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Southeastern inland: Mammoth Mountain Dead Forest … where the CO2 gas seeped up from below to kill the trees. Posted warnings tell parents and pet owners to keep little ones away. (See https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/facts-sheet/GasKillingTrees.html )
“And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down”
Becky’s Squares — July #TreeSquared
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July 25, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , Landscapes , The Book | Tags: California , Dead Forest , death , Isaiah , Mammoth Mt , SquareUp , trees | Leave a comment
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When you can’t ski down … pull up a seat! Summer at Northstar
Pull Up a Seat – 2021 Week 30 – July 23
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July 23, 2021 | Categories: Challenges , DSLR Shots , Photography , Play | Tags: California , Pull Up a Seat , skiing , summer | 6 Comments
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Inland Northern trail near Mt. Shasta, laboring up the dusty trail, hot and sweaty. But look up, where “… over everything the glory will be a canopy.”
Becky’s Squares – July #TreeSquared
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July 17, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , Nature , The Book | Tags: hiking , Isaiah , Mt. Shasta , SquareUp , summer | 13 Comments
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Pull up a seat on the beach at Lake Tahoe.
Pull up a Seat — Week 28 July 9
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #155 — On the water
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July 12, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words , Challenges , DSLR Shots , Places | Tags: boats , dawn , escapes , Lake Tahoe , Lens-Artists Challenge , Pull Up a Seat , quiet , summer , water | 3 Comments
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Coastal mossy madrona along the Dipsea Trail. ” … how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest?” Or a blanket of moss from leaves?
Becky’s Squares July — #TreeSquared
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July 5, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words , Cell shots , Challenges , Nature , The Book | Tags: Ezekiel , fog , hiking , quiet , SquareUp , trails | 16 Comments
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Azalea or rhododendron? “Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come …”
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Six Word Saturday
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June 26, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words , Challenges , Cityscapes , DSLR Shots , Nature , The Book | Tags: #6WS , #SixWordSaturday , beautiful , fences , FOTD , solarized , Song of Songs | 10 Comments
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Looking south from the trail …
Or looking north from the top of The Nipple, “I see skies of blue” above the Pacific Crest Trail.
Weekend Sky
It’s a Wonderful World — Lens-Artists Challenge #15
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June 20, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , Landscapes , Places , Skyscapes | Tags: clouds , hiking , Lens-Artists Challenge , mountains , PCT , summer , Weekend Sky | Leave a comment
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Texture on the hiking trail
Texture of light and brick in Sacramento
CFFC — Texture
Which Way Photo Challenge
And what about the elastic texture of time? It flies smoothly when having fun, yet drags roughly when dutifully dogging work.
I’ve not had time to capture or create an image to express this taffy-pull challenge of returning to work, that necessary reality tugging time from photography. And, therein lies the rub of my existential Which Way Photo Challenge: take time to make a living or make time to take a photo.
All hail the end of the COVID-battical!
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April 18, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words , Cell shots , Challenges , Cityscapes , DSLR Shots , Nature , Photography | Tags: bark , CFFC , close-up , country , hiking , humor , musings , photographers , Sacramento , texture , trails , Which Way Photo | 6 Comments
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Looking into the window of a lighting shop in Sacramento.
Early sun landing on the airport hangar rooftops in Truckee, as seen through the window.
Carol’s Cheerful Selfie Challenge
Becky’s Squares — BrightSquare
Monday Window
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April 11, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , Cityscapes , DSLR Shots | Tags: #Selfie Saturday , light , Monday Window , natural light , rooftops , Sacramento , SquareUp , Truckee , windows | 4 Comments
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“May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ”: “‘… my disciple must … take up their cross and follow me …’ ‘… learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.’”
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April 6, 2021 | Categories: DSLR Shots , The Book | Tags: churches , cross , Easter , Galations , Jesus , Mark , Matthew , musings , solarized | Leave a comment
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Last full moon waning — last on the DSLR
Last trail trekked — last on the cell camera
Bushboy’s Last Photo Challenge — March
Just One Person From Around the World — ThatTravelLadyInHerShoes
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April 1, 2021 | Categories: Activities , Cell shots , Challenges , DSLR Shots , Landscapes , Nature , People , Skyscapes | Tags: Eagle Pass Trail , hiking , natural light , solitude , The Last Photo , trails | 3 Comments
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All out of gas
not that it matters when you break down on the trail
Oh, scrap!
