Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

In the middle of the (shortest) day.

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NMGal Loc: NE NM

Very nice. The rocks in the third are appropriate for the winter solstice.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

#3 is the druid star, Jim! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Nice set!

The first is my favorite in this set.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Beautiful work, Cany.
--Bob

Xmsmn Loc: Minnesota

Dynamic. #3 has the edge over the others. Thanks for sharing.
Mark

SpikeW Loc: Butler PA

All the photos are excellent but I like # 4. I think that the road tells more of a story, a lady or the tiger sort of thing because it goes beyond where your eye goes leaving the question open. Merry Christmas

Amator21 Loc: California

A very nice series! I like no. 1 a lot! Thank you for posting!
Poul.

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Beautiful set Cany, especially like #3. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Might just be that someone --or several someones, a thousand years ago (give or take)-- thought it an appropriate place to 'mark' the solstice, too. Or so some of the wingnuttier roquertistas --a.k.a., the "Shadow Chaser" clan of Rupestrian Roquertorial Research-- these current times have come to spawn believe.

The site --or more accurately, the exact set of petros that 'align' along a shadow that's cast on only the solstices-- is practically impossible to photograph. There are about two dozen extremely weathered glyphs in total, pecked onto both sides of a split in the boulder. At the penultimate moment --The Solstice-- the shadow drops down onto the center of the concentric circles (shown in the attached image) and aligns with a crenellated line that extends to an anthropomorphic figure some eight feet away, all of which is now extremely difficult to see. And everything's complicated by the fact that the split in the boulder is about a foot and a half wide where the circles are, and about two and a half feet wide where the anthro is. Not to mention that there are glyphs on both sides of the split in the boulder.

Me, I'm less a 'believer' in the place being an actual Solstice Marker site --and I've seen/been to other sites where early people did indeed 'mark' that ordinal time-- than I simply like going to the particular place. To the point, I suppose, that it's become something of a Solstice ritual for me.

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Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

It seems that your concept of 'story' and mine are somewhat different than each other. I wouldn't know about where or how you got yours, Spike, but if publication and/or what I've been paid is an indicator, I'm a much better essayist than I am a storyteller.

Beyond that, I know very little about tigers (and less about ladies), but I did in fact (admittedly, some years ago) see a mountain lion very near to the spot I stopped to shoot #4. So there's that amount of agreement between us...?

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

[quote=Cany143]Might just be that someone --or several someones, a thousand years ago (give or take)-- thought it an appropriate place to 'mark' the solstice, too. Or so some of the wingnuttier roquertistas --a.k.a., the "Shadow Chaser" clan of Rupestrian Roquertorial Research-- these current times have come to spawn believe.

The site --or more accurately, the exact set of petros that 'align' along a shadow that's cast on only the solstices-- is practically impossible to photograph. There are about two dozen extremely weathered glyphs in total, pecked onto both sides of a split in the boulder. At the penultimate moment --The Solstice-- the shadow drops down onto the center of the concentric circles (shown in the attached image) and aligns with a crenellated line that extends to an anthropomorphic figure some eight feet away, all of which is now extremely difficult to see. And everything's complicated by the fact that the split in the boulder is about a foot and a half wide where the circles are, and about two and a half feet wide where the anthro is. Not to mention that there are glyphs on both sides of the split in the boulder.

Don't let your heart be troubled, Cany. I'll stop by sometime and show you how it's done. Merry Christmas!

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Inspiring.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

[quote=Retired CPO]

Oh? So you've begun delving into the ether of complicated and complex (raw) image processing, have you? Myself, I haven't bothered 'cuz to do a multi-layered (would three cameras do it? or would you use four or more cameras? [hey! I could do that! and then some!]) ultra-panoed focus-stacked & HDR'ed "blend" of multiple camera time-lapses is a Rubicon I'm not ready to cross. Because I'm lazy.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Sylvia: for you and you alone (and random other UHHers as well, I suppose): A very Merry Christmas to you & yores back atcha over there in Merry Ing-lin.

Eat a turkey.

(I'm considering tacos, myself. Or maybe Chinese.)