Geology Picture of the Week, Nov. 22-28, 2009: Rooms with a View (reader participation)

Various

[cogitator]

Sorry about not putting up an image last week -- circumstances intervened. But I had already come up with this idea, and I think it's appropriate for a holiday (at least in the U.S.) week where there are a lot of travelers.

Also, this is a user participation thread. I invite readers to find other examples and post them here. If you've never done that before, if you find an image, you can (in Windows) click on it and get an option to "Copy Image Location". If you do that, then in a response you use HTML code:

img src="image location URL" (but you have to put it all within angle brackets, which I can't show as an example because they will be interpreted as HTML!)

So here's what I was thinking of. The theme is "Rooms with a [Geological] View", as noted in the subject. The images are of actual hotel rooms with something of geological interest (at least vaguely) out the window (OK, or the balcony) WHERE you can actually see that geologically-interesting something out the window. This isn't always easy to do -- if the room is dark, what's out the window is commonly overexposed. There's at least one example below where I think the image in the window has been photoshopped in (see if you can spot it).

The first is an image and a Web site with more, featuring several examples of amazing rooms with amazing views of the Pitons on St. Lucia. (If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it.)

Jade Mountain Resort

So here's some more.

Niagara Falls (if they're on their honeymoon, will they be looking out the window much?)

Bathroom with a view of Niagara Falls (who needs a TV?)

Lake Louise

Hotel Patagonia - this is not a very romantic room

Better Patagonia (Salto Chico) -- I would really like to take a room here for a couple of nights

Some views of the Alps -- specifically the Matterhorn from Zermatt

This couple might not be very interested in the view out the skylight at the moment.

Brienz (last is best)

And because I missed last week, a Kilauea bonus, but not something you would likely want to see out your hotel window, even though it is quite geologically interesting:

[cogitator]

On the other hand, I was once in a hotel in Chicago where my window looked out at an alley and a wall. Fortunately I only stayed there one night.

[cogitator]

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[aliquando]

The first one looks like St Lucia.

[plinyelder]

If you've never done that before, if you find an image, you can (in Windows) click on it and get an option to "Copy Image Location". If you do that, then in a response you use HTML code:

img src="image location URL" (but you have to put it all within angle brackets, which I can't show as an example because they will be interpreted as HTML!)

You should make it clear to those that don't know .. It is not okay to just copy and paste an image link into forums .. or anywhere else, unless the image is linked back to a host site of your own .. otherwise .. It is known as Hot-Linking or Band-width Theft!

Just Sayin

[deks]

I imagine that you are right about that, however, an exception may be when hot-linking to an image on a U.S. government website (since we own it).

[JoeProBono]

Mount Popa, Kyauk Padaung, Myanmar

[Grammy]

Mr G and I went to St Lucia on a cruise many years ago. We always told the kids that if we disappeared, that’s where we would be.

[Steve Van Doorn]

wow is all i can say. I don’t know maybe we could set up an HD TV and make it look like a window of these views. :)

[SuziQ]

a Kilauea bonus, but not something you would likely want to see out your hotel window, even though it is quite geologically interesting:

One of the trips SirKit would like to make is to Costa Rica, to stay across the valley from Arenal. Apparently there are lovely resorts with a ringside seat view of the regular eruptions.

[cogitator]

I think it was Arenal where you can actually camp in the rain forest under the volcano, and occasionally you’ll hear an explosion from the summit, and you have to wait a bit to see where the lava bombs fall. I don’t think I’d be sleeping very soundly under the mosquito netting in that location.

[cogitator]

I understand the concern; but my best “records” here have been 500-600 hits, not a lot of bandwidth. A lot of my choices are from Flickr or Panoramio or government sites (like the Hawaii Volcano Observatory); those are essentially there to be seen. When I’ve posted from, as an example, a photographer’s site, I do give them the link back, and they might not mind the advertising if they’re commercial. But I could sign up for an Imageshack account and use that instead of the direct link.