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We walked Ruby down to Maynards Green just before it really rained it was cloudy and spitting with rain. I liked the image of the couple on the trail and then the fungi caught my eye all hiding in the undergrowth and with very little light all are dark but the one bright image is of the convolvulus flower covered in rain drops.
Virginia Creeper Trial between White Top Mountain and Damascus, VA.
I took a few too many photos to "light up" the bike trail with my new GPS tracker.
Alkali Flat Trail, White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Ricoh KR-5, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7
Kodak Gold 200
Inner Basin Trail in the San Francisco Peaks at the start of fall color season, 2017. In the Inner Basin, the interior valley of the San Francisco Peaks, hikers are treated to a view of all the highest peaks of the San Francisco Peaks.
Photo taken September 20, 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Credit U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest.
Huawei P30 star trail mode, 32 minute exposure facing SSW. Various satellites and the odd Lyrid meteor.
The Lookout (Red Blaze) trail climbs to the top of "Le Grande Hill", the mountain overlooking Oakland and Pompton Lakes NJ. While the view is somewhat limited here, it is in no part any less spectacular. The NY Skyline is visible in the distance. Much of Bergen County and parts of Passaic County are visible from here
The studio is cooking... kiln firing up for the night, torch hissing, saw singing, and bench tops coated in fun bits and pieces. I know this is a slight departure from where I have been, but damn I really, really hope you come with me.
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Trail Marker Brooch
Cast Fern
Hollow Form
Fossilized Mammoth Tusk
The trail passes through dynamic ecosystems, shaped by a history of active glaciation and erosion. The Taiya River flats serve as a habitat for black and brown bears, traveling between hillside dens and feeding during the annual runs of spawning salmon.
Backpacking along the Superior Trail in Minnesota with my brother (left) and his son.
The extra weight of my camera is always worth it!
(See links) Although businesses occasionally purchased the Frozen Head area for its natural resources throughout the 19th-century, the area remained largely undisturbed until the state of Tennessee purchased it in 1894 for the location of Brushy Mountain State Prison. The state hoped to use convict labor to mine the Cumberlands' ample coal resources, with the heavy forest providing wood for construction of mine shafts. In 1911, the Emory River Lumber Company purchased the Frozen Head area and cut most of the forest's commercial timber. Major logging operations in the forest commenced in 1925.
The Cumberlands Brushy Mountain, more than a prison
Into Ruin The Brushy Mtn. State Mines – 70 Years of Hard Labor
Coal mining in the South - the history of labor at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Frozen Head State Park & coal mining history
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary - Wikipedia
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The Fascinating Story Behind Frozen Head State Park
Frozen Head State Park - Wikipedia
The Prison Mine Trail is a trail thats off of the Lookout Tower Trail which is a service road connecting Armes Gap with trail junctions atop Frozen Head mountain. The Brushy Mtn Prison Coal Mine trail (formerly a haul road). Prisoners at Brushy Mountain State Prison once hand dug coal beneath Frozen Head, and the mines operated until the 1960's. An old railroad tram led down the mountain to the prison. Imagine the toiling that went on here. This is a short hike on a gated dirt road, from Armes Gap on Route 116, to the old prison coal mines above Brushy Mountain Prison (or State Correctional Facility, or Penitentiary). Although not listed as an official camp site on the (1993) Frozen Head State Park trail map.
Two-story guard or control building. A thick iron cable and wooden rail ties remain on the ground near the mine entrance. The cable goes from the mine entrance to the two-story building. Topographic maps show a cable previously went down the mountain to the prison below.
Frozen Head State Park and Natural Area is a state park in Morgan County, Tennessee. The park, situated in the Crab Orchard Mountains between the city of Wartburg and the community of Petros, contains some of the highest mountains in Tennessee west of the Blue Ridge.
Frozen Head State Park consists of approximately 24,000 acres, all but 330 acres of which is classified as a state natural area. The terrain varies between 1,300 ft to over 3,000 ft with 14 peaks at or over 3,000 feet. Frozen Head, the park's namesake, is the highest peak at 3,324 feet.
