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I spent ten hours exploring deep into the Moremi Game Reserve and lucked out with the close encounters with the wildlife.
This female leopard was hunting an impala about 75 yards behind us. She crossed the trail about 30 ft in front. She was the first of many closeups during the day.
Published in AFRICA REVISITED 2019, August 2019 and in Haiku in Black and White, 2021, desaturated.
© Photos by Pharos 2019
Blue Ridge Mountains view while hiking down Mount Mitchell. The trail starts at Black Mountain Campground and is 5.5 miles ascending around 3600 feet to the summit. Mt Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi river.
Climbing on top of the stone house adds to the excitement of an already great view along the Sandia Crest trail...Sandia mts. of New Mexico
Ouachita trail between mile markers 182 and 183, where the trail (heading east) descends into Brown Creek valley. Fall here doesn't have much red. The oaks turn brown. Blackgum and maples show some red, but there aren't many here. The predominant tree here is hickory, which turns brilliant yellow in the fall (at least here).
Olympus EP2, Oly 9-18mm (lens)
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I'd say it was the most welcome of all the sounds that I've heard of late. Tree frogs, calling out to their potential mates as I walked along the Sangamon Valley Trail this afternoon.
It was a beautiful sunny day, dampened only by the temperatures in the mid-40's but with a biting wind that gusted into the 20+ miles per hour range. That wind was cut by the tree-lined path, but walking the parts that were open, I had to grit my teeth and bear up under it's buffeting, chilly breezes.
Then I heard the frogs, coming up ahead of me in a low-lying ditch that was full of running water. I got goose-bumps, I tell ya. That's a sure sign of spring to this prairie boy. As I got closer, I could distinguish the groups of them, call and responding to each other's shout-outs. Just as I was about even with the first group, it fell instantly silent, doing their best to hide from the passing monster - me.
This rushing spring, was carrying the run-off water from last week's record-breaking snow that is fully melted. Everything is just about to burst out in green shoots. Some already have sprouted, as you can see the water-grass in the stream that was abundant.
I'll likely come to find the thousands of calling frogs of summer to be an occasional irritant, but today, they're sounding like the clarion call of the first coming of spring.
First effort at a star trail picture.
325 x 30 second exposures over nearly 4 hours (starting just after 11pm), the longest spell that the 2 batteries in my grip could last for. Unfortunately the house behind's security light came on twice in the 1st hour, so this is around 3 hours in total.
The Apache Trail, highway #88, was built to provide access for equipment to build several reservoirs to provide a water supply for Phoenix. Today the Apache Trail is part of a very scenic drive into the Superstition Mountains, which is in the Tonto National Forest and the Sonoran desert. Is there a contradiction here, a forest in a desert? The more prominent "trees (?)" here seem to be Saguaro cacti, only found in the Sonoran desert.
The kids are back in school today, so this weekend my buddy @ReggieMiller and I decided to take one last ride up on Union Pass before things get too busy. We have both been on many of the trails in the area, but it was our first chance to head up to Moon Lake. So, we packed up the 4 wheelers, some snacks, our two youngest kiddos and away we went.
I enjoy these types of trips most of all. Ones where you are out to "see what there is to see". Trying to find out what is just around that next corner or over that next hill. Pictured is a bit of what we found...a fun trail, spectacular high mountain scenery, with some fishing and photography mixed in.
The more of these mountains I see, the more I realize I haven't seen anything.
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We crossed paths on Kingston's K&P rail trail on a beautiful sunny day. She was hiking north and I was riding south on my bicycle. She paused for me to ask about her hike. Meet Sam.
She explained she was on a 4 day hike from Kingston to the town of Verona (30 km). No stranger to hiking, she said she spends many of her vacations on hiking trails and a 4 day hike is no big deal.
I asked where she overnights and she pulled out what looked like a government topographical map and explained there are spots along the trail that allow hikers to camp. (I have never noticed them.) She said she has a carefully planned itinerary and is carrying all her food, along with her camping gear, in her heavy-looking backpack. "It's only heavy because this is day 1. As I eat the food, it will get lighter and lighter."
When I asked Sam if I could make a portrait of her for my Human Family photo project, she enthusiastically agreed. "I'd be happy to, if, in exchange, you take a photo of me with my camera too. Fair enough?" The deal was struck and the photos were taken.
Sam is 35 and lives in Kingston, but explained she grew up in Canada's Maritime Provinces. When I asked what she does when she's not hiking, she didn't know where to start. "I've been a cook, done helicopter maintenance, I'm an artist, and I'm a caretaker for Belle Island, among other things." When I said, "So, you're a Sam of all trades" she replied "Pretty much."
Sam was friendly but had a serious, somewhat no-nonsense manner. Her message to the project is "People are too attached to technology and screens and not attached enough to each other and nature." She noted that her cell phone is her accommodation to the age of technology. She said she takes lots of nature photos with her phone and showed me a beautiful close-up of an owl. "That was actually taken just with this phone."
Sam was really pleased with the photos I had taken and gave me her email so I can send them. She was most appreciative of my taking a portrait on her phone.
I said I was glad we had met and she said she was too. As she disappeared down the trail, I turned back to get a photo of her en route toward Verona.
Thank you, Sam, for participating in my photo project. You are my 941st submission to The Human Family Group.
You can see more street portraits of strangers and read their stories by visiting The Human Family.
Experimenting with a slow shutter speed at night on the bridge of a motorway (Shake may be included - no tripod)
Daily Image: 17 Mar 2012
Sometimes the places we're most afraid to tread, are exactly the paths we need to travel. They bring adventure, new discoveries, new opportunities for knowing ourselves.
Old Trail Town is located in Cody, Wyoming--gateway to Yellowstone Park's East entrance. Cody is in the heart of the "American West."
I tried to make out what it said ..but could only read part of it ...sounds like it was a will of sorts,because he was going to have a shoot-out with someone ..
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Department photo
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources dedicated a half-mile trail loop at North Point State Park in honor of a former public servant and avid bicyclist, Steven L. Kreseski.
A native and resident of Baltimore City, Kreseski served three years as chief of staff for former Governor Robert Ehrlich Jr. and was his legislative director on Capitol Hill from 1995 to 2003. Kreseski passed away in 2015 at the age of 58 from pulmonary fibrosis, a hereditary lung disease.
The sun shining through mist in the trees while hiking the Sun Trail to the Tourist Club. We parked the car in the Muir Woods parking lot and made a loop of it, though it can be a bit harder on the way back after a couple pints of beer.
View from Bear Mountain Trail panorama.