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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Fridge => Topic started by: Cyberlizard on March 12, 2006, 01:18:37 PM

Title: Photography
Post by: Cyberlizard on March 12, 2006, 01:18:37 PM
A while back I said I might post some of my photos of the mountainous back country of Montana.  Here are a few photos of the Natural Bridge, 20 minutes away from Big Timber.  The river flows into a cave...
Title: Photography
Post by: Cyberlizard on March 12, 2006, 01:20:51 PM
and empties out into a watering hole with an opening big enough to fit the Empire State Building in it.

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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 12, 2006, 02:29:13 PM
Cool!  Does anyone ever go inside the cave?
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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 12, 2006, 02:31:04 PM
No, it's mostly underwater and it's very steep and slippery.  the cliffs are about 100 ft high.
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 08:36:54 AM
That would be awsome if someone actually could go in there.  Heaven only knows what is in there.  I wish I could find those pictures of the battleship I spent the night on.  That was real awesome.  If I ever find them, I may post them on here.  Just that some of them aren't real good.  Visiting that WII battleship was the funnest thing I ever did in boy scouts.  Got to sleep in the cots and everything.  Only thing  was the air conditioner (thatr wasn't origionally on th ship during the war) sounded like a hurricane blowing.  
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Post by: Malte279 on March 13, 2006, 10:59:21 AM
Those are really nice pictures Cyberlizard :) Such landscape elements could fit in really well into an LBT story. One of the stories I'm planning on (altogether that particular story is rather vague so far) involves a cave with an underground river. I could imagine such a cave (provided there is any dry ground inside the cave) to be relatively easy to (involuntarily) access but almost impossible to leave.

What battleship have you been on F-14? The USS Alabama (my best guess because she is not too far from where you live)? The New Jersey? The Texas? The North Carolina? Amazing that there is such a fleet of Big battleships to visit. I've so far been on three submarines, a destroyer, and one heavy cruiser.
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 05:52:35 PM
It is the USS Alabama.  She is down in Mobile, about a three hour drive from where we live.  Theyhave the battleship, the submarine USS Drum, a gun boat, and a whole bunch of aircraft.  Unfortunatly, the aircraft building is still closed due to damage from Hurricane Katrina.  I am jelous because the Boy Scout troop I am in now went to Charleston, South Carolina and got to spend a week on the USS Yorktown, a WWII aircraft carrier.  That is something I have always wanted to do but they went a year before I joind. :cry2  I have always wanted to see a real aircraft carrier.  Which ships have you been on?  Were they on display or still active?  I heard that when the US NAvy wants to impress people, they give them a tour of a modern aircraft carrier, regardless of wether they were civillians or not.  I heard that they stopped doing that after 9/11 though.  Now I'll never get to see a real modern aircraft carrier.  There aren't any on display except the old WWII ones. :cry2
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Post by: Malte279 on March 13, 2006, 06:28:59 PM
I wonder if they meant to name the USS Yorktown which now rests at Charlestown after the 1781 battle or if they meant it to be a tribute to the USS Yorktown sunk at Midway. Maybe everyone could decide for the own preference.
I've been on two German WW2 submarines, one comperatively new Dutch submarine, a Dutch destroyer and the British battle cruiser HMS Belfast (which rests near Tower Bridge).
Title: Photography
Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 06:52:18 PM
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I wonder if they meant to name the USS Yorktown which now rests at Charlestown after the 1781 battle or if they meant it to be a tribute to the USS Yorktown sunk at Midway. Maybe everyone could decide for the own preference.
I've been on two German WW2 submarines, one comperatively new Dutch submarine, a Dutch destroyer and the British battle cruiser HMS Belfast (which rests near Tower Bridge).
The Yorktown I was refering to was named after the first Yorktown.  I know because I read the sip's history.  I think I've seen that British cruiser in the background of a picture of Tower Bridge.  The Drum is a very small submarine.  She only held 18 men.  THesub is about 150 feet long.  But the Alabama is a cool place to visit.  I heard that people were taking shelter on it during Hurricane Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina.  Not a good idea.  That ship does not float if the mooring cables break.  15 feet of it's hull is under mud because it is in shallow watet and it had a very deep hull.  It wouldn't float because too much of it is in the mud.  THe Drum was washed ashore and badly damaged on several ocasions.  On my first visit back in 1998, she was close and her boarding dock was sticking out of the sub's side.  
This is an intresting fact.  Did you know that there is aWWII u-boat on display in Chicago?  I think it was one that was either captured by a destroyer or the one that surrendered in New York after the war.
Title: Photography
Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:14:30 PM
Here are some pictures I took yesterday while I was visiting the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.  This is a photo of the museum complex.  The metal Tyrannosaurus cast has been dubbed "Big Mike".
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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:15:35 PM
A plaster Torosaurus model, one side is skin while the other side is bone and muscle.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:16:21 PM
A Full grown T-rex skull in comparison to a juvenile T.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:17:22 PM
A Torosaurus skull they spent two years excivating.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:18:21 PM
Just a plaster model of a Native American stripping the meat off an animal's hide in the Native American exhibit.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:19:02 PM
I was thinking of you, F-14, when I took this picture.  I thought you'd like it.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:19:32 PM
A few close-ups of Big Mike.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:20:08 PM
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 07:23:58 PM
Nice pictures.  Real cool.  I'll post some pictures of the Alabama later.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 07:27:14 PM
Ok, sounds neat.  :)
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Post by: Petrie. on March 13, 2006, 08:38:39 PM
These are truly nice pictures. :) :)  Maybe I'll dig up some of mine.
Title: Photography
Post by: Petrie. on March 13, 2006, 08:54:24 PM
These are mine:

