(HDR landscape shot of Mount Batur in Bali, Indonesia.) The bottom of the ancient volcano, now verdant and dotted with houses and villages, falls away to the new volcano, Mount Batur and its nearby lake. Beyond the lake is Bali’s tallest mountain, Mount Agung.
Bali Volcano View is a post from: the Photo Tourist
Apr 18, 2011 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: Agung, Bali, Batur, HDR, Indonesia, jungle, lake, Lake Batur, Land & Air, landscape, Mount Agung, Mount Batur, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tourism, tourist, view, Woods | Leave A Comment »
The Ulun Danu has a walled center precinct that is normally closed to the public, as it is actively in use as a Hindu temple. There are a number of attractive and active shrines scattered in the gardens. The two, multi-tiered shrines that are actually in Lake Bratan form what is are probably the most recognizable and often photographed sight on Bali.
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Mar 25, 2011 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: Bali, Bratan, Candikuning, Candikuning Temple, Danu, Indonesia, lake, Lake Bratan, lake shrine, Land & Air, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, Pura, Pura Ulun Danu Bratan, shrine, temple, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tourism, tourist, Ulun Danu, Ulun Danu Temple | Leave A Comment »
(Two photos: A pair of white swans, and a black swan.) Keswick Vineyards is different from the vast majority of Virginia wineries; they have swans. We saw the pond (and the swans) when we entered the property. There were two pairs.
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Nov 02, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: black, black swan, Edgewood, Edgewood Estate, Keswick, Keswick Vineyards, lake, Land & Air, pair, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, pond, swans, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tourism, tourist, vineyard, vineyards, Virginia, Virginia Wine, Virginia Wine In My Pocket, white, white swan, winery | Leave A Comment »
Every Fourth of July Nancy and I invite a group of friends and neighbors to cruise on a deckboat on Lake Thoreau at sunset, to watch the evening’s impromptu celebrations of Independence Day. Enormous, professional-grade starburst shells go off overhead as bottle rockets inscribe arcs over or between the boats. The whole thing is spontaneous and unplanned. Our music was a mashup of Sousa marches and patriotic country. This is America’s birthday, lake-style.
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Jul 10, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: 2010, 4 July, 4 July 2010, 4th, 4th of July, 7-4-2010, 7/4/2010, barge, boat, Boating, boats, Celebration, Celebration Fun, countryside, deck boat, Deckboat, fireworks, Fourth of July, geotagged, HDR, Independence Day, July, July 4, July4th2010, lake, Lake Thoreau, Lakewinds, Land & Air, landscape, lights, national day, party, party barge, Patriotic, People, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, Reston, South Lakes, summer, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, Thoreau, tourism, tourist, United States, US, USA, VA, view, views, Virginia | Leave A Comment »
Reston, Virginia, USA
It is a still, cool day at the lake. The colors of autumn leaves and the clear blue sky are reflected in the calm lake, bordered by boats that have been put away for the season. There has been a break in posting as I upgraded our systems to Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system, which I have to admit I greatly prefer over its predecessor, Vista.
Reflecting Fall is a post from: thePhotoTourist.com.
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Nov 11, 2009 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: autumn, boat, boats, color, colors, fall, lake, Lake Thoreau, Land & Air, leaves, nature, not_uw, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, reflection, reflections, Reston, serene, serenity, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tourism, tourist, tree, trees, Virgina | Leave A Comment »
