World Where You Live (show me the scenery!)

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Kamui around campus X3

 

Whoa, some seriously stunning pics here! I love the St Albans pics, and the ones of the Californian mountains and Pennsylvanian farmland. This thread rocks.

 

I'm in Northeastern Pa. I'm so glad that we didn't get hit with snow. I live in a valley, but apparently they wound up getting a foot of snow on top of the mountain. And the one town near me get 17 inches of snow. X_X

I kind of want to take doll snow pictures now just so I can show everyone. ^_^

 

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I AM IN LOVE!! DDD

Oh my goodness, too too too many favorite pictures....

and so many people who live near me! :3 (NOR CAL *w00tw00t.*)

When my darling comes in the mail, we shall frequent the rural cemetary. ^___^

 

While I grew up in the northern region of Virginia, I now live in Richmond. Here I've got some pics from directly outside of my apartment. Though I'd love to go down to the Shockoe Slip/Bottom area. All those big old buildings and highways crisscrossing overhead-that's my favorite place for gathering sounds for projects-but not an area I'll go to without someone watching behind me while I shoot. Richmond's not as bad as people make it out to be, but there are a few spots where it's always safer in a group.

Richmond is full of brick. Almost all the buildings are these nice old bricks, and most of the signs are painted directly on the brick. (I'll have to bring Aidara down to the Carytown area to get photos of those someday)








(and if anyone in western Loudoun County, VA reads this and has pictures from Bear's Den, please post them. I miss that little spot so very very badly)

 

Sooo...I've finally manged to get some photos for this thread. I've at last found time to take some fairly good pictures of my twins in a local cemetery. I live in Baltimore, MD and this cemetery is in walking distance of my house, so I figure that it counts. It's a great place, if a bit small compared to many other cemeteries here and has had a beautiful Gothic style church (now converted into a hall used for various functions, but it still has an amazing pipe organ in it) built on top of it. It is called Westminster Hall and Burying Grounds, and it's the final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, his wife and mother-in-law, plus some war heroes and local figures of importance (mayors and such). I love the place, it's quite possibly my favourite place in the entire city, so I thought I'd share a few photos from the shoot today.


Spike and Sean sitting on the headstone on his original burial site. This is part of a family plot. The building visible in the background is part of the University of MD campus, since this burying ground has pretty much had the city built up around it and is now surrounded by UMD buildings, both the school itself and the hospital.


One of the tombs in the cemetery. There are a few of these in it, but this is one of my favourites, mostly because of the name. (The twins said that they always suspected that that guy was a vampire, but this proves it. XD), One of the others has some beautiful Egyptian themed decorations (lotuses and other things) on it.


The monument which marks the place where Edgar, Virginia and Maria were (re)buried. Probably the most recognisable monument in the cemetery. I regret not getting a shot of the entire thing this time, I'll have to take them back and get more photos of them with it. Those flowers and pennies you see are tributes left by visitors (the pennies relate to how the building of the monument was funded).


The boys visiting with the children. Those are graves of several of the children of a family called Brown, most of whom are buried there. They seem to have been a fairly unlucky family in the area of losing children at young ages. I like going to visit them when I go to the burying grounds, since it seems like not a whole lot of people do. The graves are tucked away in a space between two parts of the building and behind a couple of tombs.


One of the stones hidden in a sort-of out of the way place under some side stairs on the building. The stone is too degraded to read anything beyond an initial and the date, which appears to be from the early 1500s (1508, I think it is).

I was actually there twice in three days, as I went for a Halloween celebration and tour of the Burying Grounds on Friday. I am now kicking myself for having NOT taken the boys with me so I could get a few photos of them in the catacombs under the Hall, since those are kept locked up most of the year and are only accessible at Halloween and during the tours scheduled throughout the year. Ah, well...maybe next year.


We have some other great historical places I'd love to do shoots at if I could only make the time to do them. *grumbles about having to work for a living*
(Oh, and I do apologise if I've talked too bloody much about five photos, but I just can't help myself-I really do like the place that much!)

 

Hominivorax, great pics! Last time I was in Baltimore, the graves were under construction (???) and I couldn't really see anything...As a nerdy English teacher, I want a pic of Poe's grave...

 

As a nerdy English Lit. major, I totally need to get picks of Poe's grave! And I'm only in Annapolis, so I really should take the time to drive up there. Maybe I will take Liam and do that this weekend.

