WORLDWIDE PHOTO WEEK: Part 334 - 20 Minutes from Home

Tim..Love your concept, and Love those sculptures!
Stina..Those are great shots and a really unusual place..
Levina..a very pretty pano. I really like the look of super wide angle!
...and I love the scooter/shadow shot..
And Thanks for the map..
John! sweet sea shore shots!

So I drove and walked two different directions from usual, and this is my result. Don't be fooled though...a very long lens saves a LOT of walking!

The first image is looking north-west to the mountains of the Kahurangi National Park and the second image is the beach of Rabbit Island shot is straight into the 4.30pm sun.

Those are beautiful, Richard. The water in #2 looks amazing.

Thank you Levina...I really appreciate your comments. It was lovely to see some real sunshine for a while today!

You folks live in very beautiful areas. So much awesome nature. There is only concrete, asphalt, and traffic in most directions from where I live If I hit the hills, all I see is city smog.

20 minutes south of my home (driving) ...

Ricardo.. That first shot looks cold! (As we are still in the 100's F here) .. and a beautiful beach

Barbara, I think there is some historical significance there
Very pretty building and grounds.

Once again there are many breath taking images from around the world and so many of you have awesome scenery to shoot close to home. Twenty minutes from my house still doesn't get me out of cattle country or crop fields but I did dive into some history I've overlooked for the past 50 years by taking the winding road towards town.
This old Church sits within 15 feet of a hard surface road between two dangerous curves and at first I tried shooting from a safe distance then ended up partially parked in the cemetery.
It proved to be difficult to photograph as nothing is straight, light was terrible and either dangerous from traffic or not enough room to shoot for over grown woods or native grass.
I found the old wagon trail that was probably used to travel to this building and it crosses a farm now owned by my cousin. It is said to be the first road in the county. Also found the graves of my ancestors back 5 generations that came here from Germany and may have helped build this Church, their graves all located within a few feet behind the building. Some are very hard to read, but my great, great, great Grandfather had passed in 1877 and looks like it says he was 79 years old. I need to stop again and give this more effort to document my history.

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Those are pretty shots, Barbara.

Steve, fascinating shots and story. You'd definitely want to go back some time!

I've processed a few more shots from last Wednesday when I went to Waterland and IJdoorn.

This is close to the village of Ransdorp. Everywhere you look there are sheep, cows, horses. I was hoping the sheep would come to the fence, but they didn't, so after taking a few shots with the Samyang, I also took a few close-ups with the 400mm.

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Some nice photos and info all.

Steve, that's pretty special to have all that family history so close. Well found.

Steve...great find in that old churchyard. I love history, but of course as New Zealand was only settled by Europeans in the 1800s, and there was no written history from our Maori predecessors, our history is short compared to yours. Still, I have found family graves from the 1880s of settlers who came out in the 1860s. They settled in Queenstown, in the midst of mountains and lakes, which probably accounts for my love of such areas.

Levina, lovely images again...wonderful to have such places so near the city.

Great photos everyone. What a diversity we all have just 20 minutes from our homes. Yesterday found me and our photo club at the Wilson Creek Gorge in the Pisgah National Forest

Sorry about the sideways photo. Not sure why it does that when I post it.

Twenty minutes on my motorbike from looking back at the lake where the town I live in is located(Lake Chelan - like an inland fjord - 55 miles long and no more than 2 miles wide - 3rd deepest lake in the US).