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Snowdrift and the auroras Taken near Cantwell, AK on the night of 4/6/2023. Making the most of a full moon. Even though it washed out the auroras making them very hard to see at times. I used the bright night light in the sky to find interesting snowdrifts for my foreground.
I felt that including the stop sign in my last shot of the auroras, as they were starting to die down, was perfect. Even though the moon really washed out the aurora's intenstity, I was still able to make lemonade with lemons
The snow drifts near Cantwell, Alaska look like mountains. I didn't go all the way in, but I would estimate that these snow drifts are around 20 to 30 feet tall.
Have I mentioned that I really like snowdrifts. Just like the auroras now two snowdrifts are the same. The patterns that the wind creates is artistic. Combine that with the moonlight and you can find some really interesting compositions.
I know there aren't any northern lights in the image, but I trty to take a photo of my aurora chasing chariot once a aurora season. Hopefully I can get out one more time before the end of the season.
The full moon rising over the hills near Denali Park. I originally went to shoot auroras, but the moon ended up being too bright to really capture the northern lights.
"The Great One"
March 11, 2025 Wayne Gretzky does not represent our Canadian values. He does not stand with Canada. 🍁🍁🍁
My attempt to combine William Stern's awesome compositional skills with Dale Martin's fantastic details. Not sure how successful I was, but hey, I tried :-)
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If you were out shooting auroras last night then this was lemon in the sky. Early on I realized that aurora shooting was going to be pretty difficult. The moon washes out the colors of the aurora. It also creates shadows where you don't want them. For instance the shadow of me and my camera were in a lot of my shots. Luckily I was able to use the moonlight to my advantage
Here is Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountian in North America in Denali National Park, Alaska. This is a summer picutre. I was very lucky to be there on a day when the peak was visible. I used a longer lense to get a closer view of th summit.
The summit is 20,320 feet. (6,194m).
Mount McKinley is a granitic pluton. Mount McKinley has been uplifted by tectonic pressure while at the same time, erosion has stripped away the (somewhat softer) sedimentary rock above and around it. There are two summits, the north and the south.
The north summit was reached in 1910 by four amatures carrying a bag a doughnuts and some hot chocolate and a lodge pole. The highest summit the south was reached in 1913. The weather is fierce and very changeable. There is less oxygen then at Mt. Everest because it is much father from the equater. It is also a steeper climb almost 18,000 feet from the base. It desverse its nickname as "The Great One."
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Denali (or as the Feds have named it - Mt McKinley) is 20,321 feet (6,194 m) above sea level.
Alaskan Natives point out that at 18,000feet (5,500M) base to peak it is topographically the third highest mountain in the world (after Everest and Aconcagua)
Viewed from 46 miles distant.
Image - Copyright 2015 Alan Vernon
Widespread and familiar (though often called "crane"), The Great Blue Heron the largest heron in North America. Often seen standing silently along inland rivers or lake shores, or flying high overhead, with slow wing beats, its head hunched back onto its shoulders. Highly adaptable, it thrives around all kinds of waters from subtropical mangrove swamps to desert rivers to the coastline of southern Alaska. With its variable diet it is able to spend the winter farther north than most herons, even in areas where most waters freeze. A form in southern Florida (called "Great White Heron") is slightly larger and entirely white.
Hunting Great Blue Herons wade slowly or stand statue-like, stalking fish and other prey in shallow water or open fields. Watch for the lightning-fast thrust of the neck and head as they stab with their strong bills.
Great Blue Heron eats mostly fish, but also frogs, salamanders, turtles, snakes, insects, rodents, birds. Has been seen stalking voles and gophers in fields, capturing rails at edge of marsh, eating many species of small waterbirds.
I found this one enjoying the early morning Florida Sun in Kissimmee Lake, at Joe Overstreet Landing. Osceola County, Florida.
