Tag: landscape

  • Montomery Hill Park

    Montomery Hill Park

    I visited this park in San Jose, CA today. The views are pretty spectacular. It’s basically a giant field, but at a 45° angle. Next to Evergreen College, it’s situated between the college, a neighborhood and the mountains that surround Silicon Valley.

  • Unprocessed film discovered frozen in Antarctica

    These 100 year old images were found frozen in the Antarctic ice. They were processed and revealed some fantastic photos from an expedition at the beginning of the last century. Read about it here. 100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered In Block of Ice in Antarctica via Antarctic Heritage Trust.

  • Photography by Michael Huniewicz

    There is a certain age at which everyone must have some sort of adventure. Michael Huniewicz had one in the country of Mauritania, where he rode on top of an iron ore train across the Sahara Desert, capturing incredible images along the way. His entire gallery is widely diverse, having traveled just about eveywhere from…

  • Terra Sacra Time Lapses

    Sean F. White is a photographer who has created an amazing time lapse video of various locations around the world. It’s about six minutes long and features locations such as the pyramids in Egypt, penguins in Antarctica, ancient trees in Africa and shots of the Milky Way out in the desert. There are many timelapse…

  • Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge

    The always outstanding Retronaut.co has some fantastic images that were taken during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the years leading up to 1937. The bridge got it’s name from the Golden Gate  – the body of water that connects the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean –  and is one of…

  • Beached Whale on Carolina Beach.

    A small whale washed up on the beach here in Wilmington. It apparently is a Minke Whale. There is no cause of death at the moment, but officials from the local aquarium are picking up the carcass at some point to do a necropsy. The whale was torn up quite a bit, with a huge…

  • A little light, a little luck.

    [singlepic id=317 w=320 h=240 float=left]Here’s a shot of a bridge that I took deep in the mountains of Alum Rock in San Jose, CA. I just came across this sitting on my hard drive and realized I’d never really shared it with anyone. Now, this was taken with a Droid X, but it’s a pretty…

  • Chris VenHaus

    Hi folks, sorry I haven’t posted anything here lately – the end of the school year brought me the toughest set of exams yet, but I somehow made my way through and now I am an honest to goodness official college graduate, with an AAS degree in Nuclear Technology. So now that school is over…

  • Golden Gate Bridge in January

    [singlepic id=222 w=320 h=240 float=center] Back in January of this year, I managed to find myself in San Jose, California, on a business trip. It was a great trip. I spent the weekend with my cousin Justin, and had a blast photographing various locations in San Francisco. Here is a shot of the bridge across…