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Happy Valentine's day!
This is from a mini road trip to our coast a few weeks ago with lil m :) Wanted to keep this one dark and moody because that was the feel that day.
Thanks for stopping by. Still getting around to making all my Flickr pitstops. Have a great week friends!
Peak 7076 and The Needles, consisting of Mt. Walkinshaw Mount Clark and Mount Deception. Deception being the second highest peak in the Olympic Mountain Range.
The Olympic Plaza was built in 1988 for the Olympic Winter Games and is home to Calgary's only refrigerated outdoor ice surface. On this day it was 14°C and there were lots of people on the rink.
The primary reason I decided to hike the well-known Hurricane Ridge trail in Olympic National Park, other than the views, was to see this endemic species, not found anywhere in the world outside of the Olympic Mountains. It didn't take me long to find a marmot, and my lifer band-tailed pige0ns were a nice bonus. While I was hoping for a marmot photo op against a green meadow, this individual posing right next to the trail and allowing such close approach was good enough.
While I was exploring along the Olympic Peninsula, I found so many beautiful locations. I would have loved to shoot from water level at this location but that would have required my repelling gear and leaving the trail with the sign that asked people to protect the environment by staying on the trail. Trampling plants and making new trails goes against my leave no trace policies so I stayed on the trail.
Went to one of my favorite places in the world last weekend "Olympic National Park" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_National_Park which happens to be 3 hours from home, lucky me. I don't know many other parks that have a temperate rain forest, a beautiful rugged coast line and majestic mountains peaks all in one spot. I could go on and on about my love for this park. You could spend a month here exploring the back country since hardly any of it is accessible by car.
This shot is dedicated to my friend Justin Reznick. This is one of his favorite creeks and his shots inspired me to check it out.
My photo excursion weekend started out alone. Just my can of bear spray and i at one with nature in the deep, dark woods. My first stop was at Sol Duc Falls. As i was returning on the trail back from the falls i unexpectedly run into one of my favorite Flickr friends from Portland Greg O What a surprise since he lives a good 5 hours away from this location.. Explored a few other areas and showed him the coast since he has never been to the n wa coast before. Greg has more of the day recap here if interested. And if you ever get the chance to shoot with Greg you should, he's talented and tons of fun.
Alone again the following day, i decided to go back into the woods to the Hoh Rain Forest en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoh_Rainforest I wish I could have captured some of these mossy trees like i saw them. The light was not good but enjoyed my hours there. Met and hiked with "future" Flickrite photog visiting from Aspen, Colorado. Went to another waterfall and the famous Ruby Beach, those shots are to come sometime in 2010 :) All in all, a nature filled weekend with some talented photogs.
This is a very typical pacific nw scene with all the moss. Nothing original here but very common this time of year.
Look forward to catching up and saying hi to you all soon. If i haven't visited your stream yet i will after the long weekend :) Thanks again for stopping by. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and Memorial Day :)
A group of Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina) was framed during the moments of take off run! The symmetry and wing displays made them like the athletes competing for the gold medal. The action shot was framed to their eye level to make the best of it. I had to lie down with the tele in front from a country boat to have them desirably. Pics was taken from purbasthali wetland in West Bengal, India.
Low tide with starfish on Rialto beach in Olympic National Park, Washington at sunset
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Winter is finally here and this Common Raven appears to be practicing for the ski jump. The Raven has the position nailed; feathers back, head forward, claws close and parallel! Of course I don't know where the birds have their Olympics up here but I'd love to watch!
Taken 1 November 2018 at Point Woronzof Park, Anchorage, Alaska.
The late afternoon view of the Olympic Mountain Range as I neared the summit.
Took on the challenge to ride up to Hurricane Ridge, in the Olympic National Park. 19 miles of continuous ascending with 12% grades at times. It took 5 hours of pedaling, to make it to the summit. And only 40 minutes to descend at 35-40 mph, back into Port Angeles, WA.
I was not enamoured with Olympic NP although, had I had a month, I could easily have fallen in love with the Olympic peninsula.
