In Oct. 2012 the U.S. Postal Service will celebrate the beauty and diversity of America's landscape as seen from above with the issuance of Earthscapes.
Looking down from window seats on airplanes, passengers may notice lines, circles, rectangles, and other shapes on the land. Depending on the season of the year, they may see areas of green, brown, or red. In winter, they might gaze out on miles and miles of white. Much depends on perspective, whether one’s view is straight down or from an angle, but almost any high place—a skyscraper or mountain, for example—can present viewers with stunning views and information about the Earth.
The stamp pane features fifteen stamps in three rows of five. The top row shows five examples of natural earthscapes. The middle row focuses on a wide range of agricultural earthscapes. The bottom row shows urban earthscapes.
The images are in the following categories:
NATURAL
Glacier and icebergs - Alaska
Volcanic crater: Washington, Mt. St. Helens
Geothermal spring - Wyoming, Yellowstone Park
Butte -- Utah, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Inland marsh - Maryland, Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
AGRICULTURAL
Salt evaporation ponds - California, San Francisco
Log rafts on way to sawmill - Idaho
Center-pivot irrigation - Kansas
Cherry orchard - Wisconsin
Cranberry - Massachusetts
URBAN
Residential subdivision - Las Vegas, NV
Barge fleeting --- Houston, TX
Railroad roundhouse -- Scranton, PA
Skyscraper apartments -- New York, NY
Highway interchange -- Miami, FL
7 comments:
Ugly stamps!!
I am looking forward to these stamps becoming available; it has been a long time since we had a truly beautiful stamp. I wish I had loaded up on the polar lights stamps,those were gorgeous.
Very interesting photography! I look forward to receiving these and having something different to offer my customers!
I am nt impressed with these stamps could have done better. Talk about a waste of money!! Put something out we can sell!!! I agree they are ugly!!!
New stamp team please these are ugly!!
I want to see some of the old stamps come back. They were way better than what we have. I love the old x-mas stamps. We have x-mas stamps that are boring. There is a picture of a bulb. The old stamps had a scene on them or kids playing or santa etc.... Those were the good stamps!!! If you want to get people to buy stamps make them look better than they do and put alittle more effort into the stamps you are creating!!! Come on secert stamp commitee get on it these are disappointing!!
I think that these stamps are amazing. I can not wait to have them in my office- I already have several customers buzzing about them after seeing them on beyondtheperf.
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