Heres some photos. Some from my parents house and some from the city Adelaide. And my rally car

1,2 - My parents house, where I grew up. 33.5 Kms from my Backyard.
3,4,5,6 - Adelaide, state capitol. 29.8 Kms from my Backyard.
7 - Steep Hill Road, Rockleigh. 28.7 Kms from my Backyard.

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Matt, I love number one, it's not just the photography, it captures the essence of a place. Does that make sense?

Even though it's something you may see every day, to me those END 50 signs are alien, and to me they say, I'm not home, I'm somewhere else.

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Thanks Chris, it was from the first couple of sets when I got my camera and just started photography seriously. So I was just learning. And most people here don't get to see those signs, they only have them way out in the scrub where you can just drive as fast as the road allows (although you're not meant to break 110 in this state).

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Where did you grow up Matt?

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Tungkillo. Its out past Birdwood.

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We went on a little trip over the weekend and stayed out this way, and I think we went through Tungkillo. Correct me if I'm wrong Matt, but does Tunkillo consist of one building and a pipe?

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Tungkillo does indeed consist of one building (a pub) and a pipe.

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So did you live in the pub or the pipe?

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The pub!

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that's a good idea actually.... will post soon
also mention the places, with a caption maybe?

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Good idea, I edited my original post to include image number and caption. I think including "distance from my backyard" might be cool too. What do you think?
As in XXXXX is X distance from my backyard

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Yeh, good idea, you should be able to get pretty acurate distances from google maps or similar. I'm looking forward to this thread, we've got people from all round the world on this forum. Hopefully everyone contributes.

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will take some snaps tomorrow
btw chris that waterfall is less than a mile from your backyard? wow.... wow!

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Thats awesome that its so close to your house. We had falls near my parents place but they were mostly always dry, except if you had like a week of rain.

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Yeah it's great, I go there all the time in the summer. It runs about like the picture except during extreme dry spells. When it rains alot I can smell fish water from my yard.

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I checked out those Falls on google earth Chris, looks like you're living in a very nice part of the world.

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here's few from my hometown, Zadar. It has a population of 70 000, small town in a small country It's more than 3000 years old and getting older every second haha.
Alfred Hitchcock said once that Zadar has the most beautiful sunset in the world. Everything in these pictures is less than 5 min walk from my house, so, yeah, i can say that's my backyard

1) Fosa, small harbor in the old city's core
2) Same
3) City's gate
4) St. Donat and St. Stosija, Zadar most popular monuments
5) Sunset pic
6) Kalelarga, old city main street
7) St. Stosija from inside
8) some sunset pictures

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Stunning Architecture. There's nothing like that here in Australia.

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yeah it is, i'm just used to seeing that every day so i forget how beautifull really is

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wow altopais yours is a beautiful city i must say.... the sunset is truly captivating
here is my city....Chennai (formerly Madras), India. It's an incredibly old city, and has very little going for it in terms of original architecture, or monuments of any kind, so instead of those kind of pics, i decided to give you a different sort of tour.... it has a huge population btw as is the case with most Indian cities.....

1) Garbage - some 100ft. from my backyard (approx)...
2) Tidel Park - an IT hub, a product of India's IT craze....approx. 1 km from my backyard
3) Guindy railway station - approx. 2km from my backyard
4) Tea shop owner - this is a common sight in every Indian city....
5) T Nagar - an area stuffed to the brim with shops of every kind...mainly textiles, jewellery, but also almost everything else
6) T Nagar (shot 2) - apart from proper shops, it's also stuffed with street vendors who sell all sorts of stuff
7) T Nagar (shot 3) - an example of the aforementioned jewellery stores.... if you need gaudy, crass, golden baubles, this is where you need to go....this or the Dubai Gold Soukh!
8) What is locally known as a "kuvam" - basically a kuvam was a river/canal once upon a time, in its glory days, but has now been gloriously transformed into a sea of slime, sewage, garbage and every other kind of filth there is! i'm guessing if you step in, your Rads go up by 5 Rads/sec
9) a common hovel/hutment - satisfies all the stereotypes that Slumdog Millionaire has thrown at the world.
10) Cemetery - as far as i know, there are only 2 cemeteries in chennai, this is one of them
11) Central station - the primary train station...all trains are born here and die here
12) M.G.R. - a movie-star who ruled the south-indian movie industry, went into politics, started his own party, gathered massive following, and now both the main parties owe him allegiance, even they are at their throats most of the time....in short, he was a God here
13) Marina Beach - the 2nd longest beach in the world i think
14) Gandhi

hope you enjoyed the pics

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Great pictures, gives us a good insight into life in your city. Just out of interest, what's the population of Chennai?

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checked wikipedia....around 7.5 million as of 2007!

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Wow. That's over a third of the population of Australia in 1 city alone.

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and two times more than in croatia haha

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it's a scary thought knowing you can fit an entire country's worth of population into Chennai....twice!
when you put it like that it really freaks me out!

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haha yeah it freak's me out too, i could never imagine myself living in huge city, 70k people is more then enough for me thank you very much

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maybe we should exchange lives for a week it'd be a great experience!

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yeah probably it would, i'll be helplessly lost in there probably in 5 minutes or less

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Truly awesome pictures guys.

desade, I really like the less than pretty aspect you've included.

Altopais, that's some amazing architecture. Around here when a building get's old they tear it down. hahaha. The architecture is such that if it last more than 50 years, you probably don't want it to.

