PhotoHunt--Theme: View

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The theme "VIEW" seemed too simple. Anything is a view. I probably have two thousand photos that would satisfy the theme view in the simplest and most commonly thought of sense of the word. I dug through many of them--moving them to a "view" file. I knew I had to do something. I tried views from high places like a lighthouse and the Space Needle--those would have a connecting thread. But I still wasn't satisfied.

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To get an angle on the word "view" I went to Dictionary.com. Lots of definitions. Not all of them photographically feasible. But this one worked for me:

10.
a sight afforded of something from a position stated or qualified: a bird's-eye view.

Aha! Pictures from a particular point of view. Good. And even the example given in the definition is perfect. A bird's eye view!

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So here is my offering of views from a bird's eye view, taken over a number of years from a number of airplanes. I always ask for a window seat.
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A view of the Grand Canyon

A view of agricultural fields with circle irrigation in Southeast Washington

A view of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

A view of the Arctic--either Greenland or northern Canada. Our Aeroflot flight crew were not inclined to be tour guides.

A view of the top of Mt. Rainier

What's your point of view?

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(If you have come directly to this post from the PhotoHunters, click on Newer Posts or on my header to see some folks who are getting abird's eye view today.)