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A lovely set Alex - the colours are just beautiful. Your choice for the week is my favourite of the bunch too.
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Thanks Allan - the colours in that part of the world, especially with the amazing blue skies we get (when not full of smoke) are beautiful.
Thanks Helen - that was what drew me to that scene. Although I will admit that I only spotted the mountain neatly mirroring the dip in the plants when I was processing the photos... My main intent when taking was to exclude the tree branches poking in to the sides and corners of the scene!
Thanks Baloo - and I am going to really miss this part of the world when I leave
Nice set Alex, #1 landscape stands out for me
Thanks Cobra!
Thanks all - it was a nice area to explore!
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A reprocess of an image from July. Work is still kicking my backside, and I'm desperately trying to get ahead of the curve so that next week's week off for our anniversary can actually be a week off! I originally HDRd this in Lightroom, but have run it through Aurora and made it a lot darker than my original image to bring out the blue in the sky.
This is a slot canyon from the Moon Caves area of Cathedral Gorge Nevada State Park - a really interesting little park which is almost un-visited! We saw one other car whilst we were there (for a whole day).
Quite of lot of this canyon had to be navigated sideways by me, with my feet pointing forward. Not a good place for anyone with claustrophobia!! The photo was taken in one of the wider sections!
20200714-Cathedral_Gorge_State_Park (117 of 88)-Aurora_HDR by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
This is a slot canyon from the Moon Caves area of Cathedral Gorge Nevada State Park - a really interesting little park which is almost un-visited! We saw one other car whilst we were there (for a whole day).
Quite of lot of this canyon had to be navigated sideways by me, with my feet pointing forward. Not a good place for anyone with claustrophobia!! The photo was taken in one of the wider sections!
20200714-Cathedral_Gorge_State_Park (117 of 88)-Aurora_HDR by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
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What a great image you can almost feel it closing in on you
I love the colours and detail Alex
Thanks all - I've borrowed a couple of pictures from my wife (with her permission!)
It didn't start off too bad:
2020-11-14_05-30-00 by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
But got narrow pretty quickly...
2020-11-14_05-30-13 by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
Certainly not many footprints down there! I don't think to many people went down to the end, where it opened out enough to stand square on at least!
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It seems it's been a while I've been here to comment, so a bit of a catch up...
Narrow - I love the vibrant colours of the blue contrasting with the orange (fading to black).
Food - #3 was your choice? It is certainly mine, though#1 comes a very close second imo.
Sharp - (Or at least I assume that's what they are). Yes #3 is the one. I think because of hte way you've caught the light with it.
Digital Age - I'm going to go with the film shot, it's somehow more engaging in B&W.
Free Week - #1 for me. Loving the details.
Narrow - I love the vibrant colours of the blue contrasting with the orange (fading to black).
Food - #3 was your choice? It is certainly mine, though#1 comes a very close second imo.
Sharp - (Or at least I assume that's what they are). Yes #3 is the one. I think because of hte way you've caught the light with it.
Digital Age - I'm going to go with the film shot, it's somehow more engaging in B&W.
Free Week - #1 for me. Loving the details.
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Brilliant colours there.
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I'm not going to say what I thought when I first saw this (it may be deemed a little rude/inappropriate for the forum)
I really quite like the shot, that narrow slither of blue sky, contrasts well with the reds/orange's of the rocks.
Brilliant colours there.
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I'm not going to say what I thought when I first saw this (it may be deemed a little rude/inappropriate for the forum)
I really quite like the shot, that narrow slither of blue sky, contrasts well with the reds/orange's of the rocks.
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Narrow. A cracker of a shot Alex. Great colour contrast of those rocks with the sky.
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In the interests of not making an International Relations faux pas in the style of either our glorious heir to the realm or right honourable Prime Minister, no comment!!
Thanks Tim - I was really pleased with how the sharp beaver tail needles came out
It was a bit of a squeeze I must admit!
I have no idea to what you are referring
Thanks!
It was an absolutely fascinating place. Three years is not going to be enough time to explore this area
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I'm feeling very lucky at the moment with the US not being in lockdown, and still being able to travel relatively freely.
That being said - we really should be in lockdown as the numbers here are at least as bad as the UK's. It was our wedding anniversary a few days ago, so we drove ourselves up to an AirBnB in Tucson (Arizona is about as bad as Nevada, but Tucson is in a much better place than Vegas - and the way we travel is pretty anti-social at the best of times so I at least don't feel like I'm at any more risk by doing this). We managed to get our an explore Saguaro National Park, Tucson itself (or at least parts of it) and Tombstone. Yes - that Tombstone (OK Coral, the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, etc). One of the still touristy, but slightly less commercialised areas is Boothill Cemetery where there are lot of people of limited means buried - including all five of the dead from the OK Coral shootout (which didn't actually take place in the OK Coral!)
One of the graves marks Marshal Fred White whose death prompted Virgil Earp (Wyatt's big brother) to take on the Marshal role, setting in train the events which eventually lead to the OK Coral. He is considered a police office killed in the line of duty in the US, leading to people leaving appropriate tributes on his grave - including paper money!