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Most of it is from Roman times,don't know correct dates but i believe it's somewhare arround 2-1 bc, and the city walls are even older, there's another city walls that was made 5-4 bc but it's all underground, the city was leveled to the ground couple of times, in world war 1 and 2, and was heavily bombarded doing a local war in 1991-1995, it's just amazing that most of it's monuments survived all that terror.

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thanks chris
altopais, in your 4th pic, are those window-cutouts that were never finished? there are some 3 or 4 window-like shapes which haven't been cut out, but have been sort of extruded inward....

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yeah, that was planed to be build that way, that's St. Donat church, around 7 century.

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Ok, here we go. I live in the same city as Matt but I'll try and show some different sorts of areas.

1: Brownhill Creek, about 12 kms from my place. This was taken in winter as like many creeks in this part of the world, this is the only time it runs.
2: Australian stereotype, Belair National Park. About 9 kms from home.
3: Sellicks Beach, 41 kms. Not the most famous beach in South Australia but one of the best.
4 and 5: North Terrace, Adelaide, 20 kms. At the begining of last year they had this 'Northern Lights' thing where images were projected onto the front of significant buildings along North Terrace. There were 5 or so images per building on constant rotation at night for about a month. It was pretty spectacular, some of the images were great. My 5th pic is the same building as the one in Matt's 5th pic. It's part of Adelaide Uni.

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i always wanted to visit Australia, looks amazing at least what i was able to see on national geographic and descovery
There's a lot of Croatian people living there, mostly in Sydney, i think i have some relatives there

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Yeah, Me too! I hear there are some great places to SCUBA dive there.

Anybody here ever dive?

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I haven't but yeh, there are a few good places. If you're into cave diving there are some particularly good spots in the south east of South Australia.

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I was just at sellicks on friday night. And I'm annoyed I didnt get to see the lights now.

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Cool place!!

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wow that's truly awesome! the northern lights thing is brilliant, where do they set up the projectors?
the 5th pic has some blurry humans whizzing through the pic as well nice! and you have gorgeous natural scenery

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That box that says Northern Lights holds a projector. Yeh, Adelaide's a pretty good place to live. Some people find it a bit slow and quite, but I've never found it's pace to be a problem. It's not perfect but I like it.

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Okay..have a tour.. My house..the back garden..studio..etc. etc..

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You've got some serious hardware there. I like your backyard.

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Freaking nice studio!

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1.A nice sun set made a cool looking sky.
2-3. Ikkicon nerds
4,5. Wild life preserve.
6. A lizard.
7. Animal rescue station.
8. Drunk friends on Halloween.
9. Our small but somewhat nice looking waterfall.
10. The capitol of texas (left) and the down town area (right). Trees (bottom half)

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I'm still posting images! (he saw the clouds)

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ahha i saw the clouds too

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Looks like I'm too quick. (That's what she said.)

That doesn't really make sense.

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fastest gun in the west

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It's the Austin Sky! grrrr

The real question is, why is this thread not a sticky?

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Ah, Austin. Sister city to Adelaide.

*Stickied.

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They're in walking distance.

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that small wilderness trail looks inviting.... is it the same place as the waterfall?

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No, the waterfall is in a more protected area, that has dinosaur tracks! In fact there are dinosaur fossils on that waterfall.

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Hey, I've been there, the dinosaur tracks are awesome. My sister used to live in Glen Rose.

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Cool!

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wow! the tracks are still there? can we see a pic of that?

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I'll try to go again and take the pic.

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I'm sorry.. Do you want backyards or back sides? Just wanted to clarify before I post..lol

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Let's stick with backyards for this thread.

I added a couple more pics to my original post.

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That tree photo is great Chris, you should add it to your portfolio.

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Just gotta say a few things prior to posting my boring UK based backyard:

1) cdballew - That waterfall is AMAZING !!!
2) desade2009 - I went on holiday to India about 8 years ago, and am still amazed every time I look at pictures from there (from my hols and current pics like yours)
3) Is this a non-UK based forum? or is it just an "all over the world" based one?

Anyway, here are a few pics from my backyard (based in Brighton, UK during my term times and Kidderminster, UK during non-term times [thus, I have 2 backyards ])

1. The South Downs - right outside my halls of residence at uni. Literally miles and miles of English countryside (and lots of fallen down trees to climb - my girlfriend, Vicki, is the one mainly in shot here, I'm in the background climbing - taken on a mobile phone (sorry about the quality)
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2. My literal backyard, in Kidderminster, UK (nout much to say really...) I lived here with my parents, so not really my backyard
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That's all for now, seen as I've just read the other thread about your PC /Workstation, I'll prob add some more pics to there, but also might add a few here of my actual flat, rather than shots from out of the window

Dan (ps, sorry if I've added the pics wrong, I just added the link to the image with <img src="”> - never really used a forum before )

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We're based in Australia, but we have people from everywhere. USA, UK, India, Philipines etc.

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yep - I realised this as soon as I posted the pictures, but seen as it was like 1am over here, I couldn't be bothered to repost the post

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Nice pics, very English To upload pics in this forum click the image button after you submit your post and upload them there.

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Wow....last post is from a remote past, but I wanna participate with pics of mines! =)

But since uploading all of the pics I wanna show you would take too much with this tiredness I have, then please take a min or two to check this URL:

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All of the landscape pics are from no more than +/-100km from home, some taken while "tripping" for job (me is on-site IT)

EDIT: please, ignore my "real" pic as I feel way more like a corgi, than a human....and YES, the baby in the mop bucket is me!!

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