Some members of the forum may have their own favorite photos, so this would be the place to post them. I don't intend for this to become a humor thread, so posting dopey joke images, heavily photoshopped fake images, etc. is discouraged. Please don't go comb Google Images to find the most outrageous photos of impossible or improbable situations, and for sure don't put up anything from "thereifixedit.com". I don't mean for this topic to be all dour and stodgy, a little levity is fine, but keep the focus on the photo, not the reaction it invokes.
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Leading off, here's my submission.
![Image](http://www.mrsharkey.com/forum/gfx/photo_thouse.jpg)
The subject is a Japanese-style tea house located at Belknap Hot Springs and Resort outside of McKenzie Bridge, Oregon. The house itself is built atop the concrete spillway of a venerable hydro-electric plant which was installed at this location when the property was a sawmill. The rectangular opening under the house is where the water entered from a flume. Inside the house is a vertical shaft electric generator which was still in place when I took the photo. Originally, the shaft went through the floor where it connected to an impulse runner to collect the energy of the falling water. A curved, wooden pathway leads from the surrounding gardens to the entry of the house.
The entire grounds of Belknap Springs is landscaped and includes a fanciful water garden, fed by the same diversion water as the pond in the photo above.
This image was taken with a cheap Cannon digital camera in 1998 in 640 x 480 size in a fairly compressed JPEG format. It's one of my favorite desktop wallpapers.