Cool Photos You've Taken

[DocWard]

Alpo's Cool Photo thread got me to thinking about what cool photos other Saloonatics might have taken themselves. No specific subject matter, just photos you have taken that you find interesting or cool. Maybe add a brief explanation of what, when, where. That sort of thing. I suppose I would also grudgingly accept photos taken by spouse, child or family member, so long as it is a personal photo, not professional. Of course, I'll start with what I think is the coolest I've taken.

 

P-51 Mustangs fly into the sunset at the "Gathering of Mustangs and Legends" at Rickenbacker International Airport. September 2007. 35mm film photo.

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

Crescent moon.

 

 

Our icon "corner."

 

 

Candles 

 

 

Light from cut crystal hanging in our window.  It doesn't show in this,  but as the crystal moved on its string that split in two on the green band.  

[DocWard]

Turkeys taking a leisurely stroll through our yard last year. 

[Pat Riot]

I took this one morning last summer. 

 

Same day, oddly enough

 

Coopers Hawk. It just appeared on my garage roof and I quickly snapped this photo.

 

Niagara Falls from the window of the restaurant at our hotel, Oct ‘23

 

 

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Niagara Falls

Slowly I turned. Step by step, inch by inch ...

[Blackwater 53393]

I took these two pictures two hours apart!

 

The kid never moved!  The camera angle is slightly different because I had moved around the room a time or two.
 

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2024 by Blackwater 53393

[DocWard]

Camp Patriot, Kuwait, about mid-day, sometime during the summer of 2008.

[Pulp, SASS#28319]

Comet Thuchinstan-Atlas and a meteor.

[Pat Riot]

December 2022. I spotted these stacks while riding my motorcycle. As I approached I also noticed the wispy clouds. 

 

The parking lot at The Look Out over Lake Elsinore on Rte 74, Ortega Highway, California. March 2020

 

USS Constitution, July 4, 2019, Boston Harbor

 

Another view of Lake Elsinore, California. April 2019.

 

 

[Pulp, SASS#28319]

Not a photo, but UP BigBoy 4014 entering Oklahoma on his Heartland Tour.  Turn up the volume, I love that whistle.

 

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Grand Canyon from the south rim…

 

… from the North Rim

 

[Blackwater 53393]

On the road to Monument Valley.

 

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

I’ll bet that sounded cool too, Doc. 
 

 

Edited November 24, 2024 by Abilene Slim SASS 81783

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Delivering a history lesson to a mob of Cub Scouts, "Civil War Revisited," Kearney Park, Fresno - a bunch of years ago.  The lads were captivated!  

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Sunset, Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. the moon is in the upper left corner. 
 

 

Kansas City sunrise 

 

Edited November 24, 2024 by Abilene Slim SASS 81783

[Canton Chris]

Family Sunday Dinner!

Bucky looking at me through the kitchen window.

[Canton Chris]

Flock of sheep rolling down the road when I was on a bike ride!

[watab kid]

i took a lot in the 70s i dont have the negatives nor any reproductions of them now , some ended up published , record albumen covers , and even a brochure for the bicentennial for a quaint little town that once was john waynes home , but nothing worthy of recognition beyond its original intent , 

[Blackwater 53393]

The Medicine Wheel 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was my second visit.

 It was a very spiritual experience for me!

 

 

Edited November 24, 2024 by Blackwater 53393

[Cheatin Charlie]

Leaving Grand Tetons on my bike I stopped and took this picture perfect snap shot.

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

8 hours ago, Pulp, SASS#28319 said:

Not a photo, but UP BigBoy 4014 entering Oklahoma on his Heartland Tour.  Turn up the volume, I love that whistle.

 

 

 

Neptune on a belly board!  That made me cringe!  GoPro on the roadbed?

Great video, thanks.

[Subdeacon Joe]

8 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Delivering a history lesson to a mob of Cub Scouts, "Civil War Revisited," Kearney Park, Fresno - a bunch of years ago.  The lads were captivated!  

 

 

 

Who is that dashing and handsome young blade?  

[Pat Riot]

A long horn I saw on a back road between Molalla and Salem Oregon. 

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Ohio longhorn!

Edited November 24, 2024 by Rye Miles #13621

[DocWard]

At the risk of getting myself hurt, AB wearing fire gear at a demonstration during a school assembly. She was the teacher the kids chose. 2007.

Edited November 24, 2024 by DocWard

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

Who is that dashing and handsome young blade?  

I wondered myself. I was thinking "that looks more like Joe then it does like Hardpan".

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

A few years ago, out my back door

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Sunrise, a few days later

Staff meeting, at work

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

(this is the staff meeting)

Edited November 24, 2024 by Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103

[Blackwater 53393]

This is me.  I’m standing in four states at one time!

 

This is where I was standing…

 

 

Edited November 24, 2024 by Blackwater 53393

[Gracos Kid]

[Gracos Kid]

[Cyrus Cassidy #45437]

Stirling Castle, in Stirling, Scotland.  My wife and I visited the homeland in 2016 and I took this photo from the highway below. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

Sunrise, a few days later

Staff meeting, at work

 

 

While I enjoy photos like this, they also give me the willies.

 

 

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Fisherman's Monument, Peggy's Cove. Nova Scotia, Canada.