Löwenburg im Bergpark Kassel - Wilhelmshöhe.

Lions Castle, Kassel. Germany.

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This scene at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye at low tide is a compelling contrast of the village's historic maritime past and its modern connection to the mainland, once the busy terminus for vehicles crossing the Kyle Akin strait—is exposed by the low water. The slipway, which now has a somewhat forlorn or quiet air, slopes down toward the water, revealing a greater expanse of the rocky and muddy shoreline that is usually submerged. Behind the slip the picturesque village of Kyleakin rises slightly revealing the Skye Road Bridge arching gracefully as it crosses the mouth of Loch Alsh to connect Kyleakin to the mainland at Kyle of Lochalsh. Just below the bridge is the small island of Eilean Bàn with its 21metre tall Eilean Ban Lighthouse (1857) at its western end, now literally overshadowed by the replacement crossing in 1995…..The Old and the New route to Skye.

I can't really explain why I was compelled to take a photo of a aggregate plant, but it goes like this-situated amongst tress just off a roundabout in Catalunya, this white structure was this barely noticeable in daylight, however, when we passed it illuminated at night it took on a personality of its own! We passed it many times last year and this year, and every time I told my husband that one night I was going to make the effort, in the dark and with tripod, to take it, finally I did. Two imaged merged. I needed the sky from the shorter exposure because the stars in the longer exposure looked like sausages :))

Just for fun here is the 60s song of the same name www.youtube.com/watch?v=ougF5Q78tyo

Florence

Not feeling the photographic or creative touch today but felt compelled to post something. I’d looked at this image once before mainly because of the old woman, who looks more like a local than a tourist, who’s clearly on a mission to somewhere or something. Wasn’t sure what to do with it so rather lazily copied the settings from the square image I first posted. The conversion surprised me, just a few subtle tweaks and hey-presto today’s upload!

All this goes to show how far digital processing has come when you can produce something with just a few clicks.

It's not perfect, but there was something compelling about the sign.

44 stones. (Yes, I felt compelled to count them as I sat drinking tea) aligned in a circle over two of the trees magnificent roots.

In numerology that figure becomes 8, represented by the hachi, ya) (八) in Japanese culture.

The power and strength associated with number 8 are said to be feminine energy which give strength to overcome obstacles and achieve life's goals.

Jon Kennedy ~ Flux

It’s that time of the year - mid Autumn. The leaves have turned and once again I feel compelled to go to Laurel Hill. The drive is short, the light is right! I marvel at the leaves, soak in the colors of the ones that still hang on - red, orange, yellow and green. But my thoughts never fail to gravitate to the ones that had succumbed to the pull of the Inevitable. “Which one am I?”, I once wrote of the snowflakes falling in the stillness of a Winter night. “Which one am I?”, I ask again - pondering the leaves.

I was compelled to post this shot next as it goes nicely side by side with the previous one.

Harvey in the glistening dew near Woolbeding in West Sussex.

🇫🇷 au centre ,ici la maison Kammerzell

L’origine exacte de sa construction reste un mystère. Un linteau au rez-de-chaussée indique 1467.Les étages supérieurs si admirés aujourd’hui sont un peu plus tardifs.

Le 1° propriétaire était un drapier, un de ses successeurs, Martin Braun, riche marchand de fromage décida en 1589 de reconstruire dans un style plus conforme à l’époque et surtout plus tape-à-l’œil ! Contraint par le conseil de la ville de conserver le rez-de-chaussée en pierre, il investit beaucoup pour les étages que l’on admire encore maintenant. Il y a pléthore de sculptures . A l’époque le culte protestant rejette la vénération d’images et les représentations figuratives….Les grands sculpteurs se réfugient dans d’autre régions catholiques…Les artistes disponibles sont souvent de bons artisans du meuble, et la qualité des sculptures reste modeste Si les sculptures sont donc un peu rigides dans leur aspect, leur richesse est par contre indéniable.

🇬🇧 in the centre, this is the Kammerzell house

The exact origin of its construction remains a mystery. A lintel on the ground floor indicates that it was built in 1467, while the upper floors, which are so much admired today, were built a little later.

