Photo Sharing Thread

[TromboneAl]

Neat birds. Here are some more rodeo photos (see them all here).

The clown asks for a fat, ugly volunteer from the audience...

The "volunteer" goes into the machine, which gets stuck in the on position, then a kid in the same outfit comes out...

 

[FIREd]

I just came back from a wonderful vacation, thought I would share some of my pictures:

 

[IndependentlyPoor]

This is Moreno Lake, near Llao Llao in patagonia during Nobember 2006. (It is hard to write down a phonetic pronunciation for this. Think chow chow but with an "sh" sound instead of a "ch" sound.) Llao Llao is near Bariloche, another one of our favorite places. We rented a perfectly good one bedroom apartment there for $500/month. Bariloche is a ski resort and November is off-season for them - their early spring. Bariloche has a good bus system and it only costs about a buck for the 30 minute ride from downtown Bariloche to Llao Llao. Private taxis (remis) are good, safe, and cheap also.

 

[IndependentlyPoor]

I just came back from a wonderful vacation, thought I would share some of my pictures:

Beautiful photos... but where? Someplace in the Haute Savoie maybe? Annecy? Como?

 

[rescueme]

Say hello to my "little friend"...

Yes, "down under" last month...

 

[Martha]

Gorgeous pictures, I hadn't checked this thread for a while. It took 50 seconds (I timed it) to download. How about the next person who wants to post pictures start a new thread?

 

[rescueme]

Easy to guess where ...

 

[FIREd]

Beautiful photos... but where? Someplace in the Haute Savoie maybe? Annecy? Como?

Yes it was Annecy.

 

[IndependentlyPoor]

Tee hee, I just came across these photos taken in the fall of 1984. I had just moved to Geneva (ah, the days of Mega-corp Ex-pat benefits) and was enchanted.

Annecy is a charming medieval town that was luck enough to have not suffered war damage and poor enough to avoid urban renewal. Lac d'Annecy "decants" into a series of canals that flow through the town. It must have been the healthiest place in Europe at the time.

I was delighted to see that Firedreamer's photos show that the lovely old place hasn't changed. We even took almost the same photos! Mine alas show 25 years of discoloration.

 

[TromboneAl]

The surf has been big lately, and here, where it gets deep fast, the waves have an interesting way of breaking on the shore.

 

[Urchina]

heres a few more from sky top lodge in pa.

What lens are you using for these shots?

 

[mathjak107]

What lens are you using for these shots?

nikon 18-200mm and nikon 17-55mm f2,8 ... some were taken by me using a nikon d300, some by marilyn using nikon d80

 

[TromboneAl]

This guy had his dog with him on this big forklift in San Francisco:

 

[donheff]

I forgot about this thread. I liked this image of a church in a reservoir on our recent biking trip to the Dolomites.

 

[TromboneAl]

I forgot about this thread. I liked this image of a church in a reservoir on our recent biking trip to the Dolomites.

They prayed for rain?

 

[TromboneAl]

San Francisco last Friday was a real culture shock. One thing I noticed was a lot of people, mostly thin, expensively dressed women, walking dogs.

The Dogs of San Francisco Slide Show

 

[rescueme]

San Francisco last Friday was a real culture shock. One thing I noticed was a lot of people, mostly thin, expensively dressed women, walking dogs.

I persume you've never been to Paris (where they keep their mini-pooches in their oversize handbags)? I've both worked and traveled in France quite extensively. What I can't understand is that French women dress so well - the opposite of French men, who do so (in most cases) poorly...

BTW, here's a shot from the tram going up Mt. Pilatus (Luzern, Switzerland) taken two weeks ago when DW was on another of her trips...