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Wonderful pictures, Turk! Everyone here has posted such nice pictures! :)

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Originally Posted by Turk

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:

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Hahaha, yes Turk I think you are right.

Those are very beautiful photos indeed. I think you have done your country's tourism industry a service by posting them!:p You're gonna end up with the whole of litnet on your doorstep!

Stunning.

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Fabulous pictures Turk.

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I agree. Please post more. I have been to Istanbul only (Not that there is anything wrong with Istanbul, it would take years to explore it more detail.), and I know how much more there is to see in turkey.

/Claes

Thanks. I took those pics in a trip to Ephesus. Since stupid camera has limited memory i couldn't get so much pics, but here's few more.

This is gate of Isabey Mosque. Which has classical style of Seljuk architecture.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture164.jpg

This is ancient Ephesus, the building in the middle is city senate and i like those red flowers (corn-poppy?), which has no smell but nice looking.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture178.jpg

This watchtower is symbol of my city.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture083.jpg

Inner view of Roman senate, it has good acoustic, when you talk in the middle, people who's sitting are able to hear you even when they are far from center.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture184.jpg

This was nice statue for me, but as you can see tourists didn't interest it at all, i think Europeans are so used to nudity.:lol:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture176.jpg

This is Artemis, but Ephesian Artemis shouldn't mixed Greek Artemis. In ancient Greece, Artemis was god of hunting, purity and forests. But this Artemis symbolizes fertility and plenty.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture186.jpg

This photo is really plain, i just took it to remember something. Roman toilets was really good. Even 2000 years later, while people have modern toilets in their houses they still like to sit on Roman toilets. :p

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture170.jpg

Great images Turk, thanks for posting them :)

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Originally Posted by Turk

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:

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I dunno about praying, I would bet on a lot of them thinking with the, um, significant detail of the statue! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ilies/ROFL.gif Lots of historical pictures! Nice, Turk! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ilies/Grin.gif

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Originally Posted by Nightshade

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

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Do you know how small these frogs are, Night? Let's just say the photos are more than life size. Now she has another named Steve, a red-eyed tree-frog and an Anole Lizard named Riddick. Photos of them will come later. I apologize for some of the flowers being out of focus. I didn't shoot them, the wife did, and I tried to correct them and probably hashed the job! http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...lies/Hummm.gif

Wow Turk! those pics are amazing! you are so lucky to live so close to Archaeology like that!

Right... Back to Africa again:

The first two pictures are from Lake Nakuru, and the rest from Masai Mara.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...nalPark--1.jpg
a stork over Lake Nakuru.

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

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...tionalPark.jpg
Waterlilys in Masai Mara National Park

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...onalPark-K.jpg
Mongoose.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ationalPar.jpg
Entering Lion country.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...ationalPar.jpg
Male Lion. A really big guy.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...onalPark-K.jpg
A tiny bird of prey.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Sunset-Ken.jpg
Sunset.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...nalPark-Ke.jpg
Sunrise.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...nalPark-Ke.jpg
Sunrise.

I love the flamingos.

My! That sunset is amazing.

I was in Washington D.C. last week and found a little free time to take some pictures. Now I've been there many times and i was just trying to take a different angle on much photographed icons.
The Capital Building;
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image085.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image084.jpg

The World War II Monument
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image075-1.jpg

A close up of WWII monument with Lincoln Memorial in background.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image066.jpg

The Washington Monument:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image068.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image063-1.jpg

The base of the Wash monumant with the Capital in the background:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image065-2.jpg

The White House
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...Image062-2.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image060.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image061.jpg

These are very interesting photos, Virgil. :) I especially liked the fourth picture!

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These are very interesting photos, Virgil. :) I especially liked the fourth picture!

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Thanks Pensy. It did come out nice. Here's another that came out nice. It's picture of a statue of a President from over 100 years ago, Ullysses S. Grant. I like the angle and framing I captured.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...5/Image083.jpg

Great adjustment! The way it comes in between the trees and the view looks very nice.

This is a special place near my home. Oddly, I had two seasons captured.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/P2070002.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...vermorning.jpg

Beautiful, Captain Pike, beautiful.

lovely pics Uncle Virg
i didn't know the Capitol was so beautiful and so big (in the pics in our English textbooks it looked much smaller). how do they keep it so white and clean? doesn't it get blackened by exhaust fumes?
did you use an old-stlye (non-digital) camera?