Left to Right - Mt. Foraker (17,400 feet, 5,304 M), Mt Hunter (13,965 feet/4,257 m) and the "Great One" Mt McKinley (20,321 feet, 6,194 m)
Denali (or as the Feds have named it - Mt McKinley) is 18,000feet (5,500M) base to peak making it topographically the third highest mountain in the world (after Everest and Aconcagua)
Viewed from Talkeetna Alaska across the frozen surface ot the Susitna River.
Image - Copyright 2015 Alan Vernon
In his house at R'yleh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming...
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I met Wayne in person twice. Not formally. It was a long time ago, pre-internet when I was a different Jeff. With a mullet.
I wrote a little thing about it
It's short.
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The "Elder Things" from H. P. Lovecraft's "At The Mountains Of Madness" are one of the very first Ancient Aliens/Astronauts to show up in literature!
Long before the human race even began to evolve, the Elder Things travelled from a distant star to our planet. They built an amazing civilization, with ruins that could withstand even a billion years of emptiness. Within their massive, ornate cities, they also created the amorphous Shoggoths as a race of slaves, servile creatures to do their bidding.
The Elder Things ruled in eace until Cthulhu and its Star-Spawn invaded, setting off the first major war in Earth's history. Amazingly, they were able to fight off Cthulhu, until the ancient One retreated to sleep beneath the waves in his city of R'yleh. The Elder Things then came into conflict with the Mi-Go and even the Great Race of Yith, still surviving each conflict until they were finally at peace again. But this, too, did not last, as the Shoggoths gained minds of their own, and soon rebelled against their masters. The civil war with the Shoggoths was the most brutal one yet, and the Elder Things nearly destroyed themselves in order to subdue their Shoggoths again. And yet, after surviving so many wars, their time was running out - the first great Ice Age came, and this spelled the doom of the Elder Things. Survivors had to flee their great cities or die, with a few remnants settling beneath the ocean, in an environment that could sustain them. But soon, even their cities were overrun by rebelling Shoggoths.
There are hints that the race is not entirely extinct in the Cthulhu Mythos, and at least some survived frozen long enough to be revived (temporarily) in At The Mountains of Madness. But for the most part, the Elder Race is long gone, leaving only a few scattered ruins and the monster Shoggoths as evidence of their once-great society.
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Also known as the "Howler in the Dark," this is one of Nyarlathotep's far more beastly, brutal forms. Most often, it is depicted as slender, on tripod legs, and witha curved tentacle in place of a head (does it seem familiar now?). But Nyarlathotep is absolutely comfortable occasionally shedding his subtle seducer forms, and transforming into a howling giant when it suits him.
Also known as the "Star Vampire," the titular creature appeared in a 1935 story by Robert Bloch (better known for writing Psycho). Bloch and Lovecraft were friends, and Lovecraft gave Bloch express permission to "portray, murder, annihilate, disintegrate, transfigure, metamorphose, or otherwise manhandle the undersigned in the tale entitled The Shambler From The Stars."
And so, in the story:
A horror author (who happened to resemble H. P. Lovecraft) happened to find De Vermis Mysteriis - "The Secret of the Worm" - in a used book store. And in his eagerness to finally see the true mysteries behind the cosmos, the shadowy things that he had only dared write about! The young man first tried to summon a familiar, a creature from beyond the stars to help him. What came instead was a nightmare.
The Shambler, an invisible monstrosity of teeth and tentacles, announced its presence with a manic, tittering laugh. And then it latched onto its would-be summonier, sucking the blood from his body and devouring him. It was then, and only then that the creature could be seen by the naked eye. Because once it feasts, the invisible creature cannot cover up the vermillion fluid now running through its horrific body.
And yes, this is the "Shambler" in Scribblenauts.
A creation of Clark Ashton Smith, Abhoth is the source of all corruption and abomination - the Old One itself is a featureless gray mass, a blob the size of a flood, and it resides deep under the earth. Creatures continually spawn from Abhoth's body - this one is a chaotic mass of ooze, teeth, and eyes, but in truth no two Children of Abhoth are alike. Some resemble monstrous humans, some severed but living body parts, others deformed abominations, and still more blobs or formless beasts of chaos. Abhoth's realm is where the laws of nature go to be devoured.
