Temperature was -5c degrees when we venture out to try our luck with snowmaking machine in the area called “Friday Flats” – the beginner slope of Thredbo Resort. Snowmaking and Grooming / Thredbo is the benchmark for snowmaking and grooming in Australia. The already mega snowmaking system that covers 25% of the trails has had another $2 million makeover in the summer and is now fully automated. What does this mean to snow riders? In the 2006 season 42% more snow was made than the previous year, this coming winter the mountain crew expects to produce an extra 30% again. More trails will be covered by the automated system. So better quality, greater coverage and more areas covered. Combine this with a state of the art grooming fleet to smooth the trails (including winch cats to smooth the steep), you know you will always have the best possible snow riding conditions. The "corduroy" surface left behind after a touch up from this mountain crew will make your boards sing!
My favorite subject, making abstractions from nature. Natures Canvas. Inspirational. / Extensive Folio Viewing / ”Caroline Ellis Web Site Encourage me and this image will be available larger. Prints from Negative avaliable through website.
Fall isn’t to be out done by Spring with all the new beginnings and shades of green. For a brief time it bursts into a splendor of warm color just before the dead of Winter.This is the Middle Prong Little River located in the Tremont section of the GSMNP Camera: Canon Rebel Xti… Lens: Canon 28-135mm…. / Focal Length: 44mm… Aperture Priority… / Shutter Speed: 1/2 s… Aperture: f/8… / ISO: 100… Tripod: Bogen…… Bias 0.0 EV… / Filters:Hoya Polarizer… Cable Release… / Format:RAW
Smithville Park, Eastampton, New Jersey
This pool in Karijini National Park / Western Australia is a bit hard to get to but well worth the effort. Equipment: CANON 5D, CANON 24-105 f4 L IS Framing suggestion: / Photo was featured in Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! SOLD: / Durst Lambda Fuji Flex Print 20×12 inch, / Sold to person from Western Australia, / through www.aabz-imaging.com / Matted Print, 218mm x 326mm, through RB-site © aabz-imaging / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
This image placed 2nd on October 31, 2008 in the November Avatar Challenge challenge in the Welcome to Utah group. Tree snag with sandstone cliffs in background. Established in 1909 Utah’s first national park will celebrate its 100th birthday in 2009. Canon 30D / 18mm focal length / F/6.3 / 1/100 sec. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it. ©2008-2009 Patricia Montgomery | Bucks Mountain Galleries | All rights reserved.
The late evening sun casts a golden glow on the sandstone cliffs in Zion National Park. Established in 1909, Utah’s first national park will celebrate its 100th birthday next year. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it. ©2008 Patricia Montgomery | Bucks Mountain Galleries All rights reserved.
Equipment used: / Nikon D70s / Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 DC / B&W 62mm Circular Polarisation Location: / Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada Map: / Road Map , Terrain , Satellite Copyright: / © Brendan Schoon , All rights reserved. Background Information: / This picture is taken near Athabasca Falls . Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park is just 23 metres high. However, it is not known for its height. Instead it is known for the force of the falling water due to the quantity of water flowing. Even on a cold morning in the fall, copious amounts of water flow over the falls. A layer of hard quartzite has allowed the falls to cut into the softer limestone below carving the short gorge and a number of potholes. White water rafting often starts below the falls to travel downstream on the Athabasca River to Jasper, Alberta. It is a class 5 waterfall, with a drop of 80 ft (24 m) and a width of 60 ft (18 m). Athabasca Falls / Pointing Rock / Moraine Lake / Sunset in Tofino / Purden Lake /
Taken at Stoney Brook State Park on 11/09/2008. A Canon Rebel XTi camera. Edited in HDR and PS.
Captured 12/13/2008 on a very frigid morning at Cherry Creek State Park, here in Colorado, I froze my damn keester off because I was dense and forgot to bring along my damn jacket! It was an incredible sunrise folks, one which I won’t forget, the colors changed and developed by the minute, going from the cool blues to the warm pinks, reds, and oranges…and I was able to get something in the shots which I had never had been able to before, the lake actually shimmering! In some of the other shots in days to come, you can really see this, and you kind of can here in the bottom left side a tad, an odd occurrence, and one I finally managed to snag! Long exposure, using my Singh-Ray CPL and Marumi ND4, on my Minolta 18-70 DT Lens, I hope ya all like it, let me know what ya think! / —-John !
An Oil panting I did a few years ago it.
I finally redid the HDR on this one. Hope everyone likes it. I totally dig it although the I kept the original darker one as my desktop picture (cause it looks great on my mac but apparently is too dark on a PC). Rock on all and let me know what you think. Seriously please critique this one for me. This photo has been driving me nuts since the original HDR was too dark. 5 exposure HDR processed in photomatix. Unsharp mask in GIMP. Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi / Shutter Speed: 160/100 second / F Number: F/14.0 / Focal Length: 18 mm / ISO Speed: 100 / Date Picture Taken: Apr 27, 2009, 3:02:11 AM Currently featured in Stream Crossings group and All Water in Motion group. Really appreciate the support. / /
Best View Larger! Featured in Appalachian State Parks group. Taken on the red trail at Bushkills State Park, Bushkill, PA on 07/18/2009. Canon 50D / Sigma 17-70mm lens / Hoya Circular Polarizer / Tripod / Photoshop Elements 7.0
The Marakoopa Cave, in the The Mole Creek Karst National Park, north/west Tasmania. The flowstone features in this cave are Breathtaking! There is 2 tours you can do in the caves, this is the lower one, there is also an upper one, which unfortunately I didn’t have time to do on this trip. The pool of water in this one is actually higher than the base of the cave at the back of the shot. This gives some real cool illusions. Canon 50D, 10mm. Available large, and definately best viewed LARGE!
