Adventuring: A Travelblogue with Photos

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

More of the deep places of the Earth...

The lighting is all done with a combination of incandescent, halogen, tungsten and flourescent bulbs. These show the most natural view of the rocks in person, but a camera tries to compensate for the different kinds of 'white' light and so presents images as if the lights are different colors. Sign in to see full entry.

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Finally, a hot spot...

Finally, three days later... Starbuck's in Las Cruces. The scenery has changed considerably since Colorado Springs, what with Carlsbad's amazing Caverns, and the noble buttes of Guadelupe (where I very nearly almost just barely didn't run out of gas about 40 miles from a station), and, this morning,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 24, 2007

The pictures are loading now...

Yesterday clouds were heavy and wet up in the Rockies northwest of Denver, as they have been all summer, so I am told, and the fields are full of blooms. At 9000 feet, thereabouts, standing up suddenly is a dizzying experience! I took a few pictures of the great variety of meadow flowers. I also... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Offy, a flower for you...

A wild bee-balm, I think-- Does anyone know for sure what this little pretty is called? Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunrise at Royal Gorge--fine way to start the day! We had over-nighted in a free and vacant campground about a mile before the bridge over Royal Gorge. To find such a place in such a place was a great and delightful surprise. Royal Gorge is one of those spectacles of nature that has been... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

We were so lucky! We had a flat tire this morning!

It could have been last night in the thunderin' rain alongside I-70... Could have happened out on the ranch road miles from anywhere, where we drove out to exercise the lens... Could have been on a mountain road on a sharp turn... But it was about 100 feet before a truck turn-out, which was less... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Renaissance Faire action!

These are not my best shots ever, and they are overexposed a bit, but... wow! Action! I have not been able to take good action shots for years, since the old SLR gave out... Sign in to see full entry.

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I thought I could, but I couldn't. If you have read here lately, you know what happened to my good camera, the one I got only last fall, with the, 10x optical zoom. Then the two little old digitals gave out--the ones I had inherited when my daughter up-graded. I thought for about a day that I could... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 10, 2007

Middle of the night haven't finished (started) packing not-sleepings

Time for Charlie to go to school... Saturday we head out from the Seattle area to Colorado Springs. I daresay we will be ready enough, though it doesn't feel like it at the moment. This trip, you guys are coming along--I'll be able to drop a line whenever there is time and where ever there is a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 4, 2007

And more good news...

The judges at the Thurston Co Fair awarded recognition to 3 of my 6 submissions: The aerial shot of Utah won a second and the Superintendant's Award. The Mesa Verde Ladder also won a second place ribbon. Forest Madonna won a first place blue ribbon. Very pleased, here! 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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