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More from the dawn patrol with Eddy. Nice to see the cliffs and rocks behaving well after making an effort to be on site for the sunsire. Thanks cliffs.
This is the famed "Round Rock" that the city was named after. I looked it up and it seems that I didn't have the story right.
In 1851, a small community was formed on the banks of Brushy Creek, near a large round and anvil-shaped rock located in the middle of the creek. This round rock marked a convenient low-water crossing for wagons, horses, and cattle. The first postmaster called the community "Brushy," and the creek was called "Brushy Creek". But in 1854, at the suggestion of the postmaster, the small settlement was renamed Round Rock in honor of this now famous rock. After the Civil War, Jesse Chisholm began moving cattle from South Texas through Round Rock on the way to Abilene, Kansas. The route he established, which crossed Brushy Creek at the round rock, became known as the Chisholm Trail.[17] Most of the old buildings, including the old Saint Charles Hotel, have been preserved. This historic area is now called "Old Town.
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From my Stuff in the Sand collection.
Pescadero State Beach, between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz, California.
Last one from Bigbury Beach this week, I really liked the way these rocks looked like Shark fins sticking out of the sand. When I got home I realised that they were the same rocks that a fellow photographer had taken a shot of the week before, It was pure coincidence that I was drawn to them.This shot did take a little bit of tidying up in Photoshop as some inconsiderate numpty (me) had walked through the little gap and left bloody great big footprints in the sand. So I've gotten rid of them just to make it look a bit nicer.
Rock ptarmigan, Lagopus muta, kiiruna, Finland.
In Finland rock ptarmigans are found only in the highlands of Lapland. They live above the tree line year round and use plants and berries for food. In winter they take cover in the snow and can stay there most of the day. Quite tough birds, I would say.
From last weekends trip to Valley of The Moon in Jacumba California, this gem of a valley is located right on the Mexico/ San Diego County border. You can tell where the border is(not in the shot but close by) by the triple line barb wire fence is, Hint it's laying flat on the ground. Reviewing this photo on my devices one shows a purple cast to the sky, my other 2 show it fine.
Isolated from other walls and buttes working to become isolated pillars, Standing Rock is a well known feature of Monument Basin in Canyonlands, often seen and photographed from Grandview Point on Island in the Sky 2000’ / 600 m above. The north-facing slopes still hold snow from a significant storm 3 days prior to when this photo was taken.
Standing Rock was first climbed in 1962 by Layton Kor and colleagues, because as they put it “it won’t always be there.” They described the Organ Rock shale that the pillar is made of as "layers of rye-krisp sandwiched between layers of kitty litter." As you might guess few people have been on the summit of this 300’ / 90 m tower.
I had visited this area a year ago, managing to get a flat tire and lacking the appropriate lug nuts for the spare… that saga is best forgotten ;-). This year’s trip was successful in that I managed to drive the entire White Rim road, though the conditions were tricky at times with snow, ice, and slippery mud on steep slopes. The weather was also dicey at times with high winds, occasional snow, and cold temperatures. But hey, dramatic weather sometimes yields beautiful scenes.
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Pulpit Rock Cape Schanck - the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula.
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Sunrise shot on one of the longest days of the year. I started the hike a little before 4am. Well worth it.
It was a gray day and the light was waning, but I was still able to get a shot of these to gull buddies sharing some prime real estate :)
Foraging amongst the rotting sea weed along the high-tide line on the Northumberland coastline (UK) (3160)
D&RGW engineer Jim Hammond hits the throttle as the Rio Grande Zephyr enters the Red Narrows in Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon on April 3, 1977.
While driving along the Kings Canyon we realized it was only a couple hours to sunset. Importantly we had not decided any place where we wanted to get the sunset. For a change it was drizzling all afternoon and I was thinking of getting some nice post-rain clouds for the sunset. We finally decided to drive back to Sequoia and get the sunset at the Moro Rock. It was about an hour away from the Kings Canyon National Park.
As we arrived at the spot after climbing like 500 stairs, we were greeted with this awesome view. This is the west side where all the magic was happening.
The stairs go right to the top, an exasperating climb but completely worth the effort. At times a bit unsafe as the railings are absent, but no biggy! Excellent place to watch stars if you stay late on the top. This was taken from about half climb where there is a small balcony put out to watch the wavy valley.
The windy roads down the valley looked tempting. I instantly wanted to get the light trails of the cars driving back from the NP. I stayed up late and tried many exposures before I was sure about the settings. About 20min after the sunset I started to see the trials in 3-4min exposures but still the top of the photograph was too exposed. Had to wait a bit more for the light on the top to get less intense. The worry was the valley can get too dark! This was my third and final shot with a 6min exposure after the sun was completely down. Eventually, I realized its only a 15min window when the light is right to expose the shot right and get the trails distinct enough to stand out of the scene. The lights in the back is Visalia and Tulare.
Will post a few more shots from a day before.
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