The mountain's name comes from its snow-capped appearance in colder months. The park's highest elevations allow for unobstructed views of East Tennessee's three main physio-graphic features: the Cumberland Plateau, the Tennessee Valley, and across the valley, the Great Smoky Mountains.
Petros, TN. 112419.
My first try at capturing star trails
Approx 300-400 pictures over the course of an hour
Video from the image sequence: vimeo.com/49988030
Participants of the Night Photography Workshop practice three different techniques for shooting star trails at the Radford planetarium before heading out later that night for the real thing.
I think if we were riding a bike we'd either have missed a bunch of this scenery or we'd have hit a bunch of stuff and fallen down a lot. Places like this, I'd rather be walking.
Moab's Slickrock Trail has been on our to-do list for a while but with it's worldwide reputation as a mountain bike Mecca, it's mobbed with bikers in season. Dodging flying motorcycles and MTB's is not much fun for hikers and it's their trail anyway, so we've stayed away. But there we were, off season this time, so we gave it a try.
It was fan-freakin-tastic, and that's by Moab's already high standards. There were just enough bikers to add interest and with the snowy mountains as backdrop to the slickrock, it was a visual paradise. I wound up with so many photos I liked that I had trouble culling out the losers. Winding up with about twenty photos you like from one day of hiking? That's a good day!
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Thanksgiving time again, and we were off to find somewhere different to hike.
This year: Moab.
I'm extending the break from posting the summer photos to post the ones from our Thanksgiving trip to Moab. Sunny, (relatively) warm, great hiking, a good getaway.
At the rate I'm going, it's gonna take until February to get the summer photos up anyway, so why not take a break and post something timely?
This trail is actually remains of an old road that once took Model T Fords to the top of the San Francisco Peaks. The road has since been closed to vehicle traffic to protect the area's alpine environment, and the upper reaches of the mountain have been set aside as the Kachina Peaks Wilderness Area so forest visitors can enjoy its panoramic views in the relative seclusion and natural surroundings such an area provides.
Along the steady but gradual climb, views stretch to Oak Creek Canyon and the Verde Valley over fifty miles away. Trailside vegetation changes as elevation increases, from ponderosa pine to more alpine species such as limber pine, corkbark fir, and bristlecone pine. On this summer day in early August, monsoon rains had the trail bursting with colorful wildflowers, including lupine, vetch, fleabane, aster, paintbrush, wild geraniums, and sunflowers.
Photo taken August 2, 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Source: U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest. Learn more about the Weatherford Trail #102 and the Coconino National Forest for more information.
www.sapadventures.com/ The Inca Trail is a magnificent, well preserved Inca Trail route which connects Machu Picchu with what once were other regions of the Inca Empire, and today it is one of the world’s most popular treks. This four-day walk goes from the highlands of 4,200mts and down through the cloud forests to finally arrive at Machu Picchu - 2,380mts.
DAY 01. - Between 06:00 and 06:30 we pick you up at your hotel in our private bus. Ensure you have your original passport and ISIC student card (if applicable – for a discount on entree fee to Machu Picchu).
The journey by bus to km 82 (the starting point for the Inca Trail) takes approximately 3 hours. Once we get there and are all ready to go, this first day will have us walking mostly through the valley. It starts at 2380m with a small climb to a plateau overlooking the Incan site of Llactapata and rewards you with superb views of Mount Veronica. Walking times are always approximate depending on weather conditions, group ability and other factors, but generally you will walk about 2-3 hours before lunch. Then after lunch we walk on just past the village of Wayllabamba to reach our first campsite at 3000m.
Approx 14km, 6 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 02. - Day 2 is the most difficult day as you Inca Trail walk from about 3000m to 4200m — the highest pass of the trek (known as Dead Woman’s Pass – but don’t be discouraged!). You can walk at your own pace and stop to get your breath whenever you like. You’ll find your energy returns once you continue down to the valley of Pacaymayo, where we camp at 3600m.
