Photography Board Summer Assignment, 2010: Scavenger Hunt

[PrincessInOz]

It must be optimum posting time for Australia!

I snapped these at a celebration last night (no prizes for guessing that it was a Greek related one),

Balloons Hoping to catch some Hot Air but until then, this is my submission

Candlelight*

Delicious Homemade Baklava!

Grid Replacing the one previously posted.

Icon* In a Greek Orthodox Church

Hot! I'm breaking out in cold sweat trying to get a shot of perspiration, so I'll post this one instead.

Friends Two of my friends.

Fruit Replacing the previous submission

Mobbed*

Outdoor Thermometer It's 9.30 pm and the temperature is 7 C (mid 40 F).

Sizzle* Greek style. This is lamb cooking over a spit roast (rotisserie)for souvlaki dinner.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Autograph

Cotton candy Hanging in the Ice cream truck window. Hoping for a better shot.

Evening

Ice cream truck and man**

Eating a Hot Dog

Railway

 

[PrincessInOz]

Guess where I went today?

Attractive

Butterfly* Fuscus Swallowtail

Carousel

Emotion/Expression

Irritable I think the Major Mitchell Cockatoo was irritated by the parrot.

Komodo Dragon* The Phillipine Sail-finned Water Dragon is a member of the Komodo Dragon family

Kangaroo*

Nocturnal
The Koala, who is asleep for 20 hours in the day, is considered Nocturnal

The Wombat, a Nocturnal feeder.

Obsolete

Owl* Barking Owl, replacing previous submission

Parrot

Platypus*
This is what it is supposed to look like

The platypus was incredibly active today and impossible to get a clear shot in the dark!

Pushcart*

Turtle

Zookeeper
Elephant Keeper has his job cut out for him

Much better the other end than this!

Jeep Replacing previous submission

 

[nordkin]

Juke Box

Bakery Window

Picnic

People in Uniform

Armed Forces

Queue -- Marine Corp Band lined up to go on stage

Mobbed

Celebrity Jimmy Smits

Row of Flags

Live Entertainment - Lang Lang at the Capital Fourth

Capital Dome

Quad -- four policemen

Celebrating Independence - The celebration on the steps of the Capital Building in Washington DC

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

Amy I love all your photos! Where in the Arctic are you? Northern Saskathewan? Are you far enough North for Midnight Sun?

 

[pednurse]

Helicopter

Celebration of Independence----Uncle Sam

Jimmies/sprinkles

Uniformed Soldier Marine out collecting donations today for wounded soldiers being cared for at military hospitals overseas

 

[hjd0411]

PrincessinOz and shushhh - I'm loving your photos!! I really have to up my game!!!!
PrincessinOz - I totally fluked the nuns! I was waiting to take a picture of the queue and then I saw the nuns standing there! I couldn't believe it! If I could have jumped for joy I would have! (A bit hard to do when I am in my workplace in uniform... It was tough enough walking around with my camera!!) Keep on looking, though - you never know when you will find your "torpedoes"!

Keep up the good work - go the Aussie connection!!!

I'm also looking forward to seeing all the July 4th photos!

 

[lovesdumbo]

Love everyone's photos! So much fun!!!

Some of these photos are with my new Panasonic ZS7. I am having foot surgery less than a week after my July Disney trip. I know I just can't handle my Nikon D90 on this trip. I'm pretty happy with it. Haven't had a chance to read the PDF manual yet so need to play with it some more. Wide angle photos are great. Zoomed photos aren't so great.


Adirondack chairs (replaces prior photo), this photo is an example of the not so great zoom on the new camera.

Flags in a row. (replaces prior photo) This was taken out the car window. Have to go back and get a better shot. All 50 states are represented.

Antique

Kayak

Harbor

Bridge - DH & I made the kids promise they would never try jumping off this bridge. Seems like it is a right of passage in our town but there have been several deaths and kids paralized. Hope the kids now 11, 9, & 7 keep their word!!!

