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

  • 28-09-2013 1:29pm
    #1
    losthorizon
    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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  • #2
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    losthorizon wrote: »
    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.


  • #3
    donegal__road
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    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.


  • #4
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    How can you take a photo of a mystery?


  • #5
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,209 ✭✭✭maximoose


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

    Here's one


  • #6
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭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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  • #7
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Banjo String wrote: »
    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


  • #8
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    MadsL
    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.


  • #10
    losthorizon
    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.


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
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    Here's a picture of the middle of nowhere I took myself.


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  • #12
    The Backwards Man
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    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


  • #13
    markomuscle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭markomuscle


    maximoose wrote: »
    Here's one

    i regret drinking a mouthful of water whilst opening that


  • #14
    losthorizon
    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?


  • #15
    Muise...
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    losthorizon wrote: »
    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?


  • #16
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


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

    Well it is to you!

    No its Roman!


  • #17
    Lokie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Lokie


    Love this pic that hubby took - Mount Etna in Sicily


  • #18
    Andrewf20
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    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.


  • #19
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    losthorizon wrote: »
    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.


  • #20
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    losthorizon wrote: »
    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


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
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    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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  • #22
    osarusan
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    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.


  • #23
    Conway635
    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


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    I think this is fairly beautiful, not a landmark mind you.

    Killiney Bay about two weeks ago

    2013-09-10%2008.26.23.jpg


  • #25
    Andrewf20
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    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)


  • #26
    Noxin
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    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.


  • #27
    endabob1
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    Walking the dog with Table Mountain in the backround


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #29
    IK09
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    This is in Rossaveal


  • #30
    Khannie
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    losthorizon wrote: »
    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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  • #31
    Kidchameleon
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    OP I took this photo of "The Stack" on Irelands Eye a few months ago...


  • #32
    maximoose
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    Took these during the summer, some good shots (I think anyway, for a point and shoot pleb like me :)) of historic landmarks

    The blocks out in the sea in the Arromanches pic are the remains of the artificial harbor used for offloading cargo during the invasion.


  • #33
    Arian Prehistoric Strawberry
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wow. Cannot wait to get to Iceland.

    Trip planning #2


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Trip planning #2

    Be nice if my life didn't suddenly turn upside down this time around :P


  • #35
    Arian Prehistoric Strawberry
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Be nice if my life didn't suddenly turn upside down this time around :P

    I know :)


  • #36
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Pic of my mate walking away up a famous part of the Great Wall. It was the last pic I took on the trip!

    The end of the road? by devoresphotos, on Flickr


    Malta are EU champions at fireworks and have been world champions before! If you want to get an idea of scale, just look at the roman bridge at the bottom of the pic :)

    Crazy nutters.... by devoresphotos, on Flickr


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  • #37
    losthorizon
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    Red Kev wrote: »
    A kind of toll or "no entry" set up on an ancient Roman road.

    Kind of on the right track!


  • #38
    Andrewf20
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wow. Cannot wait to get to Iceland.

    Great place to visit but you are at the mercy of the weather. We went for 9 days in early August and the last few days were a rainfest. Best to rent a car from the airport. Skaftafell national park is a must do and the Skaftafellheidi trek up the side of the glacier.


  • #39
    newbee22
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    The petronas towers in Kuala Lumper....


  • #40
    crockholm
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    losthorizon wrote: »
    Kind of on the right track!

    Roman equivilient of traffic control.Saw similar in Pompeii:)


  • #41
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Great place to visit but you are at the mercy of the weather. We went for 9 days in early August and the last few days were a rainfest. Best to rent a car from the airport. Skaftafell national park is a must do and the Skaftafellheidi trek up the side of the glacier.


    I was there for two weeks a few years ago best holiday of my life. The weather was fantastic the whole time I was there. It was my second time visiting. Went back after going there following my club in a European game.


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  • #42
    losthorizon
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    crockholm wrote: »
    Roman equivilient of traffic control.Saw similar in Pompeii:)

    I'll give you that. Apparently they are Roman Speed Bumps. They even had them back then!


  • #43
    jester77
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    A $20,000 Orchid :eek:

    It wasn't in bloom while I was there so they only had a photo of it


  • #44
    losthorizon
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Trip planning #2




    We rented a car in Northern Iceland. They gave us a Nissan Micra funnily enough though most Icelandic roads excetp the Ring road are unpaved. However we did fine driving to Reykjavik over the course of two weeks.
    DSC00431.JPGDSC00448.JPG

    We had a brilliant holiday. Saw fantastic scenery, animals, did amazing things and stayed in Marlene Dietrichs Room for a night.

    However my favourite moment was staying in the Haukadalur Valley next to Erik the Reds farm.. He set sail for Greenland and was the father of Leiifur who was the first European to set foot in North America. We had rented a room for the night in a house and as the sun set at about midnight we were the only people in the whole valley - a magical experience.


    DSC00674.JPG


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