How about some senic shots?

[Richard_L_Dean_07405]

[quote name='jmp883' post='312258' date='Jun 8 2009, 18:45 ']The next town up from me has several state parks. This is the manor house, somewhat obscured by the fall foliage, at Ringwood State Park. Ringwood Manor was one of George Washington's HQ's and is the center of the iron mining industry that thrived here from the Revolution through the 1950's.[/quote]



Joe, thanks for posting these showing what our area of New Jersey looks like, something that is more common for the Garden State than most outsiders think. Usually when anyone hears New Jersey they only think of the NJ Turnpike, Garden Staet Parkway, huge chemical plants and cities loaded with corruption wherease those places are really a fraction of our small state. One of my great-grandfathers was a foreman for the Hewitt family that owned Ringwood Manor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with one of my grandmothers born at what was the family home on the property that then was thousands of acres.

[Guest]

Hard to beat the scenic shots already posted here. Here's a few that I took early this week at Vilano Beach, St Augustine Florida. Figures the day I get up early the sunrise is not that spectacular.

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Another sunrise pics at Vilano

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Downtown Jacksonville, Fla

Photo of the landing shot from the southbank of the city, with the friendship fountain in the second shot

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Calm after the storm

Sunset on Black Creek after a horrendous summer storm

[Box41313]

A spider in my drive way, front and back of it.

[Richard_L_Dean_07405]

[quote name='s3onewire' post='326735' date='Aug 4 2009, 02:15 ']Hard to beat the scenic shots already posted here. Here's a few that I took early this week at Vilano Beach, St Augustine Florida. Figures the day I get up early the sunrise is not that spectacular.[/quote]



It's still appreciated. On the other hand why didn't you just do what a politician would have done and wrote: "here's a shot taken about a minute after liftoff of a space shuttle from Cape Canaveral about 3 am awhile ago."

[photog999]

This was our home away from home for 8 days this past June. The ship is Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas. We're in port at Hoonah, AK also known as Icy Point Strait.

[photog999]

Out of the 1000 pics I took it was hard to decide which ones to print. The scenery in Alaska was absolutely amazing with one breathtaking view after another. Here are a few of my favorites. This one is as we're leaving Vancouver, BC at the start of our trip. Photography conditions the whole trip were challenging to say the least.

[photog999]

This is as we were cruising the Inside Passage up to Alaska. The clouds add some drama to the picture.

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This one was taken at 1130 Alaska time at night at ISO 1600. It was definitely strange being that light at that hour of the night.

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At our port of call in Skagway, AK, we rode the White PAss & Yukon Railway. It was definitely one of the most dramatic and scenic train rides I've taken. Here we're heading into one of the tunnels in the trip. Again pictures do not do justice to the scenery there.

[photog999]

This is our approach to Haines Glacier at the head end of the Ellicott Arm fjord. The Captain got the cruise ship within 200 yards or so of the face of the glacier and then proceeded to spin the ship (all 900+ feet of it) 4 times so everyone on board had a good view of the glacier.

[photog999]

Here's a little waterfall dropping into the fjord from the snowfields up on the mountain. And the water is really that blue!!

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Here are some seals and sea lions hitching a ride on an ice chunk as we pass by.

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This is one of my favorite shots with the bald eagle perched on the buoy with the sea lions resting below. We saw this on our whale watching tour when we were in Juneau.

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Here is a side valley on Endicott Arm showing a retreating glacier. It's hard to see in this lo-res picture but just below where the river drops into the fjord is a dot, which in reality is about a 20' outboard boat. It gives some scale to the immensity of the scenery here.

[photog999]

Here's a 50-60 ton Humpback breaching as it feeds.

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Last one for tonite is the glacier "calving". You can see the large splash to the right side of the shot. When the ice broke off it sounded like a cannon going off, and that splash is probably 60' high.

[Guest]

Those are some amazing pictures you took. The scenery is breath taking.