Gangway

Boat moving

Victorian

 

[lovesdumbo]

Ice cream cone

Celebration of Independence (flag/red/white/blue flowers)

Jimmies

Old Glory-I have to go out early in the morning to try this one again with less traffic around so I can get a better angle. It is on a very busy street.

Geranium

Outdoor thermometer

Clouds-there was a skywriter but could figure out what it was saying from our view point.

Eating a hot dog-noone would let me take a photo of them eating-they all thought that was too gross

Grid-growing cukes in the garden

Butterfly

Helicopter

Something yellow-CVS under construction

 

[lovesdumbo]

Historical-this is the top of Minots Light. The top of the lighthouse was replaced about 20 years. The lighthouse with a new top is still out on the rocks. I have to get a photo of that soon too! This stone lighthouse was the 2nd light on this spot. The first wooden light tipped over in a storm. The local historical society has the log from the light keepers that died in the storm-they put it in a bottle when they knew they were going down.

Circle-this was one of the patterns the stone cutters used in the 1800's to build the stone light house.

not counting these 2 photos-just adding for additional information

Quote on plaque "They kept a good light"

 

[AndrewWG]

lovesdumbo,

I was thinking of how much your pics look like places here in Massachusetts and realized that you WERE from Massachusetts! Anyways, nice shots!

 

[MadilynnsMomma]

lovesdumbo,

I was thinking of how much your pics look like places here in Massachusetts and realized that you WERE from Massachusetts! Anyways, nice shots!

Quite a few representing Mass

 

[omghidanielle]

Fireworks


Sunset



Octogenarian (somewhere in this photo!)

 

[arctic_bunny]

Got some more today!

Thank you for the hellos and replies! Everyone has such interesting pictures. Yes, it's hard to get those summer pictures - as we are indeed in the land of the midnight sun right now, I am crossing my fingers that the sun will set (and rise, of course!) before the scavenger hunt is over!

We're obviously not in Saskatchewan right now, but are originally from there, hence the Rider Pride. We're pretty sure we've got the most northern pictures of merchandise, but who knows!

Now, for today's bunch, after a four hour quad ride with some fishing and exploring:

A - Airplane (I'm pretty sure it's with a pilot, but I don't think that's what you mean )


B - Bespectacled *


B - Bridge (You can't believe how excited I was the first time we went on a quad ride out here - without a camera, of course. I had marked this one as impossible!)


D - Dusty


F - Fish


F - Freckles *


N - Napping passenger (We don't have a car here, and what are the chances he would fall asleep on the quad? I was so excited, I forgot to be upset that he wouldn't sleep tonight!)


I - American Indian in native dress (This is an Aboriginal person in a traditional amauti) Does this count?


I - Historical Invention * (These are two ulus - technically uluit - a woman's knife)


F - Fruit (The rest of the pineapple isn't particularly attractive by the time it gets here!)


I - Icon (Let me know if I've got this wrong - a Mountie is a Canadian icon)


S - Seashell


U - Underwater *

 

[plyeng2ff]

Cigar store indian


Emblem


Kayak


Visitor Center Infomation Board


Train

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Headlight trails*

Drive Thru attendant*

Fireworks

 

[plyeng2ff]

Railway- Updating previous picture


National Park Sign


Jalopy


Harbor


Club Sandwich with toothpicks

 

[plyeng2ff]

Dessert in restaurant


Ambience- Happy to be eating Ice Cream Look because I am taking her picture


Fireworks


Reflections


Attractive

 

[shushh]

you never know when you will find your "torpedoes"!

Yep, and sometimes no matter how hard you try, the "torpedoes" just won't come out and play. I spent all of Saturday looking out for a dog in car whilst I had the luxury of DH driving, and of course didn't see any! And then on Sunday we were out on a boat anchored near a buoy. Did any bird land on that buoy?!??! No!!! one that did go on a buoy chose the buoy so far away that even my zoom lens couldn't make it look any bigger...

Fireworks

What lovely colours!

 

[shushh]

Buoy with bird* Hopefully you can just make out a little seagull on top of the buoy...