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Delicate Arch in Arches National Park in Southern Utah. This is a different angle then usually seen. It is of the backside of the arch on a very steep incline. This is one of my first HDR attempts.
By far the most famous attraction in Arches National Park is Delicate Arch, its more or less symmetrical shape, and 18m freestanding formation making it a symbol of both the State of Utah and the American Southwest in general. Originally called "the Chaps" and "the Schoolmarm's Bloomers" by local cowboys, it was not officially discovered and given its current name until the 1933 Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition. Ironically it was not even included in park boundaries when Arches National Monument was first established by Pres Herbert Hoover in 1929. It was added when the monument was enlarged in 1938. In 2002 the Olympic Torch Relay passed through the arch.
Everyone (myself included) stops for photos under the arch. Here you can see just how large the arch actually is.
Delicate Arch Section, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah
Delicate Arch overlooks the Cache Valley and dwarfs the humans who gather around it.
I've made this hike several times and it is a bit of an uphill slog to get here. But I've passed eighty year-old guys and families. There are always families in Utah.
In the background are the La Sal mountains, about twenty five miles away.
Delicate Arch is a 52-foot-tall freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park, near Moab in Grand County, Utah, United States.
The arch is the most widely recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on Utah license plates and a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of admission to the Union in 1996.
The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.
it's a long hike to get to the best vantage points to photograph it.
I reworked my original photo of the Delicate Arch. I used LAB color mode and tried to open up the shadows a little. The colors really become intense as you near sundown. This is the arch that is seen on Utah's license plates.
The classic shot of Delicate Arch from the northern side of the bowl with the La Sal mountains in the background.
Highlight of our Southwest geology tour, the sunset at Delicate Arch is worth the wait.
The fact that you will be joined by a crowd turns the arch into a kind of natural shrine. A truly centering and uplifting experience.
Location: Bali
Camera: D-SLR Olympus E-500
Taken in 2007. I love how the flower looks as if it rose just above everything else.
Editings: contrast, framing, signature
Well, I decided to go back through the almost 8,000 photos I have taken with my 60D since purchasing it on June 28th and find some classics from the early days of shooting with it.
Here is the 59th photo I took with the 60D, cropped a bit and selective colourized but otherwise straight off the camera!
Hope you all like it!
I discovered at work today that what I thought was 3 days weekend is actually a 4 day weekend, thanks to a civic holiday on Monday, so I am even MORE excited than I was!
Enjoy your upcoming weekend, all my dear flickr friends!
Well, I guess I'll be in the market for a new cherry tree this spring.
I'm rather sad to report that my pretty weeping cherry tree on the front yard is a-goner. 8-((
I noticed last spring that it didn't bloom as brilliantly as usual, and it hardly got any leaves during the summer. On closer examination I realized that it seemed to have picked up some kind of borer bug that attacked it at the base and had basically killed it. 8-(((
This spring we'll take it down and I'll replace it with something new.
This delicate calligraphy reindeer was letterpress printed on midnight blue metallic paper with silver ink. Design and letterpress by Missive.
These delicate, lovely, white flowers remind me of ballet dancers and the Waltz Of The Flowers by Tchaikovsky
Gaura plants come in pink or white. This one is three or four years old. I believe I bought some plants at Harlow Gardens and at Mesquite Valley Growers in Tucson, Arizona. They grow about 4 feet, 1.3 meters, tall and arch over to about 5 feet, 1.6 meters, wide. They need water in the summer heat.
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The Paper Kite, Rice Paper, or Large Tree Nymph[1] butterfly (Idea leuconoe) is known especially for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions. The Paper Kite is of Southeast Asian origin.
Paper Kite's are thought to be distasteful to birds. Their bodies contain toxins which are derived from the lactiferous larval foodplants, and are often supplemented by further toxins sequestered from adult food sources. The bright wing patterns "advertise" these unpalatable qualities, in much the same way that the bands of yellow and black of wasps advertise the fact that they can sting. Consequently any bird that suffers the highly unpleasant experience of tasting a Danaine is unlikely to attack other similarly coloured butterflies. Effectively, a few individuals are sacrificed for the good of the species as a whole.
There are 12 Idea species, of which 5 occur in West Malaysia i.e. hypermnestra, leuconoe, lynceus, iasonia and stolli. The other 7 species are found variously in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, Irian and Papua New Guinea.
Tree Nymphs are very large butterflies, characterised by having translucent white wings patterned with black veins, and numerous oval black spots. They are noted for their slow and very graceful flight, which gives them the appearance of white handkerchiefs floating gently on the breeze.
Idea leuconoe occurs in West Malaysia, and possibly on Taiwan and the Philippines, although there is some confusion among taxonomists about whether the non-Malaysian forms are subspecies of leuconoe, or of another species.