Another Your Local Pics Thread

[KG4CGC]

Another thread to post your local pics on. Post as often as you want or just once with a link to your local pictures. It doesn't matter.
I think I started a thread like this long ago here on the Island. It has since faded from memory. Now's your chance to update. :)

This is May 2006 in Greenville SC in EM84. It was a Friday.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/DSC_0033resize.jpg





I'll add more. You've seen my 2010 stuff.

[KG4CGC]

Forgot further descriptions. I liked the shape of this building.
People in western Europe have asked me what the blue stuff is.

[KG4CGC]

Forgot further descriptions. I liked the shape of this building.
People in western Europe have asked me what the blue stuff is.
ETA: I took further advantage of the artsy fartsy stuff and used the wide angle distortion of straight lines and angles to my advantage, IMO.

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Trip%20Through%20SC%20and%20NC/b165e246.jpg

[KG4CGC]

Just thought I'd throw that one in right now. (fake edit)

[kc7jty]

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/21/img002sxg.jpg

It's 1978. I'm 28 years old in my 15.5' bowrider boat. Fish (kokanee salmon) could have been bigger.
Yes Virginia, that's a can of "tab top" Coors beer.

[KG4CGC]

This is at Chimney Rock behind and above the chimney. It's called Devil's Head and has the appearance of simply dropping from the area above it. It has been there for such a long time that even the Native Americans recognize it as a landmark.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/DevilsHeadRS.jpg


A link to a wider angle shot: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/DevilsHeadveticalRS.jpg

You have probably seen these before but we're just getting started.

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/t-storm.jpg

A thunderstorm over the Laguna Mountains, viewed looking east from the street in front of my house.

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/sunrise.jpg

Sunrise over Chula Vista, California.

[KG4CGC]

Nice texture on those clouds in pic 2.

[NQ6U]

Nice texture on those clouds in pic 2.

Yeah, that was a particularly spectacular sunrise.

[kc7jty]

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6093/img009h.jpg
Early summer 1970. I'm 20 years old. Ain't got no mo local stuff.

[NA4BH]

Another thread to post your local pics on. Post as often as you want or just once with a link to your local pictures. It doesn't matter.
I think I started a thread like this long ago here on the Island. It has since faded from memory. Now's your chance to update. :)

This is May 2006 in Greenville SC in EM84. It was a Friday.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/DSC_0033resize.jpg





I'll add more. You've seen my 2010 stuff.

That looks more like a Saturday. :whistle:

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/otay.jpg

View from the Otay Mountain (pronounced "Oh-tie") repeater site looking more or less towards my QTH.

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/antenna.jpg

Navy RDF antenna, Imperial Beach. Viewers of the short-lived HBO series John From Cincinnati may recognize this.
The white stuff in the foreground is salt. The shot was taken from the middle of a drained salt evaporator pond where I was working during the harvest season.

[KG4CGC]

1983, 19y/o, Blue Ridge Parkway, Sam Knob in background, 50 miles north of Brevard NC.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/1983RSjpg.jpg

[KG4CGC]

Thunder Dog! My front yard, last week.

http://www4.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/d0081fe4f20147d4018b055daa3d342061a1299f0f35b76c7f 1e016e97eee68b6g.jpg (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=9hzwv619q9wodc5&thumb=4)

[NA4BH]

Part of the square in my little town. The building on the right used to make a mean pizza.

http://www.hmdb.org/Photos1/130/Photo130369.jpg

I didn't take the picture.

[kc7jty]

1983, 19y/o, Blue Ridge Parkway, Sam Knob in background, 50 miles north of Brevard NC.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/1983RSjpg.jpg

You mustn't have much hair left if you wus balding at 19.

[KG4CGC]

You mustn't have much hair left if you wus balding at 19.
2007

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/notfromthisplanetcopyRS-1.jpg

[kc7jty]

contacts?

[NQ6U]

contacts?

Photoshop.

[kc7jty]

I was hoping his folks weren't partial to goats.
Either way I guess we're good.

That pic of me @ 20 was in the house I grew up in in PA. It was the christening celebration of my nephew that day (Saturday or Sunday). The place was packed with friends & relatives of both families. I'm probably a bit smoked up. Thinking back on that time, it was so easy to get smoke then. Much easier than even getting beer or other alcohol. Our culture is so screwed up. By banning some things they seem to become more desirable and or easier to get.

