Ok, contest is over and I want to know who took

[CC]

what gorgeous photo. I would also like to know where it was taken if people don't mind. Course it is all voluntary though it would be nice it you post your photo here too. Even better, any almost went with instead photos since we did not have any "help me pick my entry" threads. I think those threads are what I miss most in doing the blind submissions.


So this one was mine.....



I couldn't think of a title and found the Sioux phrase for Badlands here. I have to find the photos, then scan some since they were taken with a film camera.


This was my runner up but since the theme was geology felt the other one showed more of it. Plus it had the different color layers showing in it.



If you ever get the chance to go to Badlands National Park, go. Take lots of storage and spend a week or so because every minute is different. I would love to go for a couple weeks one day.

[rdking647]

1. this was mine

we were on vacation in hawaii and i saw him poking up thru the recent lava. this was a few years ago

[CC]

2. One of my favorites.

And in one of my favorite places. :) Isn't wonderful when you find life pushing through tough conditions like that.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Of course, the REAL question is...

...who took the Delicate Arch photo that got pulled from the finals??? :shrug:

[Mira]

4. I suspect that only the Shadow knows. I am really curious myself, after all

Delicate Arch was not far from where I took my photo, and his/hers knocked my socks off. The hike to Delicate Arch is arduous and pretty long. So whoever it was had a tough hike back after sunset.

I love "The Arches National Park" with a passion. I am thinking of posting a few more of my own from there.
I actually had to turn back from some of the passages. They were too dangerous for me, and I'm not squeamish or scared. Just prudent.

And "Congratulations" to YOU> I could not figure:
was it yours
or were the twin falls yours,
and not til the end did I know for sure.

When I first saw your photo I knew you would probably win this.
The sun was such a support in it, too. And the shapes of the closeups of the rocks.

BIG THUMBS UP to you, the WINNER.

[Richard D]

5. Why did it get pulled?

That was such a gorgeous photo.
Congrats to all. Another contest filled with jaw dropping beauty and talent.

About Dangerous Beauty:

The mountain is Huascaran, in the Peruvian Andes. At 22,205 feet, it's the highest mountain located in the tropics, and the sixth highest in the Western Hemisphere. The place where the landslide appears to be happening is from a landslide that happened in 1970.

From Wikipedia: On 31 May 1970, the Ancash earthquake caused a substantial part of the north side of the mountain to collapse. The avalanche mass, an estimated 80 million cubic feet of ice, mud and rock was about half a mile wide and a mile long. It advanced about 11 miles (18 km) at an average speed of 280 to 335 km per hour, burying the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca under ice and rock, killing more than 20,000 people.

So really, a better name for the photo would have been Deadly Beauty.

The man with the stick is now a tour guide. The area where we were standing is where the village used to be and is now sacred land and will never be built upon. Everyone in the village was instantly killed and the only survivors were some of the children who were on higher ground for a carnival and a few people who were on the top of a small hill, including the man's mother. By the time he told us the whole story, we were all crying. Then he sang us a beautiful song to cheer us up as he didn't want us to leave sad and he wanted to remind us to celebrate being alive.

[CC]

6. Can I just say...

this is the best part of sharing these great photos. TY for telling about the man with the cane and the history. Mother Nature tends to remind humanity we are allowed here by her grace on a regular basis, shame most don't get it. I love the guides attitude about not letting you leave sad and reminding you to celebrate life.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. I know who it was and why it got pulled.

but it is for the photographer to decide whether to explain.

[handmade34]

10. why I love geology

the power and beauty... the story is heartfelt (must admit, I voted for Dangerous Beauty - the picture itself told a powerful story)

[MissHoneychurch]

7. This was my entry

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. very nice. nt

[CC]

25. So where is the perfect spot

to relax and enjoy the gifts of our earth? I love the flowers painting a bit of red here and there as though they wanted to be sure your eye followed the lay of the land.

[MattSh]

30. So...where is this?

(Unless it's a secret hiding place you don't want the world to know about).

[MattSh]

9. This is mine...

Our gracious host mentioned mine honorably, but here is mine and some info...

Of Mountains and Men. (With additional processing)

The Sunken city of Kekova

Kekova, also named Caravola (Lycian: Dolichiste), is a small Turkish island near Kaş (ancient Antiphellos) district of Antalya province which faces the villages of Kaleköy (ancient Simena) and Üçağız (ancient Teimioussa). Kekova has an area of 4.5 km² and is uninhabited.

After the Italian occupation of Kastelorizo, Kekova — which at that time was temporarily inhabited during summer because of wood harvest — was disputed between Italy and Turkey. The 1932 Convention between Italy and Turkey assigned it to Turkey.

