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gtown 03-15-2012 11:38 AM

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If GunMaster357 and infinite monkey don't mind, I'm going to take another turn. :)

Have fun...

glatt 03-15-2012 11:42 AM

Red bus and driving on left says it's London.

infinite monkey 03-15-2012 11:45 AM

Don't mind a'tall, gtown. :)

I had found a picture when I was looking for the wiener sickles, but later on I couldn't remember where it came from. Searching turned up nothing. Ha!

GunMaster357 03-15-2012 02:55 PM

Funny thing is that it looks like a building model

gtown 03-15-2012 03:16 PM

GunMaster357: Good point. I think that's because it was taken through a window and zoomed in with a (relatively cheap) digital camera.

glatt: London's Brilliant but is not where this is.

infinite monkey 03-15-2012 03:45 PM

Is it Beijing?

gtown 03-15-2012 05:20 PM

Not Beijing. As a bonus, it's not Peking either. :)
That's 2 cities down!

GunMaster357 03-15-2012 06:31 PM

Birmingham (United Kingdom) has red buses too.
But then so has Christchurch (New Zealand).
And Vienna (Austria).

gtown 03-16-2012 08:35 AM

That's 3 more cities eliminated from contention...

glatt 03-16-2012 08:36 AM

Then it has to be Tokyo.:3eye:

ZenGum 03-16-2012 08:46 AM

Quite possibly Japan, the general style of the architecture feels right, and while I don't remember any red buses, that red sedan with the white bonnet ("hood") reminds me of some Japanese taxis. And the shot is from a very tall building.

I doubt it is Tokyo, though, not enough people or traffic.

gtown 03-16-2012 10:20 PM

Tokyo it is, can you find the building?

chrisinhouston 03-22-2012 09:05 AM

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OK, I'll play but only if I can use one of my images.

:D

glatt 03-22-2012 09:23 AM

Well, those look like saguaro in the background, which really limits it.

Lamplighter 03-22-2012 09:55 AM

Could be on west coast of southern Africa (e.g., Angola, Nambia, South Africa)

infinite monkey 03-22-2012 09:56 AM

Upper Zimbabwe

glatt 03-22-2012 10:01 AM

Africa, huh? Possible. Chris has been there.

Lamplighter 03-22-2012 10:31 AM

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I'll go with the west coast of Nambia.


This is the closest I've come using terms of architecture + location...

infinite monkey 03-22-2012 10:53 AM

chris will be back with your answer when he returns from a Nova Scotia/South Australia tour.

Thank you for your patience. :lol:

glatt 03-22-2012 10:57 AM

It's the Alto Vista chapel in Aruba.

If you search for: africa chapel cactus
in google image search, it will pop right up.

infinite monkey 03-22-2012 11:21 AM

Good job, glatt.

Sigh...Aruba. Look at that water. Look at that relaxation. Look at it. Just LOOK at it!

chrisinhouston 03-22-2012 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt (Post 802935)
It's the Alto Vista chapel in Aruba.

If you search for: africa chapel cactus
in google image search, it will pop right up.

Nice job glatt!

I went up to the chapel just after sunrise and shot this using my 15mm fisheye lens.

classicman 03-22-2012 11:33 AM

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OK here is the one I found/lost and now found again...

glatt 03-22-2012 12:44 PM

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Is that Palau?

I searched for archipelago

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infinite monkey 03-22-2012 12:51 PM

I was bequeathed the official key, as classic was going to be offline for a bit.

It is Palau. But you could be a bit more specific. (Like how I refrained from saying more pacific?)

glatt 03-22-2012 01:23 PM

I dunno, it's just a bunch of islands.

Mechercher? Ngeruktabel? Kokor?

infinite monkey 03-22-2012 02:48 PM

Is he close enough, classic?

It's a reefer.

GunMaster357 03-22-2012 05:20 PM

Looks like Velasco Reef North of Palau.

classicman 03-22-2012 06:17 PM

Close enough.
Helen Island, Helen Reef, Palau.

Gravdigr 09-04-2012 05:20 PM

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Well. It's been a minute since we done one of these.

So, without further ado:

Where is this?

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I'll check on you kids late tonight, or see ya tomorrow.

Remember, no cheating.

gtown 09-04-2012 07:17 PM

Baatara gorge waterfall in Lebanon(!?).

ZenGum 09-04-2012 07:27 PM

No idea, but .... :eek: whoahhhh!

Gravdigr 09-05-2012 07:06 AM

Way to go Gtown!! It is indeed the Baatara Gorge Waterfall.

To get a better sense of scale, the drop is 837 feet.

Winnerbuysbreakfastwhat?

