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bryce tree

..’twas a bit dark so i just dragged the shutter for this one..

Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not actually a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by wind, water and ice erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular vistas for park visitors. Bryce is at a much higher elevation than nearby Zion National Park. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2,400 to 2,700 m).

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oyster shell

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carve

..i don’t follow surfing much, but i do like taking shots of them doing their tricks.. what better place to shoot them than at the US Open of Surfing which was held last week for a week.. this was taken on a Thursday which was Men’s Round 3..

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Landscape Nature Photos

rocky

..title sucks, oh well..

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Architecture Landscape Nature Photos things Urban

nudist

..odd name for a post, eh? well, the place where i shot this was (as i found out eventually) a nudist beach.. lolz..

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Critters Indoor Lowlight Nature Photos Urban

tanked

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Indoor Lowlight Nature People Photos Urban

mach

..the way the light struck those fishes on the right makes it seem like shock waves from a supersonic jet..

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Nature People Photos

massive

..as mentioned by Bob, Morro Bay tends to be foggy & dull.. i experienced the same weather like he did when i visited this place.. oh, and climbing the rock is illegal..

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Black n White Nature Photos

parched

..a dead tree in the middle of grape vines somewhere in San Luis Obispo..

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Lowlight Nature Photos

fish run

..quick, run away from the guy with the big cam!

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Architecture cityscape Nature Photos Urban

century city

..that cluster of building is Century City..

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Landscape Nature Photos

bluffs

..the other side of this place..

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godsend

..in shooting tourist traps, when you don’t want people to clutter your shot, you usually do one of these:

  • wake up late / early and shoot when no one’s there
  • shoot a bunch of shots and do some “magic” in photoshop
  • painstakingly clone them out one by one

..in this case, i just left the scene alone and pressed the shutter..

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range

..taken somewhere between fort stockton, tx & van horn, tx..
..supersized image (click thumbnail)..

..and for the remaining videos of our road trip..
..third leg, part one, Fort Stockton, TX to El Paso, TX..

..third leg, part two, El Paso, TX to Willcox, AZ..

..fourth leg, part one, Willcox, AZ to Tombstone, AZ

..fourth leg, part two, Tombstone, AZ to Phoenix, AZ..

..fourth leg, part three, Phoenix, AZ to California

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van horn

..good thing there’s free wifi.. 🙂 here’s a town we passed by along i-10.. van horn, tx..

Van Horn is a town in and the county seat of Culberson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2000 census.

..second leg, part one (houston, tx to san antonio, tx)

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Landscape Nature Photos street

somewhere

..taken somewhere between san antonio & fort stockton..

..i was also shooting stuff for a video log of the trip.. if you don’t mind getting a headache, then watch them..

first leg, part one (mobile, al to texas border)..

first leg, part two (texas border to houston, tx)..

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Landscape Nature Panorama Photos

bye bye bama

…well, that’s all folks, bye bye Bama.. 🙂 i’ll be heading west via I-10, any photo tips?

*this is a bandwidth heavy post, that’s one huge supersized image below, and that vid’s pretty big too.. enjoy.. 🙂

Bye Bye Bama from Digitized Chaos on Vimeo.

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Critters Nature Photos

mullet

..was lucky enough to get up close to this jittery bird, i guess this one’s used to us bipeds already..

*SOOC except for the vignette

*changed title, i liked mark‘s comment.. 😀

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Nature People Photos things transportation Urban

southland

..git ’em fishes while they’re still fresh..

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black pine

..the mind is an amazing thing, it makes you see things that aren’t really there.. what did you think of after looking at this tree?

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dunlin

..a Dunlin (in between breeding & intermediate plumage), taken a month ago, that part of the beach is closed now..

Dunlins are sparrow-sized sandpipers with long, black, droopy bills and relatively long, black legs. In breeding plumage, Dunlins are comparatively easy to identify because of the conspicuous black belly patch and rufous cap and mantle. In the nonbreeding season, they are plain gray-brown on their upper parts and white below. A prominent white wing stripe, seen in flight, is present in all plumages.

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pine

..back in nyc i had the habit of gazing up and thinking of cool stuff to shoot, but here in alabama, this is what i see when i look up.. 🙂

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Landscape Nature Photos Urban

misty

..yep, under the pier again, hope you guys don’t get tired of these shots.. 😀

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daphne seascape

..okay, what do you call this if it were taken on a Bay and not a Sea..? a bayscape?.. 🙂

..weather forecast said scattered thunderstorm when i was shooting this, there were dark clouds, thunder & lightning all around but i was still shooting, dumb eh?

