Nature Pics

Post by **Erunáme** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:53 am

Lothlórien:

(Let me know if the picture is too wide.)

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:29 am

Thank you, Eru. . . .

Post by **Rodia** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:03 pm

Voronwë...I might have never seen that lovely post. That's so nice. I don't think there is anything in the world lovelier (and more humbling) than finding that someone speaks well and thinks kindly of you when you are NOT necessarily around to know it.

I'm on the wrong computer to post photos for you, but I have quite a few good ones I'd like to share some day.

Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:57 pm

I have quite a few good ones I'd like to share some day.

I look forward to it.

Post by **truehobbit** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:02 pm

WOW, Eru! Where was that pic taken?

The Panther looks somewhat sad, I think - do you know Rilke's poem "The Panther"? Very pretty pic, though.

Post by **Ethel** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:56 pm

Bear Creek, Ansel Adams Wilderness, California Sierra Nevada

Post by **elfshadow** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:02 pm

Eru, that is just gorgeous!

Ethel, I love Ansel Adams' work. My father is a photographer and Ansel Adams was always his inspiration. I wish I could upload some of my father's pictures here, but I doubt he has them in digital form, and we don't have a scanner.

This is a photo from National Geographic taken by Taylor Kennedy at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado.

Post by **Ethel** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:25 pm

elfshadow wrote:Ethel, I love Ansel Adams' work. My father is a photographer and Ansel Adams was always his inspiration. I wish I could upload some of my father's pictures here, but I doubt he has them in digital form, and we don't have a scanner.

Yes, I love Ansel Adams too. If anyone besides John Muir ever deserved to have part of the Sierra Nevada named for him, it was surely Adams. I took that picture though, on vacation last summer. I'm a fairly crap photographer but it's hard to go tragically wrong with rivers and mountains.

I would love to see your father's pictures. Scanners have become quite inexpensive - you can get a decent one for well under a hundred dollars nowadays - and Christmas is coming.

I live in southern Colorado, half a day's drive from the Gunnison. Gorgeous country.

Post by **elfshadow** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:41 pm

My best friend lives in Montrose, also very close to that area

. I wish I could get there more often as it is so beautiful, but I'm in Boulder...and it's six hours away. When I last visited her this summer we drove up to Box Canyon in Ouray and I got some pictures of the waterfall...I think I posted one, but here's another.

Post by **Ethel** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:54 pm

Another Coloradan! Ouray is surely one of the loveliest places on earth. And I must say, far less terrifying to drive to from Montrose than from Durango, which is where I live. Have you ever been over Red Mountain in the winter?

Edited to add: Eru, those are surely aspens in all their fall glory. Is that picture from the Rockies?

Post by **elfshadow** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:12 pm

I've never been up Red Mountain Pass in the winter, but we drove up there last summer...and it's scary enough without snow and ice! I'd be terrified to drive there in the winter. It is gorgeous though, all these enchanting little waterfalls along the edges of the canyon. But I'd prefer to look at it from a non-moving car.

Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:03 pm

Returning to Ulmo's domain:

Post by **elfshadow** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:01 pm

Voronwë, that is amazing!

The colors are so vibrant and rich. It's wonderful!

Post by **Ethel** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:06 pm

Reminds me of a Marc Chagall painting.

Post by **Frelga** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:25 pm

I finally got a digital camera!

Took a few shots at the Japanese Tea Garden yesterday, but we only have the included 16MB card, which let me take all of 6 high-res photos. But now I've got with 512MB. PH3AR M3!

A reflection in the pond. It looks much better full size, but that one is 2MB, much too big for Photobucket.

ETA: Rodia's photos aren't good.

They are astonishing. Spectacular. Magnificent.
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Post by **Rodia** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:34 pm

Frelga that's so pretty...I'm glad you got a digital, we're in for treats now!

Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:07 pm

Amazing picture, Frelga. I wish I could take pictures like that!

But at least I google well.

(I'm not 100% that that last picture of mine was really a photo, but it is so beautiful that it hardly matters.)

Post by **elfshadow** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:30 pm

Frelga, that is gorgeous! I love the effect of the reflection of the trees in the water combined with the leaves that are literally on top of the water...so beautiful.

I have a digital camera, but I haven't been anyplace lately where I've been able to take pictures of anything except suburbia.

Though I could probably find somewhere to get a nice picture of the mountains, since they're so close by.

Post by **Rowanberry** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:22 pm

I hope that we'll get a winter like this this year:

It's almost 26 years since I took this photo, in January 1980.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:00 pm

Lovely, Rowan! It's been years here, too, since a winter like that.

I didn't take this one: