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[geoand]

First attempt with my new camera ...........I know it's grainy, but it's taken from inside...........

You have officially been infected with the disease so many of us enjoy! You know that addiction is a disease.

 

[susieq]

You have officially been infected with the disease so many of us enjoy! You know that addiction is a disease.

I love taking pictures ~~ I'm sure I'll get better with this camera the more I use it. Sharing them with other people who enjoy the same obsession is really special ~~ this thread is great. I look forward to new posts everyday. Theresa has really created a monster by teaching us how to post them!!:hysterical: Thanks for your encouraging words!

Sue

 

[Brett]

here is my contribution for the 4th !

 

[geoand]

Badlands South Dakota

 

[KristinB]

We went out yesterday on a friends' boat to where a pair of osprey were nesting with their young... But now I have to go back when the light is better -- a thunderstorm arrived shortly after we arrived at the nest!

 

[Timeshare Von]

Kristin - very nice photos of the osprey!

 

[taffy19]

First attempt with my new camera ...........I know it's grainy, but it's taken from inside...........

Susieq,

I like your photo very much and it even looks artistic with the veil (screen) in front to make it look softer.

You have officially been infected with the disease so many of us enjoy! You know that addiction is a disease.

You are so right but it keeps us out of trouble.

 

[RDB]

Is this of Mount Whitney

We were heading southward on US-395. After a great steak at Toms Place, and before getting to Lone Pine, we took this photo. I assumed it to be Mount Whitney of the Sierra Nevada Range, California. Can anyone confirm?

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Robert

 

[RDB]

Is this of Panamint Valley

Near Lone Pine, we headed toward Nevada on SR-190. We stopped at what we thought was an overlook of Death Valley. I believe this to be a photo of Panamint Valley. Can anyone confirm?

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Robert

 

[Rent_Share]

If it is the Panamint Valley then it is where Star Wars was filmed

 

[RichM]

Mount Whitney is not a "standalone" mountain like that one. It's a peak along a range that's set back a bit - almost due west from Lone Pine.

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[susieq]

Another try with my new camera ................

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

We were heading southward on US-395. After a great steak at Toms Place, and before getting to Lone Pine, we took this photo. I assumed it to be Mount Whitney of the Sierra Nevada Range, California. Can anyone confirm?

Robert - that doesn't even appear to be the tallest peak in the photograph. I can see five or six behind that look to me to be clearly taller.

Also note that the snowfield on that east face is pretty small. In the background are a number of glaciers; that's a clear sign those elevations are higher. In addition, Mt. Whitney is on the peak of a watershed divide separating the Pacific ocean side of the Sierra Nevada from the Basin-and-Range provinces.

 

[RDB]

Photo taken through the front windshield of our Suburban at about 70 MPH.

After seeing this post, I was interested in the location of The Grapevine. I googled and found this.
I thought others may like to know.

From http://www.newtobakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/24150

The portion of I-5 known as the Grapevine, is not just named so because it is located near the community of Grapevine, but because it also resembles just that: millions of pounds of asphalt, concrete, median barriers, lighting, guardrails, signage, call boxes and drainage systems -- twisting, turning and following the contours of the picturesque mountains it inhabits. According to Harrison Irving Scott, author, historian and President of the Ridge Route Preservation Organization, “The name actually came from the fact that early wagoneers had to hack their way through the thick patches of Cimarron grapevines that inhabited 'La Canada de Las Uvas' or 'Canyon of the Grapes.'” Traveling the grade today, he explains, “Look for patches of what appear to be ivy on both sides of the canyon near the truck runaway escape ramps. What you see are descendant vines that date back to the 1800’s.”
Most travelers think the portion of I-5 called the Grapevine begins at the north end of Castaic in the Santa Clarita Valley where the freeway begins a northerly climb at Parker Road -- and where the California Highway Patrol closes the freeway when snow or icy conditions northward prohibit safe travel. But this is not where the actual Grapevine is located. What they would be traveling on, instead, is what is most commonly known as the beginning of the five-mile grade where I-5 sharply rises to the north at a grade of 5% -- and the beginning of a 40 mile journey over the Tehachapi Mountains from northern Los Angeles County to the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County.
After the five mile grade, comes Templin Highway at about the 3,000-feet level. Proceeding north one encounters 22.5 more miles north on a rolling, meandering drive by Frazier Mountain through the Gorman area and the highest point of the drive at an altitude of 4,183 feet, and the summit of this famous drive.
Continuing northerly from the summit is a slight drop in altitude and in six more miles one reaches Fort Tejon, a state historic monument. Fort Tejon was established in 1854 to suppress stock rustling, which was rampant at that time, and to protect the Native Americans in the San Joaquin Valley. It is here where the actual portion of freeway known as the Grapevine actually begins.
Driving north from Fort Tejon where the Grapevine starts -- and for the next fives miles -- the driver experiences a dramatic 6% downhill grade terminating at the community of Grapevine at the entrance to the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County. This is the steepest grade and the most twisting, winding, rambling portion of the 40-mile drive over a seriously rugged mountain terrain. These 40 miles of concrete were carved out of both sides of the mountainous canyon by Caltans construction crews and their contractors at the beginning of the freeway-building era. One of Caltrans’ pinnacles of achievement is this eight-lane freeway, which was responsible for the complete transformation of the canyon.
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Robert

