Adventuring: A Travelblogue with Photos

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Monday, October 5, 2009

We interrupt these images with an announcement...

New camera coming!! Nikon Coolpix p90: 12.1 megapixels; 24x optical zoom; wide-angle; exceptional capacity for sleeker low-light images... Compare to the current one in use: Fujifilm Finepix s5700: 7.1 mps; maybe 15x optical zoom; no wide-angle or very impressive low-light capability that I have... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Window Seat: a river running through

Pretty certain this must be the Green River which runs generally from NW to SE through Canyonlands to meet the Colorado coming out of the north. Confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Window Seat: The Really Big Picture...

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Friday, October 2, 2009

Window Seat: Getting the Big Picture

There are views that can only be fully appreciated at a distance. Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Window Seat: Suddenly...

...the landscape alters to all-about-the-rocks. This might be a view of the San Rafael Swell, I'm not sure... whatever it is, it's geologically beautiful and fascinating! Not entirely positive, but in the lower portion of this next shot you may be looking at I-70 where it descends (where the road... Sign in to see full entry.

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Window Seat: Utah Mountain Autumn

I remember driving in September through the Wasatch Range southeast of Salt Lake City, enjoying the rare color of some red-twig brush that grew in great patches on the mountainsides, and the brilliant yellow aspen groves... Though the color in these shots leans a bit too far into the blue haze, you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Window Seat: Hand of Man

Over Utah, somewhere... (I wish the airlines provided proper maps of their flight routes-and clean windows! ) Sign in to see full entry.

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Window Seat: Bones of the Earth

It never fails to take my breath and raise my exhileration: seeing the Earth from above, seeing how the planet is made, how the rocks flow and shift across the geologic eons... Here are the remnants of the ancient seas that once divided east from west... now vast salt flats, old shorelines, and a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Window Seat: wildfire in Oregon

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Window Seat: Seattle to Albuquerque

Volcanoes of the Cascades, southeast of Seattle... These shots were possible in exchange for Mt Rainier, on the other side of the plane. Mt Saint Helens with Spirit Lake in the foreground Mount Adams Here are Mt Adams, Mt Hood, and one I don't know on the far horizon... Mount Hood, over the border... Sign in to see full entry.

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Celebrating travel! If you think the world is too big, or the language barriers too high, come along with me, as I bumble my way here and there... The world really is an accessible place-- not as expensive to explore as one might imagine, nor are the language barriers as high, nor the mood of people beyond our borders unwelcoming... ***If you want good prints of any of my photos, email me and I will let you know how to get them. Please respect my copyright on these, they are my retirement account!

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