DJ.J.ROCKS Photo Cointest

[+grodan & fiabus]

I had a nice time looking through my albums and found some nice pictures.

 

First:

a funny building near Gävle, Sweden and yes...there is a cache to find.

 

Went to Naomi/ Mousekakats summer event and the fan in our car broke in the afternoon. It was a very hot couple of days so I just could not see ourselves go home in that car by daytime so we headed home in the evening around 10. A couple of hours to drive and our sweetie slept like a beauty.

 

Here is a view from my parents kitchenwindow in summer. Love that peaceful view.

 

Here are our easterlucheggs 2008.

 

A cute halloweenghost.

 

A very ugly orch-troll-creature spotted at the Medevial festival in Leksand, summer 2009

 

Enjoy!

 

Thanks again for this cointest.

grodan Karin

[Queenie-Boo-Bay]

This is for those Chocoholic's:

 

Chocolate Castle

 

If your Sweet Tooth does not like Chocolate:

 

Jelly Beans

[+Dark Elf]

We have a little castle here in Münster and there are lots of caches near it.

 

This was taken while making one of the caches at night:

 

And this is it at daytime:

[+Pabloturtle]

Little place in the desert we've come to call "Terrier Rock"

 

 

[Fredhead]

Lighthouse in Baltimore:

[aniyn]

Windy night - long exposure?

 

Exactly.

Edited October 26, 2009 by aniyn

[+Hakali]

Sailing in Santa Cruz

 

Pelican at twilight

 

My kitty

 

Detail on a lace shawl I knit

[gridlox]

Gotta check the weather channel before you head out caching!!

 

 

This is NOT a multiple exposure or Photoshopped.

 

And you say...

"Well Grid, How the heck did you take that!?!

 

 

The things you find when you have insomnia!!

 

One night I ran across this photo site that was about "Camera Tossing".

 

Basically, first you set your camera for a 2 second exposure. Then you focus it on an object. Then press the shutter button as you toss your camera into the air causing it to spin by flicking your wrist. Hopefully keeping the object in the field of vision as the camera spins around in the air. Then, you catch your camera before it hits the ground!! You can do this during the day, but taking pics of lights in the dark gives the best results. IMHO

 

Easy!!

 

 

D-man

Edited October 26, 2009 by gridlox

[gridlox]

Here's another one that I took after I came to my senses and decided to quit throwing my $700 digital camera in the air and instead just let it spin by it's strap instead.

 

I call it "Candle In The Wind".

As in a "wind up toy", not a "windy day".

Because it's a picture of a candle took in the dark after winding the camera on it's strap and letting it unwind after pressing the shutter button.

 

 

Kinda cool, huh!?!

 

D-man

[+bittsen]

Here's another one that I took after I came to my senses and decided to quit throwing my $700 digital camera in the air and instead just let it spin by it's strap instead.

 

I call it "Candle In The Wind".

As in a "wind up toy", not a "windy day".

Because it's a picture of a candle took in the dark after winding the camera on it's strap and letting it unwind after pressing the shutter button.

 

 

Kinda cool, huh!?!

 

D-man

 

That is pretty cool.

[+The Finding Irish 4]

Caught up with this Turtle in South Africa:

[+The Finding Irish 4]

This pair must really be in love:

[gridlox]

And here are two of the most fantatstic shots that I have taken this year!!

 

 

These are pics of my daughter.

 

On July 24th of this year she was at band camp when she was involved in an accident.

They had broke for lunch and she was accidentally hit by one of her fellow band mates as he backed out of the parking space without looking. The force of the hit threw her backward onto the pavement where she hit her head. She had a severe head concussion and a fractured skull. She spent 3 days in intensive care and an addtional 3 days in the hospital before getting to come home. It has been a long rode to recovery, but she has shown us miracle after miracle in her recovery by doing better than the doctors expected her to be able to being doing according to "their" timeframe of what she should be able to be doing. Unfortunately she lost her hearing in her right ear and her sense of smell, but it hasn't detered her a bit in doing what she loves more than anything on this earth.

MARCHING BAND!!

She plans to go to college to become a band director and the doctors say that there is no reason what-so-ever she shouldn't pursue just that. With this being her senior year we were so worried that the accident would derail her plans for her future. But she is very strong willed and very set in what she wants to do!! Before the accident she was voted by the band to be co-band leader and leadership over her woodwind section. When asked if she wanted to step down because of the accident so she wouldn't have that pressure over her, she replied with an "Absolutely NOT!"

