I think we’re all looking forward to being able to travel more again. Road trip!
(Photo taken near Mono Lake, California.)
Author: counciltreeartworks
“I ran across this rock formation on a trip to Nevada several years ago. It looked like a giant’s fist reaching out of the ground, and behind it, another formation which you could imagine as the head of the giant arising after sleeping in the earth.”
This photo has been selectively color-enhanced to make the fist and head stand out.
Let’s look forward to a better year going forward, where we can hopefully put the COVID-19 pandemic and be more free to safely do things — like travel. Photographer’s comments:
“This photo was taken many years ago on a morning flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. It was raining that day in San Francisco, and as we broke through the clouds, I saw what looked like a rainbow halo around the shadow of the plane. I’d never seen such a thing before, and it was a mad scramble to pull the camera out from under the seat to get this shot before it disappeared. This optical phenomenon is actually called a ‘glory’, and is different from, but related to, rainbows. Because the glory surrounds the shadow of the plane, it looked like it was protecting the plane from harm like a shield around a science-fiction spacecraft.”
Gallery note: We were originally going to write a post on this photo before Thanksgiving 2020. However, things got in the way of that, and we couldn’t even post this at Christmas. Many people did indeed travel during then, with the result being a surge in COVID cases. Here’s to the hope that the vaccinations underway now will indeed protect us all from harm by next year.
Here’s another picture from our collection, “Loud Mouth”. This picture was also taken at the same camera club trip to a junkyard as a previous photo, “Get Off Me”. It is from the engine compartment of a wrecked car, although we’re not sure what this component is. Whatever it is, it seems like it wants to say something.
It’s been nearly two months since we posted… This wasn’t intentional. Without going into detail: while no one became ill, COVID was a significant factor in this delay. Good riddance 2020.
Here’s another image, “Defiant to the End”. From the photographer:
“I came across this tree while hiking in Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah in 2016. It was barely anchored into the cliff and looked ready to fall off at any moment. Yet it was still hanging on, and probably had been for a while, as if in defiance of its prospective fate. Probably a lot of people have had the feeling that things were going against us but we insisted on hanging on. As to how other people view it, it probably depends. Sometimes it’s viewed admirably, other times it’s viewed as foolish obstinacy.
I’ll have to go back there someday in the future and see if the tree is still there.”
Here’s another picture “Get Off Me!”. From the photographer:
“This was taken on a camera club trip to a junkyard. The headlights in this pile of crushed cars all resemble eyes, and attention immediately goes to the red car in the middle. What would it, or the rest of them, be thinking? The answer seems obvious…”
Introducing another picture, “Checkerboard Town”. From the photographer:
“In the past couple of years, I’ve had to fly on commercial airlines much more than I’d had before. As a friend in our camera club pointed out, you can see a lot of interesting things from an aerial perspective. I’d taken a few pictures from the air before, but many more in these two years.
The small town of Huntington, Utah caught my attention on one of these flights, and I flew over it regularly. Its streets and blocks form a nearly perfect checkerboard.”
Available in both a high-contrast black and white version as well as a colorized version showing the checkerboard.
This post introduces another picture, “Information Flow in the Post-Truth Era”. From the photographer:
“When people in power start to present distortions and lies as ‘truth’ or dogma, and dismiss facts, evidence, or different opinions as ‘fake news’, what do they really think of people, and what are they trying to feed them?
The original photo is actually more than 10 years old but was only published this year. At the time it was taken, I was just messing around in making a picture which resembled a face. But, adding a title to a picture can add another layer of meaning to it, and it was only recently that I was thinking about what title could be added to this one. Because this title was inspired by current events, the title might not have any staying power.”
Presented in red, white, or blue frame. If you’re actually interested in purchasing a version of this picture, select “Natural” sizing rather than a size fixed to a standard size or else the colored frame of the photo will be partially cut off.
The week ahead is likely to prove tumultuous due to the US election — we are seeing “The Approaching Storm”. From the photographer:
“This photo was taken many years ago at Moran Point on Grand Canyon National Park. I was struck by the contrast between the bright sky in the east and the dark clouds coming in from the west. Within 30 minutes of taking this photo, the sky opened up with heavy rain.”
To introduce our first post and picture, “Stopping to Appreciate the Leaves”: the leaves started turning color more than a month ago and the leaves have been falling off the trees for a few weeks. From the photographer, Albert Wang:
“The pictures making up this photo were taken on a camera club trip into the mountains during the fall a couple of years ago. There we had aspens with leaves of all different colors, not just green and yellow; but red, which I had never seen before on aspens. It inspired me to combine them into this picture.”