Denali (or as the Feds have named it - Mt McKinley) is 20,321 feet (6,194 m) above sea level.
Alaskan Natives point out that at 18,000feet (5,500M) base to peak it is topographically the third highest mountain in the world (after Everest and Aconcagua)
Viewed from 46 miles distant.
Image - Copyright 2015 Alan Vernon
Some of the more obscure creatures in Lovecraft's writings, Dholes are tremendous, slimy, mindless subterranean worms. They live in the darkest places beneath the earth, and are slowly devouring the planet from within. Absolutely nothing else is known about them, which adds to another detail I like in the Cthulhu Mythos - not everything is a sapient elder god-demon. Sometimes there are strange, unexplainable monsters that just exist.
From the plaque on the statue at Staples Center:
"Wayne Gretzky - 'The Great One'
Los Angeles Kings 1988-1996
Hockey Hall of Fame - 1999
The holder of 61 National Hockey League scoring records, Wayne Gretzky is the most dominating player ever to participate in a team sport. His career as a King truly established hockey's popularity in Los Angeles and the western United States. Recipient of ten NHL Scoring titles, nine league MVP awards and the Lester Patrick trophy recognizing his outstanding contribution to hockey in the U.S., Gretzky retired as the NHL's all-time leading scorer in goals and assists. Artist: Erik Blome Dedicated October 9th, 2002"
Billions of years ago, the Great Race of Yith were earth's dominant species. They built great cities with their advanced technology, and even learned how to travel through time by projecting their minds across the aeons into the bodies of others. In time, they saw their eventual extinction at the hands of the flying Polyps, and so transported themselves far into the future, to a time when the Polys no longer existed.
Brace yourself... this Mythos monster wasn't invented by H. P. Lovecraft! And it's from the 1960s!!!!
Cthonians are immense, squidlike subterranean worms that live for thousands of years. Although they can travel unseen under the earth, a chanting sound accompanies each one, which is often your only warning before it strikes...
This photo was inspired by William Stern's (GREATONE!) work. Check out his photostream here: www.flickr.com/photos/great_one/ I absolutely LOVED his Ford Raptor set and the atmosphere he created with the photos. There was a storm here in Reno this afternoon so I wanted to give an attempt at something along the lines of his latest series. To be honest, I think he was much more successful. More to come from this set. Anyway, please leave a comment/fave if you like. Please do not use/post elsewhere without my prior consent. Thank you.
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Also known as "The Beast" or "The Sphinx," The Faceless God is one of Nyarlathotep's masks. He takes the form of a sphinx with no face, only the endless void of the cosmos.
While some of Nyatlathotep's masks are designed to put people into false ease, or terrify them into madness, this one was a god worshipped by the ancient egyptians, and instrumental in forming their civilization. Legend has it that it returned in the fourteenth century, calling itself "The Beast," and inspiring its cult once more.
The name "Lloigor" originally came from an August Derleth story, and applied to a typical betentacled Elder God. The name was dropped until 1969, when Colin Wilson wrote "The Return of the Lloigor," and redefined the name.
The Lloigor are a species of alien energy beings from the Andromeda galaxy. They can possess people or take nearly any form, but most often prefer to appear as giant reptilian monstrosities - in fact, they are the source of many of our legends about dragons. But when given free reign, Lloigor are more monstrous than any dragon, and serve the will of the dreaded Ghatanathoa, spawn of Cthulhu.
"So at length Carter crawled through endless burrows with three helpful ghouls bearing the slate gravestone of Col. Nepemiah Derby, obit 1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem. When they came again into open twilight they were in a forest of vast lichened monoliths reaching nearly as high as the eye could see and forming the modest gravestones of the Gugs. On the right of the hole out of which they wriggled, and seen through aisles of monoliths, was a stupendous vista of cyclopean round towers mounting up illimitable into the grey air of inner earth. This was the great city of the Gugs, whose doorways are thirty feet high. Ghouls come here often, for a buried Gug will feed a community for almost a year, and even with the added peril it is better to burrow for Gugs than to bother with the graves of men. Carter now understood the occasional titan bones he had felt beneath him in the vale of Pnoth."
