have a mariner pic post thread.


one time i went to ireland:

it was rainy, then sunny, then rainy, then sunny. weather was always in a hurry. made for lots of

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it was a churchy place

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i like dense, walkable cities so dublin was pretty cool

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it was the holidays

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oh fuck yeah!!

i guess it's safe to say mariner passes on auto settings

it was a churchy place

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hello-o-o-o-o?

echo-echo-echo-echo

there was a nice little seaside town nestled against a big hill with a cross and lots of hiked out european tourists at the top

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on new years' eve people line up to go inside a burial tomb that's older than the pyramids at giza

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it had excellent drainage

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blarney castle is pretty cool.

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a torrential rainstorm ended as we got there so the joint was almost empty. the grounds were awesome.

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things grow like crazy there


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the eye in that tree is photoshoped in

i can tell by the pixels

awesome your photos are always the gang bang panang.

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what the ...

that's a tree mercurial

it's the bottom of the picture i find confusing, celluloid_love

obviously the photo is of a tree's reflection in water but the photo is upside down.

it's the bottom of the picture i find confusing, celluloid_lovepicture's downside up, brother.

obviously the photo is of a tree's reflection in water but the photo is upside down.
I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU

pretty nice photos, man

Wow, very nice... what camera do you use?

awesome as always, mariner. you're really great at capturing atmosphere. why were you in ireland? just because?

Lots of great pictures there, seems like you've got a real talent there.

del

i don't think i would have figured that out myself. thanks isle!

it was a churchy place

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that's called rib vaulting!

sweet pics bro-man

picture's downside up, brother.


well how about that

happy!

breathtaking pics







































































YES I SAID BREATHTAKING FUCK YOU

thanks for the kind words guys, glad you like


that's called rib vaulting!


for His pleasure!


why were you in ireland? just because?

just because.


Wow, very nice... what camera do you use?

sony dsc h1. at some point in the next year or two i'll probably spring for an SLR








in the awesomely monikered village of sneem it became necessary to take refuge from a sudden hailstorm inside a wierd public art conical stone tower/pyramid deal

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sneem had a stream, which, you know

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this is what cork looked like on one of those mornings where the temp dips briefly but firmly below freezing. it's the river lee, so i thought of certain devious netphorians whenever i saw a sign or plaque reminding me of the name

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Those are the most beautiful pictures in the history of mankind and you are the best person on earth and i will deep throat you etc.

yes, what he said

if only i had multiple peeners

Beautiful. They should have send a poet to this thread, not boarders.

there's a ruined castle and ruined abbey right next to each other in cashel

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was a lot of fun to climb around in them

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this one's for you, mercurial

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last fall when i got off the boat i bummed around the northwest for a while



oregon is great, it reminded me of that the first night i was there

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the rainforest is a ridiculously alive and ancient and kinda creepy place.

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but it's hard to beat on a sunny morning

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i camped by a river

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a well-timed break in the clouds on the leading edge of the first big storm of the winter

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the next morning the storm was doing its thing

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water in the coves foamed so much it looked like milk

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i had just bought some good raingear and damned if i wasn't going to get some use of it

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also, a seagull crapped sideways onto me in the wind and it nearly beaded right off the coat. i did not get a pic

wow. groovy! you're gonna get laid tonight.

GOD I LOVE WATER

no photos of bonnie irish lasses?

no photos of the falls?

I also regret that we did not get to go gunslinging.

Also, per our conversation about eyesight - I went and got glasses. I was at 20/40 vision.

the next morning the storm was doing its thing


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this is incredible...

wonderful, wonderful pictures.

best thread ever

good stuff

I desire that this be merged with picpost right now, right now.

mariner you're seriously a pimp
you better be doing this for a living

no photos of the falls?



a few days after getting my storm fix, i went on a hike with a certain gunslinger. we looked at some cool waterfalls, enjoyed the forest, and came across some sort of troubled-youth wilderness adventure program having a frustrated moment on the trail

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this guy would have perhaps been more familiar to you had i photoshopped in some firearms

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wow, those photos are incredible!!

i worked in alaska, british columbia, and washington last spring/summer/fall


alaska was pretty cool

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humpbacks are pretty much the best

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british columbia isn't as spectacular as alaska, but there are endless forests and inlets and lots of unexpected remote towns and interesting traces of human activity.