Captain Pike, I like the pic of the river at dusk

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Originally Posted by SleepyWitch

lovely pics Uncle Virg
i didn't know the Capitol was so beautiful and so big (in the pics in our English textbooks it looked much smaller). how do they keep it so white and clean? doesn't it get blackened by exhaust fumes?
did you use an old-stlye (non-digital) camera?

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Actually it looks even bigger in person. I don't know how many stories high but it's very wide as well. I don't know how they keep i so white. I have never seen them cleaning it. When I first saw the Washington monument and the White House, I was surprised at how big they were. I believe the Washington Monument was the tallest structure in the world at one time.

Virgil, when my scroll descending slowly, i just saw the top of your picture, and for a second i thought that's a real cowboy on a horse.

Well, here's me and girlfriend/soon fiance/future wife;

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a77...Picture187.jpg

Nice photo Turk. Hey, you look Italian! I love your hair. I had hair like that a long time ago. Best wishes to you and your fiance. She looks like a nice girl.

man I love this thread....

I'm liking the hair, too, Turk!

and great pictures of DC, Virg. They make me want to go there and visit all the monuments again. It's been awhile since I really took time to look, though I pass through DC fairly often.

Nice DC pictures, Virgil :thumbs_up Turk, you two look nice together. :thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I had hair like that a long time ago.

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Yeah, so did I, except for the colour. These days Im glad I have hair :p :D

/Claes

Since I spent a few days in Venice last week, I have some new pictures of Venice and the isles. Sadly, only Murano and Burano since finding the right vaporetto to Torcello proved too difficult and timeconsuming.

Burano:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...ser/burano.jpg

Murano:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...ser/murano.jpg

Venice:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/venice2.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/venice4.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/venice1.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...isser/burg.jpg

Part of the Basilica San Marco (Venice):
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...r/sanmarco.jpg

The Arsenal (where I spent about an hour looking at the various ... statues. )
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/arsenal.jpg

how gorgeous! thanks for sharing.

Oh Themis I love Venice. I wonder if I could dig out my pictures of Venice. I have them somewhere. You cannot take a bad picture in Venice. Everywhere one turns it's gorgeous. I think it's the most beautiful city in the world.

:thumbs_up Yes.... Very nice Venice pictures

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I wonder if I could dig out my pictures of Venice. I have them somewhere..

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Good idea. I'll do the same thing.

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You cannot take a bad picture in Venice. Everywhere one turns it's gorgeous. I think it's the most beautiful city in the world.

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I think I'll have to agree. It is both different and beautiful. :thumbs_up

/Claes

I'm going to upload some of the pictures I took on my trip to radium last weekend, just working on resizing the best ones. ;)

Some pictures of my weekend Nainital Trip (a hill station in the north of India). (Don't go by the date on the picture, I forgot to reset the date feature).

This is a lake called Naukuchiya Tal.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/00280007.jpg

A house by the lake.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/00280027.jpg

White Peacock

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/00280037.jpg

that white peacock is striking! I've never seen a white peacock before!

This is a different species than the colourful one we know about. I couldn't take a full view of the feathers, as it was in captivity, and if I took a long shot the grill of the cage would show. It was a zoo that I visited.

lovely pictures - and the white peacock - beautiful... :-)

Thanks, Lote. I have some more pictures but they are on some other computer. I am hoping to get those soon, and will post more then.

Actually it should be an albino peacock Madhuri, not a new species. It's a very beatiful bird though his peacock friends doesn't think this way i suppose. :)

I want one. It's so beautiful! *drools*

I think animals should live free, not in caged in zoos or our homes. It's their right.

I like Venice pictures too, thanks for sharing them.

Beautiful pictures, Madhuri! :D

Thanks everybody. I am hoping to get more pictures to post here. I know I said the same thing when I posted pictures last time, my silly brother still has to mail me the ones I took from his camera.....:rolleyes: forgetful brothers :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Turk

Actually it should be an albino peacock Madhuri, not a new species. It's a very beatiful bird though his peacock friends doesn't think this way i suppose. :)

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I didn't know it was called Albino peacock. It was indeed looking very pretty. I wonder how it can maintain being so white?

Well, albino is an ill Madhuri. There's albino people and albino tigers etc. too. Did you ever visit Taj-Mahal?

Lovely pictures Maddie. I love the peacock too.