Pictures Taken By you...

@Sleepy Witch: You know, it's funny how Germany does look familiar. But it's different all the same from how the houses in Austria look.

Two pictures of Vienna - my favourite city. ;)

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...ser/IMG_46.jpg
That's the "Pestsäule" - a memorial of the plague; it was built after it's end in the 17th century under emperor Leopold I.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/IMG_4656.jpg
Schloß Schönbrunn - the parts in dark yellow are part of the castle. I'm not sure why they're painted differently. Probably lack of money.

Nice pics, Themis and Sleepy.

You have no idea how envious I am of the people walking the streets in shirt sleeves, Sleepy. It is very cold here and it snowed yesterday. Today it is raining and warmer, but still.

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hey guys, my bf and me went for a walk around Nuremberg yesterday and took some pics.

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Good idea... Both going there and bringing the camera along. Scenery and weather looks great :thumbs_up

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Two pictures of Vienna - my favourite city. ;)

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My previous comments seem to be in just right here as well. It looks splendid.

A change of scenery? More Kenya shots:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...alls-Kenya.jpg
Nyahururu Falls, previously known as Thompson Falls.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...edge-Kenya.jpg
Rift valley: Suddenly the landscape changes from bone dry to lush and green.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...edge-Kenya.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ower-Kenya.jpg
A tiny flower. Can anyone tell me its name?

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ruNational.jpg
A Grant's Gazelle.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...onalPark-K.jpg
A buffalo. Someone asked me if I felt intimidated by the lions close by....
Let me tell you: These guys are intimidating... See that stare?

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ruNational.jpg
Marabou Storks at lake Nakuru. Really big and really ugly.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ionalPark-.jpg
In the landing pattern with flaps and gear down. Turning left to final...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ionalPark-.jpg
...and touchdown!

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ionalPark-.jpg
Taxiing to dispersal to have a really loud conversation with your fellow pelicans...

Fabulous Claes, fabulous. I love it when you post pictures.

Themis, I would love to go to Vienna.

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Themis, I would love to go to Vienna.

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Please do. I'd love to show you around.


@Claes: Great pictures! I especially love the waterfall picture. Do you know if the name means anything? Or is it 'just' a name?

More wonderful photos, Claes. I agree with Themis, I especially like the waterfall one.

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Do you know if the name means anything? Or is it 'just' a name?

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I'm afraid I don't know what it means, but I can provide a bit of trivia about it:

Nyahururu lies near Nakuru, and it is part of the Laikipia District in Rift Valley Province. It was founded by British colonists as Thompson Falls after the 70 metre high Thomson's Falls. It grew around a railway from Gilgil opened in 1929 (now used only for goods). Being the highest town in Kenya at some 2300m asl, it is a perfect training ground for Kenya's top athletes.

/Claes

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Nyahururu lies near Nakuru, and it is part of the Laikipia District in Rift Valley Province. It was founded by British colonists as Thompson Falls after the 70 metre high Thomson's Falls. It grew around a railway from Gilgil opened in 1929 (now used only for goods). Being the highest town in Kenya at some 2300m asl, it is a perfect training ground for Kenya's top athletes.

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Thank you for the information! :)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/4...57b3839a_o.jpg

The books that I acquired this school year, 49 of them in all. I'm considering the feasability of getting rid of all of my furniture to make room for bookshelves.

Now that's rather lovely.

you think thats much...i should take a picture of my bookshelf and the surrounding floor...books everywhere.:lol:

I went back sooo many pages! these are all absolutely lovely! Madhuri's pics and ClaesGefvenberg's pics and Virgil's pics and Niamh's pics! Wow!

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you think thats much...i should take a picture of my bookshelf and the surrounding floor...books everywhere

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YEAH! That's what I want, but.....I'm still working on it.

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The books that I acquired this school year, 49 of them in all. I'm considering the feasability of getting rid of all of my furniture to make room for bookshelves.

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I recognize the Nortons! I've managed to maintain quite a pile of books from the school year as well....they're all hiding under my bed.

There are some great pictures up here.