 

[RDB]

Robert - that doesn't even appear to be the tallest peak in the photograph. I can see five or six behind that look to me to be clearly taller.

Also note that the snowfield on that east face is pretty small. In the background are a number of glaciers; that's a clear sign those elevations are higher. In addition, Mt. Whitney is on the peak of a watershed divide separating the Pacific ocean side of the Sierra Nevada from the Basin-and-Range provinces.

Mount Whitney is not a "standalone" mountain like that one. It's a peak along a range that's set back a bit - almost due west from Lone Pine.

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Thanks.

I probably was seeing Mt Whitney as we drove along, but didn't know what was what. So at least I now have photos of some of that range and will have to be happy with that.

Robert

 

[geoand]

Can't remember if I have posted this before. Just in case, I have, the following pic is also an Alaska trip photo. I rafted down this thing - 6 mile creek - on 2 different trips. Have decided that doing class 5 and 6 rapids once was thrilling. Doing it the second trip was crazy.

 

[dmharris]

Geo,

White water rafting can really get the adrenaline going and you face your fear of death head on!

The wheat photo is true art. Is the photo altered or as God intended?

 

[geoand]

Thanks for the compliment. Grass picture is natural colors.

 

[geoand]

Series of pics of our first 6 Mile Creek rafting adventure

That's me in upper rt corner of raft, my buddy sharing the front, the pro rafter in the middle, my DW in left lower back and my buddy's DW in upper left back. This is a calmer stretch.

As you can see I am sounding the ALARM for everyone!

Not the most pleasant faces I have made

Face no longer visible. That's because I am about to be totally swamped by a monstrous volume of water - FREEZING HUGE AMOUNT OF WATER.

 

[ricoba]

We were heading southward on US-395. After a great steak at Toms Place, and before getting to Lone Pine, we took this photo. I assumed it to be Mount Whitney of the Sierra Nevada Range, California. Can anyone confirm?

while it may be Mt Whitney from another angle, my guess/assumption is that is not Mt Whitney.

Mount Whitney is clearly visible from Lone Pine and seems more "jagged/cragged" the few times I have seen it.

Here is a picture of Mount Whitney.

 

[icydog]

Great job on this picture!!!!!!!!!

Moonrise over Solmar Beach - Cabo San Lucas

You took this? It looks like a piece of art!!! I'm impressed!!!!

 

[icydog]

I have a new camera and I'm still learning how to use it.
Jack and his toy tire.

I love Jack. Are goldens fabulous dogs?

 

[icydog]

Here is Epcot Center at Sunset! This was taken end of May 2006.

Christine

Could be a postcard!!!

 

[icydog]

Mother and Daughter

Of all the pictures I've ever taken, this one is my favorite.

They are equally as beautiful. You are a lucky man!

 

[icydog]

My Beloved Icy(Dog) I lost her two Thanksgivings ago. I will never know such unconditional love again.

Granddaughter Sarah in Beach Club Pool WDW

Taken at Disneyland Paris- the temperature was -2 degrees