A few of my favorite landscapes
Looking across grazing lands and the Great Salt Lake toward The Wasatch Range
This is actually the name of the town - the last town on the peninsula. We'd just returned from a hike into a high valley and then caught the setting sun lighting up the rugged mountainside
I happened across this scene quite by accident early one morning many years ago. It's taken with a point-and-shoot, which just goes to show you don't need a fancy shooter to get pleasing images.
The low light of the setting sun allowed highlighted the textures & contrast of this range, so much, that I had to perform an ‘photo emergency’ stop along side of the highway.
I was struck by these three lone silos in the middle of vast, otherwise empty miles - open space of the American West. I snapped this right out of the car window north of Salt Lake City. No - I wasn't driving!
We happened upon a an antique British car show in Portland, OR, on our way to the weekly Saturday outdoor farmers' market at the college.
Racing red reflected in the perfectly polished chrome door of another antique
Seen through the reflected interior of a red Mini, British racing stripes decorate a classic Jag.
High end / Low end: A Rolls is reflected in this Mini
Are those an MG and Rolls reflected in the wheel?
Architectural artifacts
Ethereal and weightless, the Spiral Equatorial Observer Satellite (SEOS), floats, precisely positioned, twenty two thousand, two hundred thirty six miles/ thirty five thousand seven hundred eighty six kilometers above the earth’s equator.
The impeccable Einsteinian geometry of earth’s gravity pulling in and centripetal force pulling away hold this heavenly body in perfect equilibrium between floating beyond earth’s grasp and falling back to earth through the pull of it.
SEOS holds an exact orbital speed of 1.91 miles per second / 3.07 kilometers per second, keeping it perfectly and permanently positioned above the same spot on earth.
I’ve just returned from SEOS, because it’s actually the 5 story, JUMP Boise Spiral Slide in Boise, Idaho.
Details on the side of The Chrysler Building in NYC
If you look up, just a block away from The Chrysler Building, you’ll find some more striking architectural geometry
Spied this in downtown Boise, Idaho
Like miniature globes, drops hang large after a heavy rain. (Photographer silhouette in bottom drop)
The surrounding forest is appears inverted
Ice climbing is a big thing during the winter in New Hampshire. Mountaineering students learn how to navigate up an ice fall at Frankenstein Cliff.
Hikers dot the summit ridge of Bald Mountain in Ashley National Forest above the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway
The police kept driving by, chatting & checking in on this guy.