 

The pics above are from Aug 28th!! The night of the very first time she set foot back on the marching field.

To say we were proud is a huge understatement.

I think my wife cried the whole performance!!

 

D-man

Edited October 26, 2009 by gridlox

[+ZeroHecksGiven]

Just when you think you have it bad and life is out to get you, you hear a story like that and it's put everything right into perspective. Amazing lady there gridlox, sounds like you have many reasons to be proud. Best of luck to her and all that she hopes for.

[+Mar-elendili]

Shots from Norway!

 

Sörfjorden

 

The Three Swords, Hafrsfjord

 

Talk about a steep road (18%!), Stalheim

 

Comfortable cache logging!

 

Shipwreck

 

Undredal

 

That's it for now. Enjoy!

[+Lauchi]

Here are some pictures I made during my trips around in germany, france, sweden, greece and italy with my canon powershot a80, canon 3000, eos 450d and nikon e7900

I hope it is not to much picture spam.

 

This picture was taken out of a kayak 10 with a distance of 10cm from the dragonfly.

sadly my batteries were empty, when I found a plant with nearly 20 dragonflies.

 

This is a light house in Warnemünde, germany and the so called "Tee-Pott". It was build in the GDR and is a restaurant.

 

This is a picture of the two beacons of the port entrance in Warnemünde.

 

This is a panorama picture of the skyline of Rostock. Under my point of view is a cache

 

Well, this is a boat

 

This is a fisher boat at the beach in Heringsdorf, germany.

 

The Eifel Tower in Paris, France.

The city with 3 statues of liberty

 

This is the dome in Pisa, Italy. Picture was taken from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

 

This is Stockholm, Sweden.

I really like the colours in the city.

 

Well, just a cornfield in Crete, greece.

Edited October 26, 2009 by Lauchi

[+Lauchi]

And now my last pictures, I would like to post.

 

This picture shows the "Kraft durch Freude" buildings at the island Ruegen in germany.

It was build by the Nazis and is now a memorial and museum about the bad times. The buildings were more then 5km long. More infos in the wikipedia article

 

This is another picture from my flight above Ruegen. It shows the light house on top of the island from the point of view a bird would see it

 

How an ant would see the world

This are gigantic blades of grass. They belonged to the international garden festival in Rostock, Germany.

 

And last but not least the skywalk in the city of Hannovre, Germany.

Empty but working.

[+DirtyMiss]

Oh Wow! We have a lot of really talented photografs here.

I don´t know if I can overbid this beautiful fotos. But at least, I can add some of my snapshots

 

This was in Mecklenburg Vorpommern in Germany

 

 

 

This was on our last holiday on Mallorca:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think thats enough for now

 

Greetings from Germany and thanks a lot for the cointest!

[+DonB]

 

Little Hummer

[aniyn]

I suspect Tethys C will know this one:

 

 

[+fuzziebear3]

It is an interesting contest ... what makes a good photo? Sometimes it is the subject, sometimes the moment, and sometimes the artistry. I take many many photos, and it is hard to pick why I love some of them.

 

Two weeks ago, we went to Niagara Falls. The setting there was so beautiful, I think it was hard not to take good pictures. Night pictures are always a challenge, and I think these turned out well. I might post more later of other parts of that trip.

 

 

 

[+fuzziebear3]

A few more, also at Niagara ...

 

 

 

[+DirtyMiss]

beautiful sunsets:

 

 

 

beautiful nature:

 

[+nefesh]

And here are two of the most fantatstic shots that I have taken this year!!

 

 

These are pics of my daughter.

 

On July 24th of this year she was at band camp when she was involved in an accident.

They had broke for lunch and she was accidentally hit by one of her fellow band mates as he backed out of the parking space without looking. The force of the hit threw her backward onto the pavement where she hit her head. She had a severe head concussion and a fractured skull. She spent 3 days in intensive care and an addtional 3 days in the hospital before getting to come home. It has been a long rode to recovery, but she has shown us miracle after miracle in her recovery by doing better than the doctors expected her to be able to being doing according to "their" timeframe of what she should be able to be doing. Unfortunately she lost her hearing in her right ear and her sense of smell, but it hasn't detered her a bit in doing what she loves more than anything on this earth.

