I thought it would be interesting to post some pictures of the area or city or town where we live. Please post some of the area that you live in too, if you like.

I live in a village, some photos:






















Some of the photos are of my 'garden' - I live on an acreage. The sunsets can be seen from the back deck. There are many lakes around here, that is a photo of one of them. My dog, my kitten. The gravel road is one of the many places I take my dog for a walk. The road becomes more of a rocky path after a while, it goes on for around 2 miles and ends with a waterfall at the end. It's a very peaceful, quiet, picturesque area.

This year I spent some weeks in July in Montreal, I will post some pics of that too, at some point.

@ Jilly: ...spectacular...!

Me, I don´t have many to post (bad for an ex photographer...) but here goes from my island:

A view on the bay I live in, the red arrow points ot my place (but in the time since the photo was taken they built a city behind me). The mountainous sturcture on the left is another island, "Dragon Island" (Dragonera), well known to "Master and Commander"! readers for being the island where the English dropped off their POW´s - only 2 km to our coast, but almost impossible to cross swimming because of the strong currents in the canal.:



A view off my balcony...


And, a winter view off my terrace:


Our village´s beach (December, w/o tourists ):


and, despite being so dry, in spring we do have some green, and *real* green (with the low sun) also:


Part 2 coming when someone else has posted (NO DOUBLE POSTS!!!!: Another thingy where I feel the forum is too restrictive: Only 8 pics - incl. smileys! allowed? Cannot post the next directly behind?)

Rattler

Gosh! Those are great photos, Rattler.

You live in such a beautiful area and your views are really amazing.

It interesting how every country seems to have a slightly different kind of sunset.

I'll be posting some more pics later on.

Thanks for posting those, it would be great to see some more as well.

Dont really have pictures , but here is the wikipedia stuff from my hometown with pictures etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostend

English: Ostend
Dutch: Oostende

Marvin Gay used to live here, and its were he shot the clip of sexual healing, were stil very proud about that .

When i get the time i'll shoot some pics of street/house and show it to you guys.

Originally Posted by rattler

Part 2 coming when someone else has posted (NO DOUBLE POSTS!!!!: Another thingy where I feel the forum is too restrictive: Only 8 pics - incl. smileys! allowed? Cannot post the next directly behind?)

Rattler

You realise that the "Edit" button functions perfectly well?

To do what monty? he can only post 8 pics at once

Originally Posted by MontyB

You realise that the "Edit" button functions perfectly well?

Originally Posted by Mikefrombelgium

To do what monty? he can only post 8 pics at once

Indeed... Or do you (Monty) mean I should change the posts pics every now and then by "edit"?

And even smileys are counted as pics.... ??? I realize they are from a computer POV, but we (hopefully) still are sensibly thinking human beings, right?

Look, I have no prob with ppl feeling anal, I also realize there are a lot of jerks out there that want to flood you with stuff you don´t even want to think about or others that cannot post something without posting an afterthought afterwards and then an after-afterthought and do so w/o realizing the "edit" function even exists (and I like that I can edit for weeks here, my own forums e.g. limit editing to the "get sober" period of 48 hours to avoid bad/sad feelings out of shame), but as seen here and in the longer type of threads with high posting rate (but: NOT per hour, think "what did you last listen to?") this restriction of # of pics (incl smileys, cannot get over that one, sorry!) combined with the no-dp rule is surely suffocatingly strict and inhibits plain "normal" communication, as has now several times been demonstrated.

What is more, nobody so far has explained why it should be like that (except statements like "I *like* the double post prohibition". Fine with me, but I still *dont* like it... So?). Is there any real reason that maybe I am just too stupid to grasp? I am all ears...

My 2c, and I wont comment on it any further, forum rules are forum rules and I have no prob complying reluctantly, just really wanted to make my case here, clearly outspoken and with open visor.

Rattler

P.S.: Oh, just now realize I cannot post my 2nd set of pics anymore, as I answered you two guys posts, and the pics now would be double posting... Nor can I tell Mike about my Oostende stuff in my window altar, nor can I answer Jlly if I would not want to cram it all into this rant (doing so would anyway have me run into the nest, the "5k character max" restriction, I am at 3k now...)... Does this really make sense to anybody? R.

I think you are over reacting a bit to the double posting rule, my understanding of said rule is that it is designed to stop people posting hundreds of individual replies however if your post exceeds the limit for an individual post (For Example 10,000 characters) you can make consecutive posts to complete your post.

Now I may have it totally wrong but that is the way I understand things currently.

I was going to say the same thing as Mike and Rattler. I think Rattler summed it up really well.

When I was making my original picture post on here, I had 11 pics. When I tried posting them all, a message came up to say I am restricted to only 8 (including my one smiley). So I had to delete the rest. And then wait for someone else to post something (or wait 24hrs), before posting another post. Personally I think this double posting rule should go! There really is no point in it.

Anyway, Mike, thanks for the link to your area. I like the way the modern and the historical 'live' side by side. It just makes it that much more interesting.

So, here are some photos of Montreal, (in Quebec). I went there this July for a vacation. But I have lived there also some years back. I just like the city very much, it has that great cosmopolitan feel about it.


















The biodome has an inside zoo, complete with all kinds of water creatures. This year was the anniversary of the 30th Jazz festival in Montreal. This is a major event that happens every year, the outside shows and Jazz musicians are really fun to watch. What I like about Montreal is that the modern skyscapers go so well with the older architecture and historical buildings. It's an intereting place to visit. We saw many other areas also, and every weekend there is an international fireworks competion, where countries from all over the world come and compete.

Originally Posted by MontyB

I think you are over reacting a bit to the double posting rule, my understanding of said rule is that it is designed to stop people posting hundreds of individual replies however if your post exceeds the limit for an individual post (For Example 10,000 characters) you can make consecutive posts to complete your post.

Now I may have it totally wrong but that is the way I understand things currently.

That was the case I made with the mods (I think), but it was denied. Thanks Monty, for opening me the channel again (in theory: Smiley inserted)!

Anyway, as I only spent one sentence and promised to not "overreact" any longer, here go my next pix from where I live:

Another winter sunset from my 150 ppl village, same beach, but Jilly is right: Every nation (according to latitude) has it´s own kind of sunsets, ours for some reason I as photographer haven´t understood yet always look photoshopped:



Sun is funny (and only) in winter here, check this from my terrace with a papyrus in front... (and, for the photographically interested, this was about 15 min before the shot - #3- of my first post with the two fishing boats, from the same position - sitting at my table with a GT in hand...). Oh, how I love bragging.... (smiley)!:



Then, of cause, half part of the world here really is the sea, and fishing... (this not taken from my village, but about 10 k up the road):



One of the things I did not know before I came here was that ducks actually can live in the sea and its salt water... But they do, we have a healthy population:



Getting more private: A shot from my kitchen... 1.5x1.5 mtrs like on a boat (my whole house just has 42 sqmtrs), but I do one lunch/dinner festival every year for about 40 ppl w/o probs (just nobody else can be inside):



And then, of cause, the most important feature: The fire place:



...with all kind of animals that like the warmth...:



Even in storms I have survivable (relatively: some pix from OCT 28 2008 in the next charge) views:



FWIW,

Rattler
EDIT: I will put this in front of my next allowed post, but @ Jilly: Nice! R.