The Blue Ridge Parkway
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A b/w rendition of an earlier color shot of a typical view when driving Alberta's spectacular Icefields Parkway. Most beautiful drive I've been blessed to enjoy numerous times.
Here I'm driving north towards Dolomite and Watermelon peaks.
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The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge in New York City, New York, that crosses Rockaway Inlet. The bridge, which opened on July 3, 1937, connects the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, with Flatbush Avenue to Floyd Bennett Field, Belt Parkway, and the Marine Park neighborhood in Brooklyn. The center span is 540 feet (160 m) long and is normally 55 feet (17 m) above the water but can be lifted to a height of 150 feet (46 m) above water level. With its distinctive twin towers (which house the vertical-lift machinery), the bridge has become an iconic landmark and symbol of the Rockaways.
Canon EOS REBEL T3i
2012
The Jesse Brown cabin, this photo goes along with my last post, the Cool Springs Baptist Church. This cabin is situated along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR
(29mm @ f/11, 1/100 sec, ISO 100)
one of the most beautiful reagions in the world. The icefields parkway in the canadian rockies. Somewhere between Banff and the Columbia Icefield
On the way to Columbia Icefield...
The splendour of the Icefields Parkway (Hwy 93) can hardly be overstated: a 230-kilometre road from Lake Louise to Jasper through the heart of the Rockies, it ranks as one of the world's ultimate drives. Its unending succession of huge peaks, immense glaciers, iridescent lakes, wild-flower meadows, wildlife and forests - capped by the stark grandeur of the Columbia Icefield - is absolutely overwhelming.
I always enjoy a good scene, but it is so much more interesting when there is a story that goes with it. While visiting, I met a woman whose grandmother was born in this cabin. I can't imagine what that would have been like.
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Awestruck. Driving home from Georgia to Minnesota on a stretch of the Blueridge Parkway in North Carolina, we were graced by scenes like this. The dilemma is, does one take pictures or sit in amazement? Did a little of both.
These conditions lasted about 45 minutes.
The Icefields Parkway (aka Highway 93) is 230 km long one of most spectacular drives in the world. It connects Banff National Park and Jasper National Park.
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This is the view one can let soak in next to the Parker Ridge pullout near the boundary of Banff and Jasper National Parks. For me, this image is about the whole of the view including Mount Athabasca and Hilda Peak. I also found the image a nice change in color contrast. There's the greens of the evergreen forest and then the browns of the mountainside. Finally there's the blues and whites of the skies above.
this shot was about 25 minute before sunrise no filters used here and the trees at this level were showing early spring leaves
755 km Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the most scenic routes in the United States. Here, the road passes through Pisgah National Forest near Asheville, North Carolina.
Hector Lake Viewpoint. Incredible Rivers and Water Flows on the Ice Field Parkway, Canada. Aug 2012
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Overture, curtain, lights
This is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and nursing a part
We know every part by heart
Overture, curtain, lights
This is it, you'll hit the heights
And oh, what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it
Tonight, what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it!
If you know what theme song that is, you probably had as wonderful a misspent youth as I did. You may be wondering why it is relevant here. There are still some things in this life that can motivate me to be up and out at 0’dark-thirty. Rough Ridge, along the Blue Ridge Parkway, is a perennial favorite “thing.” It’s a bit of a hike up under gear, and you had better have a good flashlight, as Rough Ridge is – well – rough to hike in the dark. Once you reach this spot, layers, gloves, and a hat are necessities this time of year, too, as cold wind is relentless as you wait for the “show” on the rock ledge. And, if conditions work out, what a show it is.
At around sunrise, my solitary perch started to get a little crowded. For me, reverie is blown with a crowd of one, though I don’t mind sharing. This was more. Per typical of late, a few lacked any semblance of camera etiquette, or etiquette whatsoever, with one trying to convince me that sitting in front of my camera would be okay. I responded with, “As long as you’re okay with me chucking you off this rock.” As there is quite a drop behind me, she got the picture, so to speak. All the others behaved after that… sometimes, just the right nuance makes all the difference. Sunrise did not disappoint, so much a visual palette mindful of ‘as in Heaven, so on Earth’ as the sky mimics the autumn color. A couple of days later, most all this autumn splendor would be gone with the wind. It was a blessing to capture a piece of it. I was pleased with the morning on the hike down. As I met others on the way up, I wondered if I should tell them how sunrise knocked our socks off. Nah!
A view looking S from the Big Hill, taken above the Big Bend. The sun broke thru the stormy skies to send this solar spotlight to nicely enhance the grandeur a bit.
This is near the north end of Banff Park as you climb up to Sunwapta Pass. Jasper Park starts before long.
One remarkable drive, the most scenic I've been on. Highly recommended.
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Took a quick trip up the Foothills Parkway since I was in the area.
This runs along the top of the Chilhowee Mountain range and looks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It's nice to live in the local area and I take advantage of that as often as I can.
Look close to see second tiny meteor next to big meteor (right lower side of big meteor). Perseid Meteors in the Moonlight over the Blue Ridge Parkway (LOVE)
Six KCS EMDs drag M262 across the Blue Parkway concrete arch bridge on Kansas City's east side, built in 1928 as part of a major realignment of the KCS mainline in the 1920s and one of four major trestles on the mainline coming out of Knoche. EMD supremacy is on full display here, a nod to the era between the early 1960s and mid-1990s when KCS remained a strictly-EMD railroad.