MARCHING BAND!!

She plans to go to college to become a band director and the doctors say that there is no reason what-so-ever she shouldn't pursue just that. With this being her senior year we were so worried that the accident would derail her plans for her future. But she is very strong willed and very set in what she wants to do!! Before the accident she was voted by the band to be co-band leader and leadership over her woodwind section. When asked if she wanted to step down because of the accident so she wouldn't have that pressure over her, she replied with an "Absolutely NOT!"

 

The pics above are from Aug 28th!! The night of the very first time she set foot back on the marching field.

To say we were proud is a huge understatement.

I think my wife cried the whole performance!!

 

D-man

My best wisheds. I'm glad she's doing well.

[+sweetlife]

And here are two of the most fantatstic shots that I have taken this year!!

 

 

These are pics of my daughter.

 

On July 24th of this year she was at band camp when she was involved in an accident.

They had broke for lunch and she was accidentally hit by one of her fellow band mates as he backed out of the parking space without looking. The force of the hit threw her backward onto the pavement where she hit her head. She had a severe head concussion and a fractured skull. She spent 3 days in intensive care and an addtional 3 days in the hospital before getting to come home. It has been a long rode to recovery, but she has shown us miracle after miracle in her recovery by doing better than the doctors expected her to be able to being doing according to "their" timeframe of what she should be able to be doing. Unfortunately she lost her hearing in her right ear and her sense of smell, but it hasn't detered her a bit in doing what she loves more than anything on this earth.

MARCHING BAND!!

She plans to go to college to become a band director and the doctors say that there is no reason what-so-ever she shouldn't pursue just that. With this being her senior year we were so worried that the accident would derail her plans for her future. But she is very strong willed and very set in what she wants to do!! Before the accident she was voted by the band to be co-band leader and leadership over her woodwind section. When asked if she wanted to step down because of the accident so she wouldn't have that pressure over her, she replied with an "Absolutely NOT!"

 

The pics above are from Aug 28th!! The night of the very first time she set foot back on the marching field.

To say we were proud is a huge understatement.

I think my wife cried the whole performance!!

 

D-man

 

First of all I have to say your Daughter is a Very Pretty Girl. Second of all I am sorry to hear what you and your family went thru and and her pain she went thru, but I cannot imagine what it must be like to know that she is a miracle to still have in your lives. No Parents ever want to see their kids pass before they do. The whole story I cried my eyes out. Even know we do not know her I give her my continous prayers and glad she is a determed young gal. It is great to hear that she is a go getter and nothing is going to stop her. I feel so happy to know she never gave up. Congratulations on Having such a brave Daughter. Keep up the good work and I hope she gets to acheive her goals in life. Thank You Gridlox for sharing these pictures of your daughter and your story.

[+MomsPlace]

And here are two of the most fantatstic shots that I have taken this year!!

 

 

These are pics of my daughter.

 

On July 24th of this year she was at band camp when she was involved in an accident.

They had broke for lunch and she was accidentally hit by one of her fellow band mates as he backed out of the parking space without looking. The force of the hit threw her backward onto the pavement where she hit her head. She had a severe head concussion and a fractured skull. She spent 3 days in intensive care and an addtional 3 days in the hospital before getting to come home. It has been a long rode to recovery, but she has shown us miracle after miracle in her recovery by doing better than the doctors expected her to be able to being doing according to "their" timeframe of what she should be able to be doing. Unfortunately she lost her hearing in her right ear and her sense of smell, but it hasn't detered her a bit in doing what she loves more than anything on this earth.

MARCHING BAND!!

She plans to go to college to become a band director and the doctors say that there is no reason what-so-ever she shouldn't pursue just that. With this being her senior year we were so worried that the accident would derail her plans for her future. But she is very strong willed and very set in what she wants to do!! Before the accident she was voted by the band to be co-band leader and leadership over her woodwind section. When asked if she wanted to step down because of the accident so she wouldn't have that pressure over her, she replied with an "Absolutely NOT!"

 

The pics above are from Aug 28th!! The night of the very first time she set foot back on the marching field.

To say we were proud is a huge understatement.

I think my wife cried the whole performance!!

