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Photos taken from a car.

Niagara Falls, the awesomeness of nature, the tackiness of humanity.


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I'm a bit worried that you seem to be driving on the wrong side of the road in most of those pics.
 
i like taking pictures out of car mirrors.

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Dhimmi said:
I did imagine these would all be of shit houses- pleasantly surprised.
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I have a huge stock of shithouse photos that I'll post on the appropriate thread when I get home. At the moment, I'm more interested in these car photos etc.
 
TeeJay said:
Have you driven all the way from Vancouver? Where are you going next?
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Yes.

Don't know. We're in Toronto/Mississauga. We might go as far as Ottawa and Quebec, or we might visit friends in London Ontario.

After that, I'll probably be broke, and have to go home.
 
We're going home now, just finished driving around the north shore of Lake Superior, about 500 miles. But still no usb port. The rest will have to wait till I get home.

p.s. Last night, driving north along the eastern shore of the lake, there was a thunder storm with lightning strikes about one per second. Awe inspiring.

On the way down, we'd stopped at a place called Agawa, where the Ojibway had made pictographs on these rock faces right at the shore. The guide there explained that the Ojibway believed Manitou nested there, because of the presence of quartzite in the rock. Manitou's gaze blasted the quartzite into the rock, so that's where they made their offering. They actually lived in a summer village about ten miles south on the lakeshore.

Watching that storm as we proceeded north, I thought about people living in a village there about three hundred years ago, watching the lightning in the night sky, and it was perfectly understandable that they'd want to make an offering to whatever was capable of such power and grandeur.
 
Is this thread intended as a wry statement about automobile culture in the states? It's sort of a running joke in parts of the UK that tourists are simply that. Tourers that only stop for food and a crap (hence the bathroom series). Are you purposefully taking the piss out of yourself and your fellow countrymen?

The photos look exactly the way I would imagine them to look. Utterly drab. Is that part of the joke also :p
 
muthecow said:
i like taking pictures out of car mirrors.

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These are very nice. I like the second one lots. Proper, imaginative, creative from a car photographs with a bit of originality.

Pie 1's are very nice also. Particularly the second shot.

Personally, I don't think you can capture the essense of a place until you've walked around a little, sat lots and studied the place. Actually taken it in and absorbed it.

Johnny Cannuck's photo's are exactly the 'life from a bubble' experience that anyone in a car can see. Like the irony mind.
 
Tee hee, the exposure of the flag has been dominated by the surrounding area and giving and under exposed image. The trick is to focus on a darker image, hold the ' button' and come back to the selected image..

If you have a compensation control just go to plus 2 ... then try again...

Photoshop, Image, adjustment, levels, then brightness and contrast will brighten up any image without getting all techie..

Nice photos... typical canada.... I was in Barry a couple of years ago in the winter..... then toronto, then run through New York state down to NY city

Beautiful country side but still cant beat the UK
 
Stanley Edwards said:
Personally, I don't think you can capture the essense of a place until you've walked around a little, sat lots and studied the place. Actually taken it in and absorbed it.

Johnny Cannuck's photo's are exactly the 'life from a bubble' experience that anyone in a car can see. Like the irony mind.
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Well, we're home now. A little fried after driving 1100 km per day for four days. Total km was 11000 km.

Stanley, that's part of the problem. It's something like 4300 km from here to Toronto. We stopped as much as possible, but if you stop and explore everything, you just won't make it, if you have limited time. As a result, you must simply pass through a lot of territory, by necessity. But even though you're passing through, you're still taking something in, more than we would have if we'd simply flown to Toronto.

What these pics are, are a sample of what you see if you drive across canada in a car. I'm sorry that you find my country drab, but all things are in the eye of the beholder, aren't they? I find the place to be quite beautiful, and I find it fascinating to explore.
 
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