Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler

The western most range  of the Rocky Mountains, the Wasatch Range includes Mount Nebo, which rises to almost 12,000 feet (3,650 m).

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Utah’s Snowy Rocky Mountains

Location: One of the seven hills
Destination: San Francisco
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2008

Photographer: Adriana Sbardellati
Blog: Flickr Photos

People often mentioned the seven hills of San Francisco — Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Twin Peaks, Rincon Hill, Russian Hill, Mount Sutro and Mount Davidson.  Actually the city has 44 named hills.  The tallest, Mount Davidson, stands 925 feet high (282 m), and the shortest is  Rincon Hill at 100 feet (31 m).

In 1873, the first San Francisco streetcar line was opened on Clay Street.  The grip, or operator grasped a handle that gripped an underground cable pulling the street car up and down the hill.

Today there are three cable car lines running through San Francisco – Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California Street. The first two are mostly used by tourists, while the California Street line is primarily a commuter line.

Besides the turn-of-the-century cable cars, San Francisco still uses electric streetcars that were built in the late 1940s

A ride on a San Francisco cable car costs $3.00, each way.

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The Reason San Francisco has Cable Cars

Location: Golden Gate Bridge
Destination: San Francisco, California
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2005

Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler

One of the most photographed structures in America is the picturesque Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

What makes a golden gate bridge so photographic is the ability for photographers to take photos from many different angles, in all kinds of lighting and weather conditions, from sunny and clear,to completely fogged in and misty.

It’s rare to see the bridge with blue cloudless skies, but when it happens, it’s a great time to take a photograph.

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The Picturesque Golden Gate Bridge

Photographer: Mary Jo Manzanares
Blog: The Seattle Traveler

Built built for the World’s Fair in 1962, the landmark Space Needle is the prominent building of Seattle’s skyline.  The needle, the tallest building west of the Mississippi River when it was built, offers visitors an observation deck and restaurant, all at heights over 500 feet.

The needle was designed as a combination of two ideas, first a flying saucer and the second, a balloon on a string.

After 36 years without a serious power-washing, this past fall, the entire 605-foot high exterior of the Space Needle was cleaned.

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Seattle’s Skyline and Space Needle

Location: Pier 4, Inner Harbor
Destination: Baltimore, Maryland
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2009

Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler

Located at Pier 4, in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the Old Power Plant, now called Power Plant Live! houses multiple restaurants and nightclubs, including a Hard Rock Cafe, and the first ESPN Zone.

Built in the year 1900, to provide power to the United Railways & Electric Co., the Pratt Street Power Plant, or the Pier Four Power Plant provided power to a citywide rail transportation system.

It it was also a central steam plant, for local power company. The generating system became obsolete in the plant was retired, until World War II, when demand for electricity increased, and the plan was put back on line.

After the war, it closed and housed several unsuccessful business ventures, including an indoor Six Flags theme park for four years.

Today, the massive industrial structure with its Neo-Classical details and four smokestacks is a visual landmark of the Inner Harbor and Baltimore’s skyline.

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Baltimore’s Old Power Plant

Photographer: Jessica Whittle
Blog: Flickr Photos

This 1960s era neon sign and swordfish points the way (Turn Right) to Pensacola Beach along the Florida Gulf.  Visitors must cross two bridges to get to the beach, so this sign was erected to guide tourists who often missed the beach.

In the Spanish first discovered Pensacola Harbor in 1539. The first permanent settlement was established just 20 years later, no on the site of the Pensacola Naval air station.

The sign was heavily damaged during Hurricane Ivan in 2004, which also destroyed over 650 homes in the area.

The area also boasts a couple novelty styled homes. One being a Jetson’s-like flying saucer pod shaped Futuro house, designed by Matti Suuronen.  The second is the concrete Dome of a Home, a dome-shaped bunker-like home designed to withstand just about any hurricane.

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Which Way to the Beach…?

Location: Pennsylvania Avenue
Destination: Washington, DC
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2009

Photographer: Jon Rochetti
Blog: The DC Traveler

Since the day Pennsylvania Avenue behind The White House in Washington, DC was blocked off to traffic, it’s become of virtual playground, for in-line skaters, street hockey players and bicyclists looking for a place to enjoy the outdoors without automobile traffic.

Almost every weekend, you’ll find pickup hockey games and other sports going on on the wide, traffic free street,   In front of the President’s home.

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Image – personal collection – ©2008, Jon Rochetti

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Hockey Players Outside The White House

Location: The beach
Destination: Puerto Vallarta
Country: Mexico
Year Taken: 2000

Photographer: Mary Jo Manzanares
Blog: Fly Away Cafe

The Mexican beach resort city located on the Pacific Ocean first became a well known American tourist destination in 1963, after the motion picture The Night of the Iguana was filmed on location nearby. The much-publicized affair between Richard Burton, who was in Puerto Vallarta filming the movie at the time, and actress Elizabeth Taylor,   brought the beach resort into the eye of the general public.

New roads leading into Mexico’s interior, along with a modern airport, and a much-publicized trip by President Nixon to sign a treaty with Mexico also helped bring and American tourists to this destination.

In the late-80s, the film Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Blow, a movie about the introduction of cocaine to mainstream America, starring Johnny Depp, was also filmed close to the city.

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Sailboats and Movie Stars at Sunset in Puerto Vallarta

Photographer: Michael
Blog: Flickr Photos

I’m glad to see am not the only person who finds that Hoover Dam a great subject to photograph. But previously published to photos, one of the dam itself, and another of the hydroelectric generators on Travel Photo Daily.

This photo, submitted to the Travel Photo Daily Flicker group by Michael, is an amazing image capturing a giant-like human shadow.

Many of his other great photos explore the world of shadows.

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The Giant Shadow on Hoover Dam

Location: Trinity Church
Destination: Boston, Massachusetts
Country: United States
Year Taken: 2005

Photographer: Adriana Sbardellati
Blog: Flickr photos

Trinity Church, in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay, is an Episcopal parish, founded in 1733.  The sure destroyed in the Great Boston Fire in 1872.

The church is located in the shadows of Boston’s tallest skyscraper, the 60-story John Hancock Building.

Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, the father of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, it is characterized by large towers and massive arches formed using rough stones and clay tiled roofs. The interior of the church boasts over 20,000  square feet of  colorful murals.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), his place it on their list of the “Ten Most Significant Buildings in the United States”.

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Trinity Church in Boston