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This pond, along with the birds & wildlife it attracts, is my main interest here.
I hadn't visited in about 4 & 1/2 years. Nice to see this pond is practically full; it has been much lower and a cause for concern in recent years.
"Agua Caliente, literally meaning hot water, is a unique 101-acre park that features a perennial warm spring and pond that is home to an exceptionally rich mix of plants and animals. Agua Caliente Park has a long and interesting history with evidence of human habitation dating back about 5,500 years. In 1873, a ranch and health resort was developed to promote the curative properties of the warm springs. In 1984 local businessman Roy P. Drachman donated over $200,000 toward the purchase of Agua Caliente Ranch and Pima County named the park in honor of this contribution. Roy P. Drachman Agua Caliente Park opened to the public on January 19, 1985."
Gateway to Machu Picchu, Aguas Calientes is not accessable by roads. Train (or hike) is the only way to get here and the town is so small it has only one road open to buses that will take you to Machu Picchu.
Welcome to Caliente.
Having been on my list of places to shoot for some time now, I finally made the trek up to Caliente and Rainbow Canyon. Rail traffic is much slower than 30 years ago when I was last there, shooting video of the area with my brother, but it is still as beautiful as I remembered. The old station is still as grand as ever, albeit battling mother nature, but it sits in a remote region the Battle Born state of Nevada.
Bobby Tee on conga
Taken at Double Roads Tavern in Jupiter Florida. Sponsored by the Jupiter Jazz Society- visit us on Facebook--www.facebook.com/pages/Jupiter-Jazz-Society/...
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An old sign for the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana recalling the horse racing days. The sign is located in downtown San Diego on the California Theater. There are plans to demolish the building.
Trying out Svema Super Positive film from the Film Photography Project.
EOS 3
40mm f2.8 w/ Cir Pol.
FPP Svema Super Positive film
Exposure: 4 secs at f/11
iso 25 + 6 stops
Lab developed and scanned.
The Caliente Range is a west-east trending zone of uplift mountains in the California Coast Ranges, in central California. The highest peak of the range is Caliente Mountain at 5,106 feet (1,556 m) in elevation, located in northeastern San Luis Obispo County.
The range is an anticlinal structure with a sharp southern boundary defined by the Morales Thrust Fault, along which runs the Cuyama River. The Cuyama Valley separates the Caliente Range from the Sierra Madre Mountains in neighboring Santa Barbara County to the south. To the northeast, the range is bounded by the Carrizo Plain. To the northwest, the range is abutted by the La Panza and Santa Lucia Ranges, two northwest-southeast trending units of the Pacific Coast Ranges.
The rocks of the Caliente range are dominated by marine and terrestrial sedimentary deposits laid down over the last 30 million years. Within them are some volcanic units, prominent particularly in the foothills beginning at the Carrizo Plain. These volcanic rocks are of Tertiary age, and are mostly basalt.
Most of the Caliente Range is public land, owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Portions are privately owned, and some of the foothills in the northeast are within the protection of the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
The peak is accessible to non-motorized traffic via a gated road. The skeleton of an old cabin remains on the peak. This cabin was a lookout point during the Second World War, as an observer on this prominent peak would have been able to see and report Japanese airplanes coming inland to bomb the important oil fields in Kern County. Dips and rises along the ridgeline road leading to the lookout point equal about 2,700 feet (820 m) in elevation gain in the course of the 17-mile (27 km) round-trip journey from the locked gate to the peak and back.
The higher peaks of the range get more precipitation than the lowlands due to orographic lift of passing storms. Some snow falls on the highest parts of the range.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliente_Range
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Emilio Valenzuela, percussionist
in Jupiter Florida. Sponsored by the Jupiter Jazz Society- visit us on Facebook--www.facebook.com/pages/Jupiter-Jazz-Society/...
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Near the worldly-famous Machu Picchu, there is one town where tourists to Machu Picchu stays. Accessible from towns like Ollantaytambo or Cuzco by train, just a little town that has almost nothing to see but had to be constructed somehow so Peru can profit from incredible number of tourists - that's Aguas Calientes. As the name says "Hot Water" in Spanish, this town has some hot springs, restaurants, hotels, motels and hostels. That's pretty much all they've got. They sell tickets to enter to Machu Picchu in this town, there is no car running in this town except the buses that go to Machu Picchu. Everything is within walking distance and majority of buildings look terrible here. However the demand for tourists keep increasing so they keep building places to stay for the tourists. As a result of that this ugly town was built.
There is a lot we can think of besides the impressive Machu Picchu when you visit towns like this. Money moves people and often people are thinking of what can make profit in next 10-20 years but not 100 years later.
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The Caliente Range is a west-east trending zone of uplift mountains in the California Coast Ranges, in central California. The highest peak of the range is Caliente Mountain at 5,106 feet (1,556 m) in elevation, located in northeastern San Luis Obispo County.
The range is an anticlinal structure with a sharp southern boundary defined by the Morales Thrust Fault, along which runs the Cuyama River. The Cuyama Valley separates the Caliente Range from the Sierra Madre Mountains in neighboring Santa Barbara County to the south. To the northeast, the range is bounded by the Carrizo Plain. To the northwest, the range is abutted by the La Panza and Santa Lucia Ranges, two northwest-southeast trending units of the Pacific Coast Ranges.
The rocks of the Caliente range are dominated by marine and terrestrial sedimentary deposits laid down over the last 30 million years. Within them are some volcanic units, prominent particularly in the foothills beginning at the Carrizo Plain. These volcanic rocks are of Tertiary age, and are mostly basalt.
Most of the Caliente Range is public land, owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Portions are privately owned, and some of the foothills in the northeast are within the protection of the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
The peak is accessible to non-motorized traffic via a gated road. The skeleton of an old cabin remains on the peak. This cabin was a lookout point during the Second World War, as an observer on this prominent peak would have been able to see and report Japanese airplanes coming inland to bomb the important oil fields in Kern County. Dips and rises along the ridgeline road leading to the lookout point equal about 2,700 feet (820 m) in elevation gain in the course of the 17-mile (27 km) round-trip journey from the locked gate to the peak and back.
The higher peaks of the range get more precipitation than the lowlands due to orographic lift of passing storms. Some snow falls on the highest parts of the range.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliente_Range
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...