Admittedly, this one will not be easy. I have not given you many clues. But you may take some reasonable inference from the Asian photographers attacking what you must figure is an iconic view.

They arrived long after I had finished taking my image (which I will share in the next post) and scrambled to the traditional vantage point to photograph intensely in hopes of capturing the perfect souvenir of what must have been their Western Parks tour. In the process they blocked the view for everyone else.

When I heard and then saw them approaching en mass, I made my way to a higher point to capture this too-typical National Parks moment. One last clue, and we will see if anyone guesses. When I returned to my office after this trip and turned on my computer, the  screen saver showed a professional image of this same location.

At least no one has their back to the view to take a selfie.

If you cannot guess this location, did you guess the one from last week?  Here it is again.

We are inside the  causeway heading into the interior of . . . ? Well, I bet you can guess from the images below.

Yes, it is the Roman Coliseum, started in 72 A.D. by Emperor Vespasian and completed eight years later by his son Emperor Titus. The wealth used to pay for the construction came largely from the spoils of Rome's subjugation of the  Judean Revolt which was begun by Vespasian and completed by Titus.

Rome destroyed the Jewish Temple, confiscated Jerusalem's wealth and built this massive structure. It was a sign of the times and a precursor to future abominations.

The view from inside the Coliseum below is from the second story. What you see uncovered is the  slave and gladiator holding and staging area beneath the now removed  stadium floor. A portion of the floor is shown near the top.

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We are farther afield this day back a few years ago. From the photo, you can see that we are inside a colossal structure. The soft light of an early morning is streaming through ancient columns.

Broken parts of columns lie all about. Holes in the columns suggest that we are looking at the structure beneath what was once much a more ornate building.

The young family in the  lower right has stopped to take in their surroundings. The father is looking inside the structure. What does he see? Can you guess where we are? 

And, did you guess were we were in the sunset image below?

You are looking at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from the Eastern Shore, Maryland side. We  happened upon this pier and this moment after dinner. The location is outside the seafood restaurant (Hemingway's Restaurant) we stopped at while traveling to Chestertown, Maryland for a family event. Our lodgings for the night are shown below.

The White Swan Tavern, an inn preserved since colonial times, is still configured as it was in the late 1700s. It is located in Chestertown where my father-in-law grew up and where the first college was chartered in the  newly sovereign United States. Washington College was founded in 1782 and still serves the region.

And, yes, George Washington did visit Chestertown on more than one occasion and stayed in the White Swan Inn.

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We venture a little farther from home with this image taken at sunset. If you look closely you can see a couple leaning together in deck chairs at the end of the pier as they take in the evening colors and the activity on the bridge. We got here by car while on a trip to visit a family home place. Can you guess where we are?

And, how about our last image, re-posted below, from the self-proclaimed "World's Oldest Junkyard Jungle"? Have you ever considered a junk yard for a morning outing? Would you be more interested if you knew that over it's eight decades in existence this place had hosted hundreds of photographers from ad agencies and media companies?

It's called Old Car City and it is located in White, Georgia just off I-75. If you are traveling northbound from Atlanta, take the exit north of exit 290 at highway 411 and turn right. You'll run into Old Car City on your right after a short drive. If you have kids with you, the magnificent Tellus Science Museum is off the same exit, on the other side of I-75.

Here's what the Old Car City has to say about itself:

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Again, we are on a short trek this time, not that far from Atlanta. It's a blast from the past with iconic hood ornaments and more. It's the self-proclaimed "World's Oldest Junkyard Jungle" but we all know about hyperbole and the limits of truth-in-advertising.

Can you guess where we are? And, did you know where we were last week, in the  presence of the giant shadow bear shown below? 

If you travel to Western North Carolina or spend much time  in North East Georgia, you might have recognized this seasonal phenomena. You might have even seen it mentioned in a local paper or heard it talked about.

We photographed this scene in the fall of 2018 to capture the changing colors of the turning trees. It was a beautiful partly cloudy day as we drove up to the site hoping the clouds would clear for a full experience. Sharing a narrow curbside along a winding two lane road not far from Cashiers, North Carolina, we watched with a small crowd of onlookers as the sun's slow setting threw this shadow bear into full view.

First it appeared as just a small shadow, Then it grew slowly into different shapes, turning briefly into a duck caricature and then into this master of the mountains - a giant black bear.

A small cheer erupted from the folks watching by the roadside when the bear came into full view. And then, just as it had slowly materialized it continued to change until the bear was absorbed into a larger and more generalized mountain shadow.

Locals call this phenomena the Shadow of the Bear and  it appears for just a short time twice a year, once in the  fall and once in the spring, when the earth's angle toward t he sun is just right.

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Our next location for our Where in the World series is closer to home, with home being Atlanta, Georgia. It is a vista you can visit any time but a sight you can only see briefly on sunny days for a couple of weeks a year.

You have to stop by the right bend in the road and arrive at the right time. Can you guess what the locals call this appearance? And, where you can visit it yourself?

So, where were we in the image below? The one shared two postings ago?

We were enjoying the ultimate lunch interruption while cruising between islands of the Galapagos. Our captain spotted a nearby pod of killer whales while we were eating and quickly dispatched us in the ship's motorized pangas to follow them.

There were a dozen or so whales and a pair of sea lions in the group - teenage boy sea lions if I  had to guess. They meandered through the water paying us no attention, swimming and diving and rolling around and between us for more than an hour.

Sometimes they got so close, the spray from a tail slap or a quick dive would fall into our vessels. The one below, diving next to our panga, created his own rainbow. You can see it if you look closely.

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Here are more clues to the location of the image we included in our last post showing an elderly couple reacting to three killer whales just out of reach next to her rubber raft. Admittedly, telling you it was on the equator did not narrow down the possibilities much.

Today, we will add that we were west of Equador on a small boat tour. Half the passengers were alumni from our college and the other half were members of a fraternity, fortunately for us, a physics honorary fraternity.

I cannot remember if the gentleman above is a fellow alumnus or a physicist, but I will reveal that he is photographing a blue footed boobie. And, that none of the animals we saw were the least bit intimidated by our presence.

We are visiting a variety of islands renowned for their ecological diversity. The man who put these islands on the map changed the world view and had this to say about discovery:

Yeah, I am not sure what he is saying either but it sounds like something you might try to do while sheltered in place. But, one last image and then back to our question.

Can you tell where in the world we are?

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We start a new series today to celebrate the world at large while we are all shuttered in place. Back when borders could be crossed and social distancing was not universal, we took images of that remind us of just how big and beautiful the world can be. 

Can you guess where we are in this picture? And, what we are doing?

I will give you one hint. We are not far from equator. Send us your guesses and we will give you our answer when we post our next image in the series.

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