Found this beautiful stream on the walk up to The Marakoopa Cave, in the The Mole Creek Karst National Park, north/west Tasmania, Australia. This comes straight out of the cave, and is icy cold! Like a place, stuck in time, millions of years old. Canon 50D, 10mm. Available Large, and definately best viewed Large!
This image taken at the Babcock State Park in Fayette , West Virginia. The Glade Creek Grist Mill is a new mill that was completed in 1976 at Babcock(Fayette , West Virginia). Fully operable, this mill was built as a re-creation of one which once ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. I have another composition from further away , but the Sun burst in this image is much more prominent , along with the lighting. Thanks for looking =) / Taken Feb. 1st 2009. / 3 Image HDR = Photomatix / Nikon D40 18-135mm / Tripod/CP Filter / Featured in the”All water in Motion” Group September 2009 Featured in the “Appalachian State Parks” Group October 2009 Featured in the “Lakes and Inland Waterways” Group October 2009 Featured in the “A Place to Call Home” Group October 2009 Featured in the “Nikon D40 (x) users group” October 2009
Best View Larger! Featured in Canon DSLR group. / Featured in Lakes and Inland Waterways one per day / group. It’s the first waterfalls on the Glen Leigh trail at Rickets Glenn State Park and taken on 09/19/2009. There are 13 waterfalls on the trail. The height of the waterfalls ranges from 11’ to 94’ and the trail is steep and rough. Kitchen creek flows from Lake Jean. Some editing in raw to get rid of the blue. Canon 50D / Sigma 17-70mm lens / Shutter Speed 1sec / F-4.5 / ISO 100 / Hoya CPL / Tripod / Ten Second Timer / Edited in CS4
Best View Larger Feature in Summer & Fall in the North-East USA group. The bridge is in the town of Ticonderoga, New York. I went with Lina and Paul Thanks to Lynn Evans for teaching me the Orton layers. Canon 50D / Sigma 17-70mm lens / shutter speed 1/10sec / f-27 / ISO-200 / Tripod / Orton Effect in Photoshop /
Autumn Bridge ~ Experiment in Texture Hartman Lake – Hartman Creek State Park / Waupaca County, Wisconsin / f 7.0, EV -2,0,2 best viewed larger
Alum Creek rests in the midst of the fertile agricultural till plains and river valleys of Delaware County • In contrast to the surrounding farmlands, the park offers a diverse array of natural features • Cliffs of Ohio shale are notable in many areas, exposed as Alum Creek and other streams cut through underlying bedrock • The shale was formed as mud washed into the ancient sea which covered the area several hundred million years ago • The dark hue of the rock is due to the mixture of a carbonized plant material and mud that formed the shale The rich soils of Delaware County gave rise to a luxuriant beech-maple forest after the retreat of the glaciers about 12,000 years ago • That original forest has long since been cut but a healthy second growth forest is preserved in the park • The woodlands harbor a variety of plant species and offer the interested observer beautiful displays of wildflowers and wildlife • Large-flowered trillium, wild geranium, bloodroot, and spring beauties carpet the forest floor • The forest is home to the fox squirrel, woodchuck, rabbit, white-tail deer and many other species of wildlife History of the Area Long before recorded history, man called this forest and the Alum Creek valley home • The Adena culture lived here over 2,000 years ago • Seven mounds constructed by the mound builders were identified along the creek • Six were excavated before the valley was flooded although archaeologists did not believe them to be burial mounds Much later, the Delaware Indian tribe occupied several villages near Alum Creek • A large town was located where the city of Delaware now stands on the banks of the Olentangy River • The Indians cultivated a 400-acre cornfield in much of what is presently downtown • These Algonquin tribespeople entered Ohio in the 1700s, being displaced from their eastern home in the Delaware River valley by the fierce Iroquois nation Colonel Moses Byxbe was one of the first settlers in the county • He built his home in 1805 on Alum Creek and named the township Berkshire after his native Berkshire, Massachusetts • He owned 8,000 acres on the creek and was the co-owner of 30,000 more • These were military lands which he sold for $2.50 to $10 per acre With the threat of the War of 1812, the frontier counties set about erecting structures to defend themselves in case of Indian attack • Four blockhouses were built in the county, one of which was on Alum Creek • The fortress had two stories, the second of which protruded over the first yielding a place from which to shoot • drop boiling water on the attackers and defy attempts to set the log structure on fire • This Fort Cheshire, which stood until the Civil War, was later used as a schoolhouse • A bronze plaque commemorates the site where the fort once stood in what is now the park’s family campground During the fifty years prior to the Civil War, the border state of Ohio offered many routes for the Underground Railroad by which slaves escaped to freedom • Over 40,000 slaves passed northward through Ohio along these paths • The Sycamore Trail, whose guideposts were often the ghostly white bark of this floodplain tree, ran along Alum Creek • Slaves waded in the waters of the creek as they left the safe Hanby House in Westerville and attempted to elude pursuing trackers • Africa Road received its name from the fact that thirty slaves, freed in North Carolina, settled near friendly homeowners in this area / Nikon D300 x Nikkor 18-200mm
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