You can hire a porter from the village of Wayllabamba to carry your pack to the top of this pass for approximately 70 soles. If you wish to do so you must organize and pay this money directly to the person who carries your items, and please check your belongings upon receiving them at the end of this service as these people are not Sap Adventures staff.
This is the coldest night at Inca Trail; between +2/+4 degrees Celsius (in December) and -3/-5 degrees Celsius (in June). Approx 12km, 7 hours walking this day at Inca Trail.
DAY 03.- Day 3 is exceptionally beautiful because of the ruins you will witness and the incredible stone Inca Trail you walk one, and also because there is a lot more downhill than uphill! However, there are about 2000 stairs descending from the ruins of Phuyupatamarca to those of Wiñaywayna, so take care with your knees. If you have had knee or ankle injuries an extra porter is recommended so that you are not carrying extra weight and overstressing your joints. There is a guided tour of all the ruins on the way. Camping is usually at Wiñaywayna 2700 mtrs.
Take extra care of your personal belongings at this campsite as all the tours campsites are nearby. As usual, always keep your daypack containing your valuables with you. The only hot shower on the Inca Trail is on this third night at Wiñaywayna. There is a hostel near the campsite with an 8min hot shower for 5 soles, and a bar and restaurant where you can purchase bottled water.
Approx 16km, 6 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
DAY 04.- We get up extremely early to arrive at the magical Intipunku "The Gate of the Sun" as the first rays begin illuminating the lost city of Machu Picchu down bellow. A further 20 min walk down from here takes us to the famous view from the terraces at the end of the trail. It is a good time to take pictures before the 10:30 crowds arrive. Your tour of Machu Picchu should last about 2 hours and finish between 10:30 and 11:00am. Then you have free time to climb Huayna Picchu if you wish (This is the famous peak in the background of most images of Machu Picchu. The trek is about 90 minutes). A maximum of 400 hikers can climb this mountain per day so if you are determined then start immediately after your tour! Or, of course, you may simply just collapse under a tree and quietly reflect in amazement at the mystery, the architectural achievement and beauty of Machu Picchu.
From Machu Picchu, it is a pleasant walk through sub-tropical jungle down to Aguas Calientes (about 45 mins), but if you are weary you may also take a bus – the $7 bus ticket is included and your guide will give you the ticket.
Once in Aguas Calientes you can have a hot shower, and then store your backpack while you go to have lunch, visit the hot springs or shop around the village.
If you are not extending your stay for one night in Aguas Calientes*, you will leave around 6pm to return to Cusco by train or by a combination of train & bus. Please note that during the high season there are a number of different departure times for the trains that run only to Ollantaytambo, from where buses run onwards till Cusco. The type of return journey depends simply on availability. You will arrive back in Cusco around 9 - 9.30pm.
Approx 7km, 2 hours walking this day on Inca Trail.
Abineau Trail is a steep 1,800 foot climb over two miles up the slopes of the San Francisco Peaks through Abineau Canyon. The trail meets the Waterline Trail at the top, which can be followed down to Bear Jaw Trail to return to the trailhead. Each leg of the loop is around two miles long, plus a 0.4 mile connector trail from the trailhead to the loop, making a total loop hike of seven miles. The loop is one of the quintessential autumn hikes in the San Francisco Peaks. Aspens along all three legs of the loop turn gold, and falling leaves carpet the forest floor and decorate the conifers.
A storm system passed through the area October 4-7, 2015, raining at lower elevations and snowing on the upper reaches of the San Francisco Peaks. The snow-capped Peaks were a wonderful treat after the few days grey, cloudy, wet weather that had put a damper on outdoor activity.
Photo by Deborah Lee Soltesz, October 8, 2015. Credit: U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest. For more information about this trail, see the Abineau-Bear Jaw Loop trail description on the Coconino National Forest website.
Took a number of photo's of smoke trails and combined them into various pictures. Everyone will probably see something different in them.
