevanie]

Oh yeah... and if it ain't the snow and ice it's the other people on the road. I don't know which kind is worse - the ones that drive the same way as if the road's dry and warm or the ones that start panicking as soon as the word "snow" is mentioned somewhere.

[flighter]

Bogo, there a lot of idiot drivers everywhere, you know...?

[Bogo]

Yeah, but over here, they think they are more important.