 

D-man

I had a severe concussion about 30 years ago and lost my sense of smell too. Tell your Daughter to

look at the bright side! You'll never be able to smell a Skunk. I picked up a baby skunk a couple of months ago and it was really Fun! Not even a whiff! (although my husband and our dog got a few! oops!) You can change anybody's diaper! And you'll never gag again when you have to use the outhouse when you're Geocaching! God Bless and keep up the Positives!

[+Pabloturtle]

The Bruneau River Canyon.

 

 

[aniyn]

[+DonB]

 

White Pelican

[+webscouter.]

Don't forget to add Cache ID numbers if your picture is near a cache. That way I can go see it IRL

 

Thanks

[acadiahiker]

Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park

 

 

Gorham Mt. Trail, Acadia National Park

 

Edited October 27, 2009 by acadiahiker

[+ECplus3]

Time for me to add some shots. Some of these are so old that they are scans of prints!

 

My little girl at 11 months.

 

My girls at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

 

A wolf spider in my back yard

 

Dickson Falls, Fundy National Park, New Brunswick

 

Upper Salmon River, Fundy National Park, New Brunswick

(part of an 11km hike to get a cache )

[+ECplus3]

More pics

 

Diving on the Great Barrier Reef

 

A sign you pay attention to!!!

 

Drinking a beer while laying in a 'hammock' off the side of a ship in Fiji

(I didn't take the shot -- that's me in the net)

 

Sunset in Fiji

[+ECplus3]

Yet more pics

 

Kinderdijk, Netherlands

 

A part of the old city wall that still stands in Zwolle, Netherlands

 

Royal Palace, Amsterdam

 

Typical Amsterdam houses shot from the canal

[+ECplus3]

Yet more pics

 

The British Museum

 

Westminster Abbey

 

Big Ben

 

The fountains of Trafalgar Square

 

Ready to head home - Sleeping in Gatwick Airport

[+ECplus3]

Pennant Point, Nova Scotia

 

Pennant Point, Nova Scotia

 

Pennant Point, Nova Scotia

 

Pennant Point, Nova Scotia

 

Toes

 

A BMX trail 10 feet up in the air!

[+Droo]

Here's another one that I took after I came to my senses and decided to quit throwing my $700 digital camera in the air and instead just let it spin by it's strap instead.

 

I call it "Candle In The Wind".

As in a "wind up toy", not a "windy day".

Because it's a picture of a candle took in the dark after winding the camera on it's strap and letting it unwind after pressing the shutter button.

 

 

Kinda cool, huh!?!

 

D-man

Not just kinda.... very.

[+Droo]

And here are two of the most fantatstic shots that I have taken this year!!

 

 

These are pics of my daughter.

 

On July 24th of this year she was at band camp when she was involved in an accident.

They had broke for lunch and she was accidentally hit by one of her fellow band mates as he backed out of the parking space without looking. The force of the hit threw her backward onto the pavement where she hit her head. She had a severe head concussion and a fractured skull. She spent 3 days in intensive care and an addtional 3 days in the hospital before getting to come home. It has been a long rode to recovery, but she has shown us miracle after miracle in her recovery by doing better than the doctors expected her to be able to being doing according to "their" timeframe of what she should be able to be doing. Unfortunately she lost her hearing in her right ear and her sense of smell, but it hasn't detered her a bit in doing what she loves more than anything on this earth.

MARCHING BAND!!

She plans to go to college to become a band director and the doctors say that there is no reason what-so-ever she shouldn't pursue just that. With this being her senior year we were so worried that the accident would derail her plans for her future. But she is very strong willed and very set in what she wants to do!! Before the accident she was voted by the band to be co-band leader and leadership over her woodwind section. When asked if she wanted to step down because of the accident so she wouldn't have that pressure over her, she replied with an "Absolutely NOT!"

 

The pics above are from Aug 28th!! The night of the very first time she set foot back on the marching field.

To say we were proud is a huge understatement.

I think my wife cried the whole performance!!

 

D-man

 

Great story, D-man. Many well wishes and thoughts for a complete rehab.

[+Droo]

 

Well, just a cornfield in Crete, greece.

Snails??

[+kini_ont]

Wonderful Story of a very determined young lady who does not let anything deter her dreams, thanks gridlox and congratulations.

