**JUNE CONTEST comment Thread**

[JDB]

This is the comment Thread for the June photo contest Water Runs Through It.

Please comment below and keep this thread kicked

JDB

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'm in and all the entries look great!

It's a wonderful theme.

[Solly Mack]

2. mnhtnbb - I like it!

CurtEastPoint - Very pretty.

Peggy - Nice!


JDB - Thanks! Great job!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thanks, Solly!

It's one of my Iceland pictures.



Your picture took my breath away!

[Solly Mack]

4. It's a really cool photo; the geyser.

Thanks. I actually do play with bubbles. My dogs chase them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Your dogs play with the bubbles! How cool is that?

Glad you like my picture! I realized after I chose that one that the water is running through something: the blowhole. Hadn't realized it at first.

[mnhtnbb]

13. Thanks, Solly!

I started noticing very cool sewer/manhole covers on our trip to Europe last year.
This one was in Copenhagen. I'm getting quite a collection from looking down!

But I decided to do the funky eco-friendly think about what you flush submission
instead of the Jungle Garden which I took on my husband's 70th birthday--literally--the day we were in Kingston on
one of The Nation's annual cruises. I was torn between funky and peaceful.

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[Solly Mack]

14. I like that! But I like the other more.

You'll have to post your manhole covers! Please! Great idea to collect them.

[JDB]

6. Wow

Amazing entries so far really liking all of them

[Solly Mack]

7. I agree! Looking forward to how everyone treats the theme.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. This is a really difficult contest for me.

Every other picture I have has water running through it. Decisions, decisions.....

[Solly Mack]

9. You're just bragging. :)

You do have some killer water shots though.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. We are blessed here to have a lot of the stuff.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Quite literally, I have thousands and thousands of water pictures,

but I chose Old Valdez because that used to be the town there before the 1964 earthquake changed the topography forever. If ever there was an example of water running through it...

[countryjake]

15. That's what I thought when I saw your entry.

My cousin was working a ship up there when that tsunami took out the native town close to Valdez...it was just horrific. He saw the aftermath at Valdez, too, the way the piers, the coastline, the whole harbor just sunk.

I think you win the prize for interpreting this month's theme...if ever there was an example...

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Chenega?

This is from Wikipedia:

The original village of Chenega, located on Chenega Island, was destroyed in 1964 by a tsunami from the Good Friday Earthquake, which killed a third of the 68 people who then lived there. Some residents moved into a refugee camp; others moved to other towns. In 1982, one family moved to Evans Island and between 1984-1991 about 26 other families migrated to the new location, now called Chenega Bay.

Former and current Chenega residents gathered each Good Friday to remember the dead of Chenega. On the 25th Good Friday after the earthquake, in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, causing an oil spill that again devastated Chenega and other places around the area economically.

[countryjake]

17. I can't remember what it was called, but that's probably it.

My cousin was in the Merchant Marine at the time and he couldn't get done telling us all about that earthquake when he finally got home (with pics, too). I know that he said a bunch of people were washed out to sea from the village in that tsunami and that Valdez just sunk before the tsunami ever got there.

Not many down here still remember that earthquake, the worst ever, but I'll never forget it because of how worried my family was because he was up there. There was also a photo of a 59 Chevy dropped down into a crack, in Anchorage, and we had one sitting out in our driveway...a shot I'll never forget.

(on edit)
Okay, I just looked for that Anchorage pic I'd remembered and checking the fins, the Chevy appears to be vintage 1960, but it looked just like our car from the front, which is all that showed in the first published photo. As a kid, that was disturbing to me.)

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. And your choice is absolutely beautiful

Excellent!

[Solly Mack]

12. Oh, wow!

More great entries!

[Curmudgeoness]

18. I'm in.

And I decided to go with the photo that best fits the theme of this contest. I am hanging on to the other photos I was considering for a later contest.

[Mira]

20. Stellar submissions -

they just keep getting more diverse and inspiring. I a loving this subject matter.

[elleng]

21. I'm in!

It JUST happened, and as I'm home alone, I just HAD to share!

[fizzgig]

23. i am always so jealous of your sunset pics!

we had a nice one last night, but i had to watch it through the buildings across the street from work.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

22. All I can say is...

WOW!

[alfredo]

24. Postatomic, that is lovely.

[postatomic]

25. Thank you

There was such diversity with all the entries. Tried to come up with something different.