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On the east side of Glacier by the Blackfeet Indian Reservation there is a huge grove of windswept trees like the ones pictured. After a short hike, you will run into tree after tree, each gnarlier than the last. It was quite the experience. The grove is located on a little plateau overlooking some of Glacier's mountains and you can feel the wind up there that shaped these trees. I visited twice, the second time I wanted to shoot the full moon and was there around 4-5am. Winds were howling and a cold front had came through that night leaving temps in the 20s. I had two down jackets on and probably looked like I was about to climb Everest. The wind is relentless though even on a calm day. This shot was from my first hike up to the trees and it was 'calm', AKA 30mph winds. This was the morning after the lenticular and the light was off the hook again. Actually got lucky, if the sun would have rose about an hour later, sunrise would have just been bland and gray with overcast skies. This was no doubt, one of the best sunrises I have ever seen. Yet, it was the quickest as well. There was some beautiful pre-dawn light, but the real show was when the sky lit up like you see here. 30 seconds later is was gone and there was snow in the air.
If you have to evacuate from a hurricane, fleeing to a place this beautiful and peaceful makes it much better. Pulling up in the driveway and stepping out of the car, this is what you see. Rolling hills and trees and a lot of rich, lush grass with a stream running through the property made for a real feeling of sanctuary for me! I will be forever grateful to the Keiths for opening up their beautiful home and giving me a safe place to wait out the storm.
Two weeks ago, I sat watching the TV as the Weather Channel gave a moment by moment review of what was happening back home in the Daytona area. I called my brother, who still miraculously had cell phone service, and he said it had been howling out, but was quiet at that moment. He stayed in the hall during the worst of it, praying I'm sure. After all was said and done, we had only a little water seepage under the doors, which he was able to clean up quickly.
For me, the worst of the hurricanes are usually the after effects. Normally we are out of power for over a week. It is super hot and humid, and I can't take the heat anymore, so I delayed the return until Wednesday. There was so much traffic that it seemed pointless to try to return sooner, anyway. When I got in, it was like diving into a bowl of pea soup, but the intense heat was only for one night. Florida Power & Light managed to restore service on Thursday, so we had only been without power for 3 1/2 days. That is a record! This time they were prepared, thanks to thousands of first responders who came in from other states to be in position to help even before the storm hit.
It seems like a long time ago, even though it's only been a couple of weeks. So much has happened, and another couple of major hurricanes have skirted the coast and turned away from us in the meantime. For peace and safety, and comfort I would not have had in my own home, I am grateful for this time in Tennessee and to the people who made that possible.
Fall, Maple, tree, leaves, trunk, fall colors. I particularly like that the rich colors actually glow on the tree trunks.
A grove of aspens show off their peak colors in the final minutes of the afternoon light on the Meadow Creek Trail - Frisco, CO
Tree And Boulder. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A curving tree and a large boulder along a Yosemite Valley trail
One of the pluses about having a full week in Yosemite (during my recent Yosemite Renaissance artist residency was that I had more time to slowly explore places I might have otherwise missed during a visit with a more compressed timeline. On a short visit it is easy to feel the pressure to make the very best use of limited time and head straight for (what one hopes will be!) "sure bets." With more time available that pressure is gone, and there is more time to slow down and give in to the rhythms of the place. On this afternoon I took a slow, relaxed walk along a familiar but less-used trail along the base of granite cliffs. On this winter day I hardly saw anyone else there.
A few other things come to mind as I look at this photograph. One surprise is how much this relatively dry and rock place suggests an almost jungle-like mood! I can assure you that it is not such a place, but right here the terrain and forest is a bit thick and complex. Secondly, it is probably obvious that relationships between shapes play a big role in this photograph. The boulder by itself might not be that remarkable, especially in a landscape littered with such boulders. But located beneath the curving tree, whose form echoes that of the boulder, it becomes more of a focal point.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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This area was burnt only a few weeks before this was captured, in Victoria, Australia. Taken with my 720nm converted Nikon D800 - 4 images combined.
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"A look through my rose-tinted spectacles"
1. Pink; rosy.
2. Seen or represented in too favourable a light.
Idiom: see through rose-coloured spectacles (look through rose-coloured spectacles, see through rose-tinted spectacles, look through rose-tinted spectacles, see through rose-tinted glasses, look through rose-tinted glasses)
To view things in an unrealistically hopeful or cheerful way.
Highest Explore Position: #76 on Sunday, May 6, 2007
HBW! Well these are the blossoms that come before the berries on this tree. I have no idea what kind of tree it is, and nobody I've asked did either.
It was rainy and overcast when I took this, so the lights not the best