The 1st owner was a draper, but one of his successors, Martin Braun, a wealthy cheese merchant, decided in 1589 to rebuild the building in a style that was more in keeping with the times and, above all, flashier! Compelled by the town council to keep the stone ground floor, he invested heavily in the upper floors, which can still be admired today. There is a plethora of sculptures. At the time, Protestant worship rejected the veneration of images and figurative representations....The great sculptors took refuge in other Catholic regions... The artists available were often good furniture craftsmen, and the quality of the sculptures remained modest If the sculptures are therefore a little rigid in their appearance, their richness is undeniable.

🇩🇪 in der Mitte ,hier das Haus Kammerzell

Der genaue Ursprung seines Baus bleibt ein Rätsel. Ein Sturz im Erdgeschoss deutet auf das Jahr 1467 hin, während die oberen Stockwerke, die heute so bewundert werden, etwas später entstanden sind.

Der erste Besitzer war ein Tuchhändler. Einer seiner Nachfolger, Martin Braun, ein reicher Käsehändler, beschloss 1589, das Haus in einem zeitgemäßeren und vor allem auffälligeren Stil wieder aufzubauen. Vom Rat der Stadt gezwungen, das steinerne Erdgeschoss zu erhalten, investierte er viel in die Stockwerke, die man auch heute noch bewundern kann. Es gibt eine Fülle von Skulpturen . Die großen Bildhauer flüchteten in andere katholische Regionen...Die verfügbaren Künstler waren oft gute Möbelhandwerker und die Qualität der Skulpturen blieb bescheiden Die Skulpturen sind daher etwas steif, aber ihr Reichtum ist unbestreitbar.

🇮🇹 al centro, questa è la casa Kammerzell

L'origine esatta della sua costruzione rimane un mistero. Un architrave al piano terra indica che fu costruita nel 1467, mentre i piani superiori, che oggi si ammirano tanto, furono costruiti un po' più tardi.

Il primo proprietario era un drappiere, ma uno dei suoi successori, Martin Braun, un ricco commerciante di formaggi, decise nel 1589 di ricostruire l'edificio in uno stile più consono ai tempi e, soprattutto, più appariscente! Costretto dal consiglio comunale a mantenere il piano terra in pietra, investì molto nei piani superiori, che si possono ammirare ancora oggi. Vi è una pletora di sculture. All'epoca, il culto protestante rifiutava la venerazione delle immagini e delle rappresentazioni figurative....I grandi scultori si rifugiarono in altre regioni cattoliche... Gli artisti disponibili erano spesso buoni artigiani del mobile, e la qualità delle sculture rimase modesta Se le sculture sono quindi un po' rigide nel loro aspetto, la loro ricchezza è innegabile.

🇪🇸 En el centro, la casa Kammerzell.

El origen exacto de su construcción sigue siendo un misterio. Un dintel en la planta baja indica que se construyó en 1467, mientras que los pisos superiores, tan admirados hoy en día, se construyeron un poco más tarde.

El primer propietario era un pañero, pero uno de sus sucesores, Martin Braun, un rico comerciante de quesos, decidió en 1589 reconstruir el edificio en un estilo más acorde con la época y, sobre todo, ¡más llamativo! Obligado por el ayuntamiento a conservar la planta baja de piedra, realizó grandes inversiones en los pisos superiores, que aún hoy pueden admirarse. Hay una plétora de esculturas. En aquella época, el culto protestante rechazaba la veneración de imágenes y representaciones figurativas.... Los grandes escultores se refugiaron en otras regiones católicas... Los artistas disponibles eran a menudo buenos artesanos del mueble, y la calidad de las esculturas siguió siendo modesta Si las esculturas son por tanto un poco rígidas en su aspecto, su riqueza es innegable.

Irrésistible - Compeling

Even though the breeze was moving the flowers to and fro, I felt compelled to attempt capturing the blackberry flowers in our neighborhood this morning.

