GreyOwl40 Loc: Quebec City

Dramatic images, Cany!

Bluefish Loc: Berks County, PA

Some of your best yet Cany!
I keep going back to enjoy them.

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Great shots.

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

Fantastic pictures. I especially like the first!

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Hauntingly beautiful scenery, and drop-dead gorgeous photography!

The first two tell me that a tourist, as I would be, should stay sheltered on high ground in the rain and leave the photo capturing to those of you who know what's going on.

I do have a couple of question. Are those hoodoos way up there on top? And in the group of three, is that Nefertiti on the left?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Darkening skies, falling rain, some thunder & lightning, and tourists in a park are a lot like what you'd see if you walked into a ratty motel room, turned on a light, and saw cockroaches scattering madly for an exit. In this particular instance --in Arches-- and since the tourists only know the one obvious way out, their mad scattering was only worrisome --for me, going on in, and seemingly less so for them, trying to get out-- along the tightest turns on the Park Road's switchbacks. Otherwise, hoodoo you call a hoodoo? The ones on high ground or the ones away from shelter? (That's an entirely rhetorical question, I'm, 'cuz I'm not sure there's an easy answer.) Other'n that, no, Nefertiti isn't in that group of three. She's maybe a half to three quarters of a mile away. That group of three is all official-like (a.e.b. documented scribbles in both Park and USGS literatures) named 'The Three Gossips'.

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

Wonderful, Cany!

Michael1079 Loc: Indiana

Impressive and very nice captures!

SWFeral Loc: SWNM

Lovely! Nothing better than a mix of desert and rain.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

That's just so funny on every point.

I'm not sure what the exact definition of a hoodoo is, or the correct spelling for that matter. After looking at photos of the ones in Canada, the ones on the tops in your photos looked kind of like the same thing, but way up in the air instead of down low like in Canada. I have seen photos of "The Three Gossips", but from different angles. I guess it just didn't register. And I have seen several photos of Nefertiti, and the one kind of looked like her. Seeing photos is not the same as seeing something in person, so I have to ask. I appreciate the reply. And, as always, I appreciate the posting of the excellent photos.

On another point, I was watching Ancient Aliens on TV this afternoon. In particular, the episode of Leonardo de Vince. The discussed his painting, possible messages, hidden music, geoglyphs, petroglyphs, the stars in the sky, and ancient earth scribes and texts. The thought crossed my brain that crop circles somehow fit into this communication quagmire, too. Then i got to wondering, have you tried to read any of the petroglyphs you have photographed?

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

Great set

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Oh, krikey, I'm! I seem to've missed that episode about Leonardo on AA, and that's not like me at all! (Could I have been too caught up in watching re-runs of Gilligan's Island at the time.... dang!) But before I answer the question you asked, I gotta ask... did they say what planet Leonardo came from? And what his workflow might've been when he took time out from his drawing and painting and designing perpetual motion machines and such to make crop circles? I only ask because if I knew that, I might be able to give you a better answer....

Which is --for now, recognizing that there are still things to learn-- heck yes I've tried to read all those pterogliffs! And it isn't easy, either. Nevertheless, I have, in fact, been able to decipher two --count 'em: TWO!-- of the hundreds (or thousands) of the panels of Roquert I've personally seen. Neither, however, were pterogliffs; they were pictoglyps (which means that the ones I successfully deciphered were of the painted sort, not the pecked, abraded or incised sort), so technically, while the answer is yes, I've tried, but the problem with that yes is a 'no I have not succeeded'. Yet.

Despite that, filming has nearly been completed, and the nice folks who produce those wond'rous episodes of 'Ancient Aliens' tell me that my segment on the decipherment of those two (TWO!!) picto panels will be airing some time early next year.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Whooa! Is the Photo Master to become a TV Star too? I will have to keep an "eye out" for that one.

I'm just amazed at how history, ancient through recent, is being re-written by such technologies as LIDAR, satellite photographs, seismographs, and just plain photography. I do need to find a website that has still photos of the Geoglyphs, cause all the TV shows just go racing by too quickly to really study them, like the one made up of circles, squares, triangles, etc. They did say that people from all over the world have come up with the same translations of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. That's interesting.