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Attempt number two with texture. Yes? No? I had this image in my mind the first time I visited this location - a famous banyan "tree house" in Hong Kong. Thankfully, I have some pretty awesome friends I manage to get into going along with my antics.
Philippa was AMAZING to shoot. Barefoot? climb a tree? run around with wings? Bring it on. Did I mention she went for (foot) surgery a few days after this? And no, not because of me.
Behind the scenes thanks to Andrea
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. --To Autumn. by John Keats
The hot weather recently has caused a shoreside pool to evaporate, leaving incredibly thin and delicate sheets of salt floating atop the brine.
Utah, SW USA, May 2005. Morning, around 9AM looking towards La Sal mountains with Delicate Arch in foreground.
The Upper Viewpoint is a steep, half-mile hike to a viewpoint of Delicate Arch from across a canyon.
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Testing out the Nikon 105mm VR - Just out and about in the garden. It's honestly an awesome lens, but it's going to take some getting used to!
From day two of my epic National Park Road Trip - evening hike up to Delicate Arch. Arches National Park, Utah. This one was originally 3 photos (bottom middle and top) which I merged in photoshop. I think this one really came out spectacular. I even liked it better than the one I did that was all one shot. I left the woman in the shot to give a idea of the size of this gorgeous arch. Hope you like it!
Arches National Park, Moab, Utah.
.............Delicate Arch is a 52 ft (16 m) tall[ freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah.
It is the most widely-recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on both Utah license plates and a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of statehood in 1996. The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.
...........History
Because of its distinctive shape, the arch was known as "the Chaps" and "the Schoolmarm's Bloomers" by local cowboys. It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933-1934. (The story that the names of Delicate Arch and Landscape Arch were inadvertently exchanged due to a signage mixup by the National Park Service is false.)
The arch played no part in the original designation of the area as a U.S. National Monument in 1929, and was not included within the original boundaries; it was added when the monument was enlarged in 1938.
In the 1950s, the National Park Service investigated the possibility of applying a clear plastic coating to the arch to protect it from further erosion and eventual destruction. The idea was ultimately abandoned as impractical and contrary to NPS principles.
Geology ...............
Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone. The original sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, eventually leaving the arch. Other arches in the park were formed the same way but due to placement and less dramatic shape are not as famous.
..........Hiking to the Arch
The view of Delicate Arch at the end of the hiking trail.Delicate Arch is located at the end of a moderately strenuous, 1.5 mi (2.4 km) hiking trail from the parking area at Wolfe Ranch. Taking thirty to forty-five minutes each way, the round trip is slightly more than 3 mi (4.8 km) long and the Arch is completely hidden from view on this trail.
The first third of the hike is through rugged, brushy terrain and gains slightly in elevation. The middle third of the hike is along the face of an exposed slickrock outcrop and is strenuous due to the gain in elevation, but offers better views of the geology in the salt valley. Cairns (piles of rocks) have been placed by visitors and park staff to roughly suggest the otherwise unmarked trail to the top, yet visitors tend to wander all over the huge expanse of completely exposed sandstone. The latter third of the trail is the most rugged, as hikers have now nearly reached the "top" of the plateau. The Arch is still invisible, and the trail runs around outcrops, through washes and between stands of twisted brush and trees. The trail may be easier to follow, but meanders as parts become muddy and difficult to walk through. During the 2004 fall season, the trail clearly followed the left (northern) side of the plateau, and brought visitors along a narrow shelf nearly 150 ft (46 m) above a dry wash.
The arch comes into view suddenly around a corner in the trail and frames the La Sal Mountains to the southeast. The immediate area around the Arch offers views of the southern expanse of the park, and has unguarded cliffs plunging one hundred feet or more.
..........Wildlife
During the summer months, White-throated Swifts (Aeronautes saxatalis) nest in the top of the arch.
.............Controversy
Nature photographer Michael Fatali started a fire under the arch in September 2000 to demonstrate nighttime photography techniques to a group of amateur photographers. The fire discolored portions of the sandstone near the arch. Fatali was given probation and forced to pay $10,900 restitution to the National Park Service for the cost of cleanup efforts.
In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo (no ropes, or protection) ascent of this formation. Under the rules active at the time, climbing Delicate Arch was not explicitly forbidden; however, it was understood that the named arch formations should not be climbed. Since that climb, the Park Service has closed the loophole by disallowing climbs on any named arch within the park year-round. Also, slacklining and the placement of new fixed anchors on new climbs is also prohibited. Controversy erupted when photographs taken after Potter's climb appeared to show damage caused by a climbing technique called top roping. Potter has stated on several occasions that he never top roped the Arch and no photos exist of Potter using a top rope setup on the Arch. It is possible that a previous climber had top roped the Arch leaving the rope scars.
Just felt like something soothing today and this delicate pink Poppy, growing at the Reader Rock Garden on 6th July 2011, seemed to fit just right. I love Poppies, from bud to seedpod and everything in between : )
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I have just this moment heard that Doug's MEMORIAL will be held at 2 pm on Thursday at the South Centre Memorial at Macleod Tr and Lake Fraser Dr. SE., Calgary.
Winter has returned, with snow and -5C (windchill -15C) this afternoon and very windy. I noticed a high of -20C for next Monday, brrrr. Glad I was out on a bird walk yesterday and not today. We were very lucky yesterday to see a Cinnamon Teal on the far side (of course, lol!) of the Bow River, across from the Hull's Wood area in Fish Creek Park. Apparently, the last record for a Cinnamon Teal seen in winter in Calgary was on January 3, 1960 at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, when there was a bit of open water on the lagoon. That bird in 1960 was seen by Ian Halladay and Paul Anderson. It had been injured and had remained with the Mallards that were being hand fed.
The delicate contrast between the masculine of the costume and the flowers made this picture a perfect representative that opposite do attract one another.
Wanted to get more stars in the shot, but the nearly-full moon had other plans. Ended up taking a wrong turn to the arch, so we lost a lot of 'star time' but someone showed us the way when the found us along the trail.
I had never been to the Arch so doing this hike at night for the first time, probably wasn't the best decision I've made in my adult life. Thanks to the cairns placed along the trail, we were able to make it!
By 1am I was tired, and this was the last shot I took before heading back down.