Sorry for the slight shoe-horn, and the very long explanation...
I had a close up of the grave marker and the dollar bill, but clearly wasn't paying attention as I managed to trim off the top of the marker
Marshal Fred White, and Paper Money by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
That being said - we really should be in lockdown as the numbers here are at least as bad as the UK's. It was our wedding anniversary a few days ago, so we drove ourselves up to an AirBnB in Tucson (Arizona is about as bad as Nevada, but Tucson is in a much better place than Vegas - and the way we travel is pretty anti-social at the best of times so I at least don't feel like I'm at any more risk by doing this). We managed to get our an explore Saguaro National Park, Tucson itself (or at least parts of it) and Tombstone. Yes - that Tombstone (OK Coral, the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, etc). One of the still touristy, but slightly less commercialised areas is Boothill Cemetery where there are lot of people of limited means buried - including all five of the dead from the OK Coral shootout (which didn't actually take place in the OK Coral!)
One of the graves marks Marshal Fred White whose death prompted Virgil Earp (Wyatt's big brother) to take on the Marshal role, setting in train the events which eventually lead to the OK Coral. He is considered a police office killed in the line of duty in the US, leading to people leaving appropriate tributes on his grave - including paper money!
Sorry for the slight shoe-horn, and the very long explanation...
I had a close up of the grave marker and the dollar bill, but clearly wasn't paying attention as I managed to trim off the top of the marker
Marshal Fred White, and Paper Money by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
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Good shot Shug and great story. I appreciate the history lesson.
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Nice pic Alex and always like to hear the stories behind shots like this.
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I have a friend living just out side Tuscon, his names Brad do you know him?
Great story, great image, I like it Alex
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Wow. We really only see this stuff in Spaghetti Westerns, so it's incredible to see the real things.
Thanks for sharing.
That's a pretty cool image. And amazing that the headstone is actually wood - presumably the original? so 140 years old...
Thanks for sharing.
That's a pretty cool image. And amazing that the headstone is actually wood - presumably the original? so 140 years old...
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I was very tempted to re-post week 5 this week...
Then I thought about making a camera obscura, before realising that big windows / open plan would make this a very time consuming challenge...
But I was conscious that I wanted to do something a little different - so, a semi-abstract macro shot of my phone's camera module was what I settled on!
20201201-52_Proj_Camera (1 of 1) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
Then I thought about making a camera obscura, before realising that big windows / open plan would make this a very time consuming challenge...
But I was conscious that I wanted to do something a little different - so, a semi-abstract macro shot of my phone's camera module was what I settled on!
20201201-52_Proj_Camera (1 of 1) by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
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Thank you! It's one of the few areas around here that we've visited which actually has history, so I may have gone over the top... Las Vegas was only founded in 1912, and didn't really get going until the nuclear age so history is in short supply!
You would not believe the number of times I've been asked that question...I have a friend living just out side Tuscon, his names Brad do you know him?
Great story, great image, I like it Alex
The graveyard was extensively restored in the 30s and 40s (by the last person to be buried there - Emmett Nunnelley) and most of the markers were replaced. I'm not sure how long wood would last in the area - even in places like Joshua Tree and Saguaro National Parks you don't see a lot of dead fall - there's still enough moisture to let them rot away pretty quickly.
Thanks Phil.
Thanks! We decided to visit as early as possible to avoid as many people as possible...
Thanks Helen!Nice story behind the image. No apologies necessary
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I would actually. I spent a few months in NE SD staying with friend awhile back.
As soon as people caught my Brit accent, it was do you know so & so from London?
Errr I live several miles North of London....
Seems it works both ways Alex
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Nice close-up and the colour adds to the pic.
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Another good camera phone take
Thanks folks for the kind comments - I was a little uninspired last week
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Week 49 - Leaves
I played around with some thoughts for things which aren't plants, but have leaves, but decided to go "classic" in the end.
One of our local parks still has some beautiful autumnal colours - so an early morning outing today garnered these. Favourite I think is the shadowed berries
I'm enjoying playing around with my macro lens more and more - should have picked up one of these ages ago. But 30mm (60mm equiv) is starting to feel a little short... I'll possibly be looking at some of the longer m43 options, or even using an older lens with a convertor...
#1 - Intense colours by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
#2 - Backlighting! by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
#3 - Seasonal by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
#4 - Favourite by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
I played around with some thoughts for things which aren't plants, but have leaves, but decided to go "classic" in the end.
One of our local parks still has some beautiful autumnal colours - so an early morning outing today garnered these. Favourite I think is the shadowed berries
I'm enjoying playing around with my macro lens more and more - should have picked up one of these ages ago. But 30mm (60mm equiv) is starting to feel a little short... I'll possibly be looking at some of the longer m43 options, or even using an older lens with a convertor...
#1 - Intense colours by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
#2 - Backlighting! by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
#3 - Seasonal by Alex Morrison, on Flickr
#4 - Favourite by Alex Morrison, on Flickr