You've heard of shotgun weddings, right? So what's up with this, though? A wedding chapel and a cannon?!!!

Actually, the cannon and this world-famous wedding chapel at the Top of the Rock Ozarks Heritage Preserve really don't have anything to do with each other... after all, wouldn't a cannon be overkill (pun intended) for a shotgun wedding? The cannon is kept in working condition and a color guard shoots it at sunset each evening to herald the end to another day while someone plays bagpipes in the mountaintop outlook (which overlooks the chapel). The back of the chapel is largely glass and provides a spectacular view of the rolling hills and beautiful lake. At this time of the year, the sun was setting behind the chapel... which made for some dramatic photos.

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Here's a scene from a Colonial era reenactment, photographed this summer in Frankenmuth, Michigan. I am not sure who these reenactors are playing, but their uniforms were the the same bright blue color that you see here.

Texture: Jai Johnson

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Oregon Coast, 2011.

Early one morning in icy conditions, the lake froze

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Cannon Beach

Looking north toward the sea stacks at Silver Point. (Oregon 2015)

At New Hampshire - for a Peaceful Travel Tuesday!

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A doom and gloom morning in Cannon Beach. Overcast Blues.

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Cannon Beach is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. Its population was 1,690 at the 2010 census. It is a popular coastal Oregon tourist destination, famous for Haystack Rock, a 235 ft (72 m) sea stack that juts out along the coast.[5] In 2013, National Geographic listed it as "one of the world’s 100 most beautiful places."

Probably dated 1877.

Oregon Coast, 2011.

The Classic Iconic Cannon Beach Haystack Rock Sunset shot.....

Bigger on black is better

Happy Hump Day Everyone........

Camera:Nikon D300

Exposure:4 seconds

Aperture:f/13.0

Focal Length:11 mm

Exposure:0.00

ISO Speed:100

View of Cannon Beach looking south from Ecola State Park. This view might look familiar since it was one of the shooting locations for the Goonies.

Capture taken with my Canon of this cannon on the battlefield in Gettysburg.

Bravo Lightroom for improving the output shape of a panorama image!! I merged 6 shots here expecting to see a distorted image that I would need to stretch and straighten in PS but this is what came out! Hurray LR, you just made my day!!! AND these were handheld so everything was aligned by LR just perfectly!

USA, Oregon

Cannon Beach, Oregon

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Cannons next to the 1st New York Light Artillery, Battery ,(Reynolds Battery) Monument, Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

Before our 2022 visit I was warned that the Oregan coast could be wet and windy. Well, that wasn’t how we found it. Not only was the weather delightful, there was a good deal of birdlife to be found and the beach was almost empty.

One of the cannons by the Hunting Tower looking out over a murky Chatsworth Estate.

Pretty interesting bench at Hohenasperg :)

View On Black

3 pic HDR, +-2EV, Photomatix, PS, Topaz

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Kodak Portra 400 Film ~ Canon AE-1P 28mm f/2.8

Cannons along the walls at Berkeley castle, Gloucestershire, trespasser's beware!!

Cannon Beach, OR

Trim Castle

Tower of London

There's a little viewpoint outside the town and I got this picture, looking back at where we'd been.

The city of Cannon Beach is almost hidden by a layer of fog

Dopo le grandi nevicate di dicembre il caldo e la pioggia hanno parzialmente rovinato le piste di sci. Per fortuna pacifici cannoni ci provano a ripristinare la situazione.

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Sunset at Haystack Rock ~ Cannon Beach, Oregon

Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 100, f/10.0, 38mm, 1/400s

Another try at the ocean, this time in OR in the fog as the sun was going down.

I have been photographing hotel rooms, busy, busy!