Primble's Mystery GAW - Prizes Mailed

[Macchina]

Let me say that if I don't win first as expected and end up with only second or even third place: this thread has provided some much needed entertainment this past week.

Great posts everyone, and I keep rolling this "Mystery" around in my head. This is turning out to be the best giveaway I've ever participated in!

 

[thawk]

WOW - even nicer thawk - this one is my pick - I like the others a lot - but - whatever is in the foreground left of the wider version keeps pulling my eye toward it. :thumbup:

In the wide panorama, I think that is the top of a stone BBQ chimney peeking above the edge. Along with the castle there are several picnic areas scattered around the rim, with tables and grill/fireplaces made out of that Dakota Limestone. The panorama cuts off some of that nice limestone at the bottom of the picture too. :grumpy:

 

[Gary W. Graley]

It's kinda like tilt shift, but different, the camera blurs top and bottom sections to emphasize the middle, with the camera you can MOVE the middle slit up and down as well as widen or narrow it for where you want it to show, so you have to fiddle around sometimes if you want to have it bring out the miniature effects properly, distance and angled downward heightens the effects. Here's a shot a fellow added to a thread I had about it, so not one I took but it's still pretty cool.

You'd almost swear it is a model...right!
G2

 

[Primble]

My hometown Pittsburgh was again named the most livable city by the Economist.

In the mix. I thought it was three rivers ??

 

[Peregrin]

In the mix. I thought it was three rivers ??

You're seeing the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers coming together to form the Ohio River.

 

[Primble]

Hint of the day: Luckenbach

OK - I have finally decided how this GAW will finish. I have been saving the pictures I quoted in a folder and will be comparing them side by side. The deadline for submitting your pictures is this Friday by midnight. Between now and then, if any of you feel that your pictures might not make it to the finish line, you can submit new ones. No more edits allowed.

Remember that you can submit a search engine image from your area. Since I allowed everyone to use those images for entry, it will be difficult for you to use search engines to solve the mystery. I will submit a list of questions sometime Friday or Saturday and the first person to get all of the questions correct will have solved the mystery and be declared the winner of the mystery prize. If nobody solves the mystery completely, by 4:00 p.m., this Sunday, then the first member with the largest number of correct answers will win the mystery prize.

All of the answers will be attainable from clues, both given and hidden, in this thread. All of the answers will come from either my pictures or my posts, because only I can edit my posts.

The top two places will come from the pictures that I liked the best. Saturday, I will post the top 20 pictures and those will be the entrants for the picture derby. I will then narrow my choices through the weekend and the end of the thread title will change to reflect "The stretch for home".

Since you can probably see that I have referred to horses and horse racing terms and the like, many of the questions I submit to help you solve the mystery will be taken from my own experiences at the Kentucky Derby. I let you use search for the images, but, only I will know the correct answers to the mystery questions. The reason for that is it is a mystery and I did not want the answers to be easily attainable through Google or the like. The published and hidden clues should be sufficient, in the end, to where everyone will be able to see the mystery answers more clearly.

Solving the mystery is not required to win, but, it could win you a prize if your picture does not finish in the top places. Good luck everyone and thank you for participating in my GAW. :thumbup:

I will be taking some more pictures of potential prizes today to show for consideration. I hope to post them today.

This stag Case XX 5318 SS medium stockman, will be the 2nd or 3rd place prize.

 

[mr_badexample]

You're seeing the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers coming together to form the Ohio River.

Thanks for the explanation Gary you beat me to it.

 

[Primble]

OK - here is another candidate for the GAW. Tell me what you think? 1st place? 2nd place? 3rd place? mystery prize? or find something else?

Let me know what you think.

Case XX Drop Point Russlock (the color in the picture is spot on)

Nice swedge on that blade too.

 

[Markesharp]

Harley-Davidson Tri Glide Ultra motor cycle.

 

[Primble]

Harley-Davidson Tri Glide Ultra motor cycle.

You would get killed on it.

I had a nice HD a while back. Every time I rode it, someone wanted to run me over.

 

[Markesharp]

Trying to solve this mystery makes me want to rub gravel into my skull!! :barf::barf::foot:

I vote find something else on the baby blue Case. :barf:

 

[quattromori]

This is really a fun giveaway! Now, some pictures of history and folklore from my homelad as well...
This picture was taken in the immediate after war (WWI) period. A group of people enlisting for the army. My town is home of the most awarded batallion of the Italian army (the "Sassari" Brigade), which is now a specialized batallion sent in war zones. Back in those days, it was made of young men who did not want to work in the fields and herd sheeps (their natural lifestyle), and did gather quite a number of men who were too aggressive or desperate to keep on living in the small towns of the after war Sardinia. These soldiers were named "Dimonios" (Sardinian for "demons"), and they still carry that name after a century.