CFFC — Rusty or Decayed
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March 30, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , DSLR Shots | Tags: abstracts , bits n pieces , CFFC , endings , hiking , machines , rusty , texture | 5 Comments
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“make artistic designs for work in … silver”
Color Your World: Silver
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March 21, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , DSLR Shots , The Book | Tags: branches , coloryourworld , Exodus , natural light , silver , trees | 5 Comments
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Texture and spots … lines and dots … brown and dirty … ghostly Bodie, CA.
Monday Windows — March 15
Challenge Your Camera #11: Still Life
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March 15, 2021 | Categories: Challenges , Cityscapes , DSLR Shots , Places | Tags: #challengeyourcamera , abstracts , Bodie , brown , Monday Window , still life , texture | 8 Comments
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Initially posted in color in April 2014, I just converted the above image into a black and white pencil sketch.
First posted in September 2012 in black and white, this Yosemite view has long been one of my favorites.
Previously in de-saturated color in December 2012, the lines and texture seem to pop better in black and white.
Sundays Stills: Black and White Challenge
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March 14, 2021 | Categories: Art , Challenges , Cityscapes , DSLR Shots , Landscapes | Tags: #SundayStills , abstracts , birds , black and white , close-up , lines , sculpture , whimsy , Yosemite | 12 Comments
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After seeing real rainy pics, I began playing, or should I sing, “Dancing in the rain!”?
Sunday Stills — March 7
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March 7, 2021 | Categories: Art , Challenges , DSLR Shots , People , Play , Skyscapes | Tags: #aftertherain , #SundayStills , dancers , edited | 10 Comments
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After the rain, as the day ends, the setting sun ignites the clearing clouds.
Sunday Stills — March 7
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March 7, 2021 | Categories: Challenges , DSLR Shots , Nature , Skyscapes | Tags: #aftertherain , #SundayStills , clouds , endings , sunset | 15 Comments
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Early evidence of warmer days grows between a rock and a hard freeze.
Six Word Saturday — March 6
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March 6, 2021 | Categories: Challenges , DSLR Shots , Landscapes , Seasons | Tags: #6WS , #SixWordSaturday , daffodils , light , morning , spring , winter | 2 Comments
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“… the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
Weekend Sky #19 — March 6 (somewhere)
Lens — Artist Challenge #135: A Glimpse into my World A Photo a Week Challenge: Something New
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March 5, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words , Challenges , DSLR Shots , Landscapes , Skyscapes , The Book | Tags: 2 Corinthians , beautiful , clouds , creation , dawn , musings , praiseworthy | 11 Comments
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Outdoor dining at Winnemucca Lake, Round Top Mountain ahead
Brian (aka Bushboy) — Last on the Cell
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February 28, 2021 | Categories: 1000 words , Cell shots , Nature , Play , Seasons | Tags: escapes , mountains , quiet , snowshoeing , The Last Photo , winter | Leave a comment
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For every bark, there is a season.
“a season for every activity under the heavens: … a time to uproot …
… a time to tear down …
… a time to scatter …
… a time to embrace … and a time for peace.”
CFFC – Bark
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February 26, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots , Challenges , DSLR Shots , Nature , Seasons , The Book | Tags: bark , bits n pieces , CFFC , Ecclesiastes , lifecycles , meditations | 11 Comments
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… on the moss tops of the rocks outside my window today, teasing me to catch the light as it danced into and reflected from the moss. I never quite tagged it.
“Come and see the works of God, Who is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of man.”
Lens Artists Challenge #135: A Glimpse Into Your World
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February 20, 2021 | Categories: Landscapes , Nature , Play , The Book | Tags: #aftertherain , Gnosis , light , Psalms , rocks | 9 Comments
