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Have you ever taken a cool photo of an impressive landmark or mystery

  • 28-09-2013 02:29PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    If so would love to see it. Fire away as I am a big fan of History and Geography.

    The known and unknown and if there is a story to go with it so much the better.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    If so would love to see it. Fire away as I am a big fan of History and Geography.

    The known and unknown and if there is a story to go with it so much the better.


    I took a breathtaking picture of Uranus before OP.

    I wouldnt post it on here though. Sensitive subject.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 953 ✭✭✭donegal__road


    and here is me thinking that this was going to be a good thread...

    I have a few shots OP, will dig them out later.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    How can you take a photo of a mystery?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭maximoose


    Lapin wrote: »
    How can you take a photo of a mystery?

    Here's one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    An old "junk" sailing into Hong Kong Harbour... took it last year. That the sort of thing you are talking about?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/devoresphotos/6947986045/in/set-72157608308886652


    I have another artsy one of Kilarney Castle...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/devoresphotos/2967372791/in/set-72157608308886652


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I took a breathtaking picture of Uranus before OP.

    I wouldnt post it on here though. Sensitive subject.

    I took a picture of mianus

    here it is
    QBE32GL.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    ps: the Photography forum has a weekly competition for "Photo Of The Week" (like this one: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057045785) and the standard is *insanely* high.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    I'll play.

    Here's the middle of nowhere.

    Amboy, CA on old Route 66 in the middle of the Mojave Desert, one of my favourite places on earth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    DeVore wrote: »
    An old "junk" sailing into Hong Kong Harbour... took it last year. That the sort of thing you are talking about?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/devoresphotos/6947986045/in/set-72157608308886652


    Gorgeous Hong Kong photo!

    I actually have a sort of mystery photo must post up when I get home from my parents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Here's a picture of the middle of nowhere I took myself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Here's a picture of the middle of nowhere I took myself.

    And here's a picture of a man's leg I took when I dropped my phone


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    maximoose wrote: »

    i regret drinking a mouthful of water whilst opening that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    DSC04106.JPG

    OK I will do it to try and get it going. Here is a photo I took in Spain - anyone try to guess what it is?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    DSC04106.JPG

    OK I will do it to try and get it going. Here is a photo I took in Spain - anyone try to guess what it is?

    is it a mystery?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Muise... wrote: »
    is it a mystery?

    Well it is to you!

    No its Roman!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 Lokie


    Love this pic that hubby took - Mount Etna in Sicily


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    Heres 2, one from Torres del Paine in Patagonia, the other of Machhapuchhare in Nepal, one of the mountains that have never been summited as its considered a sacred mountain.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    DSC04106.JPG

    OK I will do it to try and get it going. Here is a photo I took in Spain - anyone try to guess what it is?

    A kind of toll or "no entry" set up on an ancient Roman road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    If so would love to see it. Fire away as I am a big fan of History and Geography.

    The known and unknown and if there is a story to go with it so much the better.

    Thanks so much for starting this thread! I've pulled out some auld photos from my travels , but regards the image I chose to upload here: Feel Free to share some of your knowledge if you like on Michelangelo, that may not be freely available online :)

    http://photos5.pix.ie/C2/BF/C2BF08BB310F47869981B498E101652B-0000359217-0003383410-00800L-8CD2F9F32A514BCAB47C666DE4C26549.jpg


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Excuse my grumpy squinty sun in my eyes face - I didn't take it obviously. I'm sorry I didn't take more of just the colosseum itself. Amazing place.

    2013-10-01%2000.33.51.jpg

    I must have better photos than that must dig them out.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,917 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Slightly off topic, but i was on holiday about 7 years ago with my wife in Miyajima, near Hiroshima.

    There are some walkways over the water, and I stopped at one point to get a photo of the floating Torii with the walkway kind of framing it from both sides.

    I took a minute or two to get just the right angle and position, and my wife started complaining to me, telling me to stop being so pretentious and just take the photo from any old place. I took it a few seconds later, and as I was putting the camera back in the case, a tour guide led his charges right to the spot where I'd been standing, and told them all that that spot was the best place from which to get a picture of the Torii.

    My wife has been reminded of this at every opportunity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Conway635


    A bit like the middle of nowhere stuff, after I noticed a lot of search referrals to my blog for "pictures of empty sea" I put together a whole selection of (my own) shots of the sea in all its moods, the qualification being that the shot should have sea and sky and nothing else in view.

    http://steveconway.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/pictures-of-empty-sea/

    Ah, the days when I had nothing but water to see in every direction . . blissful.

    C635


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think this is fairly beautiful, not a landmark mind you.

    Killiney Bay about two weeks ago

    2013-09-10%2008.26.23.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    2 more from the depths of my hard drive, one of Cotopaxi in Ecuador and one of Mount Kirkjufell in Iceland. The wind was insane up there that day. (rainbow pic)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Noxin


    I once took a photo of the leaning tower of pisa and get this, I WAS HOLDING IT UP.

    It was such a cool and original idea...

    Shame I lost the photo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭endabob1


    Walking the dog with Table Mountain in the backround


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    2 more from the depths of my hard drive, one of Cotopaxi in Ecuador and one of Mount Kirkjufell in Iceland. The wind was insane up there that day. (rainbow pic)

    Wow. Cannot wait to get to Iceland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭IK09


    This is in Rossaveal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    OK I will do it to try and get it going. Here is a photo I took in Spain - anyone try to guess what it is?

    Roman road?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    OP I took this photo of "The Stack" on Irelands Eye a few months ago...


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