When I passed each flower, with the petals closed around the center, I was amazed to find bees nestled in a majority of the blossoms. This article explains that male bees will remain in the flower overnight, while the female bees return to the hive.

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I went to see the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. It was a nice walk in the drizzling rain! There are so many average pictures of suspension bridges, I was thinking how I can make a compelling image. Luckily, the sun peeked through the clouds, shining light right at the middle of the bridge.

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young cat on the philosopher's Walk (Kyoto) on the prowl for food it can persuade tourists to give it

Back to my wandering aimlessly through my photo catalog every morning and randomly choosing a shot to post.

This fascinating rock wall was found in Joshua Tree National park. What strikes me most are the nearly perfectly straight diagonal fractures. Though the park was created to protect and showcase its namesake plants, we found the rock formations to be a more compelling reason to visit.

What can be more compelling than a view on deep everlasting sky? The sky seen through the tree branches. This is one of those ancient big trees that has been here for hundreds of years, now protected by law. How many generations of travelers will see the sky through its branches?

Built by William Harmon Holtwick, who returned here after an arduous move to Oregon, and was compelled to share the gospel with former neighbors, after finding new life in Christ

through Free Methodists in Oregon. Mr. Holtwick was appointed by the Missouri Conference of the Free Methodist

Church as the first pastor when the Church was officially organized in 1894. He was followed by twenty other pastors

in the more than sixty years the church functioned. This Church contributed leaders to the Free Methodist Church worldwide, including among others, Oswald T. Gregory, a

charter member who later served as pastor here and elsewhere, L.F. Autenrieth, a pastor in Missouri and Illinois,

Bishop Robert Andrews, who participated here when his father was pastor, Alma Gregory Willard, a missionary in Latin

America, and Enoch E, Holtwick, long-time professor at Greenville University and candidate for Vice-President and

President of the United States in 1952 and 1956 with the Prohibition Party.

"The Chapel" by R.S. Thomas

A little aside from the main road,

becalmed in the last-century greyness,

there is the chapel, ugly, without the appeal

to the tourist to stop his car

and visit it. The traffic goes by,

and the river goes by, and the quick shadows

of clouds, too, and the chapel settles

a little deeper into the grass.

But here once on an evening like this,

in the darkness that was about his hearers,

a preacher caught fire and burned steadily

before them with a strange light,

so that they saw the splendor of

the barren mountains about them

and sang their amens fiercely, narrow

but saved in a way that men are not now.

from a plaque placed on the Chapel wall by the

Free Methodist Church, Gateway Conference - 10/23/2021

That morning, the wetlands were overtaken by Black Swans, compelling me to take notice.

(Cygnus atratus)

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This is part of a short series of scenes I encountered while shooting the Cover of Darkness that didn't translate well into b/w or simply looked more compelling in color. So ... the Color of Night. I'll be positing these while Cover of Darkness is on hiatus and I work on some still-lifes.

To see more in this series, visit Color of Night

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Anaïs Nin

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I've always been fascinated with the transition from day to night. I love standing outside as daylight fades and darkness descends as if a curtain has been pulled. It's a wonderful time for photography, but even more so from a life experience standpoint. Over the years I've developed a habit of wrapping the session as twilight fades. Most of the sky drama tends to depart with the sun and photos tend to take on a muddy and indistinct appearance. That's how things stood until early July when Comet NEOWISE appeared. Suddenly I went into full-on night photographer mode. Now instead of packing it in at sunset, I found myself not even beginning a session until an hour or two after. It's a bit more involved than causal daylight shooting. Ordinarily I shun tripods on account of the way they tend to diminish spontaneity. However they are a must for night work. The shots tend to be a bit more static but I've found that doesn't necessarily mean they are less compelling. I feel a high level of energy being outside at night, particularly being out in open farmland completely alone, surrounded my expansive areas of inky shadows. There's anxiety from not knowing what's out there as well as contemplation of what could be out there. It's simultaneously frightening yet energizing. I quickly found that even after the novelty of seeing the comet faded, this energy remained and it's very addictive. I've made several more night forays since this discovery. The night sky is still fascinating. But so too is the landscape. The night sky transforms every nuance of the places I've come to know mostly by daylight. Light, shadow, color, clarity, it's all twisted at night. Places I know intimately appear strange, mysterious and even eerie at night. This lake, a quaint and picturesque local landmark by day takes on the look of a still frame from a hour film by night.