Adam's Nature Photographs (http://photobucket.com/albums/e294/mr300/Nature%20Pictures%20by%20Adam/)

These were all taken with a 35mm Canon Rebel.  Yeah, I'm a bit in the stone age and do not use a digital camera.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 09:12:56 PM
Those are some pretty beautiful photos.  I especially like the coastline photos.  :DD
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Post by: Petrie. on March 13, 2006, 09:23:44 PM
Thanks.  The coastline photos were taken in Maine.  The rest were taken in the Northern part of New York.  Also, the ones where I appear to be in an airplane or something were actually taken on a ski lift; you could see about sixty miles or so I was told.  :wow
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 09:24:05 PM
Here is a picture of the USS Alabama at dusk.
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 09:25:05 PM
And this one shows the superstructure and some of the awesome gun turrets.

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Post by: Cyberlizard on March 13, 2006, 09:31:45 PM
:wow  You stayed on that?  Pretty cool if you ask me.  I have never been on an aircraft carrier in my life.

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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 13, 2006, 09:36:47 PM
I'd love to do it again too.  It smells like oil on the thing though.  It is the biggest (and the only for that matter) ship I have ever been on.  She is over 600 feet long.
(btw, I really would like to stay on an airctaft carrier sometime but the Alabama is a battleship.)
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Post by: action9000 on March 14, 2006, 01:30:34 AM
Those are some fantastic pictures, guys! :wow

I enjoy photography, but I don't have many pictures worth sharing; most are of my friends doing random stuff, my basement and grad pictures, among others.

I guess I need to get out more :lol
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 14, 2006, 09:01:03 AM
:D Actually, the battleship pic, I got those off the internet because I couldn't find where I put my pictures.  If I find them, I'll post them too.
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Post by: Petrie. on March 14, 2006, 09:54:46 AM
I'll agree with you there, F-14, the older ships do smell like oil when you go on them.  :x
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Post by: F-14 Ace on March 14, 2006, 06:02:01 PM
I heard than the Alabama took no damage from enenmy action.  One of the turrets was destroyed and five of the crew died in the explosion, but that was because someone loaded the guns wrong and not because of enemy attacks.  Also, there are two holes in the railing where the AA guns at the back of the ship fired too low and shot right through it.  One is just a dent and the other goes all the way through.  The ship is so cool.  SHe was in four battles I think.