Pictures of the United States.

[The Lawspeaker]

The silhouette of a large saguaro stands at sunset in Saguaro National Park on the east side of Tucson, Arizona.


The Central Avenue business district skyline in Phoenix, in 2004. This view looks north toward the Phoenix Mountains.


The Antelope Canyon.


Apache Lake.


Arizona-77 in Salt River Canyon, north of Globe, south of Show Low.


Interstate 40 West, north-central Arizona, near Flagstaff.


The Badlands in the Petrified Forest National Park.


Photo of petrified wood at Petrified Forest National Park.

[Thraex]

What's with the sudden interest in Arizona?

[The Lawspeaker]

What's with the sudden interest in Arizona?

The landscape. We don't have that stuff here in Europe. Not even in Spain.

Yucca elata thriving in the dunes at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.


U.S. Route 191 in Beautiful Valley (Arizona).


White House Ruin at Canyon de Chelly National Monument.


Las Vegas Strip. (Nevada).


The Venetian hotel/casino (Las Vegas) outside viewed from the right of the balcony.

[The Lawspeaker]

Come on, you Americans. You lot like to show off your tanks, guns, missiles, your capitalism-gone-wild, fighters and stealth bombers but why not show off your landscapes ?

Why should this piece of Eurotrash do it all alone, eh ?

[The Lawspeaker]

The winter scenery of Lake Alice at the University of Florida.


Ponce de Leon Hall at Flagler College.



Paddling on the Hillsborough River, Hillsborough River State Park.


Skyline of Tampa, Florida.


Main Street at Magic Kingdom (in Disney World) during the Happiest Celebration on Earth.


Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World Resort.


The Universal Studios globe.


The Everglades: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, operated by the National Audubon Society.

A photograpgh of a Great Blue Heron taken in the Everglades National Park.


Anhinga anhinga watching sunset over marshes (in Shark Valley, Everglades National Park.)


Mangroves in the Everglades National Park.


Florida Bay at Flamingo, Everglades National Park.

[Joe McCarthy]

Arizona may be the most distinctly American of US states. The whole frontier spirit of the Wild West and gunfighters, etc. Much that is American is derived from Europe and adapted to American conditions, but figures and places like Wyatt Earp and Tombstone evoke a uniquely American feel. Even the weather creates new dimensions. I've had Canadians and Northern Europeans remark on the dark tans of people in Arizona.

[Loddfafner]

I don't feel like uploading pics at the moment but would be glad to help any of you find the best camera angles for Independence Hall (20 minute walk from here), a genuine covered bridge (30 minutes drive and then 10 minutes walk), a Swedish log cabin (1 hour drive), a genuine American ghetto just like the ones in the movies (closer than I'd like to admit), scenes from Rocky, quaint old alleys that match almost anything in Europe (outside my door)...

[The Lawspeaker]

The mouth of the Miami River at Brickell Key.


Downtown's Brickell Avenue is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S.


The entrance to Riverwalk station.


Downtown Miami skyline as seen from South Beach.


Typical art-deco buildings along Ocean Drive in South Beach.


South Miami - Beach Community Church.


A typical winter's day on South Beach.


Government Cut


Typical house in Miami Shores.


Typical street in the Grove, showing heavy vegetation typical of the hammock.


Villa Vizcaya from the water.


In Villa Vizcaya's Italian Renaissance Gardens.

[The Lawspeaker]

The Iowa countryside. In this particular field corn is grown.



A young fiddler on the Minnesota State Fair.



Amish children on their way to school. Somewhere in Ohio.



A view on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.



Beehive Geyser erupting in the Yellowstone National Park.

[The Lawspeaker]

In Pulaski County, Kentucky.



Mt. Rainier reflected in Reflection Lake (Washington). I once heard on TV that the locals jokingly pronounce Rainier as Rain Here - because the area seems to receive quite a bit of rainfall.



Floating bridges on Lake Washington.



Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California.



Mount Shasta as seen from the town with the same name. California.



While the most expansive vineyards in California's Wine Country lie on unincorporated county land, several smaller vineyards, including this one near Fountain Grove, lie within or just outside the city limits of Santa Rosa, California.



Bixby Creek Bridge, The Big Sur, California



Winter in the Yosemite National Park.