[N8YX]

I didn't take this one. Decidedly railroad-themed, for Bill:

http://station76.net/abb/images/1501-09.jpg


Our house is about a mile away, towards the rear of the train and roughly 250 yards west of the right-of-way.

Up until the mid-70s there were six tracks in this spot. It wasn't uncommon to see at least three trains running simultaneously through the area and I recall seeing five once.

[HUGH]

http://static.zooomr.com/images/8681418_9ded3cc9a8.jpg

Clun Bridge

[HUGH]

http://static.zooomr.com/images/8558995_3b77cdc17b.jpg

Llynclys Station (put your teeth in first). The line is being relaid along the back of the house, the concrete is where the raised platform was, and the little gazebo thing will disappear.

[kc7jty]

In the twinkling of an eye or will they have to hire an experienced magician?

[KG4CGC]

Downtown Main Street Easley SC ... revisited.


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Train_Easley/TR0023.jpg

[kc7jty]

I didn't take this one. Decidedly railroad-themed, for Bill:

http://station76.net/abb/images/1501-09.jpg


Our house is about a mile away, towards the rear of the train and roughly 250 yards west of the right-of-way.

Up until the mid-70s there were six tracks in this spot. It wasn't uncommon to see at least three trains running simultaneously through the area and I recall seeing five once.
Love that white ballast, a CSX hallmark. There's a stretch through Montana on the BNSF where the ballast is purple/pink.

[kc7jty]

Downtown Main Street Easley SC ... revisited.


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Train_Easley/TR0023.jpg

That lead unit is the latest GE technology production. I climbed up on the roof of one a couple years back and listened to the engine idle by getting close to the exhaust stack. The tones, echoes, complexities and staccato are amazing. They rev up a bit to power air compressors, etc from time to time.

[w2amr]

Looking across the Delaware river into Philly from South Jersey.
Damn, I can't link to webshots. I'll do it like this.
3859

[N8YX]

Ship cranes in the background?

[Chris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdAuoPc-rSc

[KG4CGC]

Just over the SC NC state line in NC on hwy 183 through the Jocasee Gorge.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Relics/3f3c5cbf.jpg

[N8YX]

One of our finest on patrol around Lake Anna, which is out of sight and to the left in this picture. There are some beautiful houses surrounding the lake but they're just a bit too close together.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Y1jZUDsXf6k/0.jpg

[N8YX]

My childhood friend Alan's Kawasaki Nomad - happened to find this as I was searching for pictures of Barberton. He did a lot of neat digital gauge work on it, fabbed all the trunk and fairing brackets, etc.

3858

[n4aud]

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/k1alk/IMAG0011.jpg
Chief Benge Trail, backpacking trip last June

[n4aud]

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/k1alk/DSC00569.jpg
Little Stony Creek Falls

[n4aud]

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/k1alk/DSC00985.jpg
Roan Mountain rhododendrons

[KG4CGC]

Lake Hartwell from Darwin Wright Park off exit 21 on hwy 85 Oct. 2010 during a hamfest.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Lake_Pan/Pan_Lake_001_02.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=darwin+wright+park&cp=9&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[n4aud]

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/k1alk/POWELLVALLEY1.jpg
Powell Valley from US 23

[KG4CGC]

Oh, Powell Valley is a nice one :)

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/organleroy.jpg

Practicing the pipe organ at the Spreckles Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego.

[KG4CGC]

Practicing the pipe organ at the Spreckles Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego.
Is that the same guy who was tooting his own horn, here?
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/drinks/b94706a6.jpg

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/phoebe.jpg

Black Phoebe in my back yard.

[NQ6U]

Is that the same guy who was tooting his own horn, here?

Nope. The guy in my photo was another guy, at his organ again.

