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Location: Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
Oxbow Bend is perhaps the most convenient and most photographed spot in Grand Teton National Park. It offers a pleasing composition of Mount Moran in the distance with a sweep of the Oxbow Bend section of the Snake River in the foreground.
Spent around 15 minutes capturing this beauty until my hands fingers got frozen and started paining and stopped responding... :D
Used Fluorescent (FLD) Filter while capturing.
PP: Tone-mapped 3 shots(+2,0,-2) in Photomatix and then edited in PSE 8 and increased contrast.
One of many bends of the Colardo River. But it is THAT Bend - incredible masses of tourists are attracted to this scenery every day. So yes, it is a cliche - but we enjoyed and respected the view, which is really marvelous.
Canyon Bend. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Contrasting warm and cool colors in a narrow section of a desert canyon.
During my hikes up and down this canyon I made quite a few photographs of these lovely narrows. I camped at the mouth of the canyon, and this made it possible to hike up twice — once late in the day and again the next morning. The appearance of a narrow canyon like this one depends so much on the nature of the light, and that was almost completely different during the two visits.
Several things intrigue me about this particular narrows. Sections of it are quite angled, with the wall on one side slanting away and on the other side overhanging the bottom of the canyon substantially. In other words, you don’t look straight up to see the narrow band of sky, but instead you look off to one side a bit. I assume that this is a partially due to erosion following natural lines of weakness in the geology and partly due to the tendency of moving water to undercut a side of the canyon. Of even more interest to a photographer, the color of the light in this canyon and others like it is quite variable. In the darkest section the only light comes from the very blue sky, and the light here is quite blue. (I actually toned it down a bit in the photograph.) However, where the light comes in a bit more directly or perhaps through a wider gap the color is much warmer, as we see on the far wall beyond that gap in this photograph.
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, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
This is by far my most elaborate and dangerous shot I have ever taken. Walmart had mini black holes on sale, buy 5 get 1 free, so I got 6. Then, I used two vertical mirrors facing each other and two colored flashlights. The black holes were carefully placed to bend the light beams. Three were placed at the bottom to achieve the beam compression towards the bottom of the picture. Good thing I kept uploading the imagers to the cloud because at the end I got a bit less careful, the black holes coalesced and swallowed my Nikon. I barely escaped to tell the story.
The less likely explanation: this is from inside an elevator at Binghamton University :) Shots pop up at unexpected places. I want to think that this makes my portfolio more diverse rather than imbalanced.
I should add that this is not an obvious shot when you are in the elevator. It took some finesse to find the right angle and camera settings, and then some corrections in postpro.
Also, fun aside, math in, these are hyperbolas created by a cone of light intersecting the walls. Brushed aluminum of the walls gives the beams
an interesting texture.
CSXT 3324 leads manifest train CSX M653 eastbound out of Big Bend Tunnel in Talcott, West Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.
Big Bend National Park, Texas. Wonderful sunrise in early November. It was snowing in the far northern parts of Texas and it was near 90 degrees in these parts on this day.
Horseshoe Bend - Colorado River, Page (AZ).
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Yosemite, California
Just around a bend in the Merced River, we look back towards the side lit trees in El Capitan Meadow as they are reflected in the calm river waters. The granite walls of the south side of the valley give a blue background throughout the photo.
Explored December 16, 2024
Horseshoe Bend, one of the most photographed areas on the Colorado River, located just north of Grand Canyon and outside Page,Arizona.
66708 heads south with the 6M73 Doncaster-Toton whilst 47786 rounds the bend from Rotherham Masborough with the 1Z15 Hereford-York, Primrose Bridge, Rotherham, 24.11.15.
Located just off of Hwy 89 outside of Page, Horseshoe Bend is one of the most popular viewpoints of the Colorado River.
Although this has been photographed countless times by many other photographers, I still decided to rise well before dawn and make the hike out to the viewpoint in hopes of witnessing a spectacular sunrise.
