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Happy Tuesday everyone!!
Explored on August 18th, 2009 | #156 Thanks all, couldn't have done it without you~
Reflections from Sankey Valley park, St Helens, Merseyside. Taken for the HiFi Wigwam photo challenge.
Reflections in a wall of the Sponsor Village in Torino in the period of the XX Olympic Winter Games - Torino2006
Reflection Canyon is a side canyon of Glen Canyon, now the controversial reservior Lake Powell, and its name can be seen on the USGS 7.5' topo map. Its beautiful curves and contrast between water and sandstone walls were first captured by National Geographic photographer Michael Melford in spring 2005, when the water level of Lake Powell hit its lowest since it had been filled in 1970s. It squeezed my curiosity again last October, when Melford's photo featured in the Retina display of Apple's newest generation of 13" Macbook Pro. I first thought this secret location can be only reached by boat -- there was a boat passing through the canyon in Melford's original work. Surprisingly, after simply googled the name, I read a (not-so-successful) trip report of hiking to the exact spot by German photographer/hiker Rainer Grosskopf. He was able to got there after negotiated a strenuous 8-mile (then doubled to make roundtrip) hike on rough terrain without any trail or mark, but the water level was significantly higher than that of 2005, making it more like a large pond instead of curving waterway. The water level is much lower now, but it is still 50' higher than Melford's luck, making me not couragous enough to take the risk with my limited travel opportunity, so the plan was put aside indefinitely until a couple of weeks ago, when I saw Chen Su from Kansas, posted a photo of Reflection Canyon with decent water level, on the social network website Renren. He followed the GPS waypoints shared by Grosskopf and told me it was indeed a tough adventure. Although I was pretty confident in finding route and hiking long distance in the southwest desert environment, still I thought going alone would be too risky. I grabbed Kai Song (Bro Bing) as the partner, together with two of his friends we formed a group of four and tackled the route on a sunny spring day. We were definitely stunned when we overcame the last obstacle and the surreal view filled our eyes. The resulting snapshot was not as perfect as Melford's -- the water level was still about 40' higher than the lowest thus the rock fins connecting the walls and buttes were still under water -- I still feel content and proud for seeing it with my own eyes after such an unforgettable adventure.
Reflections in the waters of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal in Burnley
Burnley, Lancashire, UK
SWJuk (2025)
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Reflection on wet street spotted at Knez Mihailova street in Belgrade, Serbia on a cold December morning.
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
I did the same shot 2 years ago and when I saw the challenge this week was 'reflection' I thought I'd try and re-enact it.
The Cascade Lakes are a collection of 12 lakes and two reservoirs the Cascade Range in central Oregon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Lakes Davis Lake is at the south end. I once took the sail canoe here and sailed a full circle round the shore and never had to tack upwind. The wind just shifted a lot to allow that. This day there was no wind so I just enjoyed reflections and the birds.
Haven't posted one of these for a while..
Another enjoyable lunch by the harbour, under a warm winter sun.
And the water was just right for reflection pics.
So ...
This was a shot taken from Latitude in Gloucester - a nice restaraunt we went to this summer - never uploaded any photos! I have so many I totally forgot about! We sat on the deck so we had a great view of the bay and all the fishing boats (ships really).
I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend!!! We got some gorgeous snow.. hoping to get some shots!!!
I thought I would have more time since I'm off my project but I'm really busy at work too training on different things!!!! Not complaining though.. I love learning new things!!!!!!!