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there's decent chance at seeing some of the scariest and smartest predators on the planet

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vancouver is great.

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and so is victoria



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i like seattle. the farther you get from it the bigger ranier seems



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there are boats everywhere so you know


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as far as big cities go it has its charm


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puget sound and the strait of juan de fuca are good for sunsets


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I desire that this be merged with picpost right now, right now.

no!

GOD I LOVE WATER

word lady

i also pretty much love mariner

Come May, I'm going to kick this thread's ass.

Colin and I, that is.

the whole board is jealous of mariner

fjords in alaska are a great place to be on a rainy, misty day



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if you can find a fjord with glaciers that calve icebergs it's a bonus



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also a bonus if the captain likes getting close



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yep, you're totally badass. those pictures are amazing.

cool. those places look very familiar.

Amazing photos... I'm so freakin' jealous.

i don't really want to get married but i really want to honeymoon in ireland.

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

I want to do whatever Mariner does for a living.

I want to do whatever Mariner does for a living.

yeah, wtf

awe, jaw on my lap, etc.

very nice.

This thread is totally racist against blind people.

I want to do whatever Mariner does for a living.

I'm pretty sure you don't want to do the parts that aren't sightseeing and picture taking

Unless we're talking 2girls1cup type stuff I think I can handle it.

This thread is totally racist against blind people.


he does have a point here.. what do you have to say for yourself mariner?

the blind people race are coming after you!!!

they're moving very slowly and carefully though. if you were to rearrange some of the furniture quickly and quietly, i think that'd buy you plenty of time for a clean escape

I can't express enough how much I envy your journeys on earth

i need to leave florida. if anybody could find two pictures of anywhere in florida that look 1/4 as spectacular as the worst of his pics, i'll eat my hat


my hat i say!

they're moving very slowly and carefully though. if you were to rearrange some of the furniture quickly and quietly, i think that'd buy you plenty of time for a clean escape

i have heeded your advice. also i am skipping town for a few days. ohio here i come.





I want to do whatever Mariner does for a living.

i believe there are several positions to be filled at my place of employment, but yeah:

I'm pretty sure you don't want to do the parts that aren't sightseeing and picture taking

you work 12-15 hours a day for 7 days a week for 6 to 10 (sometimes more) weeks straight. breaks are 2 weeks long but about 1/3 of that can get chewed up traveling between alaska and home if you're not careful. you pretty much give up having a real/normal life for 6-7+ months a year. if you're in an entry level spot on the hotel side you're scrubbing toilets and cleaning cabins and doing table service+bussing 3x a day. on the deck side things aren't quite as bad but you do manhandle lots and lots of trash and schlep around the massive pieces of luggage that seem to be necessary whenever well-to-do senior citizens leave home for more than a few days.

Unless we're talking 2girls1cup type stuff I think I can handle it.

there are quite often 'sanitary issues' which require the clean-up skills of both the hotel and deck staff









but yeah if you're one of those obviously mentally impaired people that can endure (or even thrive upon) boat life, and especially if you happen onto a boat with a great crew (this makes -all- the difference), it's a pretty awesome job. i was lucky enough to have my camera around for some of the moments that made it abundantly clear that the grueling work and disconnection from the rest of society was worth it



like the morning we watched a mother grizzly teach her cubs how to hunt mountain goats on a nearly sheer one thousand foot cliff

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or sunrises and sunsets on glacier bay


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or hearing and smelling a male stellar's sea lion haulout


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or catching a brotherly sea lion moment

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or listening to a pack of wolves hidden in the woods howling back and forth across an inlet while a few of them lounge on shore.

the mannerisms of the one gnawing on the end of that log were hilariously dog-like

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or laughing at how bald eagles seem to know they're photogenic.

