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Thank you, Eru. . . .
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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.
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.
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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.
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.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - HDT
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.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.
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.
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.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - HDT
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?
Edited to add: Eru, those are surely aspens in all their fall glory. Is that picture from the Rockies?
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.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - HDT
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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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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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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.)
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.)
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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.
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.
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Lovely, Rowan! It's been years here, too, since a winter like that.
I didn't take this one:
I didn't take this one:
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King