Landscapes

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Water Water Everywhere

Shaped and shadowed in snow at Sly Park Lake.

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #108

January 4, 2022 | Categories: Cell shots, Landscapes, Seasons | Tags: challenges, snow, water, WWE | 6 Comments

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The First Day … 1-1-22

Looking ahead … uncharted … untracked … the possibilities are what we make of them.

January 2, 2022 | Categories: Cell shots, Landscapes, People, Seasons | Tags: beginnings, Silent Sunday, snow, water, winter | 3 Comments

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Last view of November

On the trail or on the rails? Which way? Last photo on the DSLR.

The first sign of Christmas shall be the last photo on my cell. As my daughter lives 3,000 miles away, we decorate together by sending cell pics to each other. My mother bought this Nativity set in 1963. Remembering setting it up and turning the key to play its music brings her back to me. This year, looking at the old box’s splitting seams, I noticed the sticker for the first time: Einneitspappkasten? Hachstgawidt? “Made in Germany.”

Brian’s Last on the Card – November 2021

Which Way Photo Challenge – November 26

December 1, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, DSLR, Holiday, Landscapes | Tags: Bethlehem, Christmas, El Dorado County, hiking, Nativity, The Last Photo, trails | 6 Comments

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Fall into Winter

“He spreads the snow like wool and scatters the frost like ashes.”

The week before, the trail was clear, and the aspen leaves blocked the sky overhead. What a change a bomb cyclone has made. This day, the snow was 8 to 12 inches deep, and golden leaves dotted the crystalline carpet.

Lens-Artists Challenge #172: A Day of My Week

November 6, 2021 | Categories: DSLR, Landscapes, Nature, Seasons, The Book | Tags: aspens, gold, hiking, leaves, Lens-Artists Challenge, Psalms, Sierra Nevada Mountains, winter | 4 Comments

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Pane Rain

or water color

Silent Sunday

Sunday Stills — Indoor/Outdoor Decor

October 24, 2021 | Categories: DSLR, Landscapes, Seasons | Tags: #SundayStills, abstracts, focus, rain, Silent Sunday | 19 Comments

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Seed’s Eye View of Blue

and of the sky over the neighborhood meadow. From this perspective, the grass is as tall as the cottonwood tree.

Weekend Sky #46

Sunday Stills — October sans pink

October 17, 2021 | Categories: DSLR, Landscapes, Nature, Seasons | Tags: #SundayStills, fall, gold, trees, Weekend Sky | 12 Comments

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Smoky Swan Sunday

September 5, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Landscapes, Nature | Tags: birds, California, El Dorado County, gold, Silent Sunday, summer | 7 Comments

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Squared Trees in California — #3

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

July 25, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Landscapes, The Book | Tags: California, Dead Forest, death, Isaiah, Mammoth Mt, SquareUp, trees | 3 Comments

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Top down, a mighty big place

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

June 20, 2021 | Categories: Cell shots, Landscapes, Places, Skyscapes | Tags: clouds, hiking, Lens-Artists Challenge, mountains, PCT, summer, Weekend Sky | Leave a comment

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The Last Photos of March 2021

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

April 1, 2021 | Categories: Activities, Cell shots, DSLR, Landscapes, Nature, People, Skyscapes | Tags: Eagle Pass Trail, hiking, natural light, solitude, The Last Photo, trails | 3 Comments

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Redux in Black and White

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

March 14, 2021 | Categories: Art, Cityscapes, DSLR, Landscapes | Tags: #SundayStills, abstracts, birds, black and white, close-up, lines, sculpture, whimsy, Yosemite | 12 Comments

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The Duel: Spring versus Winter, Dawn

Early evidence of warmer days grows between a rock and a hard freeze.

Six Word Saturday — March 6

March 6, 2021 | Categories: DSLR, Landscapes, Seasons | Tags: #6WS, #SixWordSaturday, daffodils, light, morning, spring, winter | 2 Comments

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SunRise and Shine

“… 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

March 5, 2021 | Categories: DSLR, Landscapes, Skyscapes, The Book | Tags: 2 Corinthians, beautiful, clouds, creation, dawn, musings, praiseworthy | 11 Comments

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In my world, the Sun Played Hide and Seek

… 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