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Ich weiß ich weiß - Fotos in dermaßen schlechter Qualität haben auf Flickr eigentlich nichts verloren. Leider hatten wir nur ein altes Iphone am Start, als wir letztes Wochenende auf diese Fotoidee gekommen sind. Bei der aktuellen Schneelage in den Alpen bleibt einem wohl auch nichts anderes übrig als das Ganze mit Humor zu nehmen....
When you are out to shoot and clouds come to take the light away, you better think * well, not a typical summer afternoon, just different one* and deal with it, who knows when you get home the results aren't that bad after all.:)
I played hooky today and traveled to Rocky to find critters and color. Both cooperated.....I do love fall!
I went snowboarding, again today. This picture was taken with my new 50mm f/1.8, it's been really great so far and all the images are really sharp. :)
One from this morning in RMNP
Two image blend - 5s exposure for the landscape, then I blended in the moon from a darker image. Tried to make it as natural as possible, though a bit on the bright side to match that smoky glow.
Considering the little bit of wind up there, I should have upped the ISO to shorten the "main" exposure and avoid so much camera shake... Oh well.
Sometimes you've been awake for 66 of the past 72 hours and your logic starts failing LOL
The feet of the Nokhu Crags (3807 m, 12490 ft) and Lake Agnes are adorned by Mountain Bluebells (Mertensia ciliata) and Heartleaf Bittercress (Cardamine cordifolia). The Nokhu Crags are a striking formation at the northern end of the Never Summer Wilderness in Colorado. The name 'Nokhu' is an Anglo bastardization of the Arapahoe "Neaha-no-xhu," meaning Eagle's Nest.
As the family and I circumnavigated the lake, we struck up a conversation with a fly-fisherman, who also happened to be a retired geologist for the State of Illinois. We talked about the obvious features of the landscape visible here - namely the intrusion of the lighter granitic rock, on the right, into the darker and older metamorphic hornfels that make up the peak, and formed from shales over 20 million years ago. As we walked, my friend found a fossilized clam.
No saturation of the colors occured in post-processing, though I did use a circular polarizer in the field.
Thanks for visiting!
Enjoy the fresh spring snow on northern Colorado's Cameron Pass and View Large on Black
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
--Edward Abbey
Image notes: I didn't desaturate the mountains here or use selective color, it was a naturally monochromatic scene. I blended exposures for the sky portion to ensure good cloud details, but otherwise this is pretty straight from the sensor with very little editing needed.
Here's another from that neat late spring snow storm we caught camping near the Never Summer Range (well named apparently) eariler this year.
Just off Trail Ridge Road, in the valley of the Colorado River's birth. Rocky Mountain National Park, CO.
This mama moose--followed by her baby--strolled right onto the trail during our hike in Rocky Mountain National park a couple of days ago. Utterly unbothered by our group of hikers, they crossed the path and started drinking from a pond right next to the path. A cool experience to see these animals so high up near the tundra; made for some great shots!
Caught this shot of Longs Peak on the way down from Chasm Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. It was a gorgeous day--the clouds captured my eye before I got distracted by a herd of elk off to our left:)
Ina Baroness De Mertykle, a gifted young sword fighter, journeys to the far north where at a frozen lake stands a statue of Belara, Godess of sword fight and passion - every promising young fighter aims to make the journey but few can tell the tale, for it is a long, cold and endeavouring journey to the lands of Neversummer
A brace of Colorado Blue Columbine (Aquilegia coerulia) grabs ahold of a narrow crack of rock on the slopes above Lake Agnes, Never Summer Wilderness, Colorado.
As the ice and snow begins to melt in the high country to the west of the Front Range, I am getting more excited to see the subalpine and alpine wildflowers in all of their brief summer splendor. The Blue Columbine is Colorado's state flower, and its morphology is striking, with long spurs that sweep back and away from the main structure of the flower. These spurs contain nectar that is accessible only to hummingbirds and hawkmoths. Under UV light, there are nectar guides for pollinators that are invisible to human eyesight.
Thank you very much for your visit and comments!
Caught a phenomenal sunset in Moraine Park in Rocky Mountain National Park last week. The sun lit up Longs Peak for a few minutes and made for a stunning scene!
Strobist: 580 and 430 exIIs to the left and right and AB1600 up high, right behind me. Fired with cybersyncs.
The trail starts at Trail Ridge Road, the highest paved through road in the United States, reaching 12,183 feet (3,713 meters). The road is hiding behind the tundra here; the trail is an easy tundra walk to the Roger Toll Memorial.
The mountains of the Continental Divide are visible at left, the Neversummer Range in the distant right.
My faves are really special to me. In over two years on Flickr I've faved just over 700 photos so far. That's under one a day on average, so I'm fairly selective. I regulalrly use my faves slideshow as a source of inspiration and deep visual pleasure, so A BIG APPRECIATIVE THANK-YOU to all the photographers who feature in it. Here are the faves from my most recent 5 pages. I'll try and remember to use this flickr toy each time I accumulate another three dozen.
1. _ In absentia _, 2. *squeek*, 3. calendula lightness, 4. Country road, 5. fairytale of mine, 6. ojos asÃ, 7. tidal stream, 8. angelina, 9. the KItchen Table, 10. The Mill, 11. Holy crap...I think I just bid myself SLR camera.., 12. Abiquiu 7/1/07, 13. d 6/25/07, 14. truchas. ribbon of blood 6/26/07, 15. jesus saves 6/27/07, 16. girl limo 6/19/07, 17. an affair to remember, 18. swimming pool, 19. torn ..., 20. bucolic tones, 21. Poor Pixie-poo, 22. The barrel organist, 23. The Prince, 24. Kicking Up A Storm, 25. Soundtrack To A Life, 26. xx, 27. Leda, 28. DSC03106, 29. Cloudy Holland, 30. Robyn - Pretending to be in Deep Thought in Front of a Locked Porta Dump Which Hopefully Prevents Any Stink From Landing On The Strawberry and The Whole Thing Seems Like Christmas in June Cept Plastic Forks Are More 4th of Julyish, 31. Time travelling (1), 32. 06.2007 while time washes ashore, 33. after storm, 34. encontro casual, 35. And I will always love you, 36. 06.2007 neversummer dusk
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Now looking to the west through north from the summit of Mount Audubon into Rocky Mountain National Park.
The frozen lake below is Upper Coney Lake.
The peaks range from Toll and Paiute on the left to Longs and Meeker on the right. In the distance on the left are some of the peaks of the Byers Peak Wilderness and Vasquez Mountains. In the distance in the middle right are the peaks of the Never Summer Range. A small bit of Lake Granby is also visible in the middle distance center.
The Milky Way rises over the Craigs, a mountain in the Never Summer Range of Colorado, part of the Rocky Mountains. Image taken on the night of July 1, 2013 and consists of 15 tracked images of the stars plus 1 non-tracked image of the foreground, then combined and stretched. The Sagittarius Cloud is just coming over the horizon of the mountain peaks.
A bit above the tree line I found this little fella soaking in the views of the Never Summer Mountains to the west of Mt. Ida.
In hindsight, I wish I would have got on one knee for this shot and elevated the marmot a little above the line of Never Summer peaks...would have made for a much more royal 'throne'.
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