These massive fuel storage tanks (I'd say they were 30 feet tall), listing and rusted, dominate the site of Whaler's Bay on Deception Island, Antarctica. The last few images from Antarctica will be from this fascinating and compelling place that was the last stop on my Antarctic trip.

It is called Deception Island because from the sea it looks like a normal island, but once you cross through the gap called Neptune’s Bellows, you can see that is actually the caldera (crater) of a volcano. The volcano underneath is still active (steam can be seen rising from the water from the heat) and it erupted most recently in 1970.

In the early 20th century (1908) a permanent on-shore to process to the products of the whaling industry which flourished around Deception Island. The remains of buildings and the huge storage tanks can still be seen there. Near the whaling facility, there are also buildings belonging to the British Antarctic Survey base which was evacuated in 1967 during an eruption of the volcano. The base was eventually abandoned after another eruption in 1969.

Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

I made a short film of what I saw in Antarctica. If you'd like to see it, head over to YouTube or you can watch it here on Flickr.

If you'd like to see all my Antarctica images together, you can visit my Flickr Antarctica album.

I wrote three blog posts about this amazing trip to Antarctica. If you'd like read about the trip and see some more documentary/BTS images, you'll find the blog posts here:

Antarctica, Part 1

Antarctica, Part 2

Antarctica, Part 3 (where I describe the visit to Deception Island)

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This is a portrait which to me breaks all rules. I rarely use this kind of lighting for women, there are many distracting elements but her gaze is true and compelling and the colours are so beautiful and bold so there it is. I would really love to hear views and opinions on this regarding any aspect , as I so often ask. An exchange of views is so heartening. Maybe I could do something differently next time around.

Three Pano-Sabotage shots of a fragrance ad in a concourse shop window brought together to create a triptych. The background was a similar shot of another window, blurred, colour adjusted and filtered several times.

The text and title are from Aldous Huxley's 1931 future dystopia novel, "Brave New World". Huxley was first off the starting block with the big, important novels speculating a highly technical and oppressive future for the world. What makes his story so much more disturbing today is that almost all of it is already true.

Blind, obsessive, submissive, unquestioning Consumerism is considered the very essence and ideal of civilization. Virtually everything has been done to completely dumb down and condition human beings to do nothing more than their jobs, to consume voraciously and stupefy themselves with the most paltry distractions. Those that call this into question are quickly identified and "removed".

"Everyone is happy" and almost no force or coercion is ever used to police them. People are so completely absorbed in this kind of stupefying, dumbed-down dream and it's multitude of various distractions that it's only a very rare soul that can even remotely begin to think of questioning the order of things.

Chillingly more current than Orwell's outright control by force and psychological torture, as portrayed in "1984", "Brave New World" ( a line from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" ) is so because we, like the inhabitants of the novel, carry on as if this is the best of all worlds. But the future is always unfolding. There is much about the Orwell, too, that may be more a reality for many than we'd dare imagine.

"Compelled to Consume" is a gentle reminder that the promises made in all forms of advertising have been cynically researched with only one purpose in mind - to indulge our unrealistic fantasies in order to induce us to empty our pockets so that we can make very rich people even richer.

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Music Link: "Blade Runner: Main Theme" - Vangelis, from his soundtrack to Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" ( 1982 ).

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A young plumeria leaf.. backlit ..and a drop which took forever to capture until I thought of using cooking oil :)

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The Greig-French-Bell loop trail is a hike in the redwood forests of Northern California that I try to photograph every time we visit the location. And there are some excellent reasons for my persistence with the trail. First, it’s stunning. The redwoods here are new growth, so a lot of sunlight peeks through the forest canopy limiting the number of ferns and an incredible forest floor carpeted by clovers. Secondly, the trail path here is beneficial. Its red pops against the green of the plants, and it is easy to use as a leading line.

