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Water is receding in Lake Powell. Drought continues. The canyon is revealing itself again.
Fascinated by a photo of National Geographic, I planned this trip to the reflection canyon. Most of the time, people reach the canyon via water and could not see the full beauty of this canyon from above. For this reason, I decided to hike there.
The hike was like the one into nowhere, since there were no trails and no human traces at all. I parked my car near the end of Hole-in-the-rock road and began by hike around 8 in the morning. With the help of a GPS, and after getting lost several times, a 10 mile (one-way) tough hike finally led me to the amazing spot. On my way, I also found one slot canyon and some arches which might not be discovered yet. Around 1 pm, I arrived at the photo spot. Unfortunately, I stayed there for only half an hour since weather report said there would be a storm at night. It was extremely dangerous to remain on the way there because the entire region is completely exposed.
The hike back to my car was much slower than expected since I was really exhausted. Every step just got harder and harder and every break just got longer and longer. I finished the last one mile in about 2 hours! At about 9pm, I got back to my car.
This was a fantastic hike and the scene was worth every effort. A truly remote, undiscovered place on this planet.
See www.flickr.com/photos/windwalkerchen/9440398784/in/photos... for later retouch of the photo.
I would like to thank Rainer Grosskopf for his information.
The amazing thing about spot X is that even though it is an extremely dense forest. Little patches of Clover seem to grow all over the place. They really add to the mysterious atmosphere of the place.
Taken somewhere in the Lagan Valley, Belfast, Northern Ireland
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras penetrate much of the dust, revealing the stars of the crowded galactic center region. The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will offer a much-improved infrared view, teasing out fainter stars and sharper details.
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions of stars whipping around it at breakneck speeds. This extreme environment is bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation. Yet much of this activity is hidden from our view, obscured by vast swaths of interstellar dust.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to view the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, but is very important for looking at astronomical objects hidden by dust. After its launch, Webb will gather infrared light that has penetrated the dusty veil, revealing the galactic center in unprecedented detail.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Showing the Photos been shot to an old man outside the shrine of Shah Rukhn-i-Alam
Comments/critics welcome
“The veil of confusion gently falls away,
Like the dank mist on a dull autumn day.
Revealing the path that lies there before me,
To step forward or not, what will it be?”
Gabriella Goddard
To view large and it is much better seen large: robertmillerphotography.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Vivid-L...
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2012
You, me or them
We always put on a mask, A mask to conceal our self
Beneath the skin, lays the true us.
All are same, fresh and red.
canon F1
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experimenting with light on alu foil in water ... turned the image upside down and can't help but seeing a head at the right.
This image was taken whilst exploring a local woodland.
Once feeling that I had completed what I had set out to capture, I then moved further on. I decided to put the drone up to see if it was worth continuing. I think the combination of the mist and the rising sun answer that.
One from Iceland earlier this year - hadn't realised but I have loads of shots I haven't even looked at...maybe more to follow.
Tesseracts and other shapes within them selves revealing imagination and potential.
Maybe we can all agree to disagree that there was, “There was a crooked man,” or at least hold different notions of who the original is and how other visionaries have seen within the, “little crooked house.” One starting point could be, “—And He Built a Crooked House—,” by Robert A. Heinlein first published in, “Astounding Science Fiction,” in February 1941.
There again that work looks in on this one,
There was a crooked man and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all liv'd together in a little crooked house.
James Orchard Halliwell set this in print in, “The Nursery Rhymes of England,” 1842 followed in 1849 with, “Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales,”this was a sequel to, “The Nursery Rhymes of England.” Halliwell was banned from The British Museum suspected of taking documents from Trinity College, Cambridge, no prosecution ensued, but even his father in law a noted bibliophile refused to see him, or his daughter again. Halliwell literally created books within books and pages coming from and leading off to further illumination as he cut from old books and made scrapbooks of his cuttings. The destructive process of his book cutting and pasting was enough to close doors and have him excluded from rooms whilst he made new perspectives and gave food to fuel imagination opening doors that others could never follow him through.
I feel sure that there are those still enraged by his actions.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
This avenue of trees filter the light sharply around their trunks and also yet more slowly through their branches and leaves. The revealing aspect of the morning Sun bringing back the opening light and deftly developing the many colours even as the concealing shadows reach out again along very familiar paths. The warm light brings out rich colours and strong shadows. These photographs present morning in action and our ancestors may well have greeted the Sun and marked the Moon perceived the cycles of the Planets and watched the Stars as they moved in one display seemingly turning around the Pole star and as the constellations were grouped in a Cosmic dance illuminating many stellar paths in their wondrous ways.
The first strong, bright and colour fulfilling light from the morning Sun was gradually working a way over the river valley and then through the trees. I used myself as a gnomon to strike shadows around the site, here pictured at the North Eastern Cairn at Balnuaran of Clava in two exposures showing the varying intensity of the sunlight. I also watched the shadows returning to their ancient positions stretching out from the stones individually and also those piled high in cairns. This place to my view is a stunning monument that has more answers to be discovered from the further investigation of the site. I am sure that archaeologist are looking at this place again and again with views changing over generations and more and more finds giving us all greater insight. The shadows and Sun might be the large clock to have the seasons marked and then there is the Moon and of course the Stars too possibly giving us accurate times I will not over mention Venus being a regular time guide and instead say oh yes the Planets too of course.
