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Taking a temporary break from images of Germany to bring some local ones taken yesterday.
Mt. St. Helens, which last erupted 36 years ago and is rebuilding itself with a lava dome inside the crater, ( which eventually will form her new top ) and lot of new growth, including an abundance of wildflowers this year.
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Eclipse 2019 Singapore . I might not have the chance to watch this phenomenon scene in the next 44 years
Taking a temporary break from images of Germany to bring some local ones taken yesterday.
Mt. St. Helens, which last erupted 36 years ago and is rebuilding itself with a lava dome inside the crater, ( which eventually will form her new top ) and lot of new growth, including an abundance of wildflowers this year.
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Thank you all so much for your views, faves and comments.
I appreciate each one!
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We had just set a record for consecutive days of rain and when it wasn't raining it was cloudy so it had literally been months since I'd seen the mountain. On this day it made an appearance and I scrambled to find some place to watch the show.
Or a ring of fire...
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from Portland Bill, Portland, Dorset - April 2022
© Sigmund Løland. All Rights Reserved.
The picture in the background is real, taken by me. When mixed with a little artistic freedom and inspiration from "The Man in Black", the title and final result was not hard to find.
The only constant in life is change, Heraclitus.
Truer words were never spoken, as much as we think of the Earth as a constant in this maelstrom that we call life, it too is ever changing, sometimes slowly as wind erodes stone, sometimes in an instant as the landscape here can attest. All of these 'hills' were a part of the side of Mount Saint Helens, a stratovolcano here in Washington State until May 18th, 1980 when they were unceremoniously and quite violently deposited into the valley below. After 15,267 days this is the net result of the recovery in the area. (I had to take my shoes off to count that high)
Looking SW from Hood River's Panorama Point at Oregon's most popular and prominent volcano. It is the highest point in Oregon and the fourth highest in the Cascade Range.
Oregon is home to 61 different named volcanoes. According to the United States Geological Survey, Oregon has 5 active volcano systems. These volcanoes have had activity in recent times:
Mount Hood
Mount Jefferson
Three Sisters (North Sister, Middle Sister, and South Sister)
Newberry
Crater Lake
There are three labels for volcanic activity levels: active, dormant, and extinct. Active volcanoes have experienced any sort of activity in recorded times and still have pockets of magma.
Dormant volcanoes have not experienced any activity in about 6,000 years, including seismic activity, but still could.
Extinct volcanoes haven’t had activity in thousands of years and don’t show connections beneath the earth’s crust any longer.
Many volcanoes can be considered active, but it doesn’t mean they are at risk of erupting. Scientists take a lot of factors into consideration when labeling a volcano as active, dormant, or extinct.
They sure are pretty tho regardless of status. May they slumber for a loooooong time.
Have a wonderful weekend!
A big thought to my hometown and people in disaster area.
Yesterday, Mount Semeru, the highest mountain in Java has erupted. Thanks that my families are fine (had my mom and bros in video call).
- self portrait -
A detail of a wooden closet in the house of friends in France with little ornamental curves taken upside down and a bit overexposed.
When I saw my first example of the result of my shaking hands I immediately threw out the window my attempts to make a sharp picture of the lines and the cracks of the varnish. Hello ICM (intentional camera movement)...
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
Macro Mondays ..... Theme " Flame "
Cooking with gas, the blue flames of the hob.
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For this week's MacroMondays challenge "Inspired by a Song "
Ring of Fire is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash.
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I got up at 3:30 in the morning and still just made it to the parking lot at Sunrise Village. not bad for taking ten steps from the car, huh? :)
It all started because my friend Aria bought me this cute little mini-bike, and thats when the gears in my brain started spinning about what to do with it…. Big thanks Aria. *hugs*
whether from eruptions or glacial melt off, there is no shortage of rocks on Rainier, lucky for me that I find them fascinating.
Be careful when you blow it up, you might need safety glasses and a hard hat. :-)
I grew up in Missouri, land of rolling green hills decorated with broad Oaks above endless corn and wheat fields fed by the broad Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
I remember moving up here and seeing my first volcano, Hood, and having to pull over it was so amazing and then arriving here and having Rainier 50 miles away, you can't always see it, but you know it's there. 'the mountain's out' is a thing here, it's not just me, but if you are tired, beleaguered, or, I don't know, totally freaked out by the way the world is right now.....just look UP, you are not alone and the world is a wonderful place.
One of my first hikes was the Snow Lake Trail in MRNP on which is a spur boot path with a sign that reads Bench Lake, I go down and it empties into the lake, weird. I continue to Snow and search for another trail, nothing. A couple years go by and I see a pic much like this one, now I HAVE to find a trail. no luck. This year it occurred to me that the smart kids waited until later in the year for the water level to go down and so....
Hand held due to the fact that the doohickey that connects the camera to the tripod is on the gizmo that mounts my long lens to the tripod and the long lens was left at home....still had the place to myself for the half hour I was there, didn't quite make dawn, but I'm not complaining. Hope you like this as much as I do.
On vacation and heading out for the middle of the state camping, see ya on the flip side.
be safe.