On its northern side there are the partly sunken ruins of Dolchiste/Dolikisthe, an ancient town which was destroyed by an earthquake during the 2nd century. Rebuilt and still flourishing during the Byzantine Empire period, it was finally abandoned because of Arab incursions. Tersane (meaning "dockyard", as its bay was the site of an ancient city Xera and dockyard, with the ruins of a Byzantine church) is at the northwest of the island.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kekova

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. love that one

:loveya:

[Blue_In_AK]

21. I really just love that shot,

everything about it -- the story behind it and the composition. Beautiful!

[CC]

26. You travel to the neatest

places, capture the beauty of those places and then share the photos and stories with us. I can't ask for more and enjoy them so much.

[MattSh]

29. Well, in my defense...

I live over here full-time. Kiev to the south of Turkey is about the same distance from NYC to Tampa FL. Just a lot more historic - at both ends!

[Celebration]

11. Love yours

I would really like to go there! My hubby is dying to go but it is a bit off the beaten track for us.

My photo, Because it is There, was taken at Shi Shi Beach in the Olympic Peninsula. It was practically my only photo of rocks in my archives. We took a long three mile (very muddy) hike to get there. There were more people on the beach than I thought would be there given that it was relatively remote. No I didn't climb up on the rocks, being exhausted at the time, but fam did.

[Mira]

12. These are awe filling - for sure. I like the runner up better because my

eyes got wider when I saw it than with the first one. Now I want to go there!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

15. Well, okay here's mine

though it's a bit pedestrian in comparison. I was quite surprised it made it to the finals. :bounce:

[Mira]

16. I loved it from the start. Glad to know who it belongs to.

I love it not so much for the obvious (the color of the green) I love it because of how you captured the feel of the water.
Most excellent. I think it belonged in the finals.

[CC]

27. I like it a lot and partly for

for the green but also the framing and I could swear the bottom right corner it looks like a footprint under the water.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. And here's mine: Taken from a low-flying jet...

We were actually coming home from my brother-in-law's memorial service in a very remote town in NoCal. We flew out of a medium sized city in Oregon. I was really hoping to be on the correct side of the plane, and that the plane would be on the correct side of the mountain.......and we were! I took four pictures, and this was the best.

[Mira]

18. How very expansive and gorgeous - I studied and loved this

one, too. The clouds give it such dimension.
Did you know that Mz Pip has flown across the country to NC? We may meet up in the next day or so.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Thank you, my dear Mira!

How lucky that you two may meet!

I hope you get to do that, and I know you'll have a great time.

[CC]

28. I knew you had to be in a plane yet

it doesn't look like you were shooting through a window. Glad everything went right so you could get this and share it. Great capture. Looks like the clouds even wanted to help out and give it that extra magic.

[Blue_In_AK]

20. That is so beautiful, CC

That's in a Dakota, right? Those states up there -- Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho -- are some of the few states that I've never visited. Maybe someday....

[CC]

23. You have to find the time.

South Dakota for that one. With one of your kids in CO you do have a starting point. WE drove from Longmont, CO through Wyoming, then SD. Was a beautiful ride. WI and MN are are pretty in their way. Haven't made it to Idaho, Montana or ND yet. I get out that way I end up in CO visiting family. Then again family is usually why I am there in the first place.

[handmade34]

22. I was so curious about many of the photos

the badlands are so impressive (I have many shots but they all have my granddaughter in them...hence the geology is not the focus)


OK... my photo and story: it is near Greenbanks Hollow in Danville, Vermont and my daughter and I made a quick visit during my 'vacation' last month. The kids and I enjoyed many, many days at this swimming hole (and many others throughout Vermont) In this photo, the dam at Joe's Pond was open and the water was rushing. Normally the brook was gentle and very safe (and a favorite trout spot)

A little further down the brook..., when the kids were little, they would run ahead and I always yelled to them to not go into the water if the dam was down: they were always very good... except... one day, when my oldest son was approx 10yo, he didn't heed my warning and I almost lost him. One of the scariest days in my life. As I caught sight of the brook, he got swept away and was between 2 rocks, clinging desperately to them. I rushed, as best I could, over the very slippery river rock and grabbed him in time... WOW! We were all much more careful after that but have very fond memories of the swimming holes throughout the stretch of the brook.











additional fun stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtGL8ZGd3hk

When I taught 'at-risk' kids, we would take them swimming here (also found above video on you tube of this spot and I can testify that it sometimes takes a few minutes to gather courage enough to jump)



http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/3983/

http://www.swimmingholes.org/vt.html


my Yosemite trip:

[alfredo]

24. The second image reminds me of the Channelled Scablands

in Washington state.


http://hugefloods.com/Scablands.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands

[bluedigger]

31. Another pic of the ginormous boulder.

It's up in the Sierra Nevada's somewhere...:)

[Mira]

32. More! Please. I'm ever curious who did what. n/t

[Sheepshank]

33. I'm thinking mine is the one entry you all figured out...right?

I was in Zions...had fully intended to take pics, come home do some editing and submit. While checking out DU on my daughters' 10" mini lap top, realized that I was almost SOL and would not meet any deadline if I waited until I got home. Blue was gracious and gave me a window of opportunity to submit.

