Non Aviation Photography Thread

[CJPalmer]

A 5 shot panorama of the Superstition Mountains from the Apache Trail.

[Bubak]

...nice!!

[Brian Lockett]

Last night, as the thunderstorm drifted across the east valley, I set up my camera to take a sequence or four-second exposures and then assembled a time lapse movie of the storm.

This morning I selected twenty-two frames with visible lightning taken over a span of twelve minutes and assembled a composite image of the storm:

[Dave S.]

From last Sunday's memorial at Tempe Beach Park, marking the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.


One of many...

[Ned Harris]

Red-tailed Hawk    Kansas Settlement, AZ   9/15/11.


_MG_1710 Red-tailed Hawk by Ned Harris, on Flickr

[Bubak]

...nice one...

[Jay Beckman]

Avalon Harbor .. Catalina Island

[Jay Beckman]

My wife and I recently celebrated our 16th anniversary with a little SoCal road trip.
The Avalon shot above is from our trip as are:

RMS Queen Mary .. Long Beach, CA


A "vintage" look


5 Exposure blend of the Queen Mary wheelhouse


The full length of her "A Deck" .. over 900' of hallway


The house in Santa Barbara my parents built in 1961
(Yes Damon, I could have been an APSoCal baby!)


Off the end of Stern's Wharf in SB


Moocher at Sea World


Broaching Shamu


Enjoy!

[Jeff D. Welker]

Congrats on the anniversary Jay. Even in this stinker economy, I imagine the house in Santa Barbara is worth slightly more than when your parent built it - very nice.

[Jay Beckman]

13-frame pano of Avalon Harbor at dusk...
(full size image is 15,000 pixels wide)


Roughly a 1:1 of the left-most frame

[Jay Beckman]

Goodnight Avalon

Better Over Black

[wingsnstuff]

Catalina is such a beautiful and intriguing place.  It's also not a very easy place to shoot because of the lighting.  Your shots are beautiful (as usual).   

[wingsnstuff]

I stayed on the Queen Mary during one of my business trips to LA several years ago (actually much longer that several years because the Spruce Goose was still in the Dome next to Queen Mary.  I just remember how magnificent the quarters were and how they must have been during the ship's prime years.  Beautiful shots Jay.

[Jay Beckman]

Thanks Vance...  It was a very unique experience and I'm glad we tried it.

The accommodations were surprisingly nice given the vintage.  It was explained to us that the Queen Mary was not quite as segregated as things were portrayed in Titanic.  There was no "steerage class" per se.

Essentially, the price breakdown from her glory days went something like:
3rd Class: An Average Car
2nd Class: A Really Nice Car
1st Class: A Very Nice House

...and this was in 2010 dollars! 

[Matt Ottosen]

My dad actually sailed on the Queen Mary back in the late '50s or early '60s.