Arches National Park

Utah, USA

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The world doesn’t really need another photo of Delicate Arch, lol, but it took me multiple tries to get a clean image, so I’m posting it anyway. I have been thwarted by clouds, wildfires, and people, and on one occasion when I took friends there I even found that I forgot to put my camera n my backpack! Note to self: If you forget your camera then you might as well forget the tripod as well. 😳 Anyway, the locations so crowded I started dreading going there. This time everyone went home by 1:00 a.m. and I had the location to myself for 1-2 hours until the clouds rolled in. Yeah!!! By the time I poised in the arch the clouds had arrived, so I removed my silhouette from the cloudy photo and placed it into the clear sky photo, so this is a blend. Thanks for looking!

The arch in the distance (Delicate Arch) does not look very large, but it is 40 feet tall (12.2 meters). I first hiked up here in 1988 and there were just a few people & again every year or so to make it up to the arch about a dozen times.

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...delicate like you and me....

♪

3rd August 2024

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Fantastic delicate natural rock sculpting in the SW USA. 10 vertical images, 20 mm, f 2.0, 20 sec., ISO 8000.

Thanks for all the kind support over the last year, it is much appreciated! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family!

3 mile hike up after 24 hours of sporadic rain.

Thanks to Lisa for carrying the camera gear most of the way.

Hurt my back mountain biking that week.

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The trail to see the Delicate Arch up close and personal is 3 miles (4.8 km) roundtrip and climbs 480 feet (146m).

This is a cool arch, but I am posting it because I have never seen it without a lot of people under and around it. Someone must have taken charge and lined everyone up to take turns with photos under the arch. Everyone stood in line and waited their turn, it was all rather astonishing. There was even a chance to get a few shots with no one in the photo. That's not to say there was complete order all around, there were lots of people backing down the hill taking the usual multitude of selfies in front of everyone, and a toddler went running down the hill towards the cliff face before the dad noticed and yelled, but it was a lot more orderly under the arch than I have ever seen before.

Delicate flower

Stretching out towards the sun

You light up my world

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Macro Mondays theme is #Flowers

Floral friendship forever!

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Un lugar alucinante, en el que vivi uno de los mejores momentos de mi vida junto a mi familia: por la ruta, el entorno, lo que sentimos y compartimos, el atardecer que nos hizo, y el cielo tan increíble que hay en este lugar. Para que os hagáis una idea está disparada a ISO 8000 f2.8 30s con 5d Mark IV y el 16-35 III de Canon España.

Es solo una fotografia, no como lo que se ve de este sitio que se suelen juntar dos fotos, por la tremenda oscuridad que existe.

Y esta se la quiero dedicar a una de las personas mas especiales que he conocido, de una amistad inquebrantable, siempre dispuesto a ayudar no solo a mi, si no a cualquiera de sus amigos. Si habría que poner una foto a lo que es la amistad, creo que la suya debería aparecer debajo de la definición. Y los que tienen la suerte de conocerle estarán de acuerdo conmigo...y que lo pongan en los comentarios ;).

Vamos a arroparle de halagos a Pedrito Ba. Mil gracias amigo

weathering the afternoon showers at the kitchen garden at Kingston Lacy NT in Dorset

Meadow rue , Thalictrum delavayi ( China-Wiesenraute )

This is Meadow Rue which grows to around 4' talI. Because it was so tall and delicate, the smallest breath of wind made it hard to photograph. I sure hope to find it at the park's garden next year.

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8-shot panorama of the Milky Way spanning over Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.

The sky is lit up via a combination of light pollution from Moab (bottom right) and airglow (green).

Delicate Pinks at Longwood Gardens

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If a hard rain is gonna fall it will be the worst case!

This was a happy accident. We had planned to stay well after dark and take photos of Delicate Arch illuminated by the light of the full moon (you can see those further back in my Photostream). What we hadn't planned for was the moon to light up exactly under the arch as we approached it and of the exposure to be workable. We saw the seen and quickly scrambled to get ourselves setup to shoot some images. In my haste to start shooting ended up with several blurry images. I am glad this one came out sharp. I chose to leave the people in the image to give scale to just how big Delicate Arch really is.

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Brightening this shaded fence line in Camberwell.

A broader view of the Delicate Arch to the left and other rock formations at Arches National Park, Utah.

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I don't know what kind of flowers these are, but I thought they were just adorable. So sweet and pretty.

Light Falls Late on Delicate Arch