Very nice Claes. I always enjoy your pictures. :)
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Very nice Claes. I always enjoy your pictures. :)
very nice pictures! jealous!
Oh, Claes, those are amazing! I love those little houses, they are so quaint, very much what I think of when I think of a big Scandinavian city.
I woke up this morning to find everything covered in this beautiful frost so after church and lunch, I went out to Ft. Lincoln by the Missouri River to take some pictures. Most of the pictures are from the On-A-Slant Mandan Village, with a few just random nature shots from around the area. A lot of the pictures had a weird color cast to them I couldn't get rid of entirely. I'm getting a new camera in a couple days and hopefully, that one will do better in lower light because this camera is hopeless. :rolleyes:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...P1040362-1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1040372.jpg
The big ceremonial Earth Lodge
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...040367-1-1.jpg
This is a tree right next to the ceremonial lodge and it captured the frost nicely.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1040370.jpg
And more prairie grass because I can't resist
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1040374.jpg
And a broken tree I was particularly fond of
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1040390.jpg
amazing pics, Idril! really!! :D
Idril, your photos are stunning -- love them! Never tire of taking prairie grass shots, you sure have a knack for catching them at their most pretty display.
Now I see that you guys don't really have the snow that we received -- wow! But anyhow, such beautiful countryside, thank you so much for sharing here. :)
I agree kiz!
Great!
You guys are very nice, the pictures really aren't all that great but I thought the subject matter, at least, was interesting.
Well, I don't know about that, I just take so many of them, one or two are bound to turn out. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kiz_paws
The funny thing is, just a few hours after those pictures were taken, we got snow, about 4 or 5 inches. :rolleyes: I may take another trip out there this weekend, there were a lot of places I didn't get to because it was so cold and I'll have my new camera by then with a better zoom and more pixels and theoretically, better light recognition.Quote:
Now I see that you guys don't really have the snow that we received -- wow! But anyhow, such beautiful countryside, thank you so much for sharing here. :)
Very nice Idril, especially that last one for some reason. :)
I was just about to say the same thing to you! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
But they are very nice indeed!
I can't wait! You had awesome photos with your 'old' camera, so your new one might make you downright dangerous! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
wow, I want one of those lodges. are they for living in or only ceremonial?
They were for both, the smaller lodges were for living and the big monster lodge was for ceremonies. These earth lodges in the pictures are purely museum type buildings, you can go inside, they are fully functional but they are for display and instruction only (in the summer, each one has someone explaining various aspects to the Mandan way of life). However, there is another "village" by where my parents live where you can actually rent them out for a weekend or whatever and stay in them, sort of like a tent. They've been a pretty popular destination for a lot of travellers.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Idril, my only question is why Idril is not doing photography for a career. I've been checking out the photos, damn good too. And kizpaw, and that other guy is good too, I forgot his name, excuse me.
Don't be so modest... Your pictures are very good... and interesting :thumbs_up Good luck with your new camera, btw.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
My method exactly :D :thumbs_up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
Some of you may have note that I was absent last week:
I have been to Tornio for some work related training, and I
managed to make good use of the camera in the evenings. Here we go:
It was around -20C/-4F when we arrived, so everything was beautifully covered in frost.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0208.jpg
How many of you used to build snow castles when you were kids? Here is a whopper of a Snow & Ice Castle in Kemi.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0243.jpg
Here is the Bar. There is no shortage of ice.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0245.jpg
An Ice lion greeted us...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0250.jpg
Some other íce sculptures. They were everywhere (Talk about cool art)
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0261.jpg
Another part of the bar, complete with ice tables and more art
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0262.jpg
Here is the hotel
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0271.jpg
One of the rooms.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0279.jpg
The church
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0312.jpg
And its altar.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/IMG_0314.jpg
/Claes