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An Unnamed Mesa
Aug 18, 2018 10:09:10 #
StevenG
Loc: Long Island, NY
Cany143 wrote:
Downriver from town.
Beautiful shots, Cany! I love the first two. I find the perspective in the second particularly attractive.
Steve
Aug 18, 2018 10:18:58 #
Aug 18, 2018 10:22:55 #
These are beautiful, and you had such lovely skies. I wondered what that little whitish streak was in the first one on the right-hand boulder. I get these occasionally, and I never know why.
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Aug 18, 2018 11:12:26 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
AzPicLady wrote:
These are beautiful, and you had such lovely skies. I wondered what that little whitish streak was in the first one on the right-hand boulder. I get these occasionally, and I never know why.
Yep, the sky was pretty decent (finally!), though I'd have liked it to have shifted a little more to the left. 'Nuther words, wah! wah! wah! on my part. The whitish streak can only be guessed at, but it is on the rock, not some camera or lens or processing malady. Odds are, the streak is likely more of a scuff mark, produced half a million years ago when that (slightly more resistant) bit of Wingate sandstone toppled off a slope, or off a cliff, of lighter colored Navajo sandstone. As uniform as the geologic layers might appear, there are countless upwarps, downthrusts, fault fractures, and layer collapses around here that leave 'newer' formations at lower elevations than 'older' ones.
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Aug 18, 2018 11:44:59 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
oneputt1111 wrote:
the mesa should be called rhino mesa looks like a rhino on the right of it
Rhino Mesa it shall be! I'll be sure to pass that name along to the map label-ers at USGS so they can include it on the next version of the 7.5 quad (due out in, oh, I don't know, maybe 2093 or so).
Rhino Mesa...................!
Aug 18, 2018 11:59:55 #
again a beautiful series. Really enjoy the rich colors that you capture in these landscape shots. Well composed. Narrative is quite helpful as well. Keep a traveling....
Aug 18, 2018 12:15:46 #
Cany143 wrote:
Downriver from town.
My favorite is the last one. We don't think the flower in the 2nd pix is a Brugmansia as this flower is strictly tropical and like a nice humid climate
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Aug 18, 2018 12:47:37 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
FiddleMaker wrote:
My favorite is the last one. We don't think the flower in the 2nd pix is a Brugmansia as this flower is strictly tropical and like a nice humid climate
Brugmansia doesn't grow around here, and while it and D. innoxia --as seen in the photo-- are both in the family Solanaceae, they are distinctly different animals. Brug's seed pods have soft and almost cuddly 'spikes,' whereas there's any number of times I've cursed at the hard, sharp, nearly murderous thorns of the 'Thorn Apple' which have pierced the industrial grade work gloves required while I clear out the remnants of the year's overgrowth in my yard in late fall.
Side note: A couple of Chiefs of Police ago, the Chief at the time used to write a Police Blotter column for the local newspaper. Two or three times a year, he'd include the latest iteration of some kid's visit to the Emergency Room as a result of 'trying' some Moonflower. Most of the time, the piece would be written EXTREMELY humorously, and the Chief might quip something along the lines of 'the teen rambled on about paisley elephants for some hours in the ER, but the Moonflower was unimpressed, and stayed firmly rooted in reality.'
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