Abineau Trail is a steep 1,800 foot climb over two miles up the slopes of the San Francisco Peaks through Abineau Canyon. The trail meets the Waterline Trail at the top, which can be followed down to Bear Jaw Trail to return to the trailhead. Each leg of the loop is around two miles long, plus a 0.4 mile connector trail from the trailhead to the loop, making a total loop hike of seven miles. The loop is one of the quintessential autumn hikes in the San Francisco Peaks. Aspens along all three legs of the loop turn gold, and falling leaves carpet the forest floor and decorate the conifers.
A storm system passed through the area October 4-7, 2015, raining at lower elevations and snowing on the upper reaches of the San Francisco Peaks. The snow-capped Peaks were a wonderful treat after the few days grey, cloudy, wet weather that had put a damper on outdoor activity.
Photo by Deborah Lee Soltesz, October 8, 2015. Credit: U.S. Forest Service, Coconino National Forest. For more information about this trail, see the Abineau-Bear Jaw Loop trail description on the Coconino National Forest website.
Travel Utah’s Beautiful Backcountry Along the Burr Trail
Located just outside the northeast region of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Bullfrog, the Burr Trail offers excitement for the adventurous explorer. Views of features like the Henry Mountains, Waterpocket Fold, the red Circle Cliffs, Long Canyon, and Pedestal Alley await the traveler who wishes to explore this interesting road. To fully enjoy the journey always be well prepared. Make sure you have plenty of water, a first aid kit, proper footwear, sunscreen, a hat and a means of communication.
History of the Trail
John Atlantic Burr was born in 1846, during his family’s journey from New York to San Francisco on the SS Brooklyn while sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. Once they arrived, Charles and Sarah Burr then set out to Salt Lake City with their new baby. As part of the early pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Burr family eventually moved south in 1876 and founded the town of Burrville, Utah.
John Burr grew up to be a cattle rancher in the rugged backcountry of Utah. Living in such a desolate area, he needed to develop a route to move his cattle between winter and summer ranges, as well as to market. This cattle trail through the rough, nearly impassible country around the Waterpocket Fold, Burr Canyon, and Muley Twist Canyon came to be known as the Burr Trail.
Source: National Park Service
The cross country ski trail travels through tall trees covered in snow. Do you see the skier in the distance?
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Each of these shots are of the same item, a trail in the back part of my land.
However I had to try more than one version as this shot begged for some different looks.
Hackbart Rd., just outside of Waterloo, Ontario. Not too bad for an orange zone. The breaks in the trails are from covering the lens each time a car approached. Public side roads aren't star trail friendly.
This moderate trail climbs 163 ft. in 0.5 miles to the edge of Zion Canyon. From the end of the trail you stand 1,000 ft. above the canyon floor and find sweeping views of the Towers of the Virgin, the Streaked Wall, and the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway switchbacks down below. The Canyon Overlook Trailhead is located on the east side of the park, just past the Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel. NPS Photo
Trail of purple Rhododendron at the Hicks Nurseries Flower & Garden Show in Westbury, New York (NY), United States (USA). #longisland #newyork #usa #flowers
Kelsey Spring Trail
2009-04-29: With most of the roads open around Flagstaff and a warm day in store, we decided to hike one of the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness trails. We grabbed Deb Lauman and headed down Woody Mountain Road. Skimming Flagstaff Hikes
and the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness map, we decided to hike Kelsey Trail, which offered the potential for wildflowers according to Flagstaff Hikes. Flagstaff Hikes (5th edition) refers to Kelsey Trail #3 as Kelsey Spring Trail (from the trailhead to the spring) and Kelsey-Winter Cabin Trail (from the Kelsey Spring to Dorsey Spring). The trail sign at the trailhead is labeled Kelsey Winter Trail, and other trail signs are marked Kelsey Tr. No. 3. Additionally, the book refers to Little LO Trail as Geronimo Spring Trail. I haven't looked at the 6th edition of the book yet, which includes 97 trails (the 5th edition lists 146), so I can't speak to the differences between the two editions.
