Sunset on the river — Ridge, Maryland (May 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Summilux 50/1.4 ASPH
Quite the View
Video Link: Atop the world on the Charles W. Morgan
And Live by the Side of the Sea
Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH
And if the reference is lost on you, here’s the original audio source (but not the video, which is recent).
Video Link: Francis Scott Key Buoy Drop 2014
Mildred Belle
Chesapeake buy boat, Mildred Belle — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Elmar 135/4
What & Where?
Hotel Monaco (former B&O Railroad Headquarters) — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Tri-Elmar 16/4.0 ASPH
This is more of an experiment than anything else; like my last quiz, I can’t find this image anywhere online via a reverse image look-up on Google or TinEye. Can you? And if you can, please share the exact process by which you were able to find it.
Bay Talk
Seagirt Marine Terminal — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH
Down Periscope
Forward torpedo room — USS Torsk, Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH
Container Within A Container
The Space Shuttle Discovery — Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air & Space Museum, Virginia (May 2013)
Sony NEX-5R + 10-18mm
The Beginning of the West
The Eastern Continental Divide — Spruce Knob, West Virginia (June 2014)
Leica M 240 + Leica Tri-Elmar 16/4.0 ASPH
What & Where?
Veranda bar on the Nuclear Ship Savannah — Baltimore, Maryland (July 2014)
Leica M 240 + Voigtländer 21/1.8 ASPH
It’s been a while since my last quiz, so I figured this would suffice. Here are your clues:
- It’s not in Idaho.
- It’s not at Point Lookout.
- It’s not in the Smithsonian.
So there ya go. Have fun! Oh, and high-speed spell-checkers, Google searches, and reverse image look-ups are all fair game!
Into the Danger Zone
Tram station for the Sunnyside Mine — Eureka, Colorado (June 2007)
Fujifilm FinePix F31fd + 36-108mm
Fellow blogger Suchled asked for more detail behind my Relic post, so I promised to oblige.
The tram station for the Sunnyside Mine just happens to be part of a bigger story, one that has three elements of very real danger: altitude sickness, avalanche, and the hidden threats of abandoned mining shafts — not to mention the possibility of stumbling into the maw of a emptied alpine lake.
