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Vacation photos!

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Luca

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Obviously my recent posts have indicated that my vacation is not going as well as intended. Lots of triggering things happened all at once.

However, I have still been able to get a lot of really cool pictures which I will be sharing here. I've never claimed to be awesome at photography lol but I take pictures of literally everything (which most of you already know :p )
These were taken with a Nikon D3400 DSLR.
I will include one dog pic here because it's really cool but wanted to show more landscapes here because I'm in a very unique and beautiful part of the world.

Bonus points will be awarded to anyone who can guess where this is ;)
Hint: it's cold.

I honestly found the old barn with the blue barrels next to it really creepy and did not want to go inside but the exterior was an interesting shot.
The duck is a female Eider.


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Here is the one dog picture (I have lots of dog pictures but wanted to share mostly scenic photos. I can create an entirely different thread for dog pics from this trip! :D )
This photo was also taken on my phone. The rest were on my camera. But these sedimentary cliffs are really cool.

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crewlucaa_ said:
Yes, it’s Maine! How did you know? Lol
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Took a random guess lol. I mean, cold+shores? Within the US my thoughts immediately jumped to Maine or Alaska. Tho I’m not sure Alaska is the ideal vacation spot (unless people are actually into that). Maine is a popular tourist state so I thought the possibility would be higher. I had a classmate in college that told me Maine banned billboards so they wouldn’t block tourists’ sight because tourism is such a huge income.

(But if you went to Canada or Northern Europe, then I would have no luck guessing. ;))
 
Nice shots. I feel like l finally went on vacation. Thank you. I see a beautiful dog shot, he is a great dog.
 
Homulilly said:
Took a random guess lol. I mean, cold+shores? Within the US my thoughts immediately jumped to Maine or Alaska. Tho I’m not sure Alaska is the ideal vacation spot (unless people are actually into that). Maine is a popular tourist state so I thought the possibility would be higher. I had a classmate in college that told me Maine banned billboards so they wouldn’t block tourists’ sight because tourism is such a huge income.

(But if you went to Canada or Northern Europe, then I would have no luck guessing. ;))
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Good guess! :)
I don't think I'd go to Alaska unless it was summertime and I had someone else with me. Navigating Maine alone has been bad enough lol.
I was originally supposed to go with my family, they were supposed to meet me here. But something came up last minute and I had already paid for the place I'm staying at, so... :confused:
Needless to say, it has been a nightmare. Literally and figuratively.
I also just started driving again, because I had to, and just got my car recently (which is technically borrowed) so it's been extra frustrating.

There are actually no billboards here! Or in Hawaii (that I have seen anyway.) So that's probably true.
Parts of Canada and Northern Europe look similar to places here but I think Maine is kind of distinctive. I'm also in a rural part of New England but where I live isn't quite as scenic and is actually more nightmare fuel at night than it is here lol. The reason it's scary here is because it's isolated and the lock on the door of the house I'm staying in is kind of flimsy. I have more security at home.

I would not want to run into a bear or a moose in the wild here but I saw a porcupine yesterday!
 
You took very nice pictures! Its interesting that in sea pictures you give prefference to sky. :)

Even if the experience was bad, being on your own, driving, etc sounds like you stepped quite out of your confort zone. Expanding our confort zones may lead to personal improvements.

Thanks for sharing.
 
Thank you for this. You have a good eye for composition. Being color blind I pay a lot of attention to texture, and you have incorporated a lot of that, nicely. Were I there I would be tempted to do some sea kayaking.

I understand you don't feel secure. I live in a rural area with a half-mile or more between neighbors and have always felt secure. I guess I have a tendency to feel less secure around lots of people. I like that you are traveling to expand your horizons. Traveling solo, I think, lets you learn a lot about yourself. I hope that you are enjoying the Lobster Rolls. I think New England has just about the best Lobster Rolls around that is sometimes lost in translation. Around me people think that a lobster roll is a bun filled with lobster salad . . . horrible. The only good Lobster roll Outside of NE was at a Burger and Lobster in London.

I enjoy your posts, so, please, keep it up!
 
The Moorings Lighthouse- dead giveaway. Not to mention the Co-op. :p

Looks like New Harbor is about 50 miles east-northeast of Portland. About as far as my family ventured into Maine- 1966.

Saw some great coastline in New England as a kid...especially recalling Mystic Connecticut.
 
Judge said:
The Moorings Lighthouse- dead giveaway. Not to mention the Co-op. :p

Looks like New Harbor is about 50 miles east-northeast of Portland. About as far as my family ventured into Maine- 1966.

Saw some great coastline in New England as a kid...especially recalling Mystic Connecticut.
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I visited the Mystic Seaport, and on a Whaler under restoration I was asking about construction and different woods. The docent explained the use of live oak for knee braces and went on to say while the ship's bill of materials listed live oak knee braces (expensive) they tested them and found no live oak. Interesting.
 
