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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
Stunning fall color in the hills of Tennessee
images that change into other images then change again. There are over 50 images in this painting and I think you can see most of them. / look to the left going up the mountain you’ll see a man looking toward you with a beard, it changes into a man’s head upside down his hair becomes the beard, the chin turns into a gorilla face. it turns into a profile of a face looking to the left which turns into a cougar looking at you (right to left of all that, in the dark area might be to dark in this will get a higher res Pic up) / See the large ghostly wolfs head above the birds neck? it goes on and on.
Astronomy compels the Soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. / Plato My original art works enhanced in photo shop to create Colonies. Number V1 in the series. / / Music by Equinox / Colonies
just spent a wonderful afternoon on my favourite sandbridge, St Ninian’s… / i guess the ocean’s in my veins :))
The Autumn Equinox is a Celtic Festival known as Mabon, and celebrates the powers of light and darkness being in total balance. Day and Night are of equal legnth, but unlike Spring Equinox in March, from now on the nights will be longer than the days and Autumn will descend into Winter. This is the Waning half of the years cycle , where we gather in the Harvest and make ready for the cold winter nights ahead. The life force goes back into the darkness of the earth and rests, before being reborne again in the Spring, renewed and full of fresh hope.
rework of an earlier upload. This version appears in my 2009 Calendar “Celtic Dreams”
Spring Equinox
Twelfth and last of this series, this shot is taken at Chaco Canyon’s Fajada Butte (it was blurry, so I merged it) along with a petroglyph rock just outside the area. At the time we were there, no one was allowed near the Butte. In 1977, on Fajada Butte, Dr. Anna Sofaer discovered the Sun Dagger petroglyphs, a large circular spiral and a small spiral are pecked in a cliff behind 3 large stone slabs. At midday on the Summer solstice, the sun shines between the stone slabs and creates a dagger of light that bisects the large spiral. On midday of the Winter Solstice, two daggers bracket the large spiral. During the Spring and Fall equinoxes, a small dagger of light bisects the small spiral. The slabs also cast a shadow on the large spiral that marks the moon’s 18 point, 6 years cycle of its orbit. Wiki 10th century – 1250A.D. Hope you enjoyed this historical journey through the Anasazi culture, this is dedicated to my granddaughter, Lexi who will be questing at Chaco Canyon at the end of the month.
Fall is a wonderful time. Nature shows off some of her most beautiful colors. The air begins to cool and it becomes pleasant to be outside after the scorching summer. Most wildlife becomes more active with winter feeding and mating rituals. Fall is a fabulous time, so get out and enjoy. Take a hike or just find a quit place to relax, but get out and toss your cares to the wind….image taken from the Oconaluftee Valley Overlook on the NC side of Newfound Gap Rd.,GSMNP
The Little River Road is about 18 miles long. It runs between the Sugarland Visitors Center at the Gatlinburg entrance to the Smoky Mountains and the Wye in Townsend. Once you pass the road going to Elkmont Campground it snakes through the gorge along the sides of Little River. Its one of the more popular drives in the Smokies. Numerous pull offs offer unending possibilities to get out and explore the river. Fall colors can be spectacular. Along the route there is a picnic area, waterfalls, and hiking trails. The road may not be for the timid, not use to mountain roads. In some places you are on the edge of the river on one side and against a rock bluff on the other. It seems narrower than it looks and has room for motor homes to meet, so drive slow and enjoy. It is one of two ways to get to Cades Cove. From it you can also enjoy fly fishing, kayaking or just playing in the water. Tubers often dot the river on the Wye end in summer. Camera: Canon 40D… Lens: Canon 24-105 f/4…. / Focal Length: 24mm… Manual… / Shutter Speed: 2s… F/Stop: 16… / ISO: 100… Tripod: Bogen…… Bias 0.0EV… / Filters:B+W Polarizer… Cable Release… … / Format:RAW
I just finished this one & “Autumn Equinox Fruit” this morning, actually they are still a bit damp! / Working on Paper with Water Colours and highlighted in Gold & Silver Acrylic…. / I’ve also “played” with the colours in Photoshop to see what I could do and will, in the future, be putting together a catalogue of SPRING & AUTUMN EQUINOX & SUMMER & WINTER SOLSTICE in a variety of colours, I think it will make a great 2010 Calendar, but the one downloaded here (and the Autumn Equinox Fruit), are as their original colour is on the painting. Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks
