Umnak
Loc: Mount Vernon, Wa.
Excellent set of a place on my bucket list! I especially enjoyed 4&5!
Rob
biggin1a wrote:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Yup, that was this tower wasn't it?
Dennis
Umnak wrote:
Excellent set of a place on my bucket list! I especially enjoyed 4&5!
Rob
Thank you so very much Umnak. I appreciate your comments.
Dennis
These and Custer Battlefield are great.
badapple wrote:
These and Custer Battlefield are great.
Thank you so much. I am glad you like both series.
Dennis
Several decades ago our small rural high school was closed to merger with two larger neighboring school. Our FFA had accumulated some funds over the years and we spent these funds going on a bus trip to Yellowstone. We went via the Badlands, Black Hills and Devil's Tower. The Tower was great, but what I remember is that a group of us were camped right beside a group of professional climbers who were planning on making an ascent. We sat around a campfire as they showed us equipment, told us stories about climbing, answered our questions and shared beer with us. For a bunch of Iowa farm boy yokels, it was time to remember. Thanks for sharing these images and bringing a memory back.
joecichjr
Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
dennis2146 wrote:
I have been to Devil's Tower several times since about 1993 when I hunted antelope in Wyoming and after filling our tags my work partner and I decided to visit the tower. I have always found it to be a remarkably picturesque area. What's not to love with a towering rock with striations cutting in from top to bottom and is also surrounded by pine forest? But I had never been there early in the morning to capture photos in a completely different light.
So 5:00 AM found me leaving the ranch where I stay and heading toward Devil's Tower, about 1 1/2 hours away. On cue, I arrived at a roadway overlook facing the tower. It was still dark enough to allow me to get out my Sony RX10IV and tripod to be ready when the sun made its appearance to light the tower. I could not be happier. I had never gotten photos of the tower in early morning light. After those photos I drove into the Tower parking lot and began my usual walk around the base of the tower.
I hope you enjoy this series as much as I enjoyed taking the photos. Feel free as always to make any comments.
Dennis
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An impressive series of scenics
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Native Americans tell us that the grooves were made by a giant Grizzle bear's claws!!
Thanks for sharing these photos which are very good, like the colors.
Zooman 1 wrote:
Thanks for sharing these photos which are very good, like the colors.
Thank you Zooman 1 for stopping by and commenting.
Dennis
photophile wrote:
Well taken series.
Thank you Karin. Glad you like the photos.
Dennis
jlg1000
Loc: Uruguay / South America
dennis2146 wrote:
I have been to Devil's Tower several times since about 1993 when I hunted antelope in Wyoming and after filling our tags my work partner and I decided to visit the tower. I have always found it to be a remarkably picturesque area. What's not to love with a towering rock with striations cutting in from top to bottom and is also surrounded by pine forest? But I had never been there early in the morning to capture photos in a completely different light.
So 5:00 AM found me leaving the ranch where I stay and heading toward Devil's Tower, about 1 1/2 hours away. On cue, I arrived at a roadway overlook facing the tower. It was still dark enough to allow me to get out my Sony RX10IV and tripod to be ready when the sun made its appearance to light the tower. I could not be happier. I had never gotten photos of the tower in early morning light. After those photos I drove into the Tower parking lot and began my usual walk around the base of the tower.
I hope you enjoy this series as much as I enjoyed taking the photos. Feel free as always to make any comments.
Dennis
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For those with a good memory... It is the same feature pictured in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
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