Gerald Wilgus said:
I visited the Mystic Seaport, and on a Whaler under restoration I was asking about construction and different woods. The docent explained the use of live oak for knee braces and went on to say while the ship's bill of materials listed live oak knee braces (expensive) they tested them and found no live oak. Interesting.
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I'm guessing you mean the Charles W. Morgan.

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An homage to all the creepy old barns I encountered on my trip...

I did this first one in black and white because this one freaked me out the most and I wanted to convey how unsettling it was.

Maybe it was because the thought of horror movies was still fresh in my mind, but these barns put me on edge. Doesn't really matter though lol because I like how the pictures came out and I think they're artistic. And the fact that some of them aren't super clear kind of adds to the... charm? Lol
And I honestly do like creepy stuff, I just have a limit for HOW creepy.

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And then there was THIS contraption...
I encountered a trapdoor window that really creeped me out for some inexplicable reason. Maybe because the house was super old and probably haunted, or the fact that it was a trapdoor style and on a pulley with a very old rope, idk. But I found it unsettling and something just felt "not quite right." Hopefully someone else can look at these pictures and understand why it's eerie.
But yeah, I was scared for most of this trip, so that might be why everything creeped me out. But it made for some really (at least I think) cool pictures.
When I'm feeling braver I will have to go back to some of these locations and shoot some video. Some of my films are meant to be unsettling but definitely not horror. I use a DSLR for video too.
I did one (a music video, mostly me playing some weird instruments, featuring my dogs) in a haunted forest in January but idk if I want to upload it because I'm in it and it would look really stupid if I cropped out my face.

Anyway, enjoy the strange window.

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On a lighter note, I got this super cute stuff in a gift shop! (The stuff in the foreground)
The drink holder made me laugh my ass off so I had to buy it. The lady working in the store thought it was hilarious too.

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*Trigger warning if you’re not okay with hunting related stuff or are freaked out by decoy birds*
(NOT real)

I mentioned going to the world’s biggest L.L. Bean store. I really enjoyed it and so did my dogs. I’m obviously addicted to the outdoors lol.

But as an aside, in all honesty the taxidermy made me really uneasy and if my dogs weren’t with me I would’ve been afraid.
At this point I’m not that creeped out by handling dead game and I’m desensitized to eating all kinds of things (within reason) for better or for worse, but taxidermy animals are horrifying. And I know I’m not the only one because I’ve read posts on here about that.

I do a lot of field work with Enzo. So he was super lucky that I found a store that is extremely dedicated to bird dogs. I have never seen so much Pointer-specific stuff except for deliberately searching for Pointer collectibles in thrift shops. It was heaven lol.

Again, not a real dead bird, it’s a training tool. Enzo has a couple of realistic pheasants but this one is extra cool because the tail feathers flap when you throw it, which encourages Pointers to, well, point.

The stuff in the bottle is bird scent to make it even more convincing (for the dog.) I was expecting it to smell horrible but it really doesn’t. It actually doesn’t have a very strong smell at all to us but the dogs can smell it from a mile away!
Do birds really have a noticeable smell to humans though? Personally I think only their excrement does (i.e. chickens.) But it’s not like I’m going around sniffing birds lol.

I also got a new whistle (it’s loud as hell.)
And the orange thing is a bumper, similar kind of thing to the fake birds.

And a new field collar (even though Enzo has a fancy one with a brass nameplate already) and a check cord (the check cord is the 50ft orange lead I always have on him. Except I believe this one is longer.)
I use check cords for things other than field work too. It’s always useful to have a 50+ foot leash. I always have one in my backpack and one in my car.
Rope burn is inevitable though.

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I would have never thought I’d have a bird dog and actually be interested in working him in field trials but since my best friend breeds them, it was probably gonna happen at some point.


 
crewlucaa_ said:
On a lighter note, I got this super cute stuff in a gift shop! (The stuff in the foreground)
The drink holder made me laugh my ass off so I had to buy it. The lady working in the store thought it was hilarious too.

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I guess I do not get a creepy vibe from old buildings. Instead I try to read their histories. What creeps me out are McMansions that have a mishmash of architectural styles, the intersection of wealth and bad taste. I find that unsettling. Once I visited Biltmore, in Ashville NC on a motorcycle trip, and I can only describe it as the place where Good Taste went to die. Built at a time when giants who were redefining American Architecture were rebuilding Chicago. The designer of Biltmore was an incompetant. I feel the same way about the mansions in Newport RI. For real creepy stuff, see McMansion Hell
 
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crewlucaa_ said:
I did one (a music video, mostly me playing some weird instruments, featuring my dogs) in a haunted forest in January but idk if I want to upload it because I'm in it and it would look really stupid if I cropped out my face.
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That sounds really cool, you should upload it! Why would you have to crop anything out though?

Also, yes to the ghosts and haunted location too :)
 
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