WOT – Home sweet home

[fozzibear1]

Pecospetes ‘journey’ thread got me thinking (IMO excellent thread by the way)

Im sure all of us have pics that reflect the raw beauty and/or personality of our homelands. That use pictures yet in some weird way speak from the heart.Indeed any pics that you have taken on your travels that would qualify as masterpieces of nature or quintessentialy represent a place for you.

I would be very interested to see others pics in that vein and I suspect im not completely alone on this.

(Note, if a thread like this does take off I do realise it could become quite data heavy so it is perfectly understandable if the admins decide at some point to truncate or compress pics to clear space and as this is an off topic thread it is reasonable if this is one of the first to be trimmed.)

Some of my favourite scenes from my home, Australia, follow
(might take a few secs havent posted pics here b4)

Please do show us some of what you love about yours

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[fozzibear1]

Bay of Fires Tasmania

[fozzibear1]

actually know what thats six times i tried and failed, cant figure it out at the moment for some reason, any advice would be appreciated and then i’ll post them. Admins please feel free to delete the dead post attempt.

[Seb Patrick]

Your URL isn’t an absolute URL to a picture file – it’s a relative URL (i.e. one that starts in the current folder) to a folder (it just ends in a /, not a file).

Basically what you have in the IMG SRC tag needs to start with http:// and end with .jpg

[fozzibear1]

Ok am trying the approach cappsy suggested via mail, thankyou for fast response both John and Seb, this might take a while as my brain doesnt seem to be working at the moment lol, just didnt want to risk you waiting atround for any further help when it might take a bit.

thankyou again guys

[fozzibear1]

Mount Cordeaux in Queensland in the distance to the left you can see the city of brisbane and to the right the gold coast

[fozzibear1]

Yay the dummy finally got it :)

Bay of fires, Tasmania

[fozzibear1]

Eclipse over Ularu, my central Australian cousins consider this place sacred
I’m pretty sure most people can see why

[fozzibear1]

Mother and calf swimming off the coast just south of Hobart, Tasmania

Southern Australian waters are spawning grounds to dozens of species of whales as well as whale sharks and great white sharks

[fozzibear1]

Esperance Bay, Western Australia

One of the worlds few remaining pristine natural harbours

[fozzibear1]

Last one for now

Great Barrier Reef from a helicopter (just north of Great Keppel Island)

Note a couple of these are commercial pics, where that is the case I have left watermarks intact incase peeps want to see more

[Jonathan Capps]

Er, West London has some nice Art Deco tube stations.

Last time I checked there was no extraordinary natural beauty, but I’ll keep my eyes open.

[fozzibear1]

If it reflects something you love about your home I’m not gonna be dis’n it

[Pecospete666]

Don’t post any more! I already checking air fares! Do you really want PecosPete coming to the Outback? I might like it and stay! It’s summer there now? Warm,Sun, Beer, I may even fit in! One more photo and I will coming!

[anniescribe]

Well, I may have screwed up; I tried to post some photos using my PhotoBucket account, but it’s not showing up and maybe it doesn’t work or maybe it has to be approved first? Haven’t tried to use PB here before. :-)

[Phil]

>Last time I checked there was no extraordinary natural beauty, but I’ll keep my eyes open.

Same. Colorado has plenty, but Denver has precisely none. I could post a picture of a naked homeless guy if you want.

[fozzibear1]

Pecospete:- actually Australian hospitality rules are fairly similar to those of the US south and mid-west, if you turned up at my doorstep I would feel obligated to shout you a drink and show you the local sights, not really a problem though I would be proud to. People from those areas, after a short transition period, do tend to settle in comfortably there are a lot of cultural similarities to many parts of Australia

Australia is near enough to the same size as the 48 states of the main body of the USA. While i would only be able to give ‘local expertise’ for a few hundred square kilometers I am willing to give broader advice to help peeps avoid the tourist traps and see the real Australia for themselves, that goes for anyone visiting here by the way not just Pecospete, I’d be shocked if other Australians on this site dont share that specific attitude. If males are lucky in their timing I might even be able to swing it so they can get an invite to a corroboree (the real type not the play acting for tourist busses type) I cant extend that to women though because with the real thing you must be invited by a member of your own gender if you are not from that homeland yourself, at least thats how it works for my clan the Pakanji

Anniescribe, dont be hard on yourself, Johnathon explained in the sort of detail one would use with a school kid still took me twenty minutes and several attempts to get it right so you couldnt do as bad as me, the hoster he got me to use was Imageshack

Phil i’d rather avoid the peep show lol, but if there is anything about your state or country, broadly, you love and want to show off it still qualifies

[Blisschick]

Not my photos, but these places are not too far from me and reflect what my part of the world looks like right now.

