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Northern Mocking Bird. This bird's famous song, with its varied repetitions and artful imitations, is heard all day during nesting season (and often all night as well). Taken while on a shoot at the San Jacinto Wildlife area Ca.
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Immature. I initially thought this was a Golden Eagle. The dark sky that morning wasn't helpful. Riverside County, CA.
San Jacinto Wildlife Area, Riverside County, CA. 3-9-19.
It's that time of year when the avocets are transitioning into breeding plumage!
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The museum ship, USS Texas, built in 1915 is in the foreground. She is the last of the dreadnought class of ships built during that period.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Texas_(BB-35)
Across the field is the San Jacinto Monument marking the site of the battle where the residents of Texas won their independence from the government of Mexico in 1836. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto
In the far background, to the right of the monument, one can see the towers of the Fred Hartmann Bridge over 5 miles away.
Taken with a Nikon D300 and a 17-35 mm f/2.8 lens from a ship passing in the Houston Ship Channel.
A fallen Joshua Tree provides a cool-hued foreground to a lovely, warm after-sunset scene of layered mountains distant behind a group of Joshua trees still standing tall--some with almost perfect upright form and others beautiful in their leaning awkwardness as seems the predominate growth pattern of the species--in Joshua Tree National Park, California.
While we were wandering through the park earlier that day, scouting for shooting locations, we heard the incessant yipping chatter of what sounded like two packs of coyotes encountering one another somewhere in this majestic rock-rimmed high desert valley. The coyotes' tones seemed dramatic and vehement, with little to suggest that mutual understanding was their goal.
But the cooler night brought a measure of quiet as the coyotes had either moved on or found their peace, and as most other people in the wider area departed fairly quickly after sunset rather than waiting for the final colorful streaks to fade from the scene. Not far away was a little campground nestled among the openings in one of the innumerable jumbled rock formations that rise like islands in the desert, providing pleasing visuals and rock climbing thrills. The Park Service provides old-school charcoal grills on fixed posts in some of these camping areas and we could see cooking firelight flickering high on the huge khaki-hued boulders, the dancing light prominent against the dark skies filled with stars.
I imagined the fires of more ancient peoples in these lands--were they able to subsist or thrive here?--and I remember finding the tune of one my favorite older songs--San Jacinto by Peter Gabriel--flowing through my head accompanied by the scattered chirps and rustles of nature's burgeoning activity in the deepening desert night. It was only a short walk back to the car after sunset that evening, but it struck all the right notes in my mind.
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With a big cut of Autoracks on the head-end for Mira Loma a Third Section Intermodal from Santa Teresa, NM to Long Beach, CA grinds up the east side of Beaumont Hill into the late evening. With something other than the plain ole' Amour Yellow and Harbormist Gray on the point makes the low light shot just a bit better than it would have been.
Another version of this shot from the San Jacinto Wildlife Area, CA, taken sevral minutes later. I thought the cracked earth looked pretty cool so I went vertical and got up close for this shot.
Canon 5D mkII, Canon 17-40mm f/4L@17mm, f19@80 sec, ISO 50, NDX400 9-stop ND, Singh-Ray 3-stop NDG
Visitors walk in to the San Jacinto Monument at the San Jacinto Battlefield Sate Historic Site near Houston, Texas. Built to commerate the victory that gained Texas its independence and to honor the men that lost their lives in the struggle for that independence, The San Jacinto monument dominates the landscape at the place where the battle was fought. The monument is an octagonal column constructed by W.S. Bellows Construction between 1935 and 1939. It is primarily constructed of reinforced concrete, but its exterior is faced with Texas limestone from a quarry near the Texas State Capitol. The Momument stands 567.31 feet (172.92 m) tall and is reportedly the tallest monument column in the world. It is 9.6 feet taller than tits nearest rival, the Juche Tower in North Korea. The base is decorated with eight engraved panels depicting the history of Texas. The bronze doors which allow entry into the museum show the six flags of Texas. At the point where the shaft rises from the base, it is only 48 feet square (2,304 square feet). The shaft narrows to only 30 feet square (900 square feet) at the observation deck. At the top of the monument is a 220-ton, 34 feet high star, representing the Lone Star of Texas.