Unfortunately, heavy clouds to the east obscured the sun as dawn came and passed. But I found this unique composition with the layered sandstone framing the bend as the clouds overhead began to clear.
This was shot with an ultra wide lens that makes it a bit hard to get a true sense of scale for how dramatic the view is. The drop from the cliff is 1,000 feet and the river itself is probably somewhere between 50-100 yards wide.
This was my first time seeing Horseshoe Bend and I was amazed at the grand scale and beauty of this spot! They say it's 1,000ft from the rim to the river!!
My wife Nicole took a shot of me setting up for this.
I took this pictures using a long exposure during a storm outside of Big Bend National park in Texas. I really like that it looks like two hearts.
Oxbow Bend.
El Parque nacional de Grand Teton (Grand Teton National Park) es un parque nacional de los Estados Unidos situado al oeste del estado de Wyoming, al sur del Parque nacional de Yellowstone.
Recibe el nombre de las montañas Grand Teton, que dominan el parque. El nombre de éstas proviene de la palabra francesa para referirse a la mama femenina, probablemente debido a la forma de los picos. Fue declarado parque nacional el 26 de febrero de 1929. Abarca un área de 1.255 km². Su punto culminante es el Grand Teton, con 4.197 m de altura.
The sunrise brings first morning light to Horseshoe Bend in this panoramic view at dawn.
Like the previous shot from Horseshoe Bend, this was taken laying flat on the ground and holding the camera over the edge, which dropped off 1000 feet to the river below. The panoramic view here was made from two shots stitched together.
Young female dancer bending over backwards.
Dancer from Bo Jangles Dance Studio.
Belmont Street Bestival, Kitchener, Ontario.
Here's a photo from Mosel Valley. The famouse Mosel bend. It took me nearly an hour to take this photo. First a long exposure during beginning of twilight which you see in the sky. Then exposures for the light traces left by the cars. Then as it got brighter photos for the town and the landscape with the warm glow on the land. And finally as the ship came in a high iso shot to get a sharp exposure of the ship. Then blending in PS followed by my usual postprocessing -> Start2Finish Post Processing Tutorial
PS: Thanks to all who bought my processing tutorial till now. I already have ideas for an add on :-)
For Comparison, the US Horseshoe bend, which is a bit more spectacular :-) www.flickr.com/photos/mibreit/3575557537
cheers
No. It's not Horseshoe Bend. This is another one from Tatahatso Point.
It's an absolutely amazing viewpoint of the Grand Canyon. Once you get beyond this viewpoint the road gets brutally horrible. When I passed this viewpoint on my way down, it was already dark, so I didn't see it and continued driving on the horrible section of the road. On my way up the next day, I thought, "Holy CRAP! I drove down THAT!"
The large interlocking that protected the crossing between Conrail and Grand Trunk in South Bend, Indiana was controlled from a 304-lever GRS Model 5 electric interlocking machine installed during the late Thirties. The plant was once known as "HF", but during Conrail years became known as "Bend."
This was one of the last large power machines installed, and this period was a swan song for the era of power interlocking machines. Even as this massive machine was being put together, the signal companies were devising more compact all-relay interlocking machines, along with the "entrance-exit" flavor of machine that simplified route setting into the act of pushing two buttons, with the circuitry doing the rest.
More lovely shapes from this beautiful spot.
This image is from a lovely week I spent in the Rockies (Banff and Jasper) with Jim Heny. If you'd like, take a look at the rest of the images from my 2015 trip to the Rockies.
Dawn as I mentioned earlier was a super rushed experience running down the trail in 10 minutes. As such, my brain went out the window and I didn't get the opportunity to really explore the bend much before deciding to set up the tripod near the overlook instead of walking down a little bit further. Wish I could have gotten a slightly cleaner foreground without the rock jutting in, but the pink clouds sure do look nice still.