It's time again... Pictures from Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...NationalPa.jpg
A warthog boar. As I said before: A quite formidable pig...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...akuruNatio.jpg
Common Waterbucks.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...akuruNatio.jpg
Thompson Gazelles. Always alert, and they need to be: They are on the menu of nigh on every predator around.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...akuruNatio.jpg
A twoheaded Giraffe? Not quite...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ruNational.jpg
Masai Giraffes.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ruNational.jpg
Masai Giraffes... and a looming rainstorm.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eNakuruNat.jpg
Yours truly at Baboon Cliff, overlooking Lake Nakuru.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...keNakuruNa.jpg
lake Nakuru from Baboon Cliff.
The pink stuff in the water? Flamingos.
The white patch on land? Pelicans.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eNakuruNat.jpg
Hyrax. And would you believe it: Those cuddly blighters are the closest living relative of the... Elephant?
Not so cuddly, by the way: They bite! Some stupid tourist tried to pat one and got away with a bloody hand.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eNakuruNat.jpg
More Hyrax'

And that ends the lake Nakuru part. Next batch will be from Masai Mara...

/Claes

Wow, Claes, wow!!!!

absolutely marvelous.

Those are wonderful Claes. :)

I like the one of the lake showing the pink mass of flamingos. Those little Hyrax are cute, but patting a wild animal is never a good idea, so I think that tourist should indeed have known better.

Trying this out. My pets.

Firebelly

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...IMG_0003-1.jpg

Taz

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0002.jpg

Izzy

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0050.jpg

Bugsy McHare

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0154.jpg

Monk

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01481.jpg

Tailspin Tommy

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01491.jpg

Ash

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01501.jpg

Wife and I do wildflowers.

Colt’s Foot

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0054.jpg

Bluettes (flowers about 1.8 to 2.5 cm)

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0061.jpg

Wood Rue

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_00531.jpg

Phlox

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_00981.jpg

Trout Lily

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01091.jpg

Blue/White Violet

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01021.jpg

Scarlet Wake Robin

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01041.jpg

All local names. You may call them something different.

Amazing,Pen. I especially liked the flowers,wow.

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Those little Hyrax are cute, but patting a wild animal is never a good idea, so I think that tourist should indeed have known better.

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Yes she should, and my guess is that she does know better now. The thing is that you really don't want to get bitten by anything out there. Doctors, pills and shots are a long way off.

I think one problem is that people have seen how animals behave in a zoo, and then expect free animals to behave the same way. Well, they don't. We should not fear wild animals (or tame ones for that matter), but they should all be treated with respect.

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Trying this out. My pets.

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Nice pictures of nice animals, Pen :thumbs_up You seem to have a regular zoo there. :D

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Wife and I do wildflowers.

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So you do... Terrific shots too. You obviously know it, and so do I, but for those who don't: It seems so easy to snap a great picture of a nice flower, right? Wrong: You must have put a good deal of effort into those shots. Well done. :thumbs_up

/Claes

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Nice pictures of nice animals, Pen :thumbs_up You seem to have a regular zoo there. :D So you do... Terrific shots too. You obviously know it, and so do I, but for those who don't: It seems so easy to snap a great picture of a nice flower, right? Wrong: You must have put a good deal of effort into those shots. Well done. :thumbs_up

/Claes

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Thank you, Claes. Coming from a photographer of your caliber, I consider that high praise indeed! My old Pentax still works well, with all my lenses and attachments and so forth, but I took these with my new Canon digital. The slightest breath of wind messes up a good flower picture, but at lest I'm not wasting film now! :thumbs_up

Wow, Pen, those flower pictures are really professional looking. I think you're giving Claes a run for his money as resident super photographer. ;)

and Claes, I've been enjoying all your wonderful shots from Africa. It's like having our own personal National Geographic photographer here on Lit. Net. to show us beautiful pictures of the world's wonders. Keep 'em coming. :)

Now that I have been tormenting you with old pictures from Kenya for a while, I thought I'd try something current: Pictures taken earlier today, in my home town Eskilstuna...

First an interior shot from our main library, and then some spring pictures from central Eskilstuna:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC00854.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC00875.jpg

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Amazing. That's about all I could say. Wow. I might take good close-ups, Petra, but Claes wins hands down on scenery and landscapes. I could never come close. http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...s/Appaluse.gif

Great pets Pen and nice photos, both you and Claes. It's about time I posted some more. Hold on.

These are photos from a raptors show and display I was at during a fair last summer. Raptors are birds of prey and these were trained, and some were rescued. The golden eagle has defective wing. There were about a dozen different types of raptors from falcons, hawks, owls, and eagles. These are the pictures that came out best. The American Bald Eagle was stationed in front of the American flag for a great picture. I love the close up best, the last photo here.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image030.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image031.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image050-1.jpg

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Thank you for sharing those pics Virgil, Pen and Claes.

