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Not in entire forgetfulness
And not in utter nakedness
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Thorpe Cloud, Staffordshire, Peak District, UK
My second visit in two days to Thorpe Cloud in Staffordshire. My third time up to the top of the hill and the first time with any light. One out of three is a good return I think.
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The setting sun. Thought I missed it tonight but the clouds were not all the way down to the horizon allowing the sun to show through a small gap before setting. Settings for this photo are ISO 200 for 1/1000 sec with an aperture of 6.7 at 300mm
Clouds over Chambers Creek Properties, Central Meadow and the new pederstrian bridge connecting to the waterfront.
Taken in University Place, Washington
Took a hike up to one of the Mesa's today... This would probably be a nice place for sunset, but I hiked it midday so it was hot, and had none of the nice light found here at sunset...
At this time of year it should be called the Canada Goose habitat of West Eugene, Oregon.
No, not a very exciting image but I wanted to post something.
It's been over a week now, since Luke's funeral and I think I have hiked down every path in the nearby parks.
Out in the woods the deer and the frogs won't ask me "What happened?", or "How you holding up?". They don't mind if I sit on a bench and cry until my heart feels like it's going to drown in my tears
.It's business as usual in the woods and fields, and surrounding myself with this affirming cycle of life is better than any medicine or therapy I know to get me through these hard times.And all of you are the best "group therapy" I know!
Thank you all again for "holding my hand" and for sending us all your love and prayers.
If I've neglected your photos, or haven't returned an email, I do apologize. I haven't felt particularly chatty......but I'll come around. Plus,since they reformatted how you view your contact's pics, I swear I'm missing pictures that have been posted! I will think I've seen them all, then go back later and see one's I've missed!
Cranes, Dawn Clouds. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A flock of sandhill cranes flies beneath dawn clouds.
When I began photographing (mostly) migratory birds in the Western United States I was largely ignorant about what I was seeing. One of my first bird photography forays was essentially an accident. I happened to run into a friend in a coffee stand line one morning and she (who is a true "birder") happened to say, more or less, "I think you might like to go visit this place I know of." Given the way I sometimes work, that serendipitous nudge was sufficient to get me to drive a few hours before dawn the following weekend to visit this place I'd never heard of before. I arrived. There were tons of birds. (And I discovered the power of the sound of the birds, too!) I had no idea what I was seeing, but I liked it and I made photographs. I was hooked.
As I started to edge over toward an active compulsion to photograph birds more seriously I began to recall a earlier hints about this world that I had ignored. One was all the way back in a college "natural science" short course, where the prof (who seemed a bit "odd" to me then) went on about snowy egrets (which I mostly ignored) and made us read Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac." I didn't fully "get" Leopold's book at the time, but it planted a seed. (Re-reading it years later I understood more fully the power of Leopold's vision and his writing, and I recommend the book.) One thing that I DID retain from reading that book was an idea that there was something special about sandhill cranes, which were among the birds that I finally discovered in the real world on that first morning when I acted on my friend's coffee line suggestion. The birds in this photograph are sandhill cranes, which seem to me increasingly to be magical birds. In fact it is their characteristic cry that is my strongest audio association with the places where wild birds are found. I photographed this group very early in the morning as their trajectory took them below the edge of dawn-tinged clouds.
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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A late summer trip to Assisi and we were lucky enough to catch this amazing lenticular clouds as we exited the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi
Clouds advancing towards the open sea from the coastal area. A view from the road leading to Voz cove towards the south.
October 2023.
Taken with Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital camera and Tamron AF 24–70mm F3.3–5.6 Aspherical zoom lens.