View from our houses

Eh did you SEE my neighbourhood...?
:)

Btw - love those hills..looks like a painting...
 
Currently I live in an Apartment which has a view of other apartments. But I do own some land in Prescott, Arizona where I am planning to build soon. Here is the view from where the house will be.

If you really want to see my view, I can post one.
 
LionFlyer, yup, lotsa leaves to rake in the fall.

Prescott, AZ! Well I'll be...

I used to live in Arizona and Prescott was one of my favourite places to drive to. I'd hang around Lynx Lake to do some photography, then hang around the small downtown area (at least it was small in the late 60's -- don't know what it's like today).

Enjoy your new house. What a beautiful place to live

Gene
 
Gene, thanks. I have been over to Lynx Lake. Last Spring they had part of the trail which goes around it fenced off to provide privacy to nesting eagles. Even have some photos of the lake. But generally, I don't post scans taken with my Nikons here. Here is a shot from my front porch. I have been making friends with some of the local scrub jays. They come by each morning and evening for their peanut.
 
Troy, NY is a proper city. It's know as the Collar City because the detachable collar for shirts was manufactured here in great numbers. Along with many other things in its 19th century manufacturing heyday.

Here's a night shot of my street.

Jon Flanders
 
View to the East

View to the East

Here's the view from my upstairs bedroom window. on a clear morning.
Mt. Rainier of course :D

The view from the front window is a regular boring suburban cul-de-sac.
 
Here is a view from the front of my house. I had T-Max 100 loaded in the Contax IIA when this thread started. This is with a J-9 85mm lens.

Wayne
 
Wayne R. Scott said:
Here is a view from the front of my house. I had T-Max 100 loaded in the Contax IIA when this thread started. This is with a J-9 85mm lens.

Wayne
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Hey! Those are COW EGGS!

I know, because whenever I see them, I see cows. That must be what they are.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
bmattock said:
Hey! Those are COW EGGS!

I know, because whenever I see them, I see cows. That must be what they are.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
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LOL. Do not confuse them with cow pies as there is a difference!!! Have you seen the bacon seeds any where?

Wayne
 
Wayne R. Scott said:
LOL. Do not confuse them with cow pies as there is a difference!!! Have you seen the bacon seeds any where?

Wayne
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I grew up in the country. I have been on snipe hunts, and I know that cow pies are best served steaming - at the end of a long stick - we'd chase each other with 'em.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
I think this is the only SLR picture that I have posted here, unless I got some Retina Reflex-S Pictures mixed up with the IIIS.

Taken from the garage door. 5 wooded acres, and a pool to the side. We did not realize the house had a pool until after we bought it. We looked at the house after a snow storm, and did not get into the backyard.

This is with a home-made wide-angle lens, the front element from a 12mm F2.0 lens used on a Rocket mounted on my Nikkor 20mm F3.5; taken with my F2AS.
 
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Nice. Looks like midwest farm land. I expect to see a white tail some where in there.
 
This is the view from the deck on the front of my house in Warrensburg, NY. Just a road and a wooded area in front of which one of my neighbors bought a parcel of land to create a garden. As the soil is not particularly good his wife said that she wanted a load of topsoil for her birthday, she got it and now it is a flourishing garden. Note the tall corn stalks in the center of the picture. This picture and the others thar follow were taken with my newly aquired Fed 5b with the Industar 61l/d at f8 at 1/125 sec. on ASA 100 film. At the top left corner of the horizontal pictures there is a somewhat blurry area which looks like severe lens decentering. However I think it is due to the cheesy film pressure plate which I have tried to correct with a little bending and pushing.
Kurt M.
 
The neighbor and my wife in front of the garden. My wife is holding two yellow squashes from the garden.
Kurt M.
 
For aviation history and trivia buffs.
The corner and main road about 150 feet to the right of the previous pictures. On this road in the opposite direction of the picture (behind me) which is simply the road with trees on both sides within about 1500 feet from where I am standing lie the remains of the boyhood home of Floyd Bennett the pioneer aviator who flew to the Antarctic with Adm. Byrd. Internet biographies give his birthplace as Warrensburg but locals know that he was actually born in Chestertown 12 miles to the north, but came to Warrensburg to live with an uncle as he did not get along with his parents. New York City's first airport is named after him, but is now used only as the police department's helicopter headquarters and for special police training. Floyd Bennett was killed in a plane crash with fellow pioneer Wiley Post in 1938.
The local historical society has lost track of exactly where his house was; it has collapsed (according to local legend) and is hidden by heavy brush and other foliage.
Kurt M.
 
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