 

Thanks!^^ I've been meaning to take them to get some photos since I got them but only just got around to it, and I thought that it was appropriate for the time of year. I like to think he'd have gotten a kick out of them, too...maybe they'd have inspired a suitably creepy doll story? (I actually took them to his house after we left the cemetery, but didn't get any really good photos. I'd have loved to photograph them in his room, but the public isn't allowed in there anymore. Understandable, I guess, because the room is *tiny* and the stairs slightly dangerous.) Interesting note re: the monument: When you're standing at the monument on the side where Virginia's inscription is, look down at the floodlight embedded in the brick. Her bones are buried in the ground under the place that light is located.

@SailorLimaBean: Yeah, they were probably doing some maintenance/preservation work on the graves and the Hall. Some of the stones are in rather bad condition because of their age and there has been work going on to repair some of the damage.


I am really, really loving some of these photos! Some of you all have really gorgeous places around you. I was lucky enough to have such pretty views near my house. (I love all those pictures of mountains annd deserts and lots and lots of green!)

 

Oh my gosh, I love the pennsylvania view auron! Let me come to your place, my dogs would LOVE all that land, I'm in envy.

 

Sure, come on out for a visit. ^_^

 

Wow, I missed Xen's pic! That is great!!!!

 

I finally got Clara's boots so I can take her around campus! Here are a few that show off the scenery here.





This is in the courtyard outside my dorm:


And this is from the roof of my dorm:


I loooove the country out west

 

Oh yes! I can't emphasize enough how beautiful it is X3
Clara is a warm-natured girl so she can hold out for a little longer before she decides it's cold enough :3 It's been preeetty chilly outside lately..

 

Right outside my front door:

 

OMG! Snow?! We had some snow in NY a week ago, but just a couple flurries. Up north they got a foot of snow. I can't believe it! Nature is going insane.

 

I want snow.

 

rofl. I get too much snow up here in Ontario thank you very much xD

 

SNOOOOWWWW!!!!!!!!

Yeah, send some Down Under, while you're at it! Today was like an oven!

 

Oi!! They had some in the blueys only a week ago didnt they?? Did I mention we had a frreak Hail storm last week too?? In the middle-ish of summer?? Buuut today was 32 aaaaaaal day and NO breeze!!! So yeah... OVEN!!

 

This thread is great and inspired me to take my doll out in public for some photos. I live in Sacramento and what better place to take some photos than the Capitol building.

Here is Francis sitting on the steps out front, some people even took pictures of her.




This was a sweet bronze sculpture across the street of a mother and daughter hugging after losing their husband/father in a war.


Some of the city. You can see the bridge in the background, it's a "famous" local landmark.


Last shot of the Capitol, there were a ton of news trucks lined up infront. I was expecting to see protesters, but I think they were all in the courthouse.

 

Adea could you send me some snow too please? >.<

 

Taken about a week ago, at the AkiMatsuri at the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. In contrast to the snow pictures we're JUST getting fall here in Texas. *sigh*

 

I wish i could post you some snow but sadly it's all melted now because of the rain ;_;

The snow shocked me aswell! Though i think i'll have to get some photos of my home town more~

 

We live in the woods ^^ I wish it wasn't so squishy currently down by the river, since that would make a nicer pic ^^;;;

 

My Elven Court in front of my raised koi pond in my back yard.

 

ah! back home! ;__;
i used to sit on those tigers as a little child.... so odd to see them here- sorry, i... just had to comment. no idea there were many BJD owners around the princeton-y area and center city Philly, but maybe there are o__o;

 

Western Washington is so pretty in the fall!
Here is Noah sitting on an old wagon wheel in my neighbors vineyard. The trees are horse chestnut trees, and they have beautiful leaves and nuts! I love the spiky green capsules that litter the ground in September. We don't get much snow here in the Seattle area but if we do I will definitely try to get some snow pics.

 

This is my backyard, taken yesterday.

You can see all the hundreds of suburban buildings stretching out in the distance, and the large building on the other side of the fence, which is a Mark's Work Warehouse.





Ah... suburbia.

And it's kinda lame, but this is my deck, and our fence, and you may or may not be able to tell that if you look out my bedroom window, all you can see is Wendy's drivethrough!

 

Cute pictures. :3

And even if they're not supposed to be, all of these look really good, no matter the background. xD

I guess dolls do that~ Or maybe it's just good photography.