Now, back to folklore: our annual town party, born in the XIII century, formalized in 1652 as a vote to the Virgin: each gremio (guild of a certain profession) carry a Candeliere (basically, a huge wooden symbol of a votive candle) down the roads of the city center till the church of Santa Maria where the vow is fulfilled at midnight:

Back to guessing now. I'm weak at baseball, but certainly weaker at horse races

Fausto

 

[esnyx]

You would get killed on it.

I had a nice HD a while back. Every time I rode it, someone wanted to run me over.

Yea, thats why I sold my bike when I found out my wife was pregnant... I felt like I was dodging traffic on a daily basis.

 

[Primble]

Trying to solve this mystery makes me want to rub gravel into my skull!! :barf::barf::foot:

I vote find something else on the baby blue Case. :barf:

My Russlock is not BABY BLUE !!

It is teal Mark - your vote is noted and weighted appropriately! :barf:

I said tough skin - not armor plated! Baby blue - sheesh !!

 

[Primble]

OK - here is another candidate for the GAW. Tell me what you think? 1st place? 2nd place? or find something else?

Let me know what you think.

GEC Northfield Whiteowl

I am not sure about letting go of this one, but, maybe I could be convinced.

Nice last post Fausto - thank you and very interesting.

 

[Flint Hills]

I live in the beautiful Flint Hills(picture not far from my house):


Here in Kansas (picture taken in a very old cemetery not far from the picture above):


The Flint Hills is a unique area that forms a strip running north-south right in the middle of the US. It's prairie land that is primarily cattle grazing land. Every year, they burn the fields. This cleans away all of the old, dead tallgrass from the previous year and makes room for and feeds the coming new grass. After the burning, new life emerges:


My favorite knife is my favorite because of whose it was and the story behind it. It's an old Case slimline trapper from the early 40's. It was my great-grandfather's, a man who tried to get a loan from the bank to buy a tractor but was denied because tractors were still pretty uncommon in the area he lived. The bank would give him a loan to buy hogs, so he took out the loan, bought some hogs, sold them immediately and took the cash and bought a tractor. He was quite a character. My uncle said he used this Case knife for everything but he finally tired of it as he got older because it was hard to clean out his fingernails with it at the end of the day because it was so long. That's when he switched to the small Schrade pictured below. These were the only 2 knives he owned as far as I know. This Case has the best action and snap of any knife I own. It opens easily and smoothly, but when it snaps into full open position, it nearly jumps out of your hand.





Nearly a tie for favorite knife, this was my grandfather's (the man who raised me) Case medium stockman. It was jigged bone, but as you can see, it's smooth bone now! Talk about pocket worn, it was carried so much that the bone is absolutely smooth now and CASE is worn from the shield:

 

[Primble]

I live in the beautiful Flint Hills(picture not far from my house):

It was my great-grandfather's, a man who tried to get a loan from the bank to buy a tractor but was denied because tractors were still pretty uncommon in the area he lived. The bank would give him a loan to buy hogs, so he took out the loan, bought some hogs, sold them immediately and took the cash and bought a tractor.

Very pretty place and your great grandfather was a real thinker, I see!

Some really nice old knives to see there too.

 

[jacktrades_nbk]

Great giveaway, thanks.

Favorite knife



Where i live




































and me,



I might have gone overboard with so many pics, hopefully they will show the surroundings of my home place, which is in Romania.

 

[cards94]

I live in the beautiful Flint Hills(picture not far from my house):


Here in (picture taken in a very old cemetery not far from the picture above):


The Flint Hills is a unique area that forms a strip running north-south right in the middle of the US. It's prairie land that is primarily cattle grazing land. Every year, they burn the fields. This cleans away all of the old, dead tallgrass from the previous year and makes room for and feeds the coming new grass. After the burning, new life emerges:


My favorite knife is my favorite because of whose it was and the story behind it. It's an old Case slimline trapper from the early 40's. It was my great-grandfather's, a man who tried to get a loan from the bank to buy a tractor but was denied because tractors were still pretty uncommon in the area he lived. The bank would give him a loan to buy hogs, so he took out the loan, bought some hogs, sold them immediately and took the cash and bought a tractor. He was quite a character. My uncle said he used this Case knife for everything but he finally tired of it as he got older because it was hard to clean out his fingernails with it at the end of the day because it was so long. That's when he switched to the small Schrade pictured below. These were the only 2 knives he owned as far as I know.





Nearly a tie for favorite knife, this was my grandfather's (the man who raised me) Case medium stockman. It was jigged bone, but as you can see, it's smooth bone now! Talk about pocket worn, it was carried so much that the bone is absolutely smooth now and CASE is worn from the shield:

Back in the day when life was simpler and they only owned and carried one knife. :thumbup:

 

[Primble]

I might have gone overboard with so many pics, hopefully they will show the surroundings of my home place, which is in Romania.

How could you miss!

These two were my favorites.