# Where Was This Picture Taken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344 "2013-03-08T03:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/221 "2013-03-14T14:03:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > My first and perhaps too obvious guess is Santorini. I can’t find an exact match for the hillside, though, and the kids don’t look Greek, so I suspect it may be a copycat place. Not Greece. Not Europe. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/222 "2013-03-14T14:09:55Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Not Greece. Not Europe. I think I’ve found it. Chefchaouen, Morocco. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/223 "2013-03-14T14:30:54Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I think I’ve found it. Chefchaouen, Morocco. Yep. Pretty much the whole town is painted [blue and white](http://i48.tinypic.com/21jqiir.jpg). It’s pretty beautiful. The local [farming industry](http://i48.tinypic.com/wm1en9.jpg) is pretty notable, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/224 "2013-03-14T16:41:06Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > In that case, Six Flags Great America in Gurnee? Right! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/225 "2013-03-14T18:11:17Z")
'Course, at the time it was Marriott’s Great America. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/226 "2013-03-14T22:41:15Z")
The quality of my offerings is not helped by the fact that they all pre-date my acquisition of a digital camera. 1. [pictures](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27186885@N07/8557499991/) 2. [taken](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27186885@N07/8557500749/) 3. [some place else](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27186885@N07/8557501469/) The three locations are connected only by the photographer, so far as I know. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/227 "2013-03-15T00:19:39Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > 1. [pictures](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27186885@N07/8557499991/). Bryce Canyon? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/228 "2013-03-15T01:20:49Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > Bryce Canyon? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/229 "2013-03-15T13:35:45Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > 1. [This one will be easy for all you world travelers](http://i.imgur.com/XixFzUy.jpg) Ellis Island? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/230 "2013-03-15T13:55:27Z")
Here are a few easier ones, and one impossible one: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558794465/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558794465/in/photostream) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558800011/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558800011/in/photostream) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558806277/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558806277/in/photostream) And finally: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8559915360/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8559915360/in/photostream) If anybody gets that last one, I’ll buy you dinner. I really only posted it because it’s one of my all time favorite shots. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/231 "2013-03-15T14:56:33Z")
Chefguy, I’ll try the easy ones: Mesa Verde Crater Lake Petrified Forest That last one looks like the Inside Passage, Alaska ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/232 "2013-03-15T15:31:33Z")
I love all these photos. Yes, that is Ellis Island, Cheffie. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/233 "2013-03-15T15:54:00Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Chefguy, I’ll try the easy ones: > > Mesa Verde > > Crater Lake > > Petrified Forest > > That last one looks like the Inside Passage, Alaska The first two are correct. Petrified forest is incorrect, but it’s the same sort of scenery. The last one is in Alaska, but not in the Inside Passage, or even in Southeast Alaska, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/234 "2013-03-15T19:31:37Z")
The last one is [Naknek Lake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naknek_Lake) in [Katmai National Park](http://www.nps.gov/katm/index.htm). The remarkable thing about it is that it is not manipulated in any way. That’s a scan of the print photograph I took. It’s a spectacular place to visit. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/235 "2013-03-15T19:33:54Z")
[OMG Bearcam!](http://www.nps.gov/katm/photosmultimedia/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/236 "2013-03-15T19:52:01Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > [OMG Bearcam!](http://www.nps.gov/katm/photosmultimedia/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls.htm) We were actually at the Katmai National Monument, which is different from the Park. The monument has the Valley of 10,000 Smokes, and more damned grizzlies than you can ever imagine yourself in close proximity to. In fact, I took that photo because we had to get off the trail to make way for several grizzlies on the way to the feeding area. I turned around to look at the lake and was stunned to see that vista. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/237 "2013-03-15T20:01:31Z")
I’m still trying to identify that third one, Chefguy. If it’s not the Petrified Forest, is it somewhere in the Painted Desert? Or maybe the Bisti Badlands near Chaco Canyon? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/238 "2013-03-15T20:14:32Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I’m still trying to identify that third one, Chefguy. If it’s not the Petrified Forest, is it somewhere in the Painted Desert? Or maybe the Bisti Badlands near Chaco Canyon? You’d think so, but it’s actually in a little-known area (outside of Oregon, anyway) called the John Day Recreational Area. This particular section is known as the [Painted Hills](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Hills). John Day’s claim to fame is that he was robbed and stripped naked by local Indians near a river mouth on the Columbia. Now his name is plastered on everything, including the river, the above named area, a dam, the John Day Fossil Beds and more. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/239 "2013-03-15T20:35:10Z")
Here are a few more: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8560784440/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8560784440/in/photostream) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8560770252/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8560770252/in/photostream) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8559661847/in/photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8559661847/in/photostream) (no, it’s not from John Day) ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/240 "2013-03-16T13:30:57Z")
These two of mine haven’t been guessed. 1. [taken](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27186885@N07/8557500749/) 2. [some place else](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27186885@N07/8557501469/) One of these probably doesn’t give people very much clue to go on. If I get sufficient interest expressed (by way of asking questions about the decorations in the other one, perhaps), I’ll post another picture as a clue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344.md?page=13)