 

Out caching today, found a very interesting cache "Airmail High" GC1FZ9C by DRMOO, here are a few photos

 

The trail into the cache

 

Arriving at GC

 

The cache about 20 ft off the ground

 

When I found how to lower the cache, it was clear fish line that ran about 30 ft away thru a pulley system (I have mail)

 

The walk out was just as enjoyable to the eye

 

[+Mar-elendili]

Some Geocaching fun!

 

Last night's (well earned) FTF

 

I won't say where it is...

 

A TB who wanted to be surprised!

 

Strange meeting

 

My husband and caching partner

 

Mysterious tower in Italy

 

Careful, lake monster ahead! (Iceland)

[+tsunrisebey]

This thread has been so much fun to watch. Thanks for tall the great pictures and neat stories/tag lines that went with them. Lots of talented people with the camera

[+DonB]

[+DonB]

 

This elbow tree is in a park on the south side of Jonesboro, AR. I can't remember the name of the park, but it is a big park with many caches.

Edited October 28, 2009 by DWBur

[+CUTT4]

This picture is another from our trip to Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC. As we left the boat I liked how the waves hit the fort. Fort Moultrie (another of Charleston's forts) and Fort Sumter face each other and guarded the inlet. It is from the British attacking the fort that South Carolina gets it's state tree. The outer walls of Fort Moultrie were made out of palmetto trees and the cannon balls could not penetrate the walls ... hence the "Palmetto State". Charleston was also the scene of Blackbeard's blockade in May of 1718. Blackbeard managed to capture a boat of prominent town citizens. He then held the for ransom ... a chest of medicine. The hostages were later released (supposedly without their clothing) and Blackbeard continued to sail northward. It was also in Charleston at White Point that Stede Bonnet ("the gentleman pirate") was executed on Dec. 10, 1718.

 

 

We were in the Cherry Grove section of Myrtle Beach, SC looking for an earthcache. After we found it my father and I traveled about 5 blocks down the street to this location. It is the Northern-most beach in South Carolina that is accessible by the general public. The only beach farther north is privately owned and used by the university student of a near by college to study marine life and ecology.

 

 

This beach is located in Georgetown, SC. It is near a cache that we were not able to locate. Although, it didn't help that we were looking at the cache page for an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT cache! Later found out we had been right on top of it, but did not look there due to the description given in the "page". We are determined to get it next time we go back. Oh well ... we may not have gotten the cache, but the view was amazing!

 

 

 

In case you haven't guessed ... I love history and culture!

[daveindeal]

ok there a little old now but i took them so they can be submitted.

 

Im in Kent UK and on November 8th 2007 we was issued a Tidal surge warning that the sea will rise by 2 meters threatning our flood defences and the possability of flooding 100,000 homes.

 

the following were taken during and after the surge:

 

Here we can see the fishing deck on Deal Pier

 

Here we cant as the wave engulfs it, also the split second i took the shot i got a seagul as well

 

The waves pounding the sea wall defences

 

The after effects to clean up....... 100 tones of stones along the prominard, road and also houses along the coastal streach of deal

 

probably my favourite i took, I got very wet on this one

[Team_Merchlinsky]

Last firdays hockey game in sunbury

 

[+Mar-elendili]

Next batch of pictures : some good shots of our cat Chiepoo. He's a handsome 7kg fellow who likes to play pranks and sleeps on his back. Here goes!

 

Out of breath after some wild run

 

What does that e-mail say?

 

Music! I love music. Weee!

 

Nothing like a good nap.

 

All those pics are a bit old. Chiepoo is bigger now! But the chime obsession and the sleeping position are still the same!

Enjoy!

[+DirtyMiss]

I don´t know what type of car it is, but when I saw it, my heart stood still!

 

[+Tank Hounds]

Here are a few I took.

 

The dog one I just hppened to catch at the right time!

The first 3 scenery ones are from Stehekin, WA this past summer.

Then the 2 others I took in Alaska on our cruise in Sept!

 

 

 

 

This one is the "rainbow bridge" in Washington. It is the rainbow bridge, over Rainbow Creek, along Rainbow Creek trail, on Rainbow Mountain. The next time I visit I'm definitly taking along the ashes of my beloved pets to lay them to rest at the real Rainbow Bridge!

 

 

And I can't believe that I caught the iceberg calving!! (that's ice falling off)