Golden Gate National Recreation Area
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Located in the Sheep Rock Unit, the Thomas Condon Visitor Center is a National Park Service research facility containing an outstanding paleontology lab dedicated to the John Day Fossil Beds.
L'urubù dalla testa nera o avvoltoio nero (Coragyps atratus).
E' un uccello saprofago della famiglia Cathartidae, appartenente al gruppo degli "avvoltoi del Nuovo Mondo". È l'unica specie del genere Coragyps.
Parco nazionale delle Everglades , Florida.
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made, if you want a different result make a different choice.
Medano Creek seasonally flows on the south side of the dune field at Great Sand Dunes National Park. By early August when I visited, it was near the end of its active season.
Some info: www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/medano-creek.htm
Note: Due to the severe dysfunction of our national politics, some national park services are currently unavailable. During the government shutdown, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve will remain open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as it always is. However, the visitor center and entrance station will remain closed and no visitor services will be available.
Seen at the scenic "First Look" along the Mt.Tammany Trail (Red Dot) in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA
Trailhead of the "Navajo loop", the best hike in my life.
www.nps.gov/brca/planyourvisit/navajotrail.htm
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I decided to look at my digital archives, to recover and reprocess some old straight-out-of the point and shoot camera jpgs.
I'll post one picture every thursday, with the motto "Great places, bad cameras"
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Ho deciso di dare un'occhiata nei miei archivi digitali, recuperando e rielaborando vecchie foto dei miei viaggi riprese con fotocamere "Point and shoot".
Cercherò di postarne una ogni giovedì, all'insegna del motto "Great places, bad cameras"
Note the restrictions in effect for 2020:
Viewing Horsetail Fall in Late February
"Due to the popularity of the event, restrictions will be in effect from February 14 through 27, 2020 daily from noon to 7 pm. To view Horsetail Fall, park at Yosemite Falls parking (just west of Yosemite Valley Lodge) and walk 1.5 miles (each way) to the viewing area near El Capitan Picnic Area."
www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/horsetailfall.htm
Why?
"February 22, 2019, over 2,000 visitors viewing Horsetail Fall... spilled onto riverbanks, increasing erosion and trampling vegetation... undeveloped areas became littered with trash..."
Seen around the "First Look" along the Mt.Tammany Trail (Red Dot) in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Scenic view photographed during a visit to Glacier Bay National Park on a cruise ship. We then stopped in front of a tidewater glacier for one hour or so.
Cruise ships spend a full day (9-10 hours) in Glacier Bay including a stop at a tidewater glacier. Note: Cruise ships do not dock anywhere in Glacier Bay National Park. Info: www.nps.gov/glba/planyourvisit/cruise.htm
Seen around the "First Look" along the Mt.Tammany Trail (Red Dot) in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Water flows over the edge of Raymondskill Falls in northeastern Pennsylvania on its way to the bottom 150 feet (46m) below.
Sleeping Bear Dune's National Park. Lake Michigan in the distance.
The D. H. Day farm, comprised of 400 acres, was also known as "Oswegatchi" after the New York community where his father was born and the Oswegatchi River where D. H. Day played as a boy.
Day grew hay and corn to feed his 400 hogs and prize herd of 200 Holsteins. The farm is just south of Glen Haven and has a large white barn and several out-buildings that stand as a landmark of the agricultural heritage of this area. The buildings were built in the 1880s and 1890s.
"At 3,000 vertical feet (880 m) above the Colorado River, the sheer drop from Toroweap Overlook offers a dramatic view."
The Bass Harbor Head Light Station is located in Tremont, Maine, marking the entrance to Bass Harbor and Blue Hill Bay on the southwest corner of Mount Desert Island. Among about 80 lighthouses across Maine, it is one of three lights managed by Acadia National Park, including two others on Baker Island and Bear Island. It appeared on the America the Beautiful quarter in 2012, the NPS centennial postage stamp in 2016, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Source: www.nps.gov/acad/planyourvisit/bass-harbor-head-light-sta...
A Southern California beach. The island is Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the five islands of the Channel Islands National Park. See: www.nps.gov/chis/planyourvisit/index.htm
at the end of the maintained section of the Pinnacle Peak Trail, Mt Rainier National Park, Washington O10611
I'll be leading photographers to various locations to capture Horsetail Fall and winter shots in Yosemite Valley again in 2020.
If you want to pursue it on your own, this location is described on page 21 of my 320-page guidebook Photographing California Vol. 2 - South.