From Kelsey Trailhead and early on in the trail there are great views of Sycamore Canyon. A beaten path heads along the rim of the canyon, heading left from the parking area. We headed down the trail, which dives quickly into the canyon through gorgeous ponderosa pine forest. The trail is well maintained and well marked with signs at the springs and trail junctions. There is evidence of very old tree blazes marking the trail, but these are no longer necessary to follow the trail. Kelsey Spring is approximately 0.5 mile from the trailhead. A pipe from the spring feeds a water trough. The spring was running, and bees and butterflies were flitting around the wet, marshy area surrounding the spring, and the wild flags were beginning to bloom.
Around 1.2 mile from the trailhead is a second spring, Babe's Hole Spring. Based on the map, it's approximately a 700' elevation drop from the trailhead to Babe's Hole Spring. The spring is marked with a sign, and theres a covered stone well protecting the spring. There appear to be irises growing here, but none were blooming yet. The spring was running. Another 0.10 mile from Babe's Hole is the junction of Kelsey and Little L O Trails. Little L O continues another 0.75 mile to bottom of Sycamore Canyon. Hoping for more views, we decided to continue along Kelsey Trail, which runs along the side of the canyon. We stopped at the top of the first rise and ate lunch in the remains of an old campsite.
The New Camera
This was my second real use of my new Pentax K20D. On the first hike using the camera, I'd shot photos in JPEG format, and was fairly pleased with the results. After a few more experiments at home, I decided for this hike to try shooting photos in RAW format instead of JPEG, and was incredibly pleased at the dynamic range I had to work with, collecting images nearly as good as generated HDRs (but without all the work of generating the HDRs). I took a few exposure bracketed shots using my Gorillapod tripod and the camera's wireless remote, and was simply thrilled (my last camera, annoyingly, didn't have a remote).
Once at home, I pulled the RAW photos off the camera and started trying to figure out how to work with them. With my previous cameras, I'd been shooting JPEGs and using a combination of Picasa, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, Autopano Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Image Composite Editor, and Photomatix. However, if I want to continue shooting in RAW (Pentax PEF) format, I need to adjust my workflow a bit. While Picasa can read the raw files, it simply doesn't have the processing tools to create a decent final JPEG product for the web, printing, etc. Currently, I'm still struggling with the workflow, mainly with issues related to editing the metadata and problems with metadata and geotags being read correctly by some of the software packages. As I write this, the metadata in Gallery are pretty messed up, but I haven't determined if there's something wrong with the files, the Picasa export, or Gallery's import of the images. Picasa doesn't seem to be picking up metadata and geotags correctly where the image files have the full blown camera metadata. I may have to drop Picasa and use an alternative upload tool for Gallery.
@schussman recommended Adobe Lightroom, so I downloaded the 30-day trial and used it to process most of the photos from this hike. I really liked Lightroom's processing tools, which make it pretty easy to apply the same processing settings to multiple photos, and therefore, allow me to process a group of images quickly and get them out to the web. It keeps a really good history of all the processing steps for image, and the RAW image itself isn't changed, so I can go back as many times as I want to tweak the processing settings. Lightroom has a nice directory browser (which will also show the contents of subdirectories), and the ability to create catalogs and collections (I didn't play with that). There's also a full metadata editor, a few gallery building options, a fairly powerful batch exporter, and I think there's ways to manage the workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop (I haven't played with that yet either). I don't know if I want to pay the $300 price tag for Lightroom, but I'll keep using it until the trial's up... perhaps I'll fall in love, and won't mind shelling out the cash. The camera came with similar software from Pentax, which I also intend to try out.
Royal Saudi Air Force C-130 Hercules '1624' streams a con-trail as she crosses the South coast tracking a Danish registered Dassault Falcon 7X towards France and beyond.
The 'Herc' was in support of the Saudi Green Flag exercise which had just finished up at RAF Coningsby and this bird and a couple of others had arrived there via East Midlands Airport to take all their support gear home.
Their two A330MRTT Tankers went from RAF Brize Norton and routed out across the Isle of Wight - too far west to be seen from my vantage point with the four Tornados and four Typhoons trailing them on their run back to Saudi.
(Serial tie-up courtesy of SE OTT and others).