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macro Nature Photos things

fishkill redux

..just like monday, two weeks ago..

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dune hair

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pier to ∞

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round table

..lounging around under a tree and saw this group of flowers illuminated by a ray of sunlight, hence the natural vignetting..

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Critters macro Nature Photos

it’s time

..come out and play, it’s the weekend..

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Critters Nature Photos

franklin’s gull

..now that’s streamlined..

The Franklin’s Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) is a small gull. It breeds in central provinces of Canada and adjacent states of the northern USA. It is migratory, wintering in the Caribbean, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
This species is easy to identify. The summer adult’s body is white and its back and wings are much darker grey than all other gulls of similar size except the larger Laughing Gull. The wings have black tips with an adjacent white band. The bill and legs are red. The black hood of the breeding adult is mostly lost in winter.
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fishkill

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eh?

..that’s what i think his hairy mug was saying when i snapped him here..

..here’s a bonus..

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daybreak

..California mountains, shot from Griffith Park Observatory..

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bump

..rules are meant to be broken, this framing worked for me.. 🙂

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Nature People Photos street

homework

..living beside a lake can be very nice..

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slick

..i was watching the local news & it’s not good, the oil slick is approaching Dauphin Island (where i got this week’s bird shots)..

NASA Oil Slick (NASA flickr)
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brown pelican

..far better shot than what i had before..

The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is the smallest of the eight species of pelican, although it is a large bird in nearly every other regard. It is 106–137 cm (42–54 in) in length, weighs from 2.75 to 5.5 kg (6-12 lb) and has a wingspan from 1.83 to 2.5 m (6 to 8.2 ft). (wiki)

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ha ha ha

..these guys were really loud..

The Laughing Gull, Leucophaeus atricilla, is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. It breeds on the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Northernmost populations migrate further south in winter, and this species occurs as a rare vagrant to western Europe. (There was an influx into North-west Europe in late October 2005 when at least 18, possibly as many as 35, individuals occurred on one day in the UK alone.) The Laughing Gull’s English name is derived from its raucous kee-agh call, which sounds like a high-pitched laugh “ha… ha… ha…”. (wiki)

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royal tern

..i dunno why, but these guys were fun to look at, they look pretty sharp.. i guess that’s what makes them “royal”.. 🙂

..or maybe mobsters eyeballing the opposing “family”.. 🙂

The Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus, syn. Sterna maxima) is a seabird in the tern family Sternidae. This bird has two distinctive subspecies.
T. m. maximus breeds on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the southern USA and Mexico into the Caribbean. The slightly smaller T. m. albididorsalis breeds in coastal west Africa.
American birds winter south to Peru and Argentina, and African breeders move both north and south from the breeding colonies. (wiki)
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great blue heron

..it was a great day, i took the BigmOS out for a stroll..

The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England. An all-white population found only in the Caribbean and south Florida was once known as a separate species, the Great White Heron. (wiki)

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wade

..dwayne wade’s injured.. tsk3..

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slingshot

..might as well go for a wordless Wednesday too just like my photo blog buddy Bob.. 🙂

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3.1

..3.1.. did you get it? 🙂

..anyways, this is how yesterday’s post (washed out pier) would look like if you were to step back a few meters away.. you can even see my footsteps from here.. i decided to leave them there and not clone them out because i find it interesting (or is it distracting? oh well..)

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graveyard

..continuing with the biloxi “beach-scapes” series i started off last week, here’s the colored version of what i had last monday..

..and a bonus..

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loch

..i’m obviously running out of titles, i guess you can figure this one out, yeah?

..and here it is in mono, just because i’m in the mood for it.. so which one do you prefer?

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mwah

..this little birdy spotted me taking a snap of him..

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leaf monster

..i’d like to think of this as some trail left by a leafy monster..

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culvert

..let me quote sherri on this..

I could not get in that water though. Something about it creeps me out.

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Landscape Nature Photos things

don’t litter

..shot these series of images on a chilly february day, that’s the reason for it being desolate and all..

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Black n White Landscape Nature Photos

redneck riviera

..starting off a new series of images from the “redneck riviera”.. read about it here..