It is nice to see a closeup view of Izzy and Taz, plus the rest of the crew, Pen.
Virgil, I really liked the pic of the owl, they are beautiful birds...but then I like birds anyway.
Claes, are you familiar with Umea? I have an online friend who lives there. Your city looks very spring like and clean. I am afraid I always hold this stereotype view in my head of Sweden being snow covered year round. Pretty silly, I know.

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These are photos from a raptors show and display I was at during a fair last summer.

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Heyyyy... Nice birdies :thumbs_up You know, that reminds me: A number of years ago, we had a rather messy problem with pigeons. A couple insisted on building a nest on our balcony, with predictable results: Of course they messed the place up no end, and yours truly did everything in his power to make them move on. Alas, no matter how much I tried to scare them off and chuck their half finished nests out, they were back the minute I turned my back. :flare: Pigeons have very short memories, and their IQ is not much to write home about: They were simply to stupid to be scared off. :sick:

Then it hit me: :idea: I had to speak their language... In line with that revelation I produced blowups of the eyes of birds of prey, and put them up on the balcony. The pigeons suddenly caught the message, and promptly moved out. :thumbs_up

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Claes, are you familiar with Umea? I have an online friend who lives there.

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I know about it, but I have never been there. It's way up north, and I am not. I do however know a number of people that have studied there, or have thier roots up there.

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I am afraid I always hold this stereotype view in my head of Sweden being snow covered year round.

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Eternal snow? Perish the thought: I loath the stuff. On the other hand we did get a bit of snow a mere two weeks ago. ;)

/Claes

Back again. Maybe one day, I'll make it as a photographer! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ies/QWERTY.gif

Larkspur

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0162.jpg

Lilac

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0187.jpg

White Violet

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0164.jpg

Buttercup

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0185.jpg

Star of Bethlehem

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01731.jpg

Virginia Bluebells

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01701.jpg

Unsure

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01741.jpg

Ground Ivy? Tiny 2cm flowers

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01821.jpg

Common Wild Mustard (you know the parable of the mustard seed? The flowers aren't that much bigger!)

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01831.jpg

Dandelion puffball (think etheral, here!)

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0179.jpg

(My Daughter’s Tree Frogs) Riven

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01951.jpg

Mallen

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...e/IMG_0194.jpg

Bob

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1.../IMG_01981.jpg

what absolutely spiffin' photos, everyone!

Very nice Pen. I like the frog in particular.

See now I want a pet frog *sulk*:D:D

Great stuff guys, I really like it. Here are some pictures I've taken...

Florida
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1701/abeautycr1.jpg

I'm proud of this because I took it from a moving vehicle
http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/7...lersky1tt5.jpg

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Great stuff guys, I really like it. Here are some pictures I've taken...

Florida
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1701/abeautycr1.jpg

I'm proud of this because I took it from a moving vehicle
http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/7...lersky1tt5.jpg

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Fasciating photos eleniel. But what exactly are we seeing in either picture.

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But what exactly are we seeing in either picture.

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A slightly dated pier and a cloud?

I'll see if I have the time to crank a few pictures through the scanner tomorrow. Today, I was busy sticking a new graphics card up the PCI port, and that also meant that I had to replace the power supply... Well, I'm done rewiring and setting up now, and dear me what a difference :nod: :p Wohoooo....

/Claes

Library of Ephesus. Close to my town, İzmir.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture169.jpg

Ephesus. They were walking over marbles, because they were so rich. :lol:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture165.jpg

A view from my beatiful city.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture080.jpg

This pic is not so clear because of protection glass. This is a Roman god, symbolizes fertility, origin of this god is ancient Egypt. Later Roman paganism affected Christianity a lot. As far as i can see many western people still praying to this. :lol:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture175.jpg

This is sunset of my town. It's generally better, we see mix of green, pink, orange, blue and many other colors on the sky, though this one is not so bad too i think.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture139.jpg

Theatre of ephesus, it's really bigger than it looks in the picture.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture171.jpg

A view from a han.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture093.jpg

Fabulous pictures Turk. I would love to visit Turkey one day. So much old and diverse cultures, and diverse landscape too. Beaches, mountains, rivers.

All of those pics taken in the borders of my town Virgil and since i know you are a believer, those 2 pics are coming for you. :)

This pic is kinda blurry, because i secretly took it. It was banned to take pics :) This is sarcophagus of Mother Maria at her house which is on the top of a mountain, who came to Ephesus with St. John.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture166.jpg

In the middle of pic, you see tomb of St. John. St. Jean's Knights had a fort here.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture168.jpg

those are amazing Turk

I wanna go there