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I took this picture of Padres Butte while riding on the boat. The water waves created by the moving boat added to the effect. No tripod was used.
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The western slope of Black Butte (a satellite cone of Mount Shasta) is silhouetted by clouds on the northwestern horizon at sunset.
Straight out of the camera, except for a crop.
One of many conical buttes seen while driving thru central Oregon.
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This is an 8 image LE pano taken from Fajada Butte Overlook in New Mexico. I had to create this LE effect in photoshop because WAYNE ran over my camera bag with his jeep and shattered my 10 stop ND filter. Jeez, you just can't trust some people. Hehe (Sorry Wayne!!!) :)
I have to speak in Wayne's defense though, he was busy operating the crane to unload Chris's massive tripod, you should have seen Chris carrying that behemoth across the desert cradling it in his arms as if it was a wounded child, kinda reminded me of the ending of the movie "True Grit". Man that's determination. After watching him try to find a comfortable position to carry it I mistakingly offered to carry it for him the last 1/2 mile and within 50 ft immediately regretted it. :)
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Rising 135 meters above the canyon floor, Fajada butte contains the well-known three slabs and spiral petroglyphs which mark the cycles of both sun and moon. The 2-3 meter sandstone slabs cast shadows of the late morning and midday sun to indicate both solstices and equinoxes. Unfortunately the implications of these findings have closed the Butte to the public in fear of damage or vandalism. This is shot from the same location as my last post but shot as a single capture zoomed up. The pano I posted really shrinks the size of this butte, and this is not a crop from the pano.
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One of the prettiest places in the Colorado Rockies, Crested Butte. The water falls has carved a deep crevice in the rock, it must be awesome in the spring with the snow runoff! Took this with my Iphone, not the best quality!
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Butte, Montana
On the side of the Scandia Hall building, part of the Butte National Historic Landmark District. First lodge erected by the Scandinavian Brotherhood, a National Organization, 1898.
In the search for the more frequently shown Factory Butte Arch, I discovered quite close to this inconspicuous hole in the rock, which frames the Factory Butte more beautiful in my eyes.
Auf der Suche nach dem häufiger gezeigten Factory Butte Arch entdeckte ich ganz in der Nähe dieses unscheinbare Loch im Felsen, durch den man den Factory Butte in meinen Augen viel schöner gestalten kann.
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This unique flat-top butte fascinates me. Located near Tower Junction with the Yellowstone river flowing around it below. Only rises 200 feet but is classified as a mountain. It's my favorite short mountain....plan to climb to the top next time here. I'm coming to the sad realization that most of my future hikes will be up "short" mountains.
Calcite Springs lies below next to the Yellowstone River.
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From the the flat and somewhat bleak grasslands of northeastern Colorado pops up two plateaus of rock stone, the Pawnee Buttes.
Just next door to the Pawnee National Grassland.
A favorite Yellowstone scene, with the Yellowstone river curving around Bumpus Butte and Calcite Springs.
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I was impressed by the many symmetric buttes like this I saw in central Oregon. Amazing varied terrain.
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One of the scenic wonders along the road to Cooke City.
The Lamar Valley is not known for its thermal activity. That is why this mostly extinct hot spring looks so out of place standing all by itself with vast valleys and rugged mountain peaks in the background, often surrounded by bison.
"Although the naming of this now mostly dormant hot spring cone was inaccurately derived, named by A. Bart Henderson in 1866, it is actually formed from deposits of travertine (calcium carbonate) and not soda ash (sodium carbonate), its name survived. Of interest, the location of Soda Butte is where the last of the wolves were killed during the government’s wolf extermination period of the past (around 1929) and was also the location where the first reintroduction of wolves to the park took place."
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I had a nice sunset shot of Factory Butte, the hunk of rock hulking over miles of badlands near Hanksville, but the sky was uninteresting. So, I slid in an interesting sky I happened to have.
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Mid-June late spring wildflowers partway up Steptoe Butte - with The Palouse below. Loving the light, cloud shadows, & colors!
Steptoe Butte is a thimble-shaped, 3,612-foot tall quartzite mountain in southeast Washington State, USA. Atop the butte, the natural eye has 200 miles to view Idaho and Oregon as well as surrounding mountains, including the Blue and Bitterroot mountains. This entire area was originally home to the Palus People who are said to have described Steptoe Butte as having a view that’s a 10 day ride in all directions.
Today, The Palouse encompasses the top wheat producing county & the 2nd highest barley producer in the US - & is dotted also lately with bright yellow canola fields.
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South of Factory Butte there are series of rock formations that can frame the butte. Wilbur was walking around looking for these formations.
Rising 1000 feet above Lake Powell (and 1500' above the former river level), Gregory Butte is an impressive feature. The butte is composed mainly of Entrada sandstone, derived primarily from sand dunes in this portion of the Colorado Plateau. Herbert E. Gregory, a Yale University geologist, mapped much of this region in the early 20th century, and the butte is named in his honor.
Looking across Beartooth Lake at the Butte of the same name.
The lakes sits at 8900 feet, up nice and high. While I was in Yellowstone in late September I had made reservations in Red Lodge MT with the intent and hope of driving the scenic Beartooth Highway. But an early snowstorm closed the highway and I couldn't get past the pass to Red Lodge. This is not uncommon for this high altitude pass. I was bummed. However good friend Rodney Lange and I did make it as far as this impressive lake and it's majestic peak so we did get a taste of what lie ahead. I was very impressed. I will return to try again some year.
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Looking S from the edge of Lava Butte's crater.