From my collection: / Emerquinox / Spirit of Alaska ~ Alaska North Star Winter Scenics Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Emerquinox is a word I coined when I combined the words Emerge and Equinox The Great White North I took this photo in deep winter 20 January 2008 midway between Fairbanks and North Pole Alaska. In summer this area is a peat bog. It is actually quite deep as in late Autumn I have watched a cow Moose submerge herself and swim in the pond at sunset. Near the Chena River, in winter it is used as a ‘highway’ for mushers and their dogsleds and also for snowmachines. I removed the natural blue hue with a white balance adjustment. Then I desaturated selective colours pulling down the yellow, magenta, and green. With a slight adjustment on contrast, I then used the lasso tool and selected only the sky to remove the digital noise as I had my ISO setting too high at 400 and, along with the cold, this created too much noise with the original photograph. The temperature on this day had actually warmed to about 10F. Within a week it plunged again to appx minus -47F. Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / Shooting Date/Time 20 January 2008 16:41:50 / Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/125 / Av( Aperture Value ) 5.6 “Permafrost, perennially frozen ground that maintains a temperature at or below the freezing point for at least two years. Vast tracts of permafrost lie across Alaska, Canada, northern Europe and Asia, and Antarctica. About 80 percent of Alaska’s land area contains permafrost. In the Interior region, vegetation must adapt itself to short, warm summers and long, cold winters. Trees grow slowly, and their root systems must be shallow because they cannot penetrate the permafrost. In Alaska, permafrost occurs as a continuous sheet north of the Brooks Range, extending from a few inches below the surface down to as deep as 1,000 feet. As one goes south, however, it gets progressively thinner, the melted layer on top gets thicker, and holes or gaps begin to appear in it. Permafrost may extend to depths of more than 500 m (1,600 ft). Clues to the age of the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere lie in the numerous discoveries of mammoth remains embedded in frozen ground. Mammoths became extinct about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago, coincident with the end of the most recent ice age. Some scientists, however, think that much of today’s permafrost may have formed as long as 120,000 years ago.” Source: Wikipedia “As with all great journeys, the vision is the beginning / Dreams of all the possibilities, / of the many paths widening to the future / Of all the great and extraordinary things our mind can imagine / The persistence of our own opportunistic souls reaching for what is yet unabridged / An unconscious decision to struggle forward yet again / And without even knowing of our focus / We start forward / All of our past, our teachings, our experience are brought into play / The trials of our past giving us the tools that we need to find our way / Our way to fulfilling this newest quest for our dream / No obstacle too great, / no argument rebuff / The journey begun, we will not allow defeat / We can only see the unfolding, as it will be / And as always, / the goal is reached / And there, / sated in the peace of our newly added thread in the web of our life / We rest / And the vision comes again” / ~ by Steve ‘Easy’ Whitacre 2005
This image was originally a slide, and after converted to digital, applied a diffusion filter to produce this effect. The colour intensity is courtesy of a Blue/Yellow Polarizer Filter used when photographing this scene.
As a result of a freak accident, the entire internet is uploaded into a Marsupial Mouse. Sort of.
Oil on Canvas – 75×60cm available for sale Spring Equinox is the equal balance of night and day as the sun is growing stronger each day. This is a great time to gracefully leave behind the shadows of the past that can haunt us and walk into the beautiful new dawn.
Earth and the great weather move me… / have carried me away… / and move my inward parts with joy, uvanuk – Eskimo Just in a fall kind of mood…♥
Grand Lake, Algonquin Park Ontario, CANADA / September 26th 2009 / Nikon D40, Nikkor VR 55-200mm lens Song title of recording by the great Nat King Cole. Autumn Leaves Featured in A Beautiful Blur, October 2009
Grand Lake, Algonquin Park Ontario, CANADA / September 26th 2009 / Nikon D40, Nikkor VR 55-200mm lens “In 1978, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was released and achieved international success, including worldwide hit singles “The Eve of the War” and “Forever Autumn”, with vocals performed by Justin Hayward in both. David Justin Hayward (born 14 October 1946, in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English musician, best known as a singer, guitarist and composer in the rock band The Moody Blues” ~ Wikipedia Narration by Richard Burton, sung by Justin Hayward, Forever Autumn Featured in Colour and Light, October 2009 .
Grand Lake, Algonquin Park Ontario, CANADA / September 26th 2009 / Nikon D40, Nikkor VR 55-200mm lens
Algonquin Park Ontario, CANADA / September 26th 2009 / Nikon D40, Nikkor VR 55-200mm lens / The fog had started to lift but was still visible above the trees.
Exclusively Ultra Fractal 5.02 / Full view for best detail / Thanks for any comment, critique, or favorite. / ©saenarts. / An update of the original piece “Amber Sunset.” / Happy autumn everyone.
Rough water colour/acrylic/aquarel sketch. Kaname 2009
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