And lastly, it has become a personal challenge because the last two times I tried to hike this trail, I got hopelessly lost and mainly walked around in circles right around the trailhead area. So this time, I was prepared, I downloaded an offline map on my alltrails app, and we could finally navigate the dense maze of paths in the forest. The hike turned out marvelous, and I got quite a few good images.

There is a compelling story behind this picture. When I was shooting the Kambala Race near Mangaluru the runner or player lost control and fell down and the incident was recorded in stages in my Nikon D500 with Nikkor 2.8 80-200. Such pictures may get accepted or awarded in Photographic Salons. Feeling on his side how deep he might be hurt on that after noon, how many days his lingering thoughts could get fade away and keeping in mind of Photographic decency

I am reluctant to post the pictures in Social Media.

In 1913 Oskar Barnack, an engineer with the Leitz Optical Company, wanted to create a camera that could be carried in a pocket. In that era, cameras were bulky, stood on heavy tripods and exposed individual plate negatives. Being an avid travel photographer he wanted something much smaller. He decided to take 35mm movie film and put inside a light tight tin canister and run it sideways across the lens rather than vertical, thus inventing 35mm still camera film. No cameras existed to support that format so Barnack designed an entirely new camera made exclusively for his 35mm film canister. This became known as the Barnack Leica. The camera in this photo is a Leica iiiF which has been fully restored, so it is now back to shooting film. This is a very special camera with a history like no other, and I’m very much enjoying shooting it. It was sitting on the table in front of me as it became illuminated by a beam of light from a nearby window. I was compelled to capture an image of this beautiful work of art!

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Another amazing foggy backwater.

Not my style, not my genre, why do I feel so compelled to post this?

Handheld 3 exposure HDR / Photomatix Pro, Topaz Adjust, Nik Silver Effex and Photoshop processed.

I don't often tell people when I get lost, but this night I got very lost. This picture was taken just before I made a couple of bad choices that got me nearly stuck in the mud in a place with no roads. Thankfully I didn't get stuck in the mud, and I found my way back to civilization.

While I don't know how old this 'house' is, I have always been intrigued by old things. I often wonder what their stories are. I'm sure this old shack has seen it's fair share of storms, and so this is nothing new (at least for it - I had never seen this sight). But it has to be getting weaker by the year. And if it's going to get knocked over, it's very likely that it's by a South Dakota storm (whether a summer thunderstorm or a winter blizzard). And so I wonder, if buildings could feel, if each storm successive makes it a little more nervous that this might be it's last. One could hope if that is how it meets it's end, that at least there could be a beautiful moment of glory before the storm takes this old shack.

**Please let me know if something doesn't seem right with this image. I tried something new with image, so critiques are more than welcome (as always - but sometimes it takes a little encouragement). I appreciate positive comments (always) as well, but I find that I learn more through criticism.

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Now it's time to let 'the cat out of the bag' and let you all know why I wanted you to treat this image a little differently than my usual.

In this maytag97 can help as he clarified a key difference. Those 'rays' weren't there originally and are drawn in using Photoshop. I normally wouldn't do anything of the sort, but I felt it was necessary (to help pull the image together) as the image itself isn't 'real' either. The sun/sky were taken from one image (and flipped horizontally), and the landscape was taken from another image. The images were taken on different days and from different locations. However, if I had been at the location where I took the landscape/shack pic on the same night as the storm was moving through I very possibly could have gotten an image very much like this (I feel).

I felt the final image was compelling and wanted to see what others thought, hence the emphasis on 'criticisms.'

Again, thank you all.

Neptune is what I thought anyway when I spotted this mural along the waterfront in Newport, Oregon. :)

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After compeled my job in London, waiting for the next assignment in Australia. It is expected to be in Australia in the middle of this June😊

Even one year old Fallow Deer males feel compelled to go head to head.

I like the result of neglect over a long period on this old railroad car. It compels me, and perhaps others, to reflect and count our blessings. In particular, for the many strong and interesting images I see posted in Flickr by people from around the globe. Hope 2024 is a banner year for you and yours.