In rather mundane terms, the peninsular as been defined in this way: "The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point, are on the peninsula. Comprising about 3,600 square miles (9,300 km), the Olympic Peninsula contained many of the last unexplored places in the contiguous United States. It remained largely unmapped until Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography and timber resources between 1898 and 1900. This was of course well over a century after Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea explored what was to be The Oregon Trail, Oregon, Idaho, and the Pacific coast north of California.
Anyway, it's diverse. There are more rivers running through it than be imagined. In our time there, it turns out I took more shots of the rainforest (Hoh) than the any other "attractions," save the Pacific coast.
It wasn't until I downloaded the card that I realized how many vignettes like this that I took. Tree stumps, moss hanging from trees, mushrooms, and flowers are the staple of the rainforest. The absolute peace and quiet was amazing, and we saw not one other human. So, it has that going for it, too.
I drove to the Olympic National Park just last weekend with my buddy. We were heading out to the Second Beach, but we ended up standing in a pouring rain when we arrive. It was just not our lucky day. However, on my way to the Second Beach, we saw so many little hidden creeks just off the highway, and this is just one of them. I think this might be my only shot that I made on that day.
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Happy week everyone
thanks for all the comments last week much appreciated
greetings all the animals on the farm
caroline
Hello everyone
Thanks for all the comments last week much appreciated
have a nice Happy new week
greetings all the animals on the farm
Caroline
sympathy for the victims of France
Manuchar Kvirkelia of Georgia (in red) fights Peter Bacsi of Hungary during their 74 kg men's Greco-Roman wrestling semi-final match at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 13, 2008. REUTERS/Oleg Popov (CHINA)
Though the IUCN categorizes this species as "least concern", some research has lead me to conclude that their population is precarious. A study by the University of Michigan showed steady decline of the population between 2002 and 2006, when the population reached a low point of about 1000. By 2010 their numbers increased to about 4000, but whole colonies can disappear as "islands" of high meadow dry out, depriving them of their primary source of food. Predation by non-native coyotes have has also had an impact on the population. Climate change may have and adverse impact as well.
So it was nice to see this pair doing there part to perpetuate their species. Taken in Olympic National Park, Washington, where 90% of the Olympic Marmot calls home.
The Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Cauldron Park is a plaza located at the south end of Rice-Eccles Stadium on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, Rice-Eccles Stadium was known as Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium and hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The plaza contains a 2002 Winter Olympic museum, the Olympic cauldron, and other memorabilia from the 2002 Olympic Games. As the University of Utah moves forward with stadium expansion and limited space, the future of the park is uncertain. The Hoberman Arch was removed in August 2014, while other portions of the park, such as the film, are no longer functional.
The park contains the cauldron that was lit during the duration of the Games. The Cauldron was designed with the official 2002 Olympic motto Light the Fire Within and the Fire and Ice theme in mind. It was designed to look like an icicle, and was made of glass which allowed the fire to be seen burning within. The actual glass cauldron is 12 feet (3.7 m) high and stands atop a twisting glass and steel support, while the flame within burns at 900 °F (482.2 °C). Together with its support the cauldron stands 72 feet (22 m) tall and was made of 738 individual pieces of glass. Small jets send water down the glass sides of the cauldron, both to keep the glass and metal cooled (so they would not crack or melt), and to give the effect of melting ice. The cauldron was designed by WET Design of Los Angeles, California, its frame built by Arrow Dynamics of Clearfield, Utah, and its glass pieces created by Western Glass of Ogden, Utah. The cauldron's cost was 2 million dollars, and it was unveiled to the public during its original install at Rice-Eccles Stadium on January 8, 2002.
During the Games, the cauldron was installed atop stands at the south-end of the stadium, which allowed it to be seen burning from various points around the Salt Lake Valley. Following the conclusion of the Games, the cauldron moved to the plaza just south of the stadium. It now sits in a reflecting pool, at the center of the park, and is flanked by a V-shaped stone wall. The stones on this wall are engraved with the names of the 2002 medalists, and water cascades down into the reflecting pool from the top of the wall. The cauldron remained operational for a period of time and was lit on special occasions, which included the opening weekend of the 2006 Winter Olympics. During the 10-year anniversary of the Olympics, on February 8, 2012, an attempt was made to light the cauldron, it did light but not on mark and remained lit for only a short period of time. The delayed lighting was blamed on weathered mechanical parts and a lack of maintenance.
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