Hotlinking the Vegetable

Arches National Park is a truly wonderful place, and the hike to to Dark Angel is a beauty. It's also very crowded, for the park is Freeway Close and has many excellent easy and easily accessed trails. Getting off the trail is difficult, in that the ground is covered with cryptogamic soil that you really don't want to walk on. It's better to go somewhere else if you're looking for the true backcountry experience.

This shot is from some rolls of ASA 1600 Kodacolor. The camera was all shut down and I was getting shutter speeds of 1/1000th and the ilk. I've never been able to get this cool grainy look again; it may be that like so many other rolls of film whose chemistry evolved after they sat for months in inclement conditions.

I like this picture because Dark Angel is indeed dark. In most the other pictures of dark Angel I see Dark Angel is all lit up.

THE V has posted it in a thread at Planet Think Tanks commenting on Dark Angel (SA)'s name.


Thanks THE V!

I took this picture from the northern trailhead of the Bristow Prairie Trail. Steeple Rock is that wee point on the little peak to the extreme right of the picture. Here's what it looks like up close.

Today it popped up at two different urls simultaneously: at Harmony Central and at ebassist dot com. basshunter has chosen it, saying 'Like, wow man, it's the Thursday edition of Basshunter's "Relaxing Picture of the Day!!"'

It's scrolled off of the ebass page, but the harmony link looks like it'll stay around for a while.

Thanks Basshunter!

I had a lot a fun with polaroids way back when, but nowadays, a dollar a shot is mind boggling, especially considering that I bring home five or six hundred essentially free exposures everytime I head out into the forest. In addition, they seem very much like polaroids, quickly convertable to raw material for further creations.

Bu oboy they were fun at the time! I took a few dozern hand pictures to create this collage. The black background is a blank book. I use them for my journals.

The Show of Hnads has bene hotlinked in a music fan forum at panicfreask.org by Vacation214

...and this is odd. I registered at panicfeask.org to see the forum in which the Show of Hands appeared, and usually that is sufficient to then go look at people's profiles. I see now that I registered at the sandbox, and Vacation214's profile is at the vBulletin forum, at the same domain. I need to scoot out into the forest to catch the light right around noon, so I don't have time to properly link up this post. I'll do that tomorrow.

But meanwhile, the Show of Hands is in repsonse to a question as to hwo while show up at the Fox tonight.

Thanks Vacation214!


PS: The spam is coming hot and heavy this morning, usually this means a bunch of new hotlinks from MySpace. I haven't seen them scroll by in teh access_log yet, but really, how many MySpaceCadets are up at this time in the morning, on Saturday.

My slugs and snails keep on trucking, this time as a triple header of slime trails leading right into a deep dark hole at MySpace. Usually these little critters show up as illustrations of bad dates or some as some friendly teasing by those with privileges. But who knows? No one that's not an acknowledged friend of PATTY, who claims to be Female, 16 years old, LAOS, WASHINGTON, United States.

I built some posters about seeing Cambodia in your backyard, oh, once upon a time. I know Stonehedge is really in Washington, not way across the turf and pond - so why not Laos?

I bet it would fit. Its too early to go fetch statistics.

Trestle Creek has some very nice falls, and these days some very nice trails that lead to them. I found them on a map, after walking by where Trestle flows into Bryce Creek numerous times. There was no trail. One day a friend and I decided to walk up the creekbed to the falls, but upon arriving, we found a brand new trail.

Years later, I paced the development of the trail to the upper falls, every other week going out and seeing how far it had gotten. They did a great job, and gave me the opportunity to take the shot above.

It is hotlinked at a mysterious place, blocked behind a privacy shield. Alas.

Thanks, whoever you are!



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Leslie has chosen this picture for her background. This is cool, I really like how the picture works as a repeated tile.

A friend brought me a box of shitake mushrooms he had picked, and I grinned twice over: they're so delicious! ...and I knew I had found the perfect background for the most beautiful dried rose I have ever managed to create. I found the rose on a walk near work, and then placed it on one of the myriad monitors clogging up my office. Monitors are great flower driers, at least the tube monitors. I haven't tried this with a flat screen yet.

This is a great display of my picture - I love it. The picture makes me smile everytime I see it.

Thanks Leslie!

This little tree lives in an alpine meadow near Grasshopper Point. If you like alpine meadows, this is a great hike: from Grasshopper Mountain over to Chucksney Mountain stretch 3 or 4 of miles of meadows, with some cool rocky ridges connecting them. It's an old trail, and near the middle is a very funny section of trail. It's run straight down a gentle slope, and is over 6 feet deep in places.

There isn't much shade over the first mile of the trail, walking up to the ridgeline, so I like to go on cloudy days. Days like this one are great for capturing photos reminiscent of Chinese ink painting.

I post a picture of a tree on Christmas Day, and this was the 2005 photo.

Arwen Galen has posted it in a comment at a Double Exposure Community Forum. The forum is subclassed and ends up being called Bring your popcorn!


Thanks to Arwen Galen!