We may never cross paths but

[MichaelHarris]

we can show a little bit of hometown. With all the turmoil of the last few weeks maybe showing where we come from will ease some of the divisiveness. Two shot minimum to keep from killing computers. Mods, while it looks like a photo thread I felt GD would get more hits, thus give more people a chance at showing their hometown America.


Now


Then

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Your pictures are just outstanding! Truly beautiful...

Thank you for this idea...

Here's a couple from my town...

The Manhattan Beach Pier:



A view of the San Gabriel Mtns. and downtown Los Angeles:

[MichaelHarris]

2. Thanks Peggy!

Your uploads didn't work, I've been having problems with photobucket all night.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. Sorry you can't see them...

I hope you can fix your problems with PB and then have a look...

These are a couple of my best, I believe...

:hi:

[Cetacea]

20. That first shot is beautiful

The way you aligned the center of the structure with the "god rays" ... Really nice.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

52. Thank you, my dear Artiechoke!

I hoped it would turn out...Had to hold the camera very still and hope...

I got lucky!

:hi:

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Your Pic of Manhattan Beach Pier. . .

. . .reminds me a LOT of Belmont Pier in Long Beach. There's a great restaurant/brew pub (Belmont Brewing Company) right there by the pier and just north of the olympic swimming pool there.

Your picture brought back some fond memorites.

Thanks Peggy.
GAC

[CaliforniaPeggy]

53. Thank you, my dear ProfessorGAC!

I am glad to be the provider of good memories!

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

45. My daughter's wedding was in Manhattan Beach.

It was beautiful.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

54. My dear Blue!

How very cool...this is a pretty little town...

:hi:

[Horse with no Name]

3. Nice pics

FIELDS OF FLOWERS
THE RED RIVER

[soleft]

4. Apparently you can't link to facebook photos?

[MichaelHarris]

6. I normally use

photobucket but it's down. It seems that FlickR is the only one working.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Main Street, Old Ellicott City (MD)

[MichaelHarris]

8. nice shots

I really like the second one. The way the image seems to curve around works well.

[Hissyspit]

23. Stinky the Clown lives in Ellicott City!?

I was just there this summer. Did the ghost tour the summer before.

Love the big rocks and the pizza place (can't remember the name.)

[Stinky The Clown]

60. He does, indeed ..... he an' da missus.

The Old City is very cool.

Pizza place ..... not sure which one you mean. Actually, the best pizza in town is at our house! :)

[Hissyspit]

62. Don't remember the name, it may not specifically be a pizza place. It's on the main street on the

left as you head up the hill.

[Stinky The Clown]

65. Look at the top picture ......

.... about in the middle .... there's a two story brick building with three store fronts in it. The right-most store front (as you view the picture) has two American flags and a dark green/sagey sort of awning thingus on it. That is a restaurant. Actually, that has been a whole series of restaurants. Each of them was pretty good. NONE of them lasted. I have no idea why.

Well ...... no normal reason why .......

Ellicott City has suffered a series of floods and fires over the years. On the downhill side of that picture is a tall, whitish stone bank building (until last year, still an active bank). On the uphill side is a light brick building with gray trim. Between the two is the place I think you ate; it is part of a run of (relatively) new construction lower height brick buildings. They're new because the originals burned to the ground in 1984. The fire started ...... in the building where that restaurant was ...... in the fryer ..... of an old restaurant! You mentioned a ghost tour. Yeah, they still do it. I don't know why that place isn't on the tour. It is said to be haunted. Or at least cursed.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-ellicottjan06,0,7808412.htmlstory

Here's a picture of the 84 fire. The spot where the restaurant is now is the rightmost of the two white clapboard buildings with the flames coming out of the roof. The light brick building I mentioned, above, is on the right of this picture and it was relatively unscathed by the fire. The fire started in the back of the rightmost burning building, ran along the backs of the row of buildings, destroyed the downhill brick buildings, and **then** ran back uphill and destroyed the building in which it started! Think about that. NO fire does that ...... does it? :)

I'm glad you enjoyed the pizza! :scared:

[Hissyspit]

66. That's it, I'm sure. They were closed for the day last summer so I didn't get to eat there.

I've heard much about the floods from over the years and I think they mentioned the fire during the tour. I remember one building, a granite/marble thing on the south side of the street that apparently had been a mortuary ?? because it had some morbid stonework on it. (If I'm remembering right.)

I will probably be in Baltimore the weekend before the inauguration, but I'll be pretty busy. I'm sure I'll be in Baltimore for a good time this summer visiting my friends who live in Catonsville and Fells Point. They're the ones who first took me for breakfast in Ellicott City (at that place down by the river as you enter town.)

[Stinky The Clown]

67. That would be Phoenix Emporium

We're having out of town company for the inauguration. They like visit the Old City, too.

[lamp_shade]

24. Best antique shops anywhere.

[kentuck]

7. Michael is a great photographer...

in the mold of the great Ansel Adams.

[MichaelHarris]

9. awwwww heck no!

I do use a camera just like his though :) Takes about 30 minutes to get one shot off. I have one of those old 4x5 speed graphics like the press used to use, I've always wondered how they got the sports shots they got back then.

[kentuck]

11. Maybe that is why I see the similarities?

:-) But your photos are truly great to look at.

[MichaelHarris]

13. Thank you very much

I've been lucky mostly. I still look for that "perfect" street shot or that "wow" sports shot.

[kentuck]

15. You're quite welcome.

Sometimes I think being "lucky" is just being in the right spot at the very right moment. :-)

[Cetacea]

21. Nice work, Michael

I want your Speed Graphic!

