Mobius Arch
I have visited Mobius Arch before and posted one, two, three photos of it, all from the same angle. This time I wanted to try something a little different, and towards sunset, not sunrise. Inspired by several great landscape photographers here on Flickr, I’ve been experimenting with shooting vertical, and shooting with a full frame camera at 18mm sure helps get more into the picture. So, this is my newest version of Mobius Arch, sometimes called Galen Arch, since it was Galen Rowell whose photo first made it famous.
There are 205 photos on Flickr tagged with “mobius arch” and 55 tagged with “galen arch” and none of them have been shot from this location and angle. Most of them are in landscape mode and use the mountains behind them. It makes me a bit happy to know that even the most famous places on earth still can be interpreted creatively and new.
There is now a path to the arch from the parking area with signs of exactly where to walk. This wasn’t the case 2 years ago when you had to figure it out. As long as the people maintain it, I’m all for it.
But this isn’t what is on my mind right now. Doing my laundry in the garage late last night I heard something above me in the rafters. Scratching. In the previous few days I’ve noticed a few of the things in the garage either fallen on the floor, moved, or otherwise disturbed. But the door is always locked, so perhaps the beams holding the garage together are weak and collapsing. A quick turn to my garage door opener proved me wrong (see below). A possum or opossum. Whatever you want to call it, they’re large garbage rats. Now this one is cute and furry, but it’s a baby. And where there are possum babies, there are more kids and parents. Looks like they’ve taken shelter in our Christmas decorations, and as much as I love most animals, possums and raccoons are the exception. They’re not paying rent, so they gots to go! Here is the video of me following this lil guy. Don’t mine the commentary.
Mobius Arch
I have visited Mobius Arch before and posted one, two, three photos of it, all from the same angle. This time I wanted to try something a little different, and towards sunset, not sunrise. Inspired by several great landscape photographers here on Flickr, I’ve been experimenting with shooting vertical, and shooting with a full frame camera at 18mm sure helps get more into the picture. So, this is my newest version of Mobius Arch, sometimes called Galen Arch, since it was Galen Rowell whose photo first made it famous.
There are 205 photos on Flickr tagged with “mobius arch” and 55 tagged with “galen arch” and none of them have been shot from this location and angle. Most of them are in landscape mode and use the mountains behind them. It makes me a bit happy to know that even the most famous places on earth still can be interpreted creatively and new.
There is now a path to the arch from the parking area with signs of exactly where to walk. This wasn’t the case 2 years ago when you had to figure it out. As long as the people maintain it, I’m all for it.
But this isn’t what is on my mind right now. Doing my laundry in the garage late last night I heard something above me in the rafters. Scratching. In the previous few days I’ve noticed a few of the things in the garage either fallen on the floor, moved, or otherwise disturbed. But the door is always locked, so perhaps the beams holding the garage together are weak and collapsing. A quick turn to my garage door opener proved me wrong (see below). A possum or opossum. Whatever you want to call it, they’re large garbage rats. Now this one is cute and furry, but it’s a baby. And where there are possum babies, there are more kids and parents. Looks like they’ve taken shelter in our Christmas decorations, and as much as I love most animals, possums and raccoons are the exception. They’re not paying rent, so they gots to go! Here is the video of me following this lil guy. Don’t mine the commentary.