"Lava Butte is a cinder cone in central Oregon, United States, just west of U.S. Route 97 between the towns of Bend, and Sunriver in Deschutes County. It is part of a system of small cinder cones on the northwest flank of Newberry Volcano, a massive shield volcano which rises to the southeast. The cinder cone is capped by a crater which extends about 60 feet (20 m) deep beneath its south rim, and 160 feet (50 m) deep from the 5,020-foot (1,530 m) summit on its north side. Lava Butte is part of the Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
In July 1966, twenty-two astronauts trained in Central Oregon for the upcoming Moon landings, at sites including Lava Butte, Lava River Cave, and Newberry Crater." Wikipedia
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The initial color of dawn lights up the sky behind Boundary Butte, named due to its proximity to the boundary between the states of Utah and Arizona, though it is actually in the Navajo Nation. Boundary Butte is located at the southern end of Lake Powell, and is recognizable to some from space craft landing/ crashing site in the first (1968) Planet of the Apes movie. The foreground rock is Navajo Sandstone formed by ancient sand dunes.
Multi-layered clouds catch the last bits of filtered light at sunset in the sky above Gilson Butte and the Henry Mountains. Gilson Butte consists of Entrada Sandstone - sediments eroded from nearby highlands that were deposited in a shallow ocean 150 million years ago. The intricately formed buttresses resemble the neighboring formations to the west in Goblin Valley. This evening I was graced with a beautiful sky with highlights in all quadrants. More posts from this evening will follow.
At the outer edge of Goblin Valley State Park. While driving across country I arrived at Utah a day early. Bleary eyed and fazed out from driving 2400 miles. in just over two days. I arrived in Utah that morning with near perfect weather and wasn't going to let such a day go to waste. So I spent the day at Goblin Valley State Park and caught this view on the way in.
Monument Valley (meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 300 m above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
A 14-mile graded dirt road will show you around most of the major monuments — The Mittens, Three Sisters, John Ford’s Point, Totem Pole, Yei Bi Chai and Ear of the Wind. Navajo guides can lead you deeper, into Mystery Valley, Hunts Mesa and more. A handful of outfits will show you through the area on horseback, just the way people have been exploring it for hundreds of years.
The West and East Mitten Buttes are two buttes in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in northeast Navajo County, Arizona. When viewed from the south, the buttes appear to be two giant mittens with their thumbs facing inwards.
The Mittens are about 1km from the Arizona–Utah state line and West. The Mittens form a triangle with Merrick Butte about 1.1 km to the south and, with Sentinel Mesa, a more extensive plateau, towards the northwest.
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This pretty waterfall is in the city of Butte Falls, in Jackson County Oregon. Turn off Crater Lake Highway onto Butte Falls Highway and drive about 13 miles to the little city of Butte Falls (pop abt 425). Entrance road to the falls is just before you enter town. The road ends in a small parking lot right at the falls. It still had plenty of shade at about noon time in October, but probably best to shoot earlier in the morning or later in the afternoon.
Thumb Butte Snow. This is a shot I got a little behind posting. I shot this back in Feb. but never finished processing the RAW image. I was going through my photos this weekend and realized I hadn’t finished this pano. The fun thing is that if you go to this same location the view doesn’t look much different. Just some different clouds. Even though it wasn’t from this last storm I hope you enjoy.
Geologic formations form from two simple processes: deposition and erosion.
Fun Facts
The Badlands formations have a lifespan of approximately one million years. They erode at about one inch a year.
per National Park Service, South Dakota
This area is worth the visit incredible views, a lot of Bison herds grazing down in the valley & the Prairie Dogs are adorable.
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Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific Railway GP9 106 and GP38-2 2011 lead a train of gondolas from the BNSF and UP interchange in Silver Bow down the short branchline toward the Montana Resources copper mine in Butte, MT. The BA&P currently only serves this one customer, the Montana Resources plant, around twice a week, but once served a much greater variety of mines and smelters between Butte and Anaconda.
The railroad dates back to the 1890s and was operated under the name Rarus Railway between 1985 and 2007, after which it was officially changed back to Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific Railway under the new ownership of Patriot Rail. Amazingly, the GP9 pictured was built in 1957 for the BA&P and continues to operate for the same railroad and retains its original paint scheme to this day! (The long hood was chopped down sometime in the early 2000s, however). Between 1986 and 2003 the line currently operated by BNSF between Garrison and Butte was operated by the Montana and Western Railway, which saw the 106 and other Rarus GP9s at the time as leased power, as well as the trailing GP38-2 which is of Montana Western heritage.
The Patriot Rail owned BA&P operates at least two GP9s still wearing their original paint jobs, and aside from the copper mine business in Butte still generates revenue from storage cars. I'm unsure why there is so little coverage of this interesting little railroad, especially provided the classic power with original paint scheme. While the line is short and the railroad doesn't always run, it does offer a variety of nice, scenic spots. On this largely overcast morning, we seemed to have uncanny luck with the sun breaking through for almost every shot. Butte, MT
This is another image from the previously closed Butte Creek Falls area and campground. The 2020 fires missed this location, but made access impossible. Now it all re-opened, though the route here is still fairly difficult. Its very near Abiqua Falls, but the logging road that connects the two has been closed by the logging companies, so you have to go alllllll the way around, through Mill City.
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At Saddleback Butte State Park.
Saddleback Butte State Park is a state park in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert, in Southern California. The prominent feature and namesake of the park is Saddleback Butte, a butte that is 3,651 feet high.
From Alstrom Point on the west side of Lake Powell--Gunsight Butte in the foreground, the southern shoulder of Navajo Mountain in the distance. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
Afternoon light on one of the buttes in the area of Paria, Utah, site of a former townsite in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Got to go waterfall shooting with my friend Christina today, good times :)
This is a single exposure. Just a polarizer.