The flowers. Now come on, you knew it was going to come to this, didn't you?
While walking along a trail, I spotted this orange flower. It wasn't until I started snapping, that I realized it was an orange duo. This bee was very energetic on this purple flower, and this one just caught my eye. These, 1 and 2, caught my eye at a campground; but hey, I walked to them!
The color. One of the reason MsQ and I went this far north, was to get some color shots. Well, we were about two week early, but we were able to get some. There were red berries on the ground and in the trees (never did get the name of the tree.) Some of the sorter trees were starting to turn colors, also. Along the path, we came across this wood snake.
The falls.
The north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota is formed from volcanic rock; the last few feet (relative speaking) can create some amazing scenes, mainly in the form of waterfalls. At one point I saw a sign stating we were only 750 feet above the lake, yet we were less then a mile from the lake. This mean you can go from a calm stream to a raging torrent in the matter of a few feet.
This set of falls was amazing, in that the falls on the left never filled up the hole it was falling in. Several falls were sorta isolated creating an almost magical effect. Double, and more, fall were common. Do you think they were using logs to keep the wall from closing in?
This last one was from the eastern most falls on the trip, the land on the right is Canada, and on the left is in the USA.
Sorry that I can’t properly identify all these falls, but after awhile, even if they are different, they all start to look the same.
The trails. To reach the waterfalls, you have one option - walk. On one hike I counted these stairs going down, twelve steps per flight, fifteen flights; do the math - toofriggin'many! MsQ took this shot of me coming up, I wend up and down these twice, oh my aching knees. Here is a sample of one of the trails we were on. I'll finish with this picture of one of the streams. The root-beer coloring comes from a combination of humic acid and iron ore.
The lake.
MsQ and I took a mini vacation to the north shore of Minnesota – the shore of Lake Superior. While there, we had beautiful weather. The lake was cooperating in showing off its charms. We experienced the lake from calm, to a little rough.
We didn’t get to see any really, really rough water (the waves can reach a max of thirty feet – no thank you for us!)This spit of land turned out to be my favorite photographic object. The wave coming up against it created quite a show, and it worked out well for a quick spot to shoot this sundown.
From shore you could watch the ships go up and down from port.
Just watching the skyline you could almost see forever (double panorama.) This was the nearby harbor town. Waves splashing on what they call a beach.
I went to Philadelphia with my family for Memorial Day Weekend to watch my cousin play baseball. We did a little siteseeing while we were there. Nothing special...Out of twenty or so pictures, this was the best I had. Like I said, nothing special...
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Spent the weekend in Yosemite. What a challenging place to photograph! The most amazing aspect of the park, besides the incredible beauty, is the scale, which seems virtually impossible to convey via a photograph. It is also a challenge to take pictures that are not ordinary like 
this one. I did make a few attempts at the surreal. But the beauty was both big and small. In the end, you could go out of your tree trying to capture it all. I think I need to get a polarizing filter.
In South Western Scotland last spring my wife and I stayed near an ancient burial ground called a Cairn. We also visited some other ancient stone circles, which were not used for burial purposes. In fact, no one knows exactly what they were used for. They make for some cool pictures though. Here is one more of the cairn that my wife took. The fog was just incredible.
Last October, (early October, naturally the leaves hadn't changed yet) the wife and I took a trip back to Gatlinburg, GSMNP, BlueRidge Parkway area. One morning before hitting the stores in Gatlinburg we drove on the Roaring Fork Motor Trail eventually parking and hiking back to Grotto Falls.Roaring Fork Motor Trail 1
p.s. No turkeys were harmed in the making of this post.
-Don Lowe
Jerome, our taxi driver for the day. He drove us around Ocho Rios and we stopped at a roadside vendor. He grew his own bananas and some beautiful flower. Further down the road this guy on stilts walked right out in front of uscrazy mon.I didn't know it was so hilly down there, here's a beautiful home on a hill, and a view from another hill.Another flower. One of the many beaches is called Mahogany Beach. We went to Island Village and found Bob Marley,and Margaritaville.After returning to the ship we bid farewell to Jamaica.It was rather cloudy the entire trip but I got one decent sunset. And later that night we found anothertowel animal. The next day we relaxed around the pool deck it was too windy everywhere else.This was our last little friend left by our room steward. There was an automatic door right behind me here and people just had to come in and out alot, so it's kinda out of focus night view.The next morning we left Miami and I felt like I could walk right out on heaven's floor. We landed in Atlanta and our vacation was over. Aerial shots by Elgin. And one last pic not taken by us, my favorite of all the formal portraits they took. formal. BusyB, tomorrow I'll have some fall colors from around here for you and all to see.
My first trip was with my husband and two girls. I wanted to take my family to Mt. Rushmore where my parents had taken me as a little girl. Oh, what a bonding experience it was with two teenagers driving through Indiana, Illinois and Iowa all in one day. A stop in the Badlands, South Dakota was a welcome escape for the girls, but try and tell my oldest to wear her shoes out of the car because of rattlesnakes and critters scurrying about just didn't go well with her.
Myrtle Beach was our next adventure minus my eldest who vowed never to vacation with us. We joined my brother and his family and found out how caring my youngest was to her nieces. The sand, sun and water were enjoyed by all.
Family Daughter
The Fight Caring
Fun in the Sun
For eight months, all I've heard is about the Colorado Elk/Mule Deer hunt. I actually think he was more excited about this trip, than getting married. More amazing was the pics he captured. I made him buy a $120 digital and sent him on his way. His pics made me ill...the beginner has out-shined the master. Other than leveling the horizon (which I fixed for him), he took some miraculous pictures. No pics were ps'd unless noted in the gallery.
