That top arch is a fabulous capture. It makes me wish I could stand there and see it.'

Thank goodness for DSLRs. It's so easy to snap a bunch of photos and not have to worry about paying to get them developed.

So glad that's over. But I'm in a weird way sad to see the photo booth places all closed up.

When I was a kid we used the Kodak drive-thru kiosks all the time to get our pictures developed.

This is the one I didn't use (and it might have been because of the morels that were posted just before it).

Oh Well.

It was in Iceland. We were near the Arctic Circle, IIRC, and yet it was a warm, sunny day. I just love the colors.

I've been watching Bardarbunga erupting for the past week or so.

I do have some!

haven't even got a first one yet...


do love your roses...

Can't wait to see what you've got!

but in the second one i can almost feel the steel. Love it.

I think - and so do the voters - that you made the right choice with your entry.

It's a perfect capture beautifully placed. And being a NC girl (for many decades now) the Emerald Isle one makes me want to get in my car and drive...

You can't go wrong with a nice striated sunset (oops sunrise...west coast bias showing ) and the man in the moon peeking through a triangular hole in the trees!

But the pier, in addition to being a nice composition, makes me think. Despite its solid looking construction, I think it might not last that long in a full force hurricane. But that might be part of the planning. Hurricanes are random where they hit but over the span of decades or centuries maybe one powerful enough to ruin it will come. But the design is so simple it looks like it could be easily rebuilt.

But I don't know, here in Oregon there are no piers on the open ocean, they are all in bays and sheltered inlets.

So there you go, like I said that picture makes me think!

You all are such great photographers! It's such a treat to see all the many different shots you come up with.

...work is so busy right now, we're averaging 60 hours a week.

Here are a few I considered for entry from the archives:

The middle one is especially striking to me. Thanks for showing these!

iPhone shot from the 911 memorial on Staten Island looking at Manhattan skyline.

especially today on the anniversary of 9-11

Here is one-


and another-

I submitted the bike rider because it was totally spontaneous, I was on a moving train at the time! I thought it caught a nice perspective.

But I thought about these as well...


Lotsa lines here! I'm pretty sure this is in Wilmington area of LA.

This is a fresco-like sculpture on the outside of an Italian ristorante in Fullerton CA.


The Siskiyou summit on Interstate 5 last November, when I was driving to LA area for my sister's wedding. Yes I was driving but it was so beautiful I couldn't help it! Shame on me!


From the sunken city in San Pedro, I was going to take a picture of the street (yes that is or was a street!) when that guy wandered into view and so, click! I thought about submitting this but the swastika graffiti really turned me off. I took hundreds of pictures there, maybe I'll post more sometime.


This might be cheating because the only real line is at the bottom but it's why I call this picture "Christmas Lights". It was last December in Santa Ana from where I was house sitting. The next day was the day it rained.

at your photos. Each one has that "je ne sais quois" that makes it special. So different from each other that they stand on their own. Can't pick a favorite. Would love it if you posted more from San Pedro. I can't really make out the swastika. The guy in it is the bomb. And I marvel at the "Christmas lights" and the driving photo near LA.
WOW - I want to see more of your stuff.

Those are very nice compliments, it makes me want to take more pictures! Of course I'll post more sunken city photos but I have to resize them, upload etc etc etc... I was basically on the road 5 months last September through February and took lots of pictures. Most are blah but that's why you take lots, sometimes you get good shots!

All my pics I took with just a little Sony point and shoot camera that fits in my shirt pocket. It has a good zoom lens and takes video as well but it's on its last legs and I'm looking to upgrade before I return to the LA area this winter. I'll share more of my pictures soon as I just recently returned to posting here and finding the photography forum is the reason why!

Thanks again and I like your pictures also! The rose is very subtle, I like it very much.

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