Author Topic: The Official Post Your Pictures Thread (Read 103357 times)

Thernlund · « **Reply #25 on:** May 15, 2009, 05:10:30 pm »

I'm pretty handy with Illustrator and Photoshop, yes.

-T.

WeTheArmed.com

Gunsmom · « **Reply #26 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:09:21 pm »

Your Mona Lisa is currently my laptop wallpaper.

Gunsmom · « **Reply #27 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:36:48 pm »

Images from The Wall, July 2008

Gunsmom · « **Reply #28 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:39:31 pm »

The Wall, July 2008

"Uncle Johnny: I wish you could tell me about your experience. Thank you for what you did. Clay."

FMJ · « **Reply #29 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:40:39 pm »

I visited the wall when I was in 8th grade. I think if I would have completely understood what it was about back then, I probably would have been very sad.

Gunsmom · « **Reply #30 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:43:43 pm »

The Wall, July 2008

"I think of you guys and hope you forgive me for coming home. I try to lead a good life and help others, especially kids to make coming home worthwhile...."

Gunsmom · « **Reply #31 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:51:36 pm »

Last summer was the second time I've been to The Wall, and it just completely tears me up, and I don't even really know quite why. I don't know a single name on that wall personally.

I did grow up with the war; it started during my childhood, more or less, and ended when I was a teenager, just before guys I knew well would have started being sent. The people I did know who went came back.

I would say that it is because I am the mother of sons now the ages of many of those men, but the first time I went I wasn't even yet pregnant with my first, and it got to me then too.

As I get older all war memorials have some effect on me, emotionally; I "feel" the sacrifice in a way that I didn't when I was younger. The Wall is just the most emotional. More so, even, than Arlington.

Gunsmom · « **Reply #32 on:** May 17, 2009, 08:54:53 pm »

The Wall, July 2008

FMJ · « **Reply #33 on:** May 17, 2009, 09:14:55 pm »

I remember those statues and their meticulous detail as well.

swatspyder · « **Reply #34 on:** June 10, 2009, 12:11:26 am »

He's got you in his sights!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dymi13/3608021816/#

bmitchell · « **Reply #35 on:** June 10, 2009, 08:14:05 am »

He's cross-dominant.

Ben

TheRedCoat · « **Reply #36 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:48:09 pm »

Some pics of Eastern State Penitentiary, and the Rodin Museum that I took visiting in may for my birthday.

Thernlund · « **Reply #37 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:52:51 pm »

I've seen that prison before, haven't I? The movie Mean Machine maybe? Maybe Chopper?

Or are all English prisons that dismal looking?

-T.

TheRedCoat · « **Reply #38 on:** June 25, 2009, 06:55:03 pm »

Eastern state is in philadelphia, ghost hunters did 2 episodes there, other than that not sure. i know it's seen in the new transformers movie

but yes all our old prisons look that dismal

Thernlund · « **Reply #39 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:05:10 pm »

Oh. It's a US prison.

-T.

TheRedCoat · « **Reply #40 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:13:28 pm »

yup, I thought I'd put that in my bad

I love Philadelphia, just for the architecture. I'm hoping to visit williamsburg sometime this summer.

Raptor · « **Reply #41 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:22:01 pm »

I love Philadelphia too, but for a different reason (mmm... cheesesteaks...)

I've been to Williamsburg a few times. It's not really that great. Sure, there's a lot of history, but it's also something of a tourist trap.

TheRedCoat · « **Reply #42 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:32:38 pm »

eh, in that case I'll go off season, having come from a tourist town, I hate your typical tourists... you may see me with a camera but you don't see me gawking like an idiot, plus I personally believe if you look like a tourist, you look like a target.

as for cheesesteaks *droooool* luckily for me there is a place 5 mins drive from work run by a guy from phili... he actually uses cheese whiz, only place around me that I know that does.

Raptor · « **Reply #43 on:** June 25, 2009, 07:44:39 pm »

No, I'd go; there's enough history to make it worthwhile in spite of the tourists. And I'm probably jaded 'cause I've been there three or four times already.

Quote from: TheRedCoat on June 25, 2009, 07:32:38 pm

personally believe if you look like a tourist, you look like a target.

Amen to that. I'm always giving my family a hard time whenever we go anywhere about pointing and taking pictures of every little thing. To me, that's like holding a big sign over your head saying "LOOK AT ME! I'M A TOURIST! PLEASE MUG ME!"

Cheese Whiz?

No way. Either American or very mild Provolone is what you should be putting on your cheesesteaks. Oddly enough (while we're speaking of tourist spots and cheesesteaks), the best cheesesteak I ever had was at a little shack in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Pick your jaws up off the floor, you're leaving puddles.

It's a long story, but it turns out the guy who ran it was from Philly and had retired out to Lexington. No idea what the name of the shack (yes, it literally was a shack) was or where exactly it is, but if you're in/from Lexington and you find it, let me know. I NEED TO GO BACK!!!!!!!

TheRedCoat · « **Reply #44 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:00:53 pm »

lol i like it with american, but something about whiz just hmmm.. i'm starting to drool thinking about it..

enough said lol...

MarshallDodge · « **Reply #45 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:06:23 pm »

A shot I took earlier this year looking over the backyard. If you look close you can see Ram, the goat, at the bottom.

TheRedCoat · « **Reply #46 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:33:12 pm »

thats a nice shot

FMJ · « **Reply #47 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:36:43 pm »

And there I was thinking that was some Soviet brig...

Irwin · « **Reply #48 on:** July 07, 2009, 11:23:07 am »

Quote from: TheRedCoat on June 25, 2009, 07:32:38 pm

eh, in that case I'll go off season, having come from a tourist town, I hate your typical tourists... you may see me with a camera but you don't see me gawking like an idiot, plus I personally believe if you look like a tourist, you look like a target.

as for cheesesteaks *droooool* luckily for me there is a place 5 mins drive from work run by a guy from phili... he actually uses cheese whiz, only place around me that I know that does.

That reminds me of the time when I was passing through Shrewsbury on my way to Wales and the train line had flooded so we had to wait for a bus to take us down instead and a American women walks over to me, now I couldn't look more like a tourist I have a rucksack on my back and a bag in my hand and I'm with 3 other blokes with rucksack's and we are speaking in a Scottish accent. And she asks me what castle is that and points to the castle on the hill

I was a bit dumb struck for a second and had to point out to her that just perhaps the fact we where standing in Shrewsbury it might just be Shrewsbury castle!

FMJ · « **Reply #49 on:** July 14, 2009, 02:11:56 pm »

I took this one on Sunday. Figured you guys might like it. I do.