Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Scavenger Hunt 5 - the final few

 #3 Birds On a Wire.  What, you can't see them?  They are almost dead center in the photo, below the traffic lights facing the other direction, on the wire stretching between the top edge of the hotel and the street light.  Roughly a dozen of them. I would show you zoomed in, but all you'd see is pixellated blobs. I saw them clear as day sitting at this traffic light. Unfortunately, my iPhone did not.

 So I give you this shot, taken for me by Jay on Saturday morning. Seriously, birds on a wire has become a running joke when we are in the car. So he saw this driving himself to work and snapped the photo for me.

#6. An urban street scene. The streets of Washington D.C. as taken in front of the Thai Restaurant that Sarah and I were visiting for dinner on Friday night.
#7. A rural landscape. Shot from the Bloomsburg University campus. A great view of the valley and the rolling hills of Pennsylvania.

Which leaves me with #10, the photo bomb:
The view of the Oprah Live the Life You Want Weekend event from the nosebleed section of the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.  Seriously, I got vertigo the first time we went up to our seats and turned around toward the stage. It is kind of terrifying. Oprah looked like an ant on that stage. And I'm not really sure this counts as a photo bomb, but I was trying to get the crowd seated and didn't expect all these people to be popping up in their seats.  In any event, I did get both alternates, so I'm calling it good!

7 comments:

Melissa said...

Congrats on finding everything on the list! I didn't get them all this year . . . guess it's because we didn't have a chance to hunt together since our visit was earlier! LOL

I love that Jay got the bird shot for you!!

Missus Wookie said...

Yeah for Jay getting the shot for you. Isn't it funny which items become the tricky ones? Well done on finishing :)

Sian said...

These photos all have great atmosphere, you know, that indefinable something that helps to tell the story?

scrappyjacky said...

The birds on a wire was definately a tricky one for me.

Fiona@Staring at the Sea said...

Those birds on a wire have proved tricky to capture!

Karen said...

Congrats on finishing! The rural landscape is really lovely. Tell Jay he got the most birds on a wire I've seen all summer!!!

Carola Bartz said...

I like your birds on the wire even though I can't see them... the second take is really cool! This year's photo scavenger hunt was such fun, don't you think?