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they also like sitting on top of american flagpoles.






or watching humpbacks feed, breach, and spyhop. and smelling their breath. and the first time i heard one trumpet. it was totally unexpected and so loud i could swear i felt the low end in my gut a little. the whole boat went dead silent and the sound echoed back and forth across the water between the islands around us. one of my life's rare truly mind/heart/soul-stopping moments.




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and for tradition's sake i will now post a bunch of pictures involving snow and ice. oh the ice. some of it looks like you'd expect it to. some of it is so blue and fortress-of solitude that it can't be real. some of it looks like a bad trip to mordor. some of it forms massive walls 20 stories high and falls off in chunks the size of small apartment buildings.


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dude what the heck are those massive listerinebergs doing there?

keepin it fresh

actually mr. balls, those are really dense semi metamorphosed pieces of ice that are older than both of our moms combined.

boo-yah!!


*goes to look up metamorphanized or whatever it's called*

imagine if ted kennedy and pre subway jared sat on you for several hundred years. you would be a changed man.

Mariner, have you heard if you are all going to be allowed near Hubbard? It's receding insanely fast and they've basically said no one's going there (lol at poor souls buying r/t Hubbard sailings).

that is fucking amazing mariner

Mariner, have you heard if you are all going to be allowed near Hubbard? It's receding insanely fast and they've basically said no one's going there (lol at poor souls buying r/t Hubbard sailings).

i don't think any of the boats in the u.s. arm of the company i work for visit hubbard. it's sort of its own place on the coast between between the islands of the southeast, where most of our boats work, and prince william sound, where we occasionally have a boat or two running. the company does run a deep-sea/internationally-flagged ship that, when it's in alaska, probably visits hubbard (it also goes out along the aleutians, up to the remote islands in the gulf of alaska, and then across the dateline to siberia).

haven't heard anything about a sudden/major retreat at hubbard; i was under the impression that it's one of the few advancing tidewater glaciers in alaska. when did this start happening? link?

Oh, one more thing: Any news on your dates - will we be crossing paths any?

Shit, I meant advancing - my bad. The speed is so rapid it's been deemed (thus far) to be unsafe for boat traffic because of calving and the advancement itself.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF18/1890.html

Hubbard Glacier crept to within a football-field distance of ramming into Gilbert Point last June, and some scientists say that a spring 2008 closure of Russell Fiord “may be imminent.” Roman Motyka, a research professor with the University of Alaska Southeast and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, gives Hubbard a 50-50 chance of plugging the entrance to Russell Fiord this spring.

...

If the plug of Hubbard Glacier again holds fast against Gilbert Point (as old river channels say it last did in about 1860), rainfall and glacial melt would fill Russell Lake until it reaches about 132 feet above sea level. Then, the water would spill over into an old channel of the Situk River, and flow from the river to the Gulf of Alaska. The Situk, now a clear-running stream with the highest population of wild steelhead in Alaska and possibly the world, would become a glacial stream that could be as large as the lower Snake River in Idaho.

got n e new pix?

like the morning we watched a mother grizzly teach her cubs how to hunt mountain goats on a nearly sheer one thousand foot cliff

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i wonder what these bears are doing right now

gay.

a little ying for all the yang in this thread.

sweet

i need to leave florida. if anybody could find two pictures of anywhere in florida that look 1/4 as spectacular as the worst of his pics, i'll eat my hat


my hat i say!

:Stupid: 4 real.

got n e new pix?

yes. the first two are for mercurial




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minnesota


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siiick!

true board hero

wisconsin



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british columbia



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washington



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http://forums.netphoria.org/general-chat-message-board/157594-photography-thread.html

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that looks like it's taken from underwater. radical!

http://forums.netphoria.org/general-chat-message-board/157594-photography-thread.html

fuck the photography thread. mariner is in a league of his own.

kansas





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