Steve’s Rock - Olmstead Point, Tioga Pass, CA - 1983, originally uploaded by Sharper24.

The photographer: “This boulder is sitting just above Tioga Pass at 8,500′ Elevation overlooking Half Dome and the Yosemite Valley”…

click on the picture to read more about it at Flickr

Rainy Morning, Grand and Victoria, St Paul, originally uploaded by y entonces.

Pleiades Star Cluster, originally uploaded by hisglassworks.

The photographer: “Also known as THE SEVEN SISTERS. It is high in the Northern sky in the fall and winter. About 390 light years from earth. It measures 13 light years across.”

sky lanterns of PingSi on Feb 4, ii, originally uploaded by dans.photo.

the photographer: “it was at a rainy night to watch the releasing of large, balloon-shaped lanterns into sky. Hundreds slowly rise into air, creating beautiful, peaceful scene.
this is one of traditional events at“Taiwan Lantern Festival”since 1990…”

burning the midnight oil, originally uploaded by derequito.

Also see the room in its daytime glory or see the modern section of the library.

Uploaded by derequito on 2 Dec ‘05,

Pont Meestraat, originally uploaded by  Lothann.

Belgium: Bruges

Fiery-Ferris-Wheel, originally uploaded by Glen’s Pics.

New Mexico State Fair 2005

The Leaves Are Leaving The Trees., originally uploaded by y entonces.

the photographer: “St Paul, Minnesota
Looking out my window this morning, before sunrise.
I removed the screen and storm window to get a good clear shot.”

Excluded, originally uploaded by carlosmoraes.

“Some “excluded from society” people carry paper on those troylers to try make their living. They perform a very important environmental task doing it.”

Battery Point, originally uploaded by wmchu.

Battery Point

the red lantern…, originally uploaded by Lotse.

taken one night during a stroll over the “Old Market” in the town of Wuxi / China

originally uploaded by lorenzodom
the photographer: “As the breeze shimmered the leaves, I shook the chill out of my shoulders and I felt that the cold season was upon us.

I had not begun begrudging just yet, and reminded myself to reserve judgment until winter was over. For there was fun to be had—along with all the sludge and shoveling. ”
more…

night rider, originally uploaded by josef.stuefer.

“ride into the blue
through your eyes
heart flew”
[text by cllover]
Nijmegen, Netherlands

Midtown fog, originally uploaded by hbomb1947.

“The Plaza Hotel, surrounded by the fog-shrouded skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan, towers over the Gates on a rainy evening.”

Lunar Silhouette, originally uploaded by Psycho Crow.

The photographer: “Got a good clear shot of the moon this evening and was taking pics when a tree branch blew across my view. Busy snapping away and this was the result, quite like it.”

Waiting, originally uploaded by wild.

“She was in the cold, having a cigarette and waiting for me to finish whatever stupidness I was up to this time….”

2.14am, originally uploaded by Ichor.

“50 second exposure at 100mm, at 2.14am.”

Joe’s Wines - Movement, originally uploaded by amiev.

The photographer: “ISO 100, F-22, somewhere around 3 seconds. It really captures the motion of the swirls that the spikes make. Again, I love this sign! It brings joy to my neighborhood.”