Places You Go

Paul Smeenus · 03-01-2016, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

As I drove around the lake I also caught, from about 1500 feet away I'd guess, the "Old Man Of The Lake"...I did try to take a picture with my perfectly atrocious Iphone, but it just looks like blurry water. You'll have to take my word for it, it was the "Old Man".

Paul Smeenus · 03-01-2016, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Would that be considered the eastern edge of the Alps?

DwnWthVwls · 03-01-2016, 09:33 PM

We had our first controlled burn of the forest on campus this past sunday...

**Frownland** · 03-01-2016, 09:47 PM

That first one is an incredible shot.

The Batlord · 03-01-2016, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

That first one is an incredible shot.

I swear to god, if you say anything about composition I'm gonna hit you in the face with a brick.

**Frownland** · 03-01-2016, 10:19 PM

It's not about the composition really, the rays of light illuminating the smoke is really beautiful though. It's like a metaphor for mortality.

The Batlord · 03-02-2016, 02:42 AM

*waves brick threateningly*

Lisnaholic · 03-02-2016, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus

Would that be considered the eastern edge of the Alps?

*gets out atlas*

Yes, that's right, Paul. Lake Bled is only 10 miles from Slovenia's border with Austria, where you have the Alps proper. To be pedantic, it's more like the southern edge of the Eastern end of the Alps.
At Lake Bled the hills are called the Juliske Alpe, but they only go to a max of about 4,500 feet above the lake surface, and in fact don't have the same kind of rock either, so the definitive answer to your question is "sort of".

I like the photo you took of "The Old Man" - makes a good complement to your avatar, which I'd sometimes wondered about.

Perhaps the world's most intriguing lake is invisible. Have you read about Lake Vostok, Paul ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok
There's a good documentary about its discovery somewhere on the internet too.

Beautiful photos of the controlled burn, DwnWthVwls, especially that first one of course.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I swear to god, if you say anything about composition I'm gonna hit you in the face with a brick.

^ Because of this, I'd better PM you my remarks about the interplay of light and shade, ok?

Paul Smeenus · 03-02-2016, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

Perhaps the world's most intriguing lake is invisible. Have you read about Lake Vostok, Paul ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok
There's a good documentary about its discovery somewhere on the internet too.

Didn't even need the link, Antarctica. I'm a geography/geology fan, it actually ties in to my interest in the origins of everything, which ties into my opposition to Creationism. Kind of a long roundabout way of looking at things, but *that* ties into the fact that I'm a major, major dork.

Paul Smeenus · 03-02-2016, 06:45 PM

Also, for an invisible lake it's pretty visible (at least from space)

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	It's not about the composition really, the rays of light illuminating the smoke is really beautiful though. It's like a metaphor for mortality. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x