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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: CS on November 28, 2016, 19:09:10
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Here you go, Elsa, a desert scene. This a is a shot of Flatiron in the Lost dutchman State Park. It's one of the Western faces of the Superstition Mountains just East of Apache Junction, Az.
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Oh wow. What a dense light. What a cool scene likea scene from a western movie. Very very mooddy. Great colors. Love it.
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Ye I am looking for the horse. And Clint Eastwood.
Okey - we don't have deserts in Cape Town - so find this fascinating indeed.
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Oh wow. What a dense light. What a cool scene likea scene from a western movie. Very very mooddy. Great colors. Love it.
Thanks, Frank. BTW, I really enjoyed your organ thread, lots of great images!
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Ye I am looking for the horse. And Clint Eastwood.
Okey - we don't have deserts in Cape Town - so find this fascinating indeed.
Well, you guys have some fascinating photo ops of your own.
There are deserts, then there are deserts, and what we have here is the Sonoran Desert variety. It has beauty, but is also hostile. Besides the severe weather that can sap the strength from folks before they know what hit them, there's rattlesnakes, many opportunities for injury that can prove fatal, and if that wasn't enough, there are people on the lookout for anyone that might find the Lost Dutchman Mine. Those folks are willing to use deadly force to deal with anyone they think is beating them to the legendary gold cache.
I forgot to list the gear for that shot. It was the D200 with an 18-200 mounted, zoomed to 20mm.
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great image and then an even better story to go with it!
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Do I assume the Apaches are there but I just can't see them?
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I don't get to travel anymore. I love these places. Thanks for posting this photograph!
Dave Hartman
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Beautiful shot and light !
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great image and then an even better story to go with it!
You don't have to travel far from the city to soon find yourself a long way from an urban lifestyle, with some of it primitive by today's standards. OTOH, even unfriendly plants like cactus show color when they bloom. Here's a Prickly Pear cactus in bloom, and that cactus produces a prized fruit from that blossom. This is from an early April shot of the desert in bloom. The whole place turns into a panoply of bright colors.
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Do I assume the Apaches are there but I just can't see them?
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I don't get to travel anymore. I love these places. Thanks for posting this photograph!
Dave Hartman
Yes, Arizona is home to the Apache Nation.
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For a little closer look, here's a pretty young Buckhorn Cholla cactus, AKA the Jumping Cactus. D200 with a 105mm mounted.
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I like your photographic impressions of the Sonoran Desert. I'm looking forward to visit that zone again soon.
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Thanks, Frank. BTW, I really enjoyed your organ thread, lots of great images!
Thank you for your kind words. You are most welcome to contribute to this joint effort. Look how many contributed and that Airy is the most vigorous of them. Gosh. I leant so much from him.
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You don't have to travel far from the city to soon find yourself a long way from an urban lifestyle, with some of it primitive by today's standards. OTOH, even unfriendly plants like cactus show color when they bloom. Here's a Prickly Pear cactus in bloom, and that cactus produces a prized fruit from that blossom. This is from an early April shot of the desert in bloom. The whole place turns into a panoply of bright colors.
I love it that you stay away from the temptation to make the colors "pop", this subdued development adds some serious magic to the shots.
Do I see you cooking in ypur profile picture? You might shoot some of your recipees / creations for us!
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I love it that you stay away from the temptation to make the colors "pop", this subdued development adds some serious magic to the shots.
Do I see you cooking in ypur profile picture? You might shoot some of your recipees / creations for us!
My avatar is showing me enjoying some eggplant parmigiana. While I have shot some of our recipes, most pf my attempts fall short photographically, although they taste great. The iPhone has been the tool for my attempts, and it's just as we sit down to eat. Not really a serious way to go about getting good quality images. But, make no mistake we are extremely serious about the food itself, I just suck at shooting it.
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Trees in our desert include this Mesquite with the strange growth pattern, from our local Riparian Reserve, as well as a Red Gum Eucalyptus that is equally strange. The Eucalyptus is from the Boyce Thompson Arboretum is seen below, and has an interesting bark pattern as well.
Mesquite shot with CP990, and the Eucalyptus shot was D200/18-200.
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A desert B&W showing a section of the Salt River which is normally dry unless storms cause excess water to be released from an upstream mountain Dam. Enterprising people have put damed up about a mile of the river locally then filled it with water creating an artificial lake and the Tempe River Walk.
Nikon F3HP/50mm.
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I really love the two tree pictures Mister Big and Red gum. Wonderful colors and a grwat perspective that gives a feel for the size. IIRC both trees are onnthe list of very promising tree crops for a future sustainable agriculture
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The Eucalyptus is from the Boyce Thompson Arboretum is seen below, and has an interesting bark pattern as well.
Bark patterns are a major identifying characteristic of eucalypts. Bark growth in eucalypts in continuous, and in all species the outermost layer of bark dies each year. In about half of eucalypt species the dead bark is shed, exposing the smooth living bark underneath; these are the "gums" (the habit of using "gum tree" as a colloquial term for "eucalypt" is wrong). Some gum tree species shed their bark in big slabs, others in ribbons, others in little flakes. In some species the new bark is pale silvery grey, in others it is at first bright red or pink weathering to grey. Some gums shed large and small patches of bark throughout the year, so that different ages of new bark are exposed and the patches of new reddish bark and older weathered grey give the appearance of your tree.
The other half of the species do not shed the dead bark, and the fibres just dry out.
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I really love the two tree pictures Mister Big and Red gum. Wonderful colors and a grwat perspective that gives a feel for the size. IIRC both trees are onnthe list of very promising tree crops for a future sustainable agriculture
There's a boatload of varieties when it comes to the Eucalyptus, but my main complaint about them is their unpredictable behavior of self pruning. it can be quite dangerous for people or property underneath the tree's umbrella when that activity happens, as sometimes the sections falling to the ground are huge.
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Arizona desert sunset from my house.
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WOW. I hate sunset photos in general, but this one is exceptional, like fluid fire!
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I am not a fan of sunset photos either, and I liked the sunset photo a lot...so why?
For me the photo is exceptional because darkness has already claimed close to half of the image, and that touch of incredible blue...So one could say that there is a tension between the sunset, the day, and darkness... like FF says, WOW.