:toast:

[merh]

10. Do you sell signed prints of your photos?

If you do, I would love to buy the first one - 8.5 x 11 or 13 x 19.

They both are wonderful, but that first one is incredible.

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[MichaelHarris]

12. Thanks ! I sometimes

sell my palouse (eastern Washington) stuff. I was commissioned to do some work for the local hospital recently and sold those. My NCAA stuff gets weird, the rules say I can sell sports photos but the schools say no. To keep it safe I don't sell those. If you want that first one I'll print it for you, I have a 13X19 roll printer. It looks like a black and white but it's really a color shot.

[merh]

14. I would love that print

and would be honored if you would sign it.

Please pmail me cost and how you want to handle this.

I just love that shot and I know where I want to hang it in my house. :hi:

[kentuck]

16. You are so lucky!

:-)

[merh]

17. I know it, that is an incredible photo

:bounce: I have just the place for it.

[phusion]

42. That's a color shot??

How on earth did you get that? It's wonderful.

What kind of equipment do you use?

[catnhatnh]

18. Nice idea for a thread...

<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Sorry the file is so large...I haven't learned to resize yet...

This one was shot about 25 miles from my house at a vacant farm in Barnstead NH and is titled "Sentinel of the Seasons"

[kentuck]

19. That one is definitely suitable for framing.

Wonderful! :hi:

[catnhatnh]

22. Thanks....

My original plan when I saw the proofs of my first shoot was to go back at 3 month intervals and restage each shot to reflect the change of seasons...hence the name...but life intervened and "Autumn" is the only season ever filmed. I always thought the series could have been stunning.

[catnhatnh]

25. Morning K&R....

C'mon guys, how about some hometown pride?

[Blarch]

26. Chicago, Lalapalooza

[Blarch]

27. Our old State Capitol building ...

where Lincoln served, and where I saw Obama introduce Biden.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Been There. Seen That!

That's a cool old building!

Hey was your Lollapalooza pic from this year?

I went to the first one but it wasn't on the beach it was at Tweeter Center (or whatever it used to be called).
GAC

[Blarch]

31. Ya, this year.

I went for Rage Against the Machine. But it was so much fun I will go every year.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. You From Chicago?

Or Chicagoland? I'm from the far southern reaches of it. Get much farther south than me and you won't get the Trib or Suntimes delivered to the hosue. But, all our TV and radio stations are from chicago, so we're not THAT far away.

About 60 miles from downtown.
GAC

[annabanana]

30. South Shore, LI NY

[catnhatnh]

33. Gorgeous...

I was raised on the North Shore of the Sound and those dunes and the drifting snow evoke so many memories of the bleak winters there. Ain't nothin' more worthy of a roll of film than an empty beach...here's one of mine:

<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Old Orchard Beach Maine"></a>

Again,thanks Anna.

[Individualist]

34. My hometown...

(I wasn't the photographer)

[MorganaSeawalker]

35. Boulder Creek, California

This is from my front porch.

[phusion]

36. Albuquerque...

But soon to be Durango, CO:


(These are not my photos--I wish!)

[abq e streeter]

40. An Albq guy here...love Durango, and is the Strater a beautiful old Hotel or what?

[phusion]

41. The Strater is great...

I've never stayed there but it's one of the best landmarks in Durango. I'll be moving there in two weeks--can't wait!

Nice to meet you! :toast:

[likesmountains 52]

47. Welcome to Durango...bring a shovel!

[Celebration]

37. Okay-Memphis

Here is the Mississippi River from downtown Memphis


These are all the colorful paddleboats lined up at Patriot lake in Shelby Farms, our 4,000 acre urban park.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

38. Bout An Hour Ago:

[Celebration]

51. Thank you for the picture of your two beautiful boys n/t

[MichaelHarris]

39. Wonderful, wonderful

shots everyone! Lets keep them coming, isn't there like 400,000 DUers? We're a few short :)

[Mari333]

43. where I live, MI

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Very nice, MichaelHarris

Here are two shots of my hometown, Anchorage, Alaska.

Winter


Summer

[MichaelHarris]

56. now

that's a beautiful hometown and wonderful shots!

[depakid]

46. Newcastle, NSW

Horseshoe dog beach and Newcastle from Nobbys Headland.


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Frequent backyard visitors...

Rainbow lorikeet


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Pesky Galah

[Ladyhawk]

57. Nice lorikeet and galah.

Here we call the latter rose-breasted cockatoos.

[merh]

48. morning light

Morning Light




Biloxi Back Bay

[depakid]

49. Michael- your new pics are downright idyllic

especially when contrasted with your fundyville shots:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4215728

:scared:

[MichaelHarris]

55. awww man

I forgot about fundie hell and I'm going back next week!

[AwakeAtLast]

58. Falls Park

Pendleton, IN

[tabasco]

59. WV

[Political Tiger]

61. Sweet Home Tampa Florida

Sunset over Tampa Bay



Sailing



Friendly pelicans



Downtown

[kwassa]

63. the neighborhood lake we walk around

the lake in suburban Maryland



A local resident out for a walk.

[mitchtv]

64. I found this

now see if it posts ?v=0
Jackson Heights, Queens

[SlowDownFast]

68. Upper Peninsula, Michigan.

The road I live on:

[catnhatnh]

69. Needs more cowbell (or lighthouses)

Not strictly my hometown,but if I've woken up at home and drove there for breakfast (which I have), then close enough...
<a href="" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Portland Head Light"></a>