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The fire tower atop Gile Mountain outside of Norwich, VT, offers some incredible views of the Upper Valley. Here as the sun sets, the rain clouds roll in to the north.
Shot on the Sony a6000, Rokinon 12mm lens, ISO 100, 1/640s exposure.
Upper Antelope Canyon is not a leisurely landscape stroll... plenty of tourists in a confined space, the photographers guide did a great job of traffic control to get this image. A tripod and long exposure was necessary to capture the details of the eroded rock through the depth of the view. I still retained a higher ISO to keep the exposure time low as the group had to move through the canyon at a reasonable pace ahead of the crowds.
Exposure Details: ISO 800; 24mm; f/9; 1.3 sec
The Upper Fall of the Yellowstone River in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming / USA.
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Der oberer Wasserfall im Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming / USA.
The first stop in our superbrief tour of convenient Idaho diversions was Upper Mesa Falls, located along the Mesa Falls Scenic By-way on the Henry Fork River in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. (If we do get into this national forest thing, I'll have to assemble another flickr collection. And that would just be one more thing for me to obsess over.) The falls are about 200-feet wide and tumble 114 feet over a lip of Mesa Falls Tuff.
Tuff is a type of rock formed from the compacted ash produced in rhyolitic volcanic eruptions, or explosive volcanoes. Think Mt. St. Helens. The Mesa Falls Tuff originated with the volcanic eruption of the Henry Fork Caldera about 1.3 million years ago. The Henry Fork Caldera was a supervolcano formed by the Yellostone Hot Spot. Think Mt. St. Helens times a million. The hot spot has gone off one more time since, 640,000 years ago, producing the much more famous (and more obvious) Yellowstone Caldera.