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[minsue]

My first foray in here, I think. Be kind Exhausting trip, but oh so worth it. I think I enjoyed watching her reactions to the scenery even more than the scenery itself.

 

[matriarch]

My first one from our trip, it was late afternoon, driving back from Brisbee to our hotel just outside Tucson......the moon just took my breath away. It simply hung there, above the horizon, and followed us.

 

[dysphemist]

My first foray in here, I think. Be kind Exhausting trip, but oh so worth it. I think I enjoyed watching her reactions to the scenery even more than the scenery itself.

The first picture (the one of the sun) is absolutely breathtaking. The colours are amazing.

 

[minsue]

The first picture (the one of the sun) is absolutely breathtaking. The colours are amazing.

Thank you. It was indeed breathtaking. That was taken through the car window while driving, hence the tilted horizon.

 

[matriarch]

The same moon, just as we were leaving Boot Hill, Tombstone's cemetary. Couldn't resist the picture it made.

 

[Munachi]

My first foray in here, I think. Be kind Exhausting trip, but oh so worth it. I think I enjoyed watching her reactions to the scenery even more than the scenery itself.

great pictures, especially the first...

hm, the black and white one looks a bit like the wari ruins near ayacucho...

 

[Munachi]

My first one from our trip, it was late afternoon, driving back from Brisbee to our hotel just outside Tucson......the moon just took my breath away. It simply hung there, above the horizon, and followed us.

that's beautiful!

 

[Munachi]

and now some more of my pictures...

 

[matriarch]

and now some more of my pictures...

Ah-haaaa.....someone else with a fascination for the sky, light effects and clouds. Very good.

We visited the Saguaro National Park, took a slow drive through on the designated route, passing a few other drivers and some cylists, and even a few runners. Its a quiet, peaceful 8 mile route, virtually no pollution and hardly any traffic. The most overwhelming is when you drive up over a small rise, turn a bend, and there before you is a forest of saguaro growing in the valley below, and all up the slopes of the mountains behind, and even along the skyline. A most impressive and beautiful sight.

 

[matriarch]

Our main target for Saturday had been the Chiricahua National Monument, and after a long drive, culminating in an eerie trip down a long, straight, boring road I nicknamed 'tumbleweed alley' (yes, they were there, rolling over the flat, dry, lifeless fields with their ghost windmills surrounded by skeleton fencing, giving indication of days when people lived there), heading towards what seemed like a wall of mountains in front of us.

A wall indeed, but once having driven through these mountains, getting a glimps e of some of the strange but beautiful rock formations - nothing, but NOTHING prepared me for the incredible, amazing, unbelievable, unreal sight that greeted me from the viewpoints at the top of the mountain. As far as you could see, in any direction, were thousands and thousands of rock towers. It was like something out of a science fiction film. Awesome, majestic, stunningly beautiful, the rocks taking on shapes and forms probably only seen by you, but I guarantee everyone who looked had the same reaction.

This is just one of the part panoramic views, it really needs a video panning all round to get the real feel of the place.

 

[matriarch]

Trees, particularly dead and rotting trees, fascinate me environmental settings me. I particularly loved this one, seemingly in its final death throws, lying cradled by the rocks. (Bear with me, I'm a poet deep down.)

 

[matriarch]

........and yet more stone pillars. They kept making me think of an army.....rows and rows of soldiers, all decked out in their armour, lining the hillsides, just waiting for the order to march. It was not only awesome, once that image had taken hold, it was a little .....daunting looking at them.

 

[dysphemist]

........and yet more stone pillars. They kept making me think of an army.....rows and rows of soldiers, all decked out in their armour, lining the hillsides, just waiting for the order to march. It was not only awesome, once that image had taken hold, it was a little .....daunting looking at them.

That's what I was thinking when you posted the first pic of the stone pillars. Glad to see that I'm not the only one whose imagination is running wild.

 

[matriarch]

That's what I was thinking when you posted the first pic of the stone pillars. Glad to see that I'm not the only one whose imagination is running wild.

Indeed. My imagination constantly runs wild.

 

[matriarch]

rocks, rocks, and more rocks. All shapes, sizes, colours, textures.

 

[dysphemist]

rocks, rocks, and more rocks. All shapes, sizes, colours, textures.

funny how you see rocks and I see trees

 

[BlackSnake]

What type equipment are you guys using?

My weapon of choice is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel 8.0 megapixels

 

[matriarch]

What type equipment are you guys using?

My weapon of choice is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel 8.0 megapixels

I'm using a 3-year old, very basic Fuji Finepix, A204, 3x optical zoom, 2.0 mega pixels, they don't even make it any more. But it's simple to use, and by replacing the default memory card with a 128MG card I can take between 203 pics at 2M-F, and 992 at 0.3M. For these type of distance pics, I usually have it on 2M-N which gives me 317 pics without needing to download or clear - more than enough for a day's photography.

I've decided to get myself a new camera, something more up to date, smaller, slimmer, but will stick to the Fuji Finepix range. Its reliable, simple to use and simple to download. I'm sticking with what I know, and what, so far, has worked for me.

 

[matriarch]

funny how you see rocks and I see trees

*grin*, oh I see the trees as well. In fact, after 10 weeks in the desert, it was quite a shock to find myself driving through what was essentially a forest. Where I live back in UK, I'm surrounded by forests, woods, and open green grassland. I'd almost forgotten what large areas of trees look like. Made me quite giddy for a short while.

 

[Munachi]

What type equipment are you guys using?

My weapon of choice is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel 8.0 megapixels

I have a Nikon F60 - bought it in late '99, when they just stopped making it. Not digital. The digital cameras I like are far above what I could afford.

That's also why I don't post very recent pictures here - I only take them when traveling mostly, and also I have those I am posting right now on CD because photo CDs were cheaper in Peru than they are here.

 

[kendo1]

A Pentax Optio 3M
and an Olympus mu 4M
They are both small enough to take anywhere, especially the Pentax. Smaller than a pack of cigs.
I prefer the Olympus. 512 MB card only cost £20.
I've not used my Contax for years. I wonder if the battery is OK?

 

[Munachi]

Guess which one is my hand:

 

[Munachi]

early morning up in the puna...

 

[Munachi]

he lives there...

 

[Munachi]

And the last one - this is one of my favourites, I really like the way she pulled her hat down, and how she looks...