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
The Crawling Chaos, the God of a Thousand Forms, Nyarlathotep is the most...personable... of the Great Old Ones. He has many names and many masks, some chaotic, some totally human, One of the shapes that straddles this line is "The Black Man." Don't take it as racism! The Black Man's skin isn't African, it's as dark as coal (this figure was apparently made by colorblind people), and his features do not match. He also has the feet of a goat, and appears often to worshippers - it's not an entirely human form liek the Pharoah or Mr. Skin.
Nyarlathotep actively enjoys serving and causing chaos, making him almost a Trickster or a devil character. He ultimately serves Azathoth, the greatest, oldest, and worst of the Outer Gods, but often Nyarlathotep's schemes seem to be entirely his own.
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I was tagged by my good friend treehugger 007, he said I was a good sport and would do it…he was right! I wanted to take a picture over the weekend but had a terrible migraine for two days! I feel better now, so here it is...this was hard, I am a private person, and didn’t really know what to say and not cross that line! lol
This took me 2 hours to write!
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1.I believe in the goodness of Mankind.
2.I live between Walden (upstate NY) and Brooklyn due to my job in Midtown Manhattan, where I am a buyer for our stores.
3.In business I am tuff, and sure of myself…in real life, I can be shy & get nervous (especially around men) which usually makes me ramble!
4.My Mom died too young (51) of Cancer, and my Nan a few years later, they were my loves, and strength. I still miss them very much!
5.I believe in true love, and believe when you truly love someone, you never stop loving them!
6.I can be a real spas sometimes! :)
7.I know very little about photography, my camera, or any photo editing program. I still shoot in auto, and use Microsoft Office Picture Manager for the little changes I do!
8.A nice smile, and eyes is what truly attract me to a man.
9.I have two grown children that I raised myself, and that I am very proud of.
10.I love the warm sun on my face.
11.I think my daughter’s dog Gizmo is the greatest…he is always happy to see me, and loves unconditionally…people should maybe be more like dogs! lol
12.I am a big kid at heart…serious at times, but still a kid!
13.I try to always think before I speak.
14.All that truly matters in life is who we truly are and how we treat others…nothing else is really ours to keep, but ourselves!
15.When you say you’re sorry, mean it, learn from it…and try never to make the same mistake!
16.I love to cook, and bake, and do it whenever I can. I am good...or so I am told!
When you think of a Lovecraft monster as an amorphous blob of tentacles and eyes, you're probably thinking of a Shoggoth.
"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter."
-At the Mountains of Madness
These things were created to be servitors of the Elder Things, and have a lot of brief mentions in Lovecraft's stories, most prominently appearing in At The Mountains Of Madness.
"Cursed the ground where dead thought live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumor that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores out to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl."-- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Festival"
One of H. P. Lovecraft's earliest "Mythos" stories was The Festival. Christmastime, an unnamed narrator went to visit the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts, to see their yuletide festivals. However, it turne dout that once every century, they celebrated something different. Something older. Their town leader, a strange man with a rubbery face, led the town in a dark, pagan ritual, where they danced to music played by a half-unseen, squirming, horrible thing. And then dark creatures (later identified as the Byakhee) flew in, and the villagers rode off on their leathery wings. Finally, the narrator realized that the town elder's face was a mask, and pulled it off to reveal the above quote - a horrible mass of worms masquerading as a man!
The Crawling One as represented in Arkham Horror is kind of a mixture of two of the monsters - the worm colony, and also the squirming thing in the shadows. "Something amorphously squatted far away from the light, piping noisomely on a flute". And there it is... the Crawling One, the Worm That Walks.
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