Photolady2014 Loc: Southwest Colorado

Beautiful looks like Moab!

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

WOW!
You have totally redefined communing with nature.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Yup. Fine conditions for a l'il baby (about 2 miles total) hike, too, Cheef. Just below freezing (maybe 30-ish degrees), not a hint of wind, and in an open area well away from shivvery shade. One friend avidly used his cell phone camera to shoot pothole ice, the other used some sort of compact Pentax point 'n shoot three or four times.

Stylistically, the petros appear to be figures of what's called the 'Abajo-LaSal Style', which would mean they'd been made some time from 1500 to 2500 years ago.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Excellent set, Jim.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Looks like Moab??? Nuh-UH! Doesn't look like Moab, not even the tiniest little bit, PL'14! There aren't any overnight rental condo complexes, there isn't a single T-Shirt shop, and --except for those instances when an overlook parking lot could be seen off in the distance-- there wasn't a single tourorist anywhere in sight! Heck! Apart from the few we left --we mainly stuck to washes, bare slickrock or game trails-- there were NO humanoid footprints of any kind. What's more, there weren't even any petrified cow flops!!! It was VERY scary!!!!1!!

dreff Loc: Bow, WA

superb in the downloads!

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Very nice set.

skipnord Loc: Corcoran, Minnesota

Excellent, as always. The way you compose your photos is a lesson for all of us. Many thanks for posting. Just for fun, take a look at Bryan Hansel's photos on facebook. His "trade mark" foregrounds are similar to yours.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Great tradition and photos, Jim! Happy New Year.

Toment Loc: FL, IL

👍👍👍

Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts

Another nice group of photos

Moondoggie Loc: Southern California

Beautiful photos, thanks for sharing.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Hey there, "Skip" to m' loo Warstrom personage! How ye be? gad-zooks! and wassup?

The how-de-doo and comment as-tu été stuff ought to be self-evident, but I thought to include a gutteral 'gad-zooks' there because: a) I ditched FaceBorg years ago (since "social" media has become the greatest bane on humanity [and other sentient creatures, living and otherwise] since the Black Plague, no matter what the Rats and Vassals who people these Dark Ages might --and probably DO-- say, so it was not possible for me to take a look at this 'Hansel' person's images and see for myself if he's trademarked my mad and patented/trademarked 'near/far' compositional preferences. I was, however, able to view a few --without contracting any diseases, at least none that I can yet detect-- of his images on F-lick'r, so, yeah, I guess there's a general similarity. And then there's b).....

***Uhm..... I know this is very much an off-topic aside, but does Hansel by any chance have a sister (by another father? another mother? or had neither but was instead cloned from something alien and grown in a test tube?) whose last name is Gretel? Just curious..... because as I mentioned, FacePlant is not an option for me.

Regardless any or all of the above, thanks, Skip. What you wrote got me thinking. Would UHH-ville be capable of having an in-depth conversation about composition?

skipnord Loc: Corcoran, Minnesota

JBuckley

Your photos of the natural (petrified) wood is awesome.
I love the detail and texture that is displayed in your photos.

Good job.