Gravdigr 09-05-2012 07:07 AM

Mad lurking skills, also, Gtown!

gtown 09-05-2012 09:38 PM

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Thanks, I lurk with the best of them. After a few tries I found "waterfall hole gorge" in image search as the winner.

In lieu of breakfast, here's an image...

ZenGum 09-05-2012 09:43 PM

Random guess..... Area 51.

gtown 09-05-2012 10:05 PM

No, of course it's not, move along, nothing to see here.

butseriouslyitsnotarea51

Gravdigr 09-06-2012 12:49 PM

Area 52?


Are those camouflaged radomes?

Looks like a small prison.

glatt 09-06-2012 01:47 PM

Reminds me of the scene of the final battle from a zombie movie. Like Resident Evil, or some such creature.

Spexxvet 09-06-2012 01:52 PM

Liechtenstein's cosmodrome?

Gravdigr 09-06-2012 04:12 PM

Not enough info in the pic for me to go on.

Hintage?

gtown 09-06-2012 04:22 PM

http://wikilovesmonuments.us/

Gravdigr 09-06-2012 04:24 PM

I'm thinking about helping out in that project. I was reading about it the other day.

Now, to figger out that hint.

Gravdigr 09-06-2012 04:26 PM

Given the Wiki project reference, and your location, I'm guessing it's somewhere in Texas.

Does it concern detention, or space?

gtown 09-06-2012 05:34 PM

Nah, Texas would be too obvious. That just leaves 60 states/territories to choose from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RHPs

Aliantha 09-06-2012 06:47 PM

If I had a guess - and I'm going to - I'd say somewhere in new mexico? Looks pretty desolate but green. Are those crops or just grass and stuff? Looks like some kind of dam in the distance, so I'm wondering about cultivation.

gtown 09-06-2012 09:25 PM

Not New Mexico (or an adjoining state).
Not spacey, but definitely sciencey.

Elspode 09-06-2012 10:55 PM

I've been there. Idaho. Part of the Idaho National Laboratory...those two gizmos in the parking lot are prototype nuclear aircraft engines. There's a decommissioned reactor in the building. Now just an interpretive historical site.

gtown 09-06-2012 11:12 PM

Winner!

Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant and U.S. National Historic Landmark.

infinite monkey 10-29-2012 08:12 AM

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Where (what?) is this?

BigV 10-29-2012 08:27 AM

Oh, brother, another "where art thou?" post. But I'm probably not on the right track and I don't want to derail the thread, so I'll hand the cart back to you.

Gravdigr 10-29-2012 06:40 PM

Quote:

There will be many ob-stack-les in yo path.
Quote:

You will see a cow on top of a cotton house.

infinite monkey 10-29-2012 07:13 PM

It does put you in mind of that movie, of course. Which is a bonus!

Hint:

What's that you're ridin' there Tommy?

And the answer isn't roll-top desk. ;)

busterb 10-29-2012 08:54 PM

Hand cart for section hands

infinite monkey 10-30-2012 08:33 AM

It is a hand cart. But where/on what?

Gravdigr 10-31-2012 03:15 PM

Are they just outside of Rock Ridge?

Quote:

"Dang, that was lucky...Durn near lost a four hundred dollar handcart."

infinite monkey 10-31-2012 03:36 PM

I don't know. They could be anywhere...we could track them the whole way.

glatt 10-31-2012 06:02 PM

Well, they are on a track. At a junction switch. In the middle of a flat plain.

Rhianne 10-31-2012 06:22 PM

Is it where the Eastern lot met the Western lot when they built the trans-continental railroad?

infinite monkey 11-01-2012 10:23 AM

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Well, this was a vague 'where is this' round but I found the pictures so compelling I thought it might be interesting. It's the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867. This is primarily Kansas.

Quote:

The photographic series made by Alexander Gardner in Kansas between mid September and late October 1867 is the earliest and most diverse systematic photo-documentation of the American West. The Kansas series, originally titled “Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division,” is part of a later series titled “Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railroad.” The entire series systematically photo-documented the surveyed railroad line which began at the Mississippi River in St. Louis and ended at the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco, California. The Kansas series, consisting of several hundred views between Kansas City and Fort Wallace, in Western Kansas, documented the initial impact of the new railroad settlements on the native prairies. This was particularly true along the Smoky Hill River route where construction was in progress as shown in Gardner’s pictures. This series makes an especially valuable source for a rephotographic series to detail visually the transformation of the Kansas landscape by the early European settlements along the railroad.

- via “Rephotographing Alexander Gardner’s 1867 Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division” by John Charlton
courtesy of one of the best sites EVER...Retronaut!

http://www.retronaut.com/2012/10/hel...cific-railway/


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