Where Was This Picture Taken?

Not Greece. Not Europe.

I think I’ve found it. Chefchaouen, Morocco.

Yep. Pretty much the whole town is painted blue and white. It’s pretty beautiful.

The local farming industry is pretty notable, too. :slight_smile:

Right!

'Course, at the time it was Marriott’s Great America. :slight_smile:

The quality of my offerings is not helped by the fact that they all pre-date my acquisition of a digital camera.

  1. pictures

  2. taken

some place else

The three locations are connected only by the photographer, so far as I know.

Bryce Canyon?

Yes.

Ellis Island?

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@N07/8558800011/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43200610@N07/8558806277/in/photostream

And finally:

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.

Chefguy, I’ll try the easy ones:

Mesa Verde

Crater Lake

Petrified Forest

That last one looks like the Inside Passage, Alaska

I love all these photos. Yes, that is Ellis Island, Cheffie.

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.

The last one is Naknek Lake in Katmai National Park. 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.

OMG Bearcam!

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.

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. 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.

Here are a few more:

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@N07/8559661847/in/photostream (no, it’s not from John Day)

These two of mine haven’t been guessed.

  1. taken

some place else

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.