Loved the Washington Phallus. (sp? xD)

 

okay, i don't have anything to contribute yet, unless you want pictures with waaaay off-topic yarn monkeys & plushies, but... did anyone else notice the jersey devil footprints in this? xD what are those?

 

OoO You're right! Looks like some kind of moose to me... Or perhaps just a Sard passed by. XD

OK, so: pictures showing mostly what we have plenty of here: woods!

Klaus taking an evening walk in the woods.


Johannes in the garden.


Yorick in the woods (visiting the family?).


Yorick at the nearby pond.


Dante, woods and a tiny slope.

 

JennyNemesis - Wao, thank you! Now you sure made his cheek go pink even without pinching. ^o^

Perhaps someones Sard ran away and is now on the loose in Birmingham... O.O

 

I have a few pictures from my weekend at the Tenshi no Sato store, which is totally part of my world because I live only 2.5 hours from it.

Queen Asalahan, her guardian High Lord Mariisa, and her bodyguard Noorstom, all in new clothes in the Sato gardens:



Gael in the Sato Gardens:



A distance shot of Asalahan's court:

 

Everyone is living at such interesting places!
I pretty much live where most of you never even heard the name.

 

Awww. You still must show us what it looks like where you live. I'm sure we'll find it interesting.

 

I loooove taking pictures around this tree! ^________________^

 

haha, i like the idea of the jersey devil being a misunderstood sard on the loose. x3

really i was thinking maybe houseshoes, i see a lot of houseshoes that look like animal feet. but sard on the loose is more amusing.

 

The furthest I've ever gone for photos is Seattle (less then an hour north of me) so luckily all my pictures are around here.

This one was taken in my backyard during the summer. My mother used to race bicycles - so I think that's what the sign is about.


This is from Point Defiance Park - back around by the Pagoda there's an awesome Japanese pond that I only just discovered this summer (by discovered, I mean was told about).


These ones were taken down at Titlow Park (which brushes up against Puget Sound), which is within walking distance from my house:




And this one is probably THE most dangerous thing either of them have either done. The monkey bars are probably.. 8ish feet off the ground?


These last four are from a photoshoot we did today - I should edit the rest of the good photos from it and post them in my Gallery topic, lol.

 

Bother. Now I need a Sard to name Mr. Leeds.

 

Perhaps we should offer a price to anyone who is able to take a photo of the Jersey Sard? X3

 

I've seen all the photos!!


You live in very beautiful places. In my city are few places to take beautiful photos... T_T

 

starherd: now that would be seriously amusing. xD

jenny: well actually, running around terrorizing locals would be a lot more comfortable in houseshoes. and explain the footprints.

nineveh: haha, yeah! i think a reward should be put out for anyone willing to take a picture of their sard in the pine barrens. even better, the ruins of the old leeds house.

there's an idea for soom's next monthly doll series, urban legends. x3

 

I live on campus at HSU, on the ninth floor above the canyon.... You can see our lovely redwoods. ^^

 

The scenery around you is beautiful Ghost! So green!

 

Sadly the only scenery around this town.
A few days after taking this pic the pond was full of geese.

 

Here's Will visiting the nature reserve behind our house.

 

Well, since you asked.... ^_^
Here's another shot of the canyon.... Just behind the trees is Heart Attack Hill, going up to a more secluded set of dorms. Yes, it's very green.... I'm not QUITE at the point where I would shank a nun for some deciduous trees, but it's nearing the point....

I'm always half-tempted to try hang-gliding from our balconey....
And here's an example of our weather. This was...a few days before Halloween, I believe. Up here, we measure our fog in Silent Hills, as in 'Today was a sub-Silent Hill day. I could totally see the trees on the other side of the ridge.'

And I don't know if I posted this one before or not, but this is Ghost doin' a little crossdressing with his friend Czarine, who has since moved away to a new family. That statue is William McKinley, Indian Killer. He's not so popular.... People steal his hands sometimes.


I don't know if we have any spas that you stay at, but there IS a nice looking spa in Eureka.... And plenty of cheap hotels. If anyone is gonna come visit me and Alithegreat, who is the only other doll owner in the county I think, better do it soon! I'm graduating in a year. XD

 

Oh god I don't know why but this made me laugh so hard. Why would anyone steal his hands of all things? How does he get them back, or does the city keep a spare mold of them for just these occasions? Also, why would anyone want to erect a statue of a known Indian Killer? LOL!!

 

I think if anything appeared out of that fog aside from more pumpkins, be it the Great Pumpkin or Pyramid Head, I'd have peed m'self.