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"You need to guard your light, your peace and your joy is yours to protect" (Nabela Noor). With all that is going on sometimes it feels there is a lot happening all together. There is this feeling of drowning. Sonic and I were talking about how important it is to protect yourself and make time for self care in middle of all this chaos. So we will be doing a few pics that shows some self care or things we love to do.....hoping it inspires others. This photo make me feel warm and cozy, it reminds me of a vacation home.
Here is to all my friends...will you take up the "guard your light" challenge.
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White Pocket Mountain from my very "private" trailhead during sunrise (5:36 am).
I was there alone years ago and was afraid I would get stuck in the deep sand. So I parked my SUV above the critical slope that leads down to the official trailhead and hiked across country to White Pocket for about 20 minutes. In the morning around sunrise I had this beautiful view of the mountain, glowing in the first light from above.
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The exif data has a wrong aperture; it should read f/5.6. The 58mm ought to read 60mm. I will try to fix...
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These are some of the namesake white sandstone formations of White Pocket, in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, northern Arizona
There are so many facets to White Pocket. This is another composition from a recent trip. I tried to use the lines in the rocks to pull you into the image.
Walking through the narrow alleys of Plaka , we often see open doors leading to small courtyards. As in all the Greek islands, villages are built with the well-known defense architecture, so everything is small, but organized with the wisdom of long-term practice and experience. Plaka, Milos Island, Greece.
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Image of one of the most beautiful landscapes in the American Southwest, a paradise for landscape photographers.
A Herbertz pocket knife (230310).
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The landscape in White Pocket NM is surreal. This area is part of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. I don't mean to over-use a cliche description, but it truly is like another planet. There are so many oddly shaped rock formations that it can be hard to choose what to shoot.
In this composition I elected to put a human into the frame to provide a sense of scale and drama. In my opinion this seems to portray a feeling of loneliness. Man vrs nature is one thing, but man vrs this odd environment makes it feel that much more alone.
Expect more images form this unique place for sure.
We're don't know which side of our families of origin took such loving care of this pocket watch through the years. The inscribed date on the inner cover reads April 1920.
I experimented with apertures, extension tubes, and focal points, and had a fine time while it rained. I had intended to add it to Macro Mondays last Monday until I noticed that I had entered an older macro two years ago.
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04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
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Some call White Pocket in Arizona (almost Utah) a consolation prize to those who don't get lottery-picked for the Wave in Vermillion Cliffs. I do not agree. White pocket is an amazing place with so many fascinating rock formations that one could spend days shooting this location. The deep-sand road used to get there only helps keep the secret from those who don't know about this treasure. We spent hours there shooting several different formations, and we wish we could have stayed for days.
What? What's that you ask? Did I not get a lottery pick for the Wave? Well...I hardly think that's relevant, I will have you know that..Ok, no, I did not get a ticket- Ok! I did not want to see that stupid old Wave formation anyway, you can keep your stupid Wave- jerk!
White Pocket rules!
A Herbertz pocket knife (230310) having a field day in Munich's Fröttmaninger Heide.
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Pockets of water form inside sandstone formations along the California Coast. Tafoni sandstone takes on terrific organic shapes and patterns here. Slowly changing shape with each major winter storm, and the always present force of the Pacific Ocean.
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I’ve been trying to take another shot of this cute little thing since October last year, but haven’t had any luck.
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White Pocket is NOT an easy place to get to. You have to WANT to go here. The drive is long and challenging, and then there is a small bit of a hike. Bring water.
But once there, the surroundings are incredible! One could easily spend the entire day here, exploring, climbing, and taking in the dynamic landscapes. As the light changes, so does EVERYTHING! Grey whites, sage green, honey golds, tangerine oranges, dry dirt brown, and Arizona reds-- the color palette is stunning. Definitely worth all the trouble getting here :).
"The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.”
-- Robert Edison Fulton JR
This is a Little Owl, they are around 220mm ( 9") tall and weigh about 170g (6oz) I haven't photographed one around here since April 2013, but have heard them call throughout this time. I'd put up this nest box some years ago, (the entrance hole is 70mm a bit under 2 3/4") and on the odd occasion had a Little Owl visit, but never moved in. In fact once I opened the little door to see if the squirrel was moving in, and I came face to face with one :o) I've had a swarm of bees take the box over, that had to be removed (by a qualified person I might add, that took them off to re-home them) and several squirrels have tried to make it home. This year, for the last month or so, a pair seem to have moved in. Just 100 yards or so from the house.
This is the first still image I've taken of the owl. Although I have taken some since, I thought I would tell a story of the Little Owls year, as long as they make it through the year !! I can't get out (like everyone else) so you could get fed up of them, fair warning :o)
As you can see from the EXIF details it was almost dark, I mean so dark, that from the place I was set up, I could hardly tell it was sat there, only through the magnification of the view finder could I see it, I'm not sure how the camera even focused !!
One thing the EXIF detail doesn't tell you at first glance is that this had +7/3 EV
“¿Pero por qué pensar en eso cuando todas las tierras doradas que hay frente a ti y todo tipo de eventos imprevistos esperan acechantes para sorprenderte y hacerte sentir feliz de estar vivo para verlo?”
Jack Kerouac: "En el camino"
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA.
Recorriendo los laberintos del White Pocket en el desierto de Coconino, al norte de Arizona, USA.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
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