I was up there about ten years or so ago, hiking along that trail above the lake. It is a TRIP how devastated it is, with the trees knocked down like matchsticks and piled at the end of the lake. They said some guy named Truman lived on the shore of the lake and refused to evacuate when they warned him the mountain was gonna go, and that he and his cabin ended up getting buried by ten feet thick burning ash.

Hills, mountains 'n' shit.



Fields, buildings 'n' shit.

where were those taken? Looks like Arizona or southeastern part of California? Guy's got some kind of irrigation pump set up there...

The wonderful land of Afghanistan.

I was gonna say, and have before that your pictures totally remind me of this place, only with considerably more sagebrush.

A male Junonia coenia (Common Buckeye)


Lichen


Amanita vernicoccora


Agaricus xanthodermus, slightly poisonous, the intense yellow spots are from KOH, orangish on the older cap, the slightly less intense yellow spots are normal staining.

spores

Nice landscapes Bezerko

Excellent, mindashadow, excellent.

we had a solar eclipse here today

Whoooah, fucking trippy!! That's the DAYTIME?

These first two were shot right here in town, just a couple weeks ago, and hopefully give an idea of why I like it here. Sometimes I wonder what the rest of the country thinks of where I live, if all they know is blue football fields and potato farms. It can be a really fun place if you like to get outdoors.



Fall colors in the city; the trees have since lost their leaves. Novembers here can be kind of grim, but this was late October and the weather was still nice.



This is kind of neat; at Penny Springs, geothermal seeps along the south fork of the Salmon River (130 miles north of Boise) produce these smoking steaming cliffs. Sometimes people build pools by the base of the cliff for hot mineral baths.

yeah mate, about 10:25 am till about 11 am we had a solar eclipse, it was weird as!
i took a whole heap of photos but hosted them in a private folder so yeah i'll have to fix that...

nice trees man, very pretty in 'tater kuntry

It's a good time of year for taking photographs

some from the last few days, I think that's mistletoe growths.

nice photos, that last one looks like panzerfaust
here are my eclipse ones http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCS3NkZ

The trees do look similar, cool

Nice, and this reminds me of Odinist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dreadmeat1 ... 2027279727

I legitimately thought I saw a velociraptor in that pic.
Too much Jurassic Park, I'd say.

ha ha! yeah true, either that or a giant turkey

my camera sucks,but this is down the road from my house

Some of these pics are mind blowing,i wish i found this thread earlier.A hundred bux away from a new camera and ill have some better pics,iv just bought a house out here and there's some pretty cool scenery .

Dreadmeat, i was just about to watch that eclipse then a big cloud came at like the exact time it was sapossed to happen, till about one.It was like the cloud done it on purpose.

Mindshadow,where are you from??...looks like an amazing place

You live down the road from a mountain? How awesome is that! Can't wait to see the views from the top

EDIT; Is that Mt Ruapehu?
Climbers and trampers have been told to avoid Mt Ruapehu's summit zone after scientists warned the mountain could erupt without warning



The town I live is anything but, though luckily I'm close to Bournemouth, The New Forest and Dorset coast (UK). All these other places, people photograph look amazing to me

no that's mount egmont...yeah about 20 mins to the mountain and 10 mins to the sea,its pretty cool.Don't know if i'm ready to climb it just yet its a steep mountain.
yeah ya can see ruapehu from some points down the coast,would kinda be cool if it erupt's,but i shouldn't really say that as it might fuck some people up.

mindshadow it's egmont/taranaki, jeez man, do you not know your nz mountains?!
we have loads of mountains up here in auckland too but none have snow

bloodycumshit [delightful username] that's some pretty sweet scenery down there, where did you move from?
good for potatoes around there i believe.

Coprinopsis atramentaria, this will make you sick if consumed within a few days of alcohol, it contains Coprine which causes a condition similar to disulfiram, a unpleasant hypersensitivity to alcohol. Otherwise edible before it turns into an inky mass of spores.


Patellaria atrata, this was identified by others at AscoFrance. I was told it is quite common and grows on many surfaces, including rope. Its really tiny so easily overlooked, I only saw it cause I stopped to photograph something else.


