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[John Cummings]

Capital Reef NP Utah

 

[John Cummings]

Las Vegas - June 2009

These shots were all taken from our room at the Paris

Bellagio Water Show

 

[John Cummings]

Death Valley - May 2009

My wife getting ready to devour her lobster at Ridgecrest CA - west entrance to Death Valley

Salt

 

[John Cummings]

Zion NP UT - June 2009

 

[Rose Pink]

Good Job, John! I knew you could do it! Great photos. MHO, Utah has the most scenic beauty of anyplace in the US. Too bad about no ocean.

Jim Ricks

We have the Great Salt Lake.

 

[Passepartout]

We have the Great Salt Lake.

Somehow, it just isn't the same.... GSL would compare much more closely to the Dead Sea... Jim

 

[Rose Pink]

More Utah

 

[Rose Pink]

coming out from Steelbender trail above Ken's Lake

 

[John Cummings]

Somehow, it just isn't the same.... GSL would compare much more closely to the Dead Sea... Jim

I agree with you on this one. That is like saying the Imperial Valley has the Salton Sea. I have gone swimming in the GSL and it definitely is not like any ocean I would want to visit.

 

[Rose Pink]

I agree with you on this one. That is like saying the Imperial Valley has the Salton Sea. I have gone swimming in the GSL and it definitely is not like any ocean I would want to visit.

My reference to the GSL was tongue-in-cheek. Hence the wink smiley.
No one is suggesting the GSL is anything like the ocean.

 

[KristinB]

Abandoned house we passed when bike riding on Grand Isle, Vermont:

 

[HatTrick]

Very nice, Kristin. As usual.

 

[Pit]

Liftoff, Space Shuttle Endeavor

Notice the UFO in the lower left corner.

 

[Laurie]

from Yellowstone

What a magical place, just back with about 5000 pix, trying to figure out how to upload a few here ... here goes one:

 

[Mosca]

Steelers training camp... fast action isn't my thing, but that is why CF cards are 8G and larger. I had a pretty good vantage point; the front of my right shoulder was right behind the left shoulder of the guy with "Sports Illustrated" on his lens! Here are a few good ones:

 

[jerseyfinn]

Steeler Nation !

Mosca,

I love your Steeler photos -- some great stop action even if you didn't feel prepared. What sort of lens are you using?

I'm psyched for the season. I've been a Steelers fan ever since Franco Harris ( I'm from near where he grew up and lots of us followed his career back then ). Living in Eagles territory makes us appreciate the Steelers even more as it ain't easy getting to the big dance let alone winning the thing several times -- skill, luck & other intangibles must converge & some great teams have not won it all despite all of that. Steeler Nation is a very special thing indeed.

Barry

 

[TUGBrian]

would be better if they were jaguar pictures =D

 

[Mosca]

Mosca,

I love your Steeler photos -- some great stop action even if you didn't feel prepared. What sort of lens are you using?

I'm psyched for the season. I've been a Steelers fan ever since Franco Harris ( I'm from near where he grew up and lots of us followed his career back then ). Living in Eagles territory makes us appreciate the Steelers even more as it ain't easy getting to the big dance let alone winning the thing several times -- skill, luck & other intangibles must converge & some great teams have not won it all despite all of that. Steeler Nation is a very special thing indeed.

Barry

I live in Eagles country myself, Mountain Top PA on the edge of the Poconos. I respect the Eagles, but can't bring myself to care about them.

That is a Canon 40D with the EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 L IS lens; I was using a monopod. I was really, really close to the action. When you join the Steelers Fan Club, you get two field passes to training camp. I was so close that the 100-400 was almost too long, I had a film camera with the 70-200 on it but I didn't want to carry it all over camp with the threat of rain so I left it in the car. I got about 20 really great shots out of a couple hundred taken; most of them are too soft or just uninteresting.

 

[SueDonJ]

How can you not love a merry-go-round with roosters? (Baltimore's Inner Harbor)

 

[RachelSP]

One of my favorites

 

[RachelSP]

another favorite....

 

[RachelSP]

One more.........

 

[jerseyfinn]

Marriott Playa Andaluza Photos

We visit Costa del Sol a few weeks ago. Here's some images taken at the Marriott Playa Andaluza resort.

Gibraltar Sunrise

Gibraltar Sunset

Moon rise on the beach


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Additional images are located in this gallery.

 

[jerseyfinn]

John,

I enjoyed your Death Valley/Zion photos. That landscape is truely inspiring.

Did they boil your wife's lobster or did they simple need to stick it out in the sun for a few minutes ?


Barry

 

[Mosca]

Going through some older vacation photos, I found this one taken in Puako Harbor, in 2000.