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This colorful mountain stream was seen in western North Carolina near the town of Andrews. See this, and more, on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
Photographing the Blakeney rapids area on a mild winter day.
Using a very dark filter for this 20 second exposure caused the trees to turn into an orangish/red colour.
According to Wikipedia, Nirukta of Yaska, it is the name of a mythical stream that is supposed to flow round the earth and the atmosphere. I think it also flows thru Washington :D
Bubbles, bubbles, they do stream
Tiny bubbles, filled with dreams
Flowing fast, flowing slow
Past the trees, watch them go
Under skies stretching high
Bubbles leap, bubbles fly
Filled with hopes, wild dreams
Into the future the bubble streams
This was our first sighting of water along the trail during this Nature Walk with Ned Harris and his Merry Band Sabino Canyon Volunteers. ( I made up the name. (;-) )
Flowing water in the desert is always exciting. Sabino Canyon is a unique place. It allows you to see desert and riparian flora and fauna right next to each other. Amazing!!
Plus, condensing water from the fog's humid air created some unexpected and sensational sights.
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I finished this top right before the quilt guild meeting, and ran outside to take a picture during sunset, so it's not the greatest picture.
I'll probably write a blog post when this is totally done explaining the process (which involved drafting and printing a very large paper-pieced pattern and a whole heck of a lot of cursing).
The idea behind it was based on the Madrona Road fabric line being about telling a story. When we tell stories, the listeners picture things in their heads based on the words, and I wanted to capture that in a quilt. The idea is that the words from the background are describing and bringing the other prints into being.
After I took this photo but before I developed it and saw the results I had a dream that the room around me transformed into an open pasture with green grass, clouds hovering around my feet, and a stream much like this one flowing from far beyond where I could see. My Mom-mom Lucy, who passed a few years ago, visited me in that dream.
Dreams are just one form that the bridge that connects us to the invisible world takes. I encourage you to understand your spirit as well as your body.
Wild colours , cascading away
Twirling , swirling on the waves they play
Racing fast, floating slow
Swimming the stream, as they flow
Between the shores, where they shine
In natures cup, a beautiful wine
That eyes watch as they play
On the waves cascading away
In Glacier National Park, in Montana there are a lot of amazing places. This was a smaller waterfall on the Trail of Cedars. I had seen many images of this fall and many looked the same because there was only one place to see the fall, from a boardwalk bridge that crosses this stream on a trail. Hard to shoot with a tripod because the bridge shakes all the time. If you can get 30 seconds without a flood of people coming by it would be ok.
So that's the image and the location. But its the people I wanted to tell you about because I am not sure I can ever look at this image without thinking about the unique interaction I had in this location. I happened to be wearing a Star Wars shirt this day. No biggie. But it was enough for me to apparently snare the attenuation of a unique dude. I am standing there shooting and I approached by a dude. Not odd, I thought he was going to talk about photography, but no. It was my shirt that provided the fodder for the discussion that ensued. He asked if I liked Star Wars. Sure, I am American. It was then that I looked up and saw this fella. He was wearing a long sleeved, thick wool button shirt that looked like a jet black Sergent Pepper kind of shirt. His shorts were black, with fringes, yeah, that's the only way I can describe it, fringes. His hair looked like a young Weird Al fro. And then, the most important part, he had what appeared to be a lightsaber hanging form his belt. So he must be a kid, right. No, he was about 29. It got stranger. He asked if I studied the ways of the force. Uhhhh. How does one respond to something like that. I said, I study the ways of the Canon, gesturing to my camera. His face was ashen. You could tell he was not kidding. He then looked up to the trees and said "I am a Jedi. I like to come here because I can feel the force flowing in the trees here." "Oh yeah?" I said. Then he could apprently feel my longing to be like him, he looked into my eyes and said "I can give you some good hyperlinks to places on the web that can help you understand the ways of the force." You could REALLY tell he was very serious. He then looked at my kids and said, "ah, the padawans." Ok, I did not want Sergent Pepper-Jedi-Weird-Al anywhere near my kids. My son spotted the lightsaber. Oh crap, here we go. "Is that real?" asked my 9 year old. "Ok, we have to get going now, it was nice meeting a Jedi, but we have to run." How could I possibly end this interaction any other way, even at the risk of offending his religion, I had to say "May the Force be with you." You would think I just gave him a present. He lit up and beamed back, "and to you."
It talked all kinds I guess. In hind sight I should have chatted more with him.
These bell shaped flowers are on a small tree at the Elcon Mall in Tucson, Arizona, Southwestern USA.
I don't know what this tree is. Help would be appreciated.
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Regards from Kebnekaise. We just spent little under a week in the region of Kebnekaise performing day hikes and hiking to the summit of Kebnekaise. The weather was not very good during the week, but I managed to capture a few rough and interesting scenes! You can see the peak Tuolpagorni in the background through the misty clouds.
Final image is a vertorama (vertical panorama) of two shots taken with Lee 0.9 GND hard edge (controlling sky exposure) and 0.9 ND (slowing the water motion).
My Favorite Landscapes (set) | The North - Lapland (set) | Panoramas (set)