[Pecospete666]

Annie you need to select HTML from the menu,that only one that works! from photo bucket, thumbs used to work but not now since the change.

[Blisschick]

Annie, use the a href tag. I tried the I M G one first, and it didn’t work.

[fozzibear1]

blisschick : – beautiful pics, coming from an area heavily dominated by evergreens this is just as amazing to me as some of the pics of my home are to others

[Blisschick]

I’ve been meaning to visit Australia since I knew the continent existed. It’s on my bucket list. :)

[Jonathan Capps]

> Annie, use the a href tag. I tried the I M G one first, and it didn’t work.

href is an attribute of of the img tag, so:

<img href=”URL HERE” />

[anniescribe]

Lets try a test that I’ll delete or change if not:

ETA: Well, none of those suggestions worked out, then.

[Pecospete666]

Which photobucket are you using? I use it for all my photos I post here.
I have to upload the photo I want to my album there then you have five choices to send I use HTML works evertime I also am using the Ipad version of photobucket. After you upload you need to refresh the album you are storing photos on. I f I can master it anyone can!

[Reece]

Terribly sorry that it’s taken in Instagram. It was taken when it first came out and everyone thought it was cool.

But anyway, here’s bonnie Scotland!

[HelloMabel]

Yeah, needless to say I’m loathe to try posting images again after the malware incident. Maybe Ben P. can post some on behalf of both of us.

As to my surroundings, the building (Pasadena City Hall) out Leonard and Sheldon’s apartment window in TBBT is a mile away from where I’m sitting. Plenty of natural beauty in the local mountains and beaches, though I don’t think anything quite compares to Fozzi’s Aussie pics. :)

[Blisschick]

I’m also going to Scotland one day, too. My stepdad worked there for a few years, and I never got to see it. :(

[anniescribe]

Mabel, do you know the names of any local contractors/rebuilders (homes, buildings) by the name of Ogle, by chance? Not personally, just the name, I mean.

[fozzibear1]

Reece, great pic mate, as well as history I also have a passion for science and one of my favourite disciplines is Geology. I somewhat envy the Scotts in that regard, your home contains rocks from every major geological eon. Some areas, i’m given to understand, have stratigraphy with perfect sequence covering hundreds of millions of years. I think the instagram does give a cool effect to this photo, thanks for posting it

[HelloMabel]

> Mabel, do you know the names of any local contractors/rebuilders (homes, buildings) by the name of Ogle, by chance?

No. Do they do actual work or just stand there looking in the windows? ;)

[anniescribe]

They get paid a lot to stand around and look, I gather. ;-)

Just some relatives whose business name I don’t know, is all …

[fozzibear1]

gonna call these ‘taunting pecospete’ O:-)

still lots to see, could post non stop for a year and still not give the idea.

This is less to do with natural beauty but it is something that feels very beautiful when you experience it.

Sea World, Ocean World phhht. How about a place where wild dolphins come to visit us.

Monkey Mia, Western Australia

[fozzibear1]

Napier Range WA

Believe it or not these mountains are the fossilised remains of a 250 million year + old coral reef system that is estimated to have been as large and as climactically significant as the modern Great Barrier Reef

[fozzibear1]

better stop for now or i’ll get a demarcation dispute letter from tourism australia lol

[Pecospete666]

As I sit here in the” Garden State” freezing my arse off its 27 degrees F. Wander lust slowly taking over my imagination! It’s just too easy to point and kick a plane ticket.
I’m 48 miles from JFK airport, I could be in “The Down Under”in what 15,18 hours?
Have my eye on RIO but they want 250$ for a visa! I not going to pay for the privilege to go to a seconded world country. Fozzibear1 taunt me at your own peril!

[genericnerdyusername]

WELL I HAVE A BIGGER PENIS THAN YOU.

[anniescribe]

Heh, Brazil’s economy is doing better than ours in some sectors … not too far second, sadly …

[Pecospete666]

“WELL I HAVE A BIGGER PENIS THAN YOU.”

What! You off your HALDOL again?

A mind is a terrible thing to wast!

[genericnerdyusername]

>A mind is a terrible thing to wast!

Lol’d.

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