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Point Vincent Lighthouse at sunset. Copyrighted to Karl Le Photography
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Left the house at 5:30 a.m. yesterday and got back at 8:30 p.m. A long day of shooting lighthouses in WI with a good friend and talented photographer: www.flickr.com/photos/myn91/ .
This is a shot I have wanted for a while. It is Wind Point lighthouse near Racine, WI. We shot this earlier in the day on our way north, then decided to stop here on our way back home to shoot sunset. We were finished shooting and ready to leave when I told Manuel I wanted to try one last shot. I waded back out through knee-deep snow to shoot this after the they turned on the lights that illuminate the tower at night. Next time I have to remember to get this shot just a little sooner when there is a little less contrast.
Army receiver Davyd Brooks (#13) makes a reception on a Trent Steelman pass during their team scrimmage in Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY on Saturday, August 13, 2011. The Army Black Knights open the 2011 season on Sept. 3rd. at Northern Illinois and their home opener is Sept. 10th. against San Diego State. CHET GORDON/Times Herald-Record
Army vs. Abilene Christian University at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York Oct. 3, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by Hannah Lamb)
Whitney Point Lake is one of 13 Corps of Engineers reservoir projects in the Susquehanna River watershed. The reservoir is located on the Otselic River in Broome County, New York, and controls a drainage area of 255 square miles. It is primarily operated for flood control, but is also used for recreation and upland wildlife management. The project provides flood damage reduction for the valley along the lower Tioughnioga River, the lower Chenango River, and the Susquehanna River downstream of Binghamton. (U.S. Army photo by Cynthia Mitchell)
The Grand Canyon NP & Grand Escalante Staircase! 45Epic Dr. Elliot McGucken ! Point Imperial! Fine Landscape and Nature Photography. Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
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Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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After a flood Sam found a spear point on a sandbar in Nitmiluk Katherine Gorge. We passed it on to the Jawoyn custodians of the area.
Taken with my Pentax LX 35mm on Fuji Pro 800. If anyone knows where that camera ended up after it was stolen from my car in Preston in 2001 please let me know. I would love to get it back.
The whole of Tigne Point was closed last time and the original houses where Helen used to live were cleared and the new apartment blocks started. Now complete and occupied even the hotel we stayed in, the old Fortina has been replaced by the new Fortina, which includes apartments and the European offices of Stoke based betting compnay Bet365.com
Fremont National Forest, Oregon.
This plaque was erected in July, 1993 as part of the expedition's 150th anniversary. In case you can’t read it, it says:
"Second Fremont Exploring Expedition of 1843
You are standing at Fremont Point on top of Winter Ridge, approximately 7000 feet above sea level. Captain John C. Fremont of the US Topographical Corps and his men arrived at this location on December 16, 1843. They were on a journey to the Great Basin Desert lands to the east. Captain Fremont led one of the first mapping parties through this part of Oregon. He and his party, including guide and frontiersman Kit Carson, traveled south from The Dalles on the Columbia River. This route took them through the Deschutes River Valley, pine forests, mountain passes and rimrocks until reaching the exposed point you are currently standing on. Geographic and scientific knowledge of this area increased significantly as a result of Fremont's expedition."
Footnote: What John Fremont wrote of the experience:
"Rising rapidly ahead to this spot we found ourselves on the verge of a vertical and rocky wall of the mountain. At our feet -- more than a thousand feet below -- we looked into a grass prairie country, in which a beautiful lake, some twenty miles in length, was spread along the foot of the mountain ... shivering on snow three feet deep and stiffening in a cold north wind, we exclaimed at once that the names of summer lake and winter ridge should be applied to these proximate places of such sudden and violent contrast."
This is Bean Point which is at the end of Anna Maria Island here in central Florida. When I arrived a group of people were watching the last remnants of a waterspout that seemed more a curiosity than any real danger. It's no wonder that meteorologists like this area. Changing subjects, I've recently come to learn that these tall grasses are known as sea oats. That's cool, but what I really want to know is if they're gluten free. Okay, that was dumb.
This picture was taken at the Food Truck Rodeo in Raleigh, NC. Artistically correct or not, this is the funniest picture I've taken yet! Every time I look at it, I break out into laughter!
Did a quick and incomplete trip to Larch Mountain Road / Sherrard Point. Learned the following:
1) Thank goodness they just repaved Larch Mountain Rd. There are a couple scary-visibility-in-low-traffic-areas places en route to the road from hwy 84 exit 22. The road itself is narrow and wiggly.
2) If you get there on a thick-clouds morning (as I did) the clouds do lift before you get to the top (e.g. you go above them. When you go back down an hour plus later, there are still some clouds, not as bad though.)
3) You need a forest pass to park at Sherrard Point. I hear there is a 'put cash in an envelope remember to bring a pen' place there but I didn't see it - need to look more carefully. You can buy a day pass, apparently, at REI. I might have hung around longer had I not been worried about a ticket (d'oh).
4) The trail up to Sherrard Point has stairs. Not counting the 'optional stairs at the very beginning.' While these seem to be in good shape for stairs of this sort, I wasn't feeling so brilliantly balanced that I wanted to take it while on my own. I suspect there are more stairs to get to the end also than just these. (I'm sure some of the nature viewers might have called 911 for me if I needed it but, yesterday I was not feeling brave or stupid pick one).
5) I hear there are a lot of grouse visible on the road from MM13 to 14 (the point is just past 14) - I didn't see them. But I also didn't stop in a pullout and wait. There are some small pullouts on the way up on the right side, but really not any on the right side on the way down until well lower than MM13. Of course I also hear that there are grouse that can be seen at the Sherrard Pt. parking lot.
6) Varied thrush are very obvious, on the road on the way up, on the trail, and very audible in the trees. They have a wide variety of calls including some Theremin-like tones, and it was good to hear them. Other very audible birds were Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Golden-Crowned Kinglet and Chestnut-Backed Chickadee.
7) The Gray-Crowned Rosy Finch are apparently most likely to be seen at the very top (where I didn't go as noted, north side of the point, on the rocks. Maybe some day I will see them.
8) there are not actually Larch on Larch Mtn. Road. Something having to do with that being a term that was used for Noble Fir, which there are lots of. Nice.
Tipping points are "the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable." Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term: "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point."[ The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states, "Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do."