When sleep eludes me I am usually wandering around at home. Here I was sleepless around ancient stones and I accidentally found a camera around my neck and every time I look at it there seems to be a new picture on the screen at the back. I found myself seeing the stones and the fantastic light of gloaming burning behind the trees. Just a moment, or two with the ancient ways around the stones open in their enclosure with a road running through them along the edge of the current enclosure was an amazing experience. The stones show Cup marks that links to Cup and Ring markings. These seem to be reused stones from earlier construction. The Cup marks are set into the monument as we see today in a fashion that they are shown and seem to be of importance. One set of Cups looks like the constellation of either Great Bear, or the Little Bear. These Cup markings are set inside of one the chambers and many people try to find alignments with the Sun, the Moon, the Planets and the Stars. Some of the suggested alignments seem superb insights into these monuments and a guide to those that built them.
© PHH Sykes 2023
phhsykes@gmail.com
Clava Cairns Near Inverness, IV2 5EU
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clava-c...
A Visitors’ Guide to Balnuaran of Clava a prehistoric cemetery
www.archhighland.org.uk/userfiles/file/Sites/Historic%20S...
Balnuaran Of Clava, North-east
canmore.org.uk/site/14257/balnuaran-of-clava-north-east
Highland Historic Environment Record
Clàr Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil na Gàidhealtachd
This image was captured back towards the end of October during a visit to Rough Tor which is situated on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.
The image depicts Rough Tor in the background overlooking the vast landscape of Bodmin Moor below, which includes part of a former Bronze age settlement that is spread out across the landscape.
Not long after arriving at the location I decided to head up and find the old settlement and see if I could find any new compositions that my previous visit in 2018 had left behind. During my explore and like the 2018 visit, I noticed that most if not all were former roundhouses, and with some imagination the entrances to the former structures helping to reveal as those stones seem different to the rest.
Flowers revealing their beauty after a long, cold winter at the Rockcliffe Rockeries in Rockcliffe Park in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
“Revealing Visit”
The long morning shadows of the rising sun spread across the freshly fallen snow that covered this farm site this week. A lone tree struggles to maintain relevance even as half of it has fallen prey to the ravages of time.
Downhill from the tree is an old deserted barn hugged by a silo and overshadowed by a century old windmill that last pumped water many decades ago but still spins aimlessly on windy days. The quietness of this early spring morning only accentuated the dearth of activity surrounding the barn that over the years has lost its windows, doors and dignity.
As the sun rose higher in the sky and more fully illuminated the scene, it revealed a story told of the past but leaves the future untouched.
Many of us who were raised on a farm but left it to develop our own lives can remember a particular visit back home when we first more fully realized we were observing marks in the sands of time that covered the productive years of our parents.
One of my clearest recollections of when I understood my dad’s active battles on the farm were nearly over was when he was in his late 60s. By this time he had reduced his workload to what he could handle by himself. His built-in labor force was long gone and so were the physical capabilities of what he could do.
He had gradually sold off the milk cows, feeder cattle, chickens and sheep. He still raised some pigs each year but not nearly as many as he once did.
There was a winding down of his pursuit of farm goals and a pulling of the drapes across his lifelong dreams. I realized his life’s work was nearing an end and now he was preparing for his remaining sunset years. Nothing again would grip his soul like farming had done for 40 years.
Looking back now when I am a decade older than he was then, I know now why my own adult son hugs me a little longer and a little tighter than he once did. For though the words might not be spoken, he too sees in me what I once saw in my father.
(Photographed near Stanchfield, MN)
Bruce Nauman - The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths - 1967 - HDR
seen and photographed at "Centre for International Light Art" (Unna)
www.britannica.com writes about BruceNauman and this neon art:
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (1967) sets those words in a spiral made of neon, revealing the wistful and subtle irony often encountered in his work, as the text’s optimism and sense of cultural continuity is undermined by the implications of the florid neon.
Nauman was awarded a Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2000.
This enormous crane in Tonsberg Norway is keeping the moon up.
A bit more serious facts:
Earth's moon is the brightest object in our night sky. It appears quite large, but that is only because it is the closest celestial body. The moon is a bit more than one-fourth (27 percent) the size of Earth, a much smaller ratio (1:4) than any other planets and their moons. Earth's moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system.
The moon's mean radius is 1,079.6 miles (1,737.5 kilometers). Double those figures to get its diameter: 2,159.2 miles (3,475 km), less than a third the width of Earth. The moon's equatorial circumference is 6,783.5 miles (10,917 km).
"If Earth were the size of a nickel, the moon would be about as big as a coffee bean," according to NASA.
The moon's surface area is about 14.6 million square miles (38 million square kilometers), which is less than the total surface area of the continent of Asia (17.2 million square miles or 44.5 million square km).