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Zion Rockscape #1 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

The rain, sleet and snow in Zion really soaked the sandstone, bringing out the details and colors in the patterns in the rocks.]]>

Storm Over Zion #4 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

Oops, I said yesterday that was the last of the pictorial images for a while, then I realized I still had this one from the same series. So now it’s the last–until perhaps I come up with yet another one.]]>

Storm Over Zion #3 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

One final (for now) pictorial excursion.

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Storm Over Zion #2 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

Still doing the Bierstadt thing here, i.e., take some wild and craggy peaks and make them look even more so.

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Storm Over Zion #1 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

The first day in Zion we were in t-shirts and shorts and fought hoards of people trying to walk the narrow trails in Zion Canyon. Yesterday we hiked off trail in slot canyons, saw no one and got hit by rain, then sleet, then snow (and my rain gear is safely stashed at home in Montana). Guess which day we liked better? (Hint: too much sun makes for a dull day.) With the moody weather, I finally got some color images that I really like–this time by channeling Albert Bierstadt and exercising some liberal artistic license with the images in Photoshop.]]>

Half-Moon Zion National Park, Utah 2011

We’re in Zion for a couple of days. With this shot I guess I was trying to channel Ansel Adams and tease out a classic black and white landscape. There’s no Half Dome here though so I had to settle for a half moon. The funny thing is that I was really responding to all the brilliant colors in the canyon yesterday so I was sure I was going to end up with all color images for a change. But when I got to working with them on the computer last night, I only liked the results in black and white. So much for channeling Ansel Adams, the king of previsualization of image results as part of his artistic workflow.

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Remote Access Budapest, Hungary 2011

This is an ornate entrance to the main city library in Budapest. The library was open when I took this but this entrance was closed in favor of an very mundane modern door around the side of the building.]]>

Girl Reading a Book #19 Budapest, Hungary 2011

I was impressed by two things about this young woman reading at a bus stop. First that she could read in such dim lighting. I recall thinking there was not way I could read in that light without a horrible amount of squinting. (It was not near as bright on that corner as the photo suggests–I brightened it up quite a bit in Photoshop.) And second, she has such straight posture; the first thing I do when I’m standing near a wall is to slouch against it.]]>

Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary 2011

This is the entrance to one of the main buildings of the Corviuus University of Budapest. I hung around for some time and can report that, in spite of its name, there did not appear to be any crows, ravens or related birds enrolled there.]]>

Shopping Trip Bozeman, Montana 2012

This crow (or one who looks just like it) has been to a tree outside my studio window a number of times in recent days shopping around in the branches looking for good sticks for building a nest. He or she will poke around quite a bit each time before finding one suitable to the task. The branches are pretty tangled and the selected sticks often bulky, with several small branches attached, so there’s some interesting maneuvering required to find a clear flight path out of the tree. I’ve tried to convince it to just build its nest right there where I can watch it, but to no avail–it always flies off and disappears in the same direction so must be nesting some distance away.]]>