On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
So far, this feature has been about travel, with the occasional “local” picture or two. I think limiting this to just travel is just that – limiting. So I’m changing this up a bit to include neat, colorful, funny, interesting, poignant, etc. pictures that don’t require travel.
As always, if you’re on a trip or have a story to share, you can just pitch in below.
I’m pleased to announce the release of the new picture submission tool for this feature. Using this tool will ensure I don’t mess things up, will make it much less time-consuming for me, and will make for a much easier process all the way around. This would not be possible without the efforts of valued commenter Major Major Major Major. His help has been invaluable in this feature, not to mention in the pie filter and rotating quote.
The form is here and has a few simple rules:
- You have to have made at least one comment that’s been approved/published.
- It’s a picture and not too big (you can include up to 7 pictures in a single submission)
- You must include your commenter screenname and email (kept private) to verify you, just like making a comment. Only your nym is published.
- No more than 10 form entries per hour.
- You can include an overall description, per-picture descriptions, dates, locations, etc.
If you are a lurker and thus not a commenter, or should you wish to submit a video, archive of multiple pictures, links to pictures hosted online, or want to include more text or pictures than the form allows, send an email.
Travel safely everyone, even if it’s just down the hall for that second cup of coffee!
Sorry no pics this morning, hit a technical snag with accepting form submissions last night and didn’t have the time to do a proper post from the email archive.
Monday’s make-up-post will be epic, but I am seeking submissions of photos of Switzerland (or Swiss in America!) for Tuesday’s First of August post. It’s Swiss National Day – the 4th of July, if you will, for Switzerland, though it’s more a celebration of inter-dependence than it is of independence from French and German rule. I’ll contribute some, of course, but I’m sure many of you have a great picture or three that I can incorporate.
Open Thread!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So yesterday, I hit a snag on doing the link to the liveaboard company’s short video from our week aboard (and my own dive vids are too long – I can’t figure out how to do clips). I finally got it figured out last night. Enjoy!
Our trip on the Mike Ball Liveaboard, Spoilsport
OzarkHillbilly
No pics? Again? What are we going to do with you, Alain?
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Beautiful.
OzarkHillbilly
British scuba diver dies exploring shipwreck off US coast How’d I know it was the Andrea Doria?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
The Andrea Doria kills people. She’s collapsing, way too far out, and too deep.
One of the guys in the courthouse was trying to convince me to get trimix certified and to practice up so that he and I could do it – I told him he was out of his fucking mind, that I like to enjoy my dives, not be in terror of cold, heavy currents, murk, collapsing walls and likely death.
I know my limits. What concerned me was that he didn’t.
JMG
Going to Saratoga today for two days at the races! Alice will take pictures, I’ll try to post when I get home (world’s worst photographer is me).
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@JMG:
Saratoga is a gorgeous track!
raven
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I’ve been wondering abut something. The USS Ward, APD 6 was sunk at the Battle of Ormoc Bay on Dec 7, 1944. She was hit by a kamakaze and then scuttled. None of the WW2 four pipers exist but I wonder if it would be fairly easy to locate this ship?
?BillinGlendaleCA
No Pictures? OK Alain, I’ll put up one from my trip to Joshua Tree.
Actually, this was a test shot while it was light enough to focus and frame the shot. But, when I got home I could see the milky way in the shot.
Schlemazel
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
WOW! I love that shot.
Cermet
My daughter is interning at CERN and hiking in the Alps – hope to get pic’s soon. She wouldn’t mind me coming along but those days (hiking in the mountains, & camping) for two weeks are over big time! If it wasn’t for the camping (and carrying all that gear but especially camping – as in sleeping on a thin mat on rocky ground (ugh!)) I guess I would like to do the hiking only part.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Schlemazel: Thanks, I’m getting the hang of it. That’ll be the last trip to Joshua Tree for a while, the guy who organizes these outings is thinking of trying a shoot on the coast closer to LA.
ETA: Speaking of test shots, I was testing out my full-spectrum camera last night and actually managed to get a pic that showed a bit of the milky way from here in Glendale.
Schlemazel
@raven:
The ship the fired the first American shot in the Pacific, we have one of her guns by the capital as it was crewed by kids from Minnesota. I would think the navy would have a pretty good idea of the general area it was scuttled in (sunk by another US warship after they abandoned ship) But the exact location would take one of those sonar patrol efforts I would guess. Not sure if anyone has looked. To the google machine I guess . . . but you probably have already done that
Raven
@Schlemazel: yea, my dad’s ship was her sister ship and right next to her when she went down. The Crosby took on many of her survivors and a few became permanent crew.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@raven:
I see that she’s on some bucket lists, but nobody talks about diving her. One list puts her on a list of deep wrecks 100 to 200 meters deep.
That’s exotic naval depth for a dive.
rikyrah
Awe.. no pictures ?
raven
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Ah, thanks.
raven
USS Cooper: Return to Ormoc Bay
ChrisS
Still in England for another few days. Following the healthcare vote this AM on twitter. Fantastic results!
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: The thing.about the Doria that has always made it so dangerous was the fact that one can dive to it at reasonable depths, but that the way it rests on the bottom is such that it goes deep, very deep, beckoning the unwary and greedy to explore it’s mysteries.
If you haven’t heard me say it before, you should read Shadow Divers Great, great book about Atlantic wreck diving. A truly terrifying true story..
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: The book I read about the divers at Pearl after the attack is truly incredible.
OzarkHillbilly
@Cermet: Get a therm-a-rest. They still work for me. Just spent a week sleeping on hard rocky ground, no problem.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: You got a title?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: sorry
Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941―A Navy Diver’s Memoir Paperback – March 15, 2012
by Cdr. Edward C. Raymer USN (Ret.) (Author)
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Thanx.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s really intense. They were in total darkness and had a guy on deck reading a blueprint to guide them. All that trying to find dead bodies.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Stunning. I just shot the Milky Way last weekend from North Carolina, but the Joshua Tree is on my bucket list.
I looked up one night while walking my dogs and wondered about the very faint haze I could barely make out. I’d seen it a million times before, but always figured it was something in the atmosphere. Just for fun, I set up my camera in front of my house, did a long exposure, and lo and behold the faint haze became the Milky Way. Turned out I could (kind of sort of) see it from home all along. It only took me 17 years to figure it out.
raven
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Where you going for the eclipse?
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Some impressive photography facing the other way, as it were.
@raven
You might find this of interest.
MobiusKlein
@raven: stupid eclipse is happening while kids are in school. Can’t ditch high school so easily as elementary.