Colorado by Mike
Dedicated to Beholden, who encouraged me to stop being the A-Hole on this site and concentrate on the Photography
Well, this shoot almost didn't happen. It was the last day of the trip and I was kinda sick and thought maybe I should just go home and as we got up to the lake we were informed that the road was closed due to snow and Ice but we could go to the Lodge. So we went and had lunch and by that time the road was clear. But the snow definitely add to the scenery.
Sorry for so many photos, I like to post 5 or less. But I shot almost 400 this day so it was hard to whittle down.
My best friend Louis and I take a trip every year somewhere in the world. A few years ago it was Ocktober fest in Munich, Germany. It was an amazing time, we saw the Glockenspeil, some great architecture and definitely some interesting historical sights like the Hofbrauhaus. But we were there for Ocktoberfest. The first sign were getting close was this crazy Horse ... around the corner from that was the Lowenbrau House located at the heart of the festival. You'd never believe it but this is 9 o'clock AM and over 15K people are drinking!!!! So, in all honesty se decided to go on a binge. Well, that certainly deserves a CHEERS! don't you think.train going to Prague home of the famous Charles Bridge and great architecture street 1, street 2, square. There were some absolutely beautiful colors , windows, statues, flowers, trees and cars? Barb who took us through acorridor and up this incredibly long stairwell to see an awesome Church. After that hike we went for a drink overlooking the squarefrom before. We jumped a train to Amsterdam and as soon as we got there it was straight to a coffee shop where all memories where lost.Thank god I have a camera.
The Dancefloor
(hope it wasn't too long)
It all started when Lee, Jim and I decided that a trip to Ibiza (via Barcelona) was in order. We should have know trouble was ahead of us right then and there! We went anyway.
Out apartment in Barcelona was located off a really cool little road, but unfortunately was clogged up by a film crew making a movie of some sort. That didn't slow us down a bit. We headed straight for the Beach which was topless to our suprise! (family site, no smutty pics here!) After a day of that, we did a little sight seeing and hit up this museum, which was completely boring! So we jumped a train to Valencia!
It was around Jult 1st, which happened to be the month of flowers there. Our hotel looked out over this little square. We were only there for a day before jumping on this boat to Ibiza - sweet! Upon arrival, we saw a bay full of Yachts which seemed to be a good omen (for some strange reason!)
After checking into our new digs, we headed straight for club Eden for Judgement Sunday - it was an initiation tot he club scene in Ibiza. Soon after cam Manumission at Privelage, After hours at Space and afternoons at the Cafe del Mar wehre we met some great >.People. One friend with blue eyes was esepecially trouble!!! One highlight was seeing DJ Tiesto's album release at Amnesia. This is about what I remember of the evening/morning! Acutally that's the memory of most nights in Ibiza!
The next few days we hung out and took day trips ... here's me on one of those excursions The other times we just hung out in the West End or cruised up the main drag. After 2 weeks in Spain, seven spent in Ibiza, it was time to come home and let the sun set on our most eye opening adventure to date.
Thanks for reading, take care ... the Dancefloor
(fyi - all the pics are small because I had to scan them and the file sizes messed up - sorry)
I went on vacation about two weeks ago, and forgot to share my pictures. Here are some of them (I went to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.)
I woke up at 5:00 one morning, hurried and got dressed, and rode my bike over to the beach for sunrise over the ocean. Only problem was, Sunrise wasn't until 7:00. I was the only person there until about 6:30. If you go to Harbour Town while you are there, you can climb up this Lighthouse. Built sometime in the 1970's, it was built as a tourist attraction, not to guide boats. Also, if you are a fan of golf, you have probably seen this lighthouse before, it has been featured in just about every major golfing magizine in the world because it sits right behind a prestegious golf course. When you get to the top, you see This sign. Also, here is the moon over the water. Thats what I got...sorry the story is so long, and sorry it was so late.
I'll try to put my trip in a nut shell so I won't bore all at hand.At the airport it seemed I wasn't the only one that was at rest.shoe shine. There were some of us that still looked as though they were loving it. adventure in the air. As an older person some of that excitement has surrendered to " where's my suitcase".. bagage.and you mean I have to take a bus because it's just to Late!! Late Bus.On the bus I had time to ponder important things like..why don't they give you nuts on air flights anymore? So in Denver I found an expert on that subject, but he had no idea about my nuts.. Got Nuts. Up into the mountains we go..where finally I see a mirror so I can see if my lungs are still going in and out...11,000 feet does that to me. But I couldn't see myself do to these stupid trees taking up all the reflection space.. natures mirror. It's funny that people would travel thousands of miles and go 2 miles up in the mountains just to climb some plastic.. plastic mountain. After being at that height for awhile things started to get me dizzey, just look'in at them.. spin flowers. I'm glad I wasn't the only one...some even lost their rosie cheeks..pale face. To wind up the fun..remember to tell your children, that the nice people at the airport would prefer that you not bring their plastic scissors on the plane... no no.And it seems that they don't like to have their picture taken in that area ...for some reason. not here..sorry it is blurry but I started to move out ..so I could skip the cavity search..if you know what I mean....OPPS.. I'd like to see the nut from this size shell.
This spring, I got married in Cancun, Mexico. It was a small ceremony, and a friend took pics of the wedding for us. Each room had a view of the ocean, and the resort was decorated very nicely, as well. We went parasailing and I took pictures of the hotel from the sky. It was great fun, and the sunsets were worth going for, on their own.
My future husband and I went to Canada in 2003 to spend the 4th of July. The weather was MUCH more pleasant than Arkansas in summer and the views were beautiful. We spent the week fishing and getting to know the locals (squirrels, chipmunks and groundhogs in particular).Local Here Fishy Fishy
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