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briggl
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New England
Insane since: Sep 2000

IP logged posted posted 08-06-2007 22:28 Edit Quote

OK, how about landscape photos from a country you have visited, or a different part of your country, that is different than what you see where you live.

POW (Photo of the Week}

(Edited by briggl on 08-07-2007 00:06)

briggl
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New England
Insane since: Sep 2000

IP logged posted posted 08-07-2007 00:04 Edit Quote

For starters:

briggl
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New England
Insane since: Sep 2000

IP logged posted posted 08-10-2007 20:22 Edit Quote

Hmm... not a good topic, huh?

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

IP logged posted posted 08-11-2007 04:46 Edit Quote

Not a bad topic...

For my part, I've just been suffering from a lack of motivation. I decided to play around with some photos from a recent trip to Taiwan. Don't know if they count as landscapes, but here they are:

Taipei at night, seen from the eighth floor of the Grand Hotel (the tall building on the right is TAIPEI 101)...



This one is stitched together haphazardly by hand from two photos that I didn't really intend to be a panorama, so it's not that neat.

Next is the Taiwanese sea off Hualien, right before a storm...



I could probably dig around in my archives for more, but I wanted something recent that wasn't online already.

Tao
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Nov 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-11-2007 12:50 Edit Quote

I think it is a good topic briggl. It's just that all of my recent photos are taken in my Liverpool hunting grounds. I should have access to some earlier photos some time later today so I'll try to post something up then.
I'm working my little green fingers to the bone atm to pay off my recent cash splurges for a camera (Canon EOS400D), computer (AMD 64bit Dual Core 800 gig) and a new cycle (Quinn specilised hybrid). My work keeps me firmly rooted in a twenty mile radius of home, unlike some people I know
Ok, a lack of imagination, also plays it's part too I'll try to jump start it today.

Tuscany looks beautiful briggl, the hills and soil there make for perfect wine production, did you get to do any quality control?
The stitched photo had me wondering there for a while Suho. Until I realised there was a bridge there crossing the river. At first it looked like the cars just flew over. Still puzzled by the green streak with the red light on top though. Was that a firework?

briggl
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New England
Insane since: Sep 2000

IP logged posted posted 08-11-2007 13:44 Edit Quote

Yes, Tao, I did manage to get my share of the local wines! The best was from a small winery outside of the Chianti area. They couldn't speak English, but they also gave the best wine tasting we had in Tuscany!

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

IP logged posted posted 08-11-2007 14:04 Edit Quote

Erm... just in case those photos aren't visible up there, my server seems to be down at the moment. How annoying.

lan
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Darwin, NT, Australia
Insane since: Dec 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-12-2007 00:23 Edit Quote

Suho, your pix are visible OK... but my pix of foreign fields are, alas, in my head atm peeps

Haven't been more that 30km from my front door for ~6 months, even for work; and then only once...

[edit] even my slimie won't come out.... aaah there he is [/edit]

(Edited by lan on 08-12-2007 00:26)

Tao
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Nov 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-12-2007 17:44 Edit Quote
quote:

lan said:

Haven't been more that 30km from my front door for ~6 months, even for work; and then only once...


Hang on a sec' I thought the colonial agreement was that those people shipped out there (and their families) for stealing a loaf of bread or some other horrific crime were not allowed to travel at all? It seems regulations have slipped somewhat

As I mentioned earlier I've not travelled much myself recently so I've come at this from another angle.
You know they say ficial&client=firefox-a">
the past is another country
well, here are some photos I took while I was there. One of them was used in a previous POW if I remember correctly.



lan
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Darwin, NT, Australia
Insane since: Dec 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-13-2007 00:36 Edit Quote

Rest easy Tao, sir, bwana... I had my electronic tracking anklet on

We've got all kind of mean stuff now that the overlords have that elecktrickery stuff!!

Tao
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Nov 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-13-2007 01:45 Edit Quote

Whoops sorry Ian, I don't know what came over me. I've booked myself in for some Colonial Irrigation treatment I've been watching too much Empire related "back in the day" Royalty propaganda.
They still treat us like serfs here in Blighty only the delivery method has changed.
I'll just sit here for a while and wait for the tablets to kick in.

Tao
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Nov 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-14-2007 21:36 Edit Quote

Okie dokie set imagination to stretch for this one
Liverpool celebrates it's status as "Capital of Culture" next year. We scousers tend to refer to it as the "Culture of Capital", lot's of money being spent on tall buildings and advertising and a hulking big TV screen plonked in the city centre too. So much for culture. I'd rather the money was spent on saving the existing wonderful but dilapidated architecture in the city and homelessness and training centres for the young and unemployed, but that's just me.

As a result of this (now here comes the rub) the city often look like a "foreign landscape" to me if I haven't visited it for a week or so. The view from the Mersey river looked quite a bit different than this a couple of years ago.
The linked image is just over 1MB in size. I stitched it together from four RAW images with a prog' called "Photostitch" which came in a bundle with my camera and finished it off in PS. Thanks for the inspiration Suho I had fun making it.



Let's see if I can make a post without having to go back and edit a stoopid miustake,

lan
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Darwin, NT, Australia
Insane since: Dec 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-15-2007 07:02 Edit Quote

Heeey Tao... good job x 2

No edits... and a great pano

Looks like ya got the same problem as we have with our growing city; the Development Consent Authority,
that's supposed to maintain a modicom of style about the place, is exactly what it says... if it's a development they'll consent to it

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

IP logged posted posted 08-15-2007 12:19 Edit Quote

Great cityscape, Tao. With that much rapid development, it would be interesting to do a series of cityscapes as time goes by.

Tao
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Nov 2003

IP logged posted posted 08-15-2007 16:57 Edit Quote

I can feel a cunning plan developing.
Now all I have to do is to persuade Hiro to do a few photo shoots for me...

briggl
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New England
Insane since: Sep 2000

IP logged posted posted 08-21-2007 03:59 Edit Quote

OK, time for a new topic.

lan, I know you didn't submit any photos for this topic, but Tao and Suho have submitted topics more recently than you have. So, can you provide the next topic for us, lan?

SleepingWolf
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Jul 2006

IP logged posted posted 08-26-2007 07:14 Edit Quote

http://www.sleepingwolves.com/portfolio/albums/userpics/10001/DSC_3750.jpg

poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Norway
Insane since: Jun 2002

IP logged posted posted 08-26-2007 13:31 Edit Quote

Earlier this month 8 friends and I climbed Kilimanjaro. The landscapes were amazing.


A trail on the Macahame route, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. ( alt: ~3600m )


Sunrise at the Stellar point, a few meters from the top of Kilimanjaro, where the snow and the clouds merge together. ( alt: ~5890m )

(Edited by poi on 08-26-2007 13:41)

Suho1004
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian

From: Seoul, Korea
Insane since: Apr 2002

IP logged posted posted 08-26-2007 15:20 Edit Quote

Wow. Kilimanjaro? That's something I have got to do.

Great shots.

briggl
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: New England
Insane since: Sep 2000

IP logged posted posted 08-27-2007 05:16 Edit Quote

Great shots, poi. I keep going back and forth about whether I want to climb Kilimanjaro or not.

Hey, SleepingWolf, it would be helpful if you let us know where that is...

SleepingWolf
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From:
Insane since: Jul 2006

IP logged posted posted 08-27-2007 23:11 Edit Quote
quote:

briggl said:
SleepingWolf, it would be helpful if you let us know where that is...



Sorry, shot is of the Lone Cypress, 17 mile drive, Monterey Peninsula, California.



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