Note the parking and viewing restrictions in effect for 2020:
Viewing Horsetail Fall in Late February
"Due to the popularity of the event, restrictions will be in effect from February 14 through 27, 2020 daily from noon to 7 pm. To view Horsetail Fall, park at Yosemite Falls parking (just west of Yosemite Valley Lodge) and walk 1.5 miles (each way) to the viewing area near El Capitan Picnic Area."
www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/horsetailfall.htm
Why?
"February 22, 2019, over 2,000 visitors viewing Horsetail Fall... spilled onto riverbanks, increasing erosion and trampling vegetation... undeveloped areas became littered with trash..."
A clear, cloudless day on the western end of Fire Island, NY -- September 12, 2021
It would have been more interesting with clouds in the sky, but this is all there was that day.
This is The Devils Tower National Monument in The Black Hills of Wyoming. www.nps.gov/deto/planyourvisit/index.htm
Death Valley National Park, CA. Ubehebe and other nearby craters are known as Maar volcanoes, created by steam and gas explosions when hot magma rising up from the depths reached ground water. The intense heat flashed the water into steam which expanded until the pressure was released as a tremendous explosion. The western cluster of maar volcanoes was the first to form, then the southern cluster, followed by Ubehebe—the largest of them all—possibly as recently as 2,100 years ago.
This was a wonderful dawn hike and worth the one hour drive from Texas Spring Campground where I was staying. I also hiked Fall Canyon on my return trip to the campground.
www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/ubehebe-crater.htm
Thanks for visiting!
Visitor to the river. Seen along the Staircase Rapids Trail Loop: 2-mile trail through old growth forest... to a bridge over the North Fork Skokomish River. - Olympic National Park, Washington
Info: www.nps.gov/olym/planyourvisit/staircase-area-brochure.htm
Horseshoe Lake beaver dam seen during a hike on the 1.4 mile Horseshoe Lake Trail in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. The trailhead is located on the Denali Park Road, at Mile 1. This is where the Alaska Railroad crosses the park road...
Info: www.nps.gov/dena/planyourvisit/horseshoe-lake-trail.htm
The Needles District forms the southeast corner of Canyonlands and was named for the colorful spires of Cedar Mesa Sandstone that dominate the area.
Seen around the scenic "First Look" along the Mt.Tammany Trail (Red Dot) in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
This is the tallest waterfall in Alabama. It is 133 feet tall.
www.nps.gov/liri/planyourvisit/graces-high-falls-overlook...
just past the end of the maintained section of the Pinnacle Peak Trail, Mt Rainier National Park, Washington. O10647
Taken in the early morning while hiking the Badlands, Golden Canyon and Gower Gulch Loop, starting at Zabriskie Point. Including the side trip to Red Cathedral, it is ~7.8 miles.
An early start (right after photographing sunrise at Zabriskie Point) made for beautiful light and uncrowded trails. Several times during my stay, I noticed the Golden Canyon trailhead parking lot was full to overflowing in mid-afternoon.
For those interested in doing this hike, it is described including a detailed map at www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/golden-canyon.htm.
Thanks for visiting!
From my archives:
Grandview became part of New River Gorge National River in 1990, after more than 50 years as one of West Virginia's most popular day use state parks. The park is well known for its spectacular views of the New River and beautiful rhododendron.
This was one of our stops. The 1932 Studebaker commemorating a stretch of the original Route 66 that used to run through here. This is just north of the I-40 and the divide of the Park between the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest.
I didn't realize this was such a bad neighborhood. Park your car outside overnight and they steal the tires right from under you. :)
www.nps.gov/pefo/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrified_Forest_National_Park
Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles (42 km) east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east–west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The park received 644,922 recreational visitors in 2018.
The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.
Navajo Nation 2025
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA.
PFNP is named for its large deposits of petrified wood.
The park covers 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The Painted Desert is known for its brilliant and varied colors that not only include the more common red rock, but also shades of lavender.
Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all cross the park roughly east–west.
www.nps.gov/pefo/planyourvisit/trails.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrified_Forest_National_Park
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Desert_(Arizona)
Fujifilm X-S10. Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS. 24mm, f/9, 1/160 sec, ISO 160. Thanks for viewing.
the highest point in the Tatoosh Range. Photo taken from just past the end of the maintained section of the Pinnacle Peak Trail, Mt Rainier National Park, Washington. O10651