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As a landscape photographer, I always struggled with the concept of minimalist photography. Having negative space in a frame is such an odd concept for me to comprehend, and for a long time, I abstained from ever testing that particular style of photography. Purchasing a 10-stop ND was the first time I ever ventured into minimalist photos, and even then, it was primarily seascapes. While at the Great Sand Dunes NP, I finally realized the power of genuinely minimalist compositions in telling a compelling visual story. Since then, I have always tried to keep an eye out for such images.

While at White Sands NP in New Mexico, many opportunities present themselves. The park is a dream photo location if you are a minimalist photographer with what looks like endless gypsum dunes and some of the best skies I have seen anywhere. I especially liked this image of a small plant I took while hiking the dunes. The sand looked pristine, with the lone plant standing tall against the ever-shifting dunes.

Hallway wall inside the Operataket, Oslo's iconic opera house.

See other images from a 2025 trip to Norway, Svalbard, and Iceland here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCiG8a.

Kennedy Falls Trail, North Vancouver, BC.

Let me start by saying I don't know why this scene compelled me so much. As we stopped for a very productive hour of shooting an incredible part of the trail, I kept looking behind me at this section of the forest. I'll be honest, I hated it then and I still do now. Second growth forests are this horrendous amalgamation of trees that are all the same size and shape, and this is was no different. However, something about it pulled me in. It took four separate attempts to get an image I felt captured what I was seeing and feeling.

I'm filled with a heavy sadness more and more often these days as I hike through these local forests. Seeing the massive stumps of former ancient giants interspersed through these twig-like second growth trees just cuts through my soul like a hot knife through butter. Yes there are areas of tremendous beauty within these forests even now, but seemingly all I can do is dwell on what once was before the hand of humanity changed it forever.

"The sun is so bright it leaves no shadows,

only scars, carved into stone

on the face of Earth"

-- Bono

Back when U2 had a compelling way of saying something.

The view here is shortly after sunrise standing at the tip of Grandview Point, the most southwesterly location in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park. Literally land's end, the cliff beneath the tree plunges hundreds of feet down to the White Rim, which can be seen in the lower right quadrant of the scene. The LaSal Mountains are visible in the upper left, and we are looking east and southeast, into the belly of the Colorado River drainage.

I recently was thumbing through Desert Solitaire once again, and re-discovered one of the latter chapters, which describes a man wandering out to this very spot and dying of exposure and dehydration - to be found by Abbey's brother as part of a search and rescue operation. After experiencing such a peaceful morning there, it was an interesting juxtaposition to think about this view being someone's last. I am inclined to agree with Abbey's assessment of the situation - the man could not have ended up in a better place to take life's final breaths.

Grand Canyon National Park

Desert View Overlook

Arizona, USA

The Grand Canyon was formed over 5 to 6 million of years by the erosion caused by the Colorado River. Many visitors are surprised with the cool rim temperatures, but with the South Rim at an elevation ranging to over 7,000 feet, winter snow averages about 60 inches a year. The North Rim elevation is about 1,000 feet higher and receives an average of 144 inches of snow a year and is closed from mid-autumn to mid-spring.

The photo was taken during the afternoon with the warmer light of a late autumn day. I am often amazed at just how much the light difference from season of the year, time of day and the clouds influence the colors viewed from any location within the park.

The canyon is more than 200 miles long 12 miles wide and a mile deep. The national park is visited by about 6 million people a year. On a clear day, like this one, it is possible to see for 100 miles and the distance across to the North Rim seems to shrink.

There are always visitors at the South Rim of the park, but during the winter season, it is possible to find overlooks with few or no other visitors. One can find a sense of serenity when viewing a scene like this especially when viewing it alone.

On a sad note, while millions of visitors respect the beauty of the work of Mother Nature, on this trip, we saw that a few felt compelled to use markers to on some of the safety walls and leave behind messages, initials, etc.

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Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 VR at 35 mm

1/160 sec at f/9 ISO 64

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November 16, 2021

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