[kc7jty]

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8217/img013t.jpg
Carl


1978 again, May. Photo of my 12 footer with Evinrude 9.9 horse on Kalispell island on Priest lake. (leftmost green island)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Coolin,+ID&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=40.409448,86.572266&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Coolin,+Bonner,+Idaho&ll=48.567066,-116.899338&spn=0.132225,0.338173&z=12

We took a half keg of Coors along on the tent camping trip with my buddy, & his 4 kids. We got chit faced every day (3 day Memorial weekend). My buddy was so fowked tup his 14 year old daughter had to drive the car back home (some 60 miles)

[w2amr]

Park in Gloucester city@ 9PM , Looking across the Delaware to the loading docks in Philly.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5374477743_ba8fb79650.jpg

[w2amr]

70 years ago. My uncle on the right and my older brother on the left, in front of our house.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5375087266_830465ff22_b.jpg

[ki4itv]

One of my favorite "get away from it all" spots.

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/102/horseshoebridge.jpg

Horseshoe Bridge Hanover, VA

(Bill, this spot is about 15 miles WNW of where you were standing on the porch of the cafe in Ashland, VA)

[KG4CGC]

70 years ago. My uncle on the right and my older brother on the left, in front of our house.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5375087266_830465ff22_b.jpg
What's the dog's name?

[kc7jty]

Horseshoe Bridge Hanover, VA

(Bill, this spot is about 15 miles WNW of where you were standing on the porch of the cafe in Ashland, VA)

Looks nice and....SUMMERY.

[WA4TM]

They even had cool dogs too!!!!


70 years ago. My uncle on the right and my older brother on the left, in front of our house.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5375087266_830465ff22_b.jpg

[kc7jty]

What's the dog's name?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Barker

[KC9ECI]

http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/100_1585.JPG
Structure fire in Arcadia WI. I was in as part of the mutual aid response. We couldn't pump water as our apparatus froze solid on the way there.

http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/100_1590.JPG
This is the rig we took.

http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/Jul17037.JPG
Owl near Tallington, UK. Shot with a Minolta X-700 w/ Kiron 70-210mm zoom lens

http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/Loughcrew%20Rescue_3%20%28Medium%29.JPG
Lough Crew Ireland. I'm the handsome fellow assisting with bringing the patient down. KC9ECH is just to the right of me in the photo.

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Train_Easley/122a1cfa.jpg

Twin Lakes area of Lake Hartwell late June 2008. If I had more elevation you would be able to see the Death Valley stadium at Clemson University.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=clemson+university&cp=12&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[w2amr]

What's the dog's name?His name was Phil. My Dad was driving one day and saw a man had Phil hooked up to a plow in a field. He stopped the car, went over, unhooked him from the plow, and took the dog while the man watched. My Dad told him he didn't deserve a dog. He stayed with us for the rest of his life.

[ki4itv]

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6285/backyardcamping.jpg
My two boys. Backyard camping (2004)

[KG4CGC]

Nice landscaping and canoe lulz!

[NA4BH]

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6285/backyardcamping.jpg
My two boys. Backyard camping (2004)

What no life jackets?

[kc7jty]

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4140/sandpointmay09004.jpg
Found this in my dud cache.
Cah-may-dah is set for low light which works for the tunnel exposure but not the brilliant sunshine beyond.
Railroad is overhead, Lake Pend Oreille in the distance at Sandpoint.

[KG4CGC]

And here they are again. Poinsette Bridge:

http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Poinsette%20Bridge%20Greenville%20Asheville%20High way/

[kc7jty]

I can sense those Indian skeletons already.

[ki4itv]

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/7576/belleisleboys.jpg
Taken while Geocashing at the old Confederate prison on Belle Isle a few years ago.

[KC9ECI]

Geocaching in Ireland in 2005. We brought along a couple of travel bugs that we'd picked up from some local caches before we left. My daughter was a little sad to be saying goodbye to the little horse.

http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/Travelbug_4.JPG


http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/Geocaching_Battle%20of%20the%20Boyne%20Cache.JPG


http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/Geocaching_Gernonstown%20Cache%20(2).JPG


http://galesvillefiredepartment.org/kc9eci/Geocaching_Baldungan%20Castle%20Church%20(2).JPG

[ki4itv]

Good stuff Tom!
We've had a lot of fun with the geocashing trips.

[KC9ECI]

We do as well. It's kind of amazing some of the places you find yourself taken to that you otherwise wouldn't know even existed.