I pulled together every set of wires I could find to see if anything would connect my camera to the lap top. One was a perfect match and then the s-l-o-w wait began for down loading. I had over 700 pics in the camera and the laptop balked at the memory use. For an hour I down loaded and deleted, and dowloaded and deleted.

Finally I got a pic I thought would work...of course the screen being as small as it was I not able to work with much of the detail and didn't even realize there were people in the pic until I came home and used my larger monitor. Uploading to Photobucket took almost as long as uploading pics to the laptop. You can see I got a little heavy handed with the saturation...another function of the mini laptop I think. I e-mailed to Blue and was granted the spot.

[CC]

34. Not all of us though I love

it and the people are a bonus in my mind. They give it scale.



As to the stop on commenting on everyones photos, my husband decided to break his ankle last week. Extra work for me. He sees the ortho Friday, finally. The man cannot seem to operate crutches at all so hoping a cast will allow him to use that foot to help balance. Right now he is in a splint. Obviously there is a conspiracy to keep me off the computer going on in my house. :)

[Mira]

36. That is tragic for everyone in the house. And I'm including the animals. And

it's also stressful all the way around.
Feet are endangered at your house so place them carefully.
Tell your husband I'm so sorry!

[Celebration]

37. Hi CC

Sorry about your hubby! It has now been four weeks since my operation on my broken ankle. At this point about all I can do is walk on my toes in the swimming pool, but at least I have a removeable boot now. Balancing on the cast is important in being able to use crutches. Before that I rented a non motorized scooter (seated scooter) from www.goodbyecrutches.com. It is easy to operate on floors or thin carpet, and narrow enough to get through any door. The great part about it is it has a basket for moving things from one room to another. Sure can't do that with crutches! I would have been miserable without it. They seem to be a reliable company. Got it to me in two days. I am renting it but will probably just buy the darn thing. We have tons of paved paths here and the basket is perfect for my camera. I can chase after birds pretty fast in this thing. They have a knee scooter too but that looked uncomfortable.

I've been spending a lot of time going through my photos, and eliminating a bunch! Oh, and being a real couch potato..........

[Mira]

39. What you are describing sounds like a nightmare to me. Your having kept

such a good outlook through such trying times is inspirational. How much longer?

No wonder there have not been any new photos of chasing birds.
I admire your spirit.

[Celebration]

40. well, remember, that is why I was looking for photo software

to keep me busy. And I haven't even gotten around to using it!

But I have gotten through the whole thing fine with this scooter thing that I push with my other foot. If I had to use crutches, oh, that was a nightmare.

Mine fortunately wasn't one of those compound things, just a fibula break, and I had a good surgeon. I'll be fine.

My hubby has sure had a lot of stuff to do, though.

[Mira]

41. I DO remember that. But I did not get the impression then that this would be

so debilitating. And it seems so long ago I thought that was long over.
Say I, who slept in a recliner for 3 months with my snapped humerus arm. So we are getting better in tandem.

[CC]

44. Ouch and sorry about your

ankle. I rented a wheel chair for the uncoordinated hubby. It is only $5. a week from our local family owned pharmacy. He (we) are really hoping he can avoid surgery so I have been strict on him while he is in the splint. We will find out more tomorrow. Having looked at his x-rays compared to my feet I told him to forget about whining. We can't tell for sure where the break is. He, the man that has an iron stomach and once cleaned up body parts from crashes could not stand to see my x-rays. I really wish I had saved mine to the computer. Then again I was in too much pain to think clearly. So far he is doing pretty good about behaving and entertaining himself. He has also learned the hard way to not over do it and is keeping his foot up more now.

As for carrying things with crutches, when I graduated out of the wheel chair (5 months later) to crutches I used a backpack to carry whatever with me. Does not work for everything but it made life easier. Pool therapy is the best, especially for feet and legs though Myra makes a case for the arms. I still use the pool to try to get my foot back to something like normal. I hope you have a speedy, as pain free as possible recovery. :hug:



Adding, I looked at the scooter when my foot was broken, problem was both my feet were broken so it wouldn't help. One foot and that would be the way I would go.

[Bonhomme Richard]

35. Here is mine. Exit Right

[Mz Pip]

38. This was mine.

Movin' and a Groovin' - Slowly. Thanks to Celebration for the reminding me of the song "Splish Splash." Have had a hard time getting the lyrics out of my head so decided to use another line from the song for my title. ;-)

[Celebration]

42. But wasn't that awhile back??

I barely remember. An ear worm lasts that long? :rofl:

That is one gorgeous, special photo!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

43. Kindred Spirits...Kaauterskill Falls in New York...same title as the Durand painting.

except I was closer to the distant Kaaterskil Falls...Bastion Falls are lower set in Durands painting.



http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Asher_B_Durand.html



Bastion Falls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30436878@N06/2861398628/in/set-72157617854593707/