Tolkien's epic novel was so well constructed, it's quiet beginnings in the green rolling hills of the Shire and then into wonderment, only to traverse into and digress to the harshest of environs. It's not true in this case of course, we are the Evergreen State after all, but one can look out there at the distant volcanoes and imagine the journey. And the hobbits didn't have Gortex.
This one was taken from atop Dege Peak and I didn't think it would turn out by looking at the RAW file, but pulling down a filter, whalla! Baker and Glacier appeared out there and so....
Blow it up, I'm amazed at the detail in Baker which is darn near in Canada, about 200 miles to the North.
Hybrid Sunflower, "Ring of Fire." Taken on an ncredibly hot day, 104 in the shade. Sunflowers seem to thrive in the high heat.
One late afternoon while travelling home from the surrounding highlands of Ecuador, we came across this freshly tilled field with the Ancient Imbabura Volcano in the background.
Imbabura Volcano is part of the Southern Ring of Fire and as you can see, although it is one volcano ... there are many sprouting cones around the central core.
It has not erupted in over 14,000 years but is not believed to be extinct ... it is just waiting.
Still for now, the surrounding land is incredibly fertile and farmers like to put up concrete blocks to keep out the riff-raff and see what they can grow :)
The locals refer to this landscape as "Papa" Imbabura and consider it the sacred protector of the region.
Ancient legends have Imbabura as the husband of Cotacachi, the Volcano that has recently erupted just outside of Quito. When Cotacachi is snowcapped in the morning, then Imbabura has been with her in the night ...
On this particular afternoon, our evening meal was calling but the camera, who always knows best, forced us to stop and I had to comply as you know what happens when cameras don't get what they want ... it isn't pretty!
Apparently the black bovine didn't seem to care about the imminent threat of volcanic activity or a click in the darkness because some species take dinner more seriously ... :)
Window seat view on landing approach to Portland Airport.
11,249 ft (3,429 m) The peak is home to 12 named glaciers and snowfields. It is the highest point in Oregon and the fourth highest in the Cascade Range. Mount Hood is considered the Oregon volcano most likely to erupt, though based on its history, an explosive eruption is unlikely. Still, the odds of an eruption in the next 30 years are estimated at between 3 and 7%, so the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) characterizes it as "potentially active", but the mountain is informally considered dormant.
(Wikipedia)
I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down down down the flames went higher
And it burns burns burns the ring of fire the ring of fire
-Tommy Cash
(Johnny Cash's brother)
I know, I know, another Rainier shot. Told ya I was out! :-)
taken just after the alpenglow died off, liked this spot better but just missed that golden couple minutes. taken above Shadow Lake, Sunrise area.
I put a box where the climbers are, unfortunately on here you can only see the blazed trail, but in lightroom I can see them well enough to count them. :-)
I was able to put the cropped version in comments, kinda cool.
It looked like there was a ring of fire in the clouds when I took this long exposure sunset shot…
Stay safe everyone…
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Flower Farm Series 5
This is another photo of yet another species taken at a wonderful, small private refuge of gorgeous flowers, lots of honey bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, finches and an occasional bunny.
I was unaware of the wide variety of sunflowers until this visit 36 of the 70+ varieties are being grown here.
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Full Solar Eclipse taken in Austin, Texas on April 8, 2024. Many clouds where overhead and time was taken to capture moments when the clouds where least available. Thousands Oaks Solarlite threaded camera filter was used and removed to capture the totality moments. #TotalEclipse2024
....view from Reflection lakes. I still have nuthin' new, one dive into the archives brought this one out, however. At this point I could fill a wall with shots from this special place. It's unusually rare to have water in front of Rainier, as tall as it is, there just isn't that many ops, it seems the water in the mountains is in a hurry to be elsewhere.... :-) 'Less' rain tomorrow is the forecast, wish me luck, by gum I'm going somewhere!
As always, thanks for stopping by and blow it up large to see it all.
Sorry not full ring but was thrilled to witness and capture this wonderful phenomenon this morning. Thanks for View, Fave and Comment
The sky was falling as quickly as the temperature, meanwhile Rainier was trying to form a lenticular. The battle raged on long after I left and the sun had set, this was about as close as the mountain came to donning it's hat this day.
Blow it up and look around, the Nisqually Glacier is right there and this is the first time I'd ever seen The Nisqually Valley Falls. Guesstimated as a 300 foot drop by the NW Waterfall survey.
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Mirror Lakes Trail is must do if you are in the area of Indian Henry's Hunting grounds. It's a hop skip and a jump off the Wonderland Trail and I'd advise going late July to mid August as those months provide the best chances of walking through vast meadows of avalanche lilies (on the trail Charlotte) :)
I saw my first elk along the tree line to the right, my gosh they are HUGE. (the red dots mixed in are Indian Paint Brush, love the contrast) you are also accompanied by the sound of a waterfall off trail to the right as well.
Here we have the magnificent South West face of Mount Rainier and it's oddly named companion, Pyramid Peak, reflected so nicely in the still waters of this small mountain lake. (it's next door neighbor in comments)
again no polarizer and I believe it was ten after noon when I snapped this, but it's on my wall, (right above the map) so it must be good enough to share. :)