"America the Beautiful"

[ConsAreLiars]

In GD BigBearJohn posted a thread:
"America the Beautiful" still means something to me.
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3754813

It struck me that most my pictures are expressions of that sentiment. Not "only" America, all of nature, but most are taken in this country. The subject is not just landscapes, of course, but the people and towns and neighborhoods and architecture (even) and kids and pets and flowers and so on. It occurred to me that we might want to compile a collection of images for posting on Demopedia that some express the sentiment in that anthem.

I haven't a clue which pictures I might want to submit. It will give me a different way to look at them and probably take a while to choose, if I can.

Read carefully:
By submitting a photograph in this contest, the photographer is giving permission for that photo to be included in the Demopedia's gallery and copied to other file-hosting services in order to provide a permanent storage site for the Demopedia links.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Here's the quintessential Northwest landscape...

I'm sure lots of Washington State DUers have taken a variant on this picture.



And, yes, I agree to the terms stated above, although it is my understanding that this particular collection is not, as it states, a contest.

[TahitiNut]

2. Is that St. Helens with Mt. Hood in the background?

It doesn't look like Mt. Ranier to me ... or Oly. :shrug:

I personally like photos of the Columbia River Gorge ... which I've driven in all kinds of weather. It was always visually fascinating to me.

[ConsAreLiars]

3. Cutting and pasting has its faults.

Yep. Not a contest -- too late to edit.

Rainier viewed from the east (as approaching from Tacoma) I think, and the smaller protuberance is called Mt. Tahoma (altho that should be the name of the whole mtn.)

The Columbia River Gorge is a remarkable area for photography. Large vistas, waterfalls, everything.

[regnaD kciN]

4. Actually, from the north...

It was taken just north of Enumclaw.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Here's vintage Alaska

Denali, "The Great One," otherwise known as Mt. McKinley.

[Princess Turandot]

6. Here are a few..

The main Ellis Island waiting room, taken during a visit in 2004.





Lady Liberty, as seen from the Ellis Island ferry.




Lady Liberty, on a cold winter's dusk, as seen from Battery Park.




I took the last photo in December 2003, when my college roommate was in to visit me from Oregon.She had wanted to go down to the WTC site; afterwards we walked down to Battery Park, at the southern tip of Manhattan. I took several pictures of the statue with the cold sky behind it, while dodging the ferries which were coming in like mosquitos :) , since the islands close at 5PM. I was surprised that they came out. I didn't edit the photo, other than to reduce its size. I like the little flag on the right. In other ones, I caught a helicopter in the sky and a seagull.

A view from the apartment in which I grew up, sometime in the 1980's.
American Ghosts.

[regnaD kciN]

7. "American Ghosts"

Sad to say, fate handed you a wonderful title.

[superconnected]

8. the yellows and oranges in the liberty photo are great.

what a sky. I respond to those colors.

as far as the two towers - you are way lucky to have them in your personal photo collection.