Western Luna

Western Luna

Telegraph Mountain Wilderness – Eastern Nevada
Placed Top Ten in Your Favorite Place To Go Challenge on ImageWriting
(2009.OCT.29)

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(2009.NOV.20)
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(2009.OCT.30)
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(2009.OCT.20)
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(2009.OCT.05)
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(2009.OCT.03)
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The Challenge: “If you had 24 hours to live …”
For me, the answer was easy!:

I would follow my heart to Telegraph Mountain, to explore again the familiar crags and peaks, and rugged canyons running down to the high desert.

I would climb to the top and look out once more across the vast expanse of the mountain itself—then further – across Butte Valley, the Butte Mountains, all the way to the Rubies to the west, and the Egan and Cherry Creek Ranges to the northeast. I would climb higher still – to see Steptoe Valley and the Schell Creek Mountains that disappear into the southeastern horizon.

I would talk to the deer and the elk, and the wild horses that roam the foothills. (May I not live to see the day of no mustangs on this land!)

I would drink from pristene springs, and sing along with the perpetual song of the creeks rushing to find the desert.

If my last hours should happen to be in Fall, I would pick wild berries and pinon nuts. I would eat my fill beneath the quakies, without care for tomorrow’s consequences.

Up there, I can see the whole wild world, much as it looked a century ago. Up there in the Wilderness, the cares of Humanity are far away.

Let my last act be a shutter-click lightning-strike: a crack through which my spirit may slip from this world into the next. Let my last word be “Freedom!“

Experimental composite – Digital double-exposure.

Canon 350D EOS
Canon 18/55mm and Sigma 75/300mm
Corel PhotoImpact x3 and JASC PaintShop Pro x7
Gradient filters

Elements Of Composition:
Original image

(2009.JUL.15)
Canon 350D EOS
Canon 18/55mm

The Moon

(2009.JUL)
Sigma 75/300mm

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