Spores


A wet Lecanora muralis

Great shots Byrain! The first shot is my new wallpaper.. looks like an alien world
Here's a few I had saved:
Sunrise on the prairies:

First snow in the valley:

Fire in the cabin:

Northern Lights behind the cabin:

BC valley:

Violent storm in Saskatchewan.. I have a couple more of this storm if anyone's interested:


I love the idea of a MA calender; So many talented photogs here!

freaky clouds! count me in, i'd like to see them.

As per Dread's request:









I enhanced this one a lot for effect

It was a crazy storm.. torrential rail, hail and tornadoes. Wind gusts up to 100km/hr!
Driving home from the cabin, I got stuck in this monster storm. Going into this fucker with Finsterforst's "zum.." was quite an experience!
I'm quite sure I narrowly missed driving into a tornado.. the wind went from 50km to 150km/hr in a split second, it was so bad I had to park next to the grain elevator in my previous picture

farkin' mean photos man! right place at the right time aye, i'm glad you had your camera

bit lost for words....fucking amazing,love those northern lights too

good for potatoes, and mushrooms and......boom! ruepahu explodes,doesn't look that bad

oh, i lived in new plymouth for about 6 months before i moved out here(Okato), but i am from the mount
.Yeah there's heaps of waterfalls and forest and shit out here,im keen to check out this place, its called the Goblin forest



that aint my photo i havnt been there yet

yeah shit man, i'm watching that on the news, freaky
shrooms and magma don't mix... (oO.)

edit: cool pic, exploring new stuff is wicked fun

Thanks for the kind words fellow peons! (dreadmeat & bcs)
Goblin forest? damn, it looks otherworldly.. could spend days in there with a camera!
I dug up a few more from my British Columbia trip a few years back:



Ancient claw of doom

Long lost windir cover

nice .....can anyone else see the old man with long hair in the log on photo 3?

maybe, the rock in the second one looked a bit like a sleeping dog [head only, 2nd rock from the right]
edit: yeah i see it now

what lake was the "Ancient Claw of Doom" taken at? The lake looks familiar, but it was AGES and ages and ages ago since I was up in British Columbia; it might not be the same place... All the pictures are awesome, too.

I haven't been out in a long enough time to have any really great pics, but the most prized of mine is this one where I get the sunlight shining on the grass in this perfect light. Doesn't come close to some of the other pictures here. Them storm clouds man...

Anyways,

It's nice collection of forest and natural images but i like "Amish farm right outside of Lancaster, Pa. " the most.

Love this thread, thought I'd give back and share some photos of my home state of Vermont. Mid-November, so the leaves are off the trees but no snow yet. Quality varies, taken with my phone.

First set are from the land around our house.




















You can spot a beaver house in this one

The rest are from the area around Lake Willoughby




Note the wind towers

beautiful, glad i'm not the only one who lives in the boondocks,that's some amazing land to have just behind your house

Yeah, I'm glad I got to grow up around all that, I don't live there now but I like to visit as much as I can. I've always wanted to visit New Zealand too, the varying terrain intrigues me. Really enjoy all the pictures on here.

At last! I don't have to use the cellphone's camera anymore since a got this new camera!
http://www.canon.es/For_Home/Product_Fi ... US_240_HS/

I made one of my missed trekkings yesterday and the forest was beautiful and full of leaves because of the fall:

















Some videos with the Go Pro and the new camera (to compare) too:
-Go Pro HD Hero 2 at my hand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBonBhOy5-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_wS0jGCRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWtLY9KP3WI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHLWtyVAW0

-On my chest using the backpack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oVReu29sH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxgs3VBgcOo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yALsheh71A

-Same place that appears at the end on my first video with the camera on the chest but recorded with the new camera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzg1IITkMis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1A8Sm7N2k

Waiting for the snow that's supposed to fall this weekend!

And more!

-Photos:
http://www.mejuba.com/albums/Storm/138665/1
-Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V743YIj2xUc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciSNXBJKu2A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-eTnOPAVuA