Wow, such beautiful and rich colors. Fantastic images
What a great set and images Dave. Beautiful.
Dave.Largent wrote:
Painted Hills is located within the John Day River basin, a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Distinguished by varied stripes of red, tan, orange, and black, this area preserves a sequence of past climate change.
The varied colors of the Painted Hills are beautiful at all times of the day, but are best lit for photography in the late afternoon. Changing light and moisture levels drastically affect the tones and hues visible in the hills. The seasons can also change the look of the Painted Hills radically. Spring often brings yellow wildflowers that grow in open areas and sometime even in the ripples of the hills. Winter can blanket the hills in a white coat, concealing the vibrant hues until the snow melts, revealing interspersed stripes of gold and red.
After a long dry summer there was a lot of dust that would have muted the colors. So seeing rain in the forecast, we waited until the end of our trip to visit the Painted Hills and I think it made the colors much more vibrant.
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Excellent compositions of a truly fantastic place, Dave!
Dave.Largent wrote:
Painted Hills is located within the John Day River basin, a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Distinguished by varied stripes of red, tan, orange, and black, this area preserves a sequence of past climate change.
The varied colors of the Painted Hills are beautiful at all times of the day, but are best lit for photography in the late afternoon. Changing light and moisture levels drastically affect the tones and hues visible in the hills. The seasons can also change the look of the Painted Hills radically. Spring often brings yellow wildflowers that grow in open areas and sometime even in the ripples of the hills. Winter can blanket the hills in a white coat, concealing the vibrant hues until the snow melts, revealing interspersed stripes of gold and red.
After a long dry summer there was a lot of dust that would have muted the colors. So seeing rain in the forecast, we waited until the end of our trip to visit the Painted Hills and I think it made the colors much more vibrant.
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Wonderfully colorful set! Your presentations almost take me there! Thanx for sharing.
Dave.Largent wrote:
Painted Hills is located within the John Day River basin, a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Distinguished by varied stripes of red, tan, orange, and black, this area preserves a sequence of past climate change.
The varied colors of the Painted Hills are beautiful at all times of the day, but are best lit for photography in the late afternoon. Changing light and moisture levels drastically affect the tones and hues visible in the hills. The seasons can also change the look of the Painted Hills radically. Spring often brings yellow wildflowers that grow in open areas and sometime even in the ripples of the hills. Winter can blanket the hills in a white coat, concealing the vibrant hues until the snow melts, revealing interspersed stripes of gold and red.
After a long dry summer there was a lot of dust that would have muted the colors. So seeing rain in the forecast, we waited until the end of our trip to visit the Painted Hills and I think it made the colors much more vibrant.
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Absolutely beautiful. I am also interested in what kind of fossils?
birdman12 wrote:
Absolutely beautiful. I am also interested in what kind of fossils?
Thanks for your comment and this is what google says about the fossils:
What kind of fossils are in John Day Fossil Beds?
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Fossils found in the John Day Strata include a wide variety of plants and more than 100 species of mammals, including dogs, cats, oreodonts, saber-toothed tigers, horses, camels, and rodents. The Blue Basin and the Sheep Rock unit contain many of these same fossils, as well as turtles, opossums, and large pigs.
And: Years of plant and animal evolution and a collection of 40,000 fossils that represent one of the two most complete fossil records in the world.
Dave
Dave.Largent wrote:
Thanks for your comment and this is what google says about the fossils:
What kind of fossils are in John Day Fossil Beds?
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Fossils found in the John Day Strata include a wide variety of plants and more than 100 species of mammals, including dogs, cats, oreodonts, saber-toothed tigers, horses, camels, and rodents. The Blue Basin and the Sheep Rock unit contain many of these same fossils, as well as turtles, opossums, and large pigs.
And: Years of plant and animal evolution and a collection of 40,000 fossils that represent one of the two most complete fossil records in the world.
Dave
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Thanks so much for the information.
birdman12 wrote:
Absolutely beautiful. I am also interested in what kind of fossils?
There is the research center east of the Painted Hills at the Sheep Rock Unit.. It is quite informative and worth the trip. You can watch the the paleontologists work on fossils. Plus all the displays.
LeeK
Loc: Washington State
Great series of an unusual area.
ORpilot wrote:
There is the research center east of the Painted Hills at the Sheep Rock Unit.. It is quite informative and worth the trip. You can watch the the paleontologists work on fossils. Plus all the displays.
Thanks so much for the information. It would be too much of a trip for me, however, partially due to poor eyesight, and to the distance involved.
Thanks so much for the video. I found it to be quite interesting.
Great shots coving this unusual location very well. I have been there and although it is pretty much in the middle of nowhere it is well worth the trip. Your shots make me want to go back.
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