Random Photos You Took - Page 256

R@ptor · #**5101** Posted **Aug 28, 2012, 9:40 PM**

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Nice one. Varanasi is indeed a fascinating place...world class for people watching and with an incredible atmosphere.

Here's a new one I took today. You just gotta love Art Deco metro stations.

Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Moscow by JH_1982, on Flickr

Okayyou · #**5102** Posted **Aug 28, 2012, 10:08 PM**

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Nice one. Varanasi is indeed a fascinating place...world class for people watching and with an incredible atmosphere.

Here's a new one I took today. You just gotta love Art Deco metro stations.

Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Moscow by JH_1982, on Flickr

Cool shot. The Soviets knew how to make a metro station. Any statues of Lenin down there?

Surrealplaces · #**5103** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 12:36 AM**

One sure sign that you may be a parent by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

SomeFormOFhuman · #**5104** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 12:44 AM**

photoLith · #**5105** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 9:50 PM**

These areas are getting pounded by the hurricane right now, was just down to these towns last week.

This is one of the oldest houses in Louisiana (Francois Darby House), it was built in the late 1790s as part of a plantation on a Spanish land grant in what would become the tiny town of Baldwin along the Teche Bayou. Notice the high pitched roofs common in most French colonial architecture built during the 18th century.

A beautiful Greek Revival house in the well preserved town of Franklin, LA right south of Baldwin.

Completely unrelated to Cajun south Louisiana but this is the 1892 Bishops Palace in Galveston. The Library of Congress has listed at as one of the 14 most important Victorian architectural masterpieces in the nation. The American Institute of Architects has listed the building as one of the 100 significant buildings in America.

diskojoe · #**5106** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 12:33 AM**

That house is gorgeous. I always stare at it when we drive past.

glowrock · #**5107** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 1:32 AM**

Damn, those photos kick ass!

Aaron (Glowrock)

CarlosV · #**5108** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 3:08 AM**

today in Times Square for some reason this old building made me a little sad....it has been there for years and it looks like his lights have been dimmed for ever......

IMG_6111 copy by Ceva321, on Flickr

SomeFormOFhuman · #**5109** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 3:27 AM**

Okayyou · #**5110** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 7:56 PM**

That Victorian house is awesome photolith. Are those old houses getting flooded right now? Nice one SFOH, that reflection is great.

One from Pyongyang, North Korea.

photoLith · #**5111** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 9:51 PM**

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Awesome photo as always SFoH; and I dont know if those towns above got flooded. Id imagine some of them did as that part of LA got 20+ inches of rain. But that first house has been there for 220 years so Im sure it will be fine.

Surrealplaces · #**5112** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 10:05 PM**

Cool! You've been to Pyongyang? One of the few foreigners to visit.

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That Victorian house is awesome photolith. Are those old houses getting flooded right now? Nice one SFOH, that reflection is great.

One from Pyongyang, North Korea.

Okayyou · #**5113** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 4:29 PM**

The agency I went through said about 1,500 Western and 15,000 Chinese tourists visit every year. I had two guides with me at all times and was taken to only approved sites. Still a fascinating place, I'll have a NK thread probably in a few months.

photoLith · #**5114** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 5:00 PM**

Id love to see the real NK without guides and see how they live off away from the pretty boulevards and tourist spots. Still awesome that you got to there.

Okayyou · #**5115** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 5:55 PM**

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Id love to see the real NK without guides and see how they live off away from the pretty boulevards and tourist spots. Still awesome that you got to there.

Yeah, the guides were frustrating but there is no way currently to see the country without them. I asked what would happen if I, as a foreigner, just started walking around the city on my own. They said I would be arrested and sent home. The guides could face serious consequences for letting me loose, loosing their license or worse. However, even in a tightly controlled place like North Korea, they can't censor everything. I got to catch glimpses of the 'real country' as we drove around. However, interaction with the locals was strictly prohibited. It will be interesting to see the direction Supreme Commander Kim Jong-Un, that's how I had to refer to him when there, takes the country. There are rumors of reform on the horizon.

Surrealplaces · #**5116** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 6:53 PM**

Hungary was similar to that in the 80s when I visited.

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Originally Posted by Okayyou

Yeah, the guides were frustrating but there is no way currently to see the country without them. I asked what would happen if I, as a foreigner, just started walking around the city on my own. They said I would be arrested and sent home. The guides could face serious consequences for letting me loose, loosing their license or worse. However, even in a tightly controlled place like North Korea, they can't censor everything. I got to catch glimpses of the 'real country' as we drove around. However, interaction with the locals was strictly prohibited. It will be interesting to see the direction Supreme Commander Kim Jong-Un, that's how I had to refer to him when there, takes the country. There are rumors of reform on the horizon.

Surrealplaces · #**5117** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 6:53 PM**

New York City by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

brickell · #**5118** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 8:16 PM**

All you guys have been killing it lately. Keep up the good work.

toyota74 · #**5119** Posted **Aug 31, 2012, 11:40 PM**

Co.Clare

arkitekte · #**5120** Posted **Sep 1, 2012, 3:26 AM**

^Damn!