Zion: Pa'rus Trail at dusk

Back to the Zion trip from last July. The day after hiking the Narrows we couldn't hit another trail until the latter part of the day, so we tackled only the easy, paved Pa'rus Trail (near the visitor center) as the sun was setting.

6 July 2012

Zion: Flag

At Zion National Park, here's the flag next to the visitor center, flapping in the afternoon breeze.

6 July 2012

Zion: Riverwalk Trail

(From back in July) In Zion National Park, the road ends at the Temple of Sinawava, which is a beginning of a nice paved path called the Riverwalk Trail (because it goes along the Virgin River), leading to the Narrows.

Deer eating right next to the trail.

5 July 2012

Kaua'i: North Coast Mountains

King Kong's Profile in the northwest corner.

Near Hanalei.

Looking over Hanalei Bay.

21 Aug 2012

Hillside

Landscapes of the hills around Yucaipa.


28 Nov 08

Before the wind

At the conclusion of our Palm Springs trip, we woke up the last morning prior to dawn and headed out before it got too hot. Heading north back toward the San Gorgonio pass, we got to see the turbines of the wind farm. This time by the light of sunrise.

This first shot is not all that good, really, but it was taken the moment I spotted the sun appear. We were at a gas station. I shot the mountains to the west, aiming over the buildings (which seemed a good idea at the time). But that's first light you see.





9/10/08

Answer blowing in the wind

Driving east along I-10 on the way to Palm Springs it's impossible not to notice the rows and rows of wind turbines lining the edges of the San Gorgonio Pass (a "wind farm").
For any passenger who's not driving, it's very difficult to refrain from taking pictures out the window. Which I did on our drive out there.




9/7/08

The Canyon: Gimmick or ingenuity?

During our Palm Springs getaway last week, my fiancée took a couple hours in the late afternoon to go to one of the spas and get a massage. However, because that's not the sort of activity that does much for me, I instead relaxed in the hotel room for a while. Then about 5:30 I realized that the sun would be setting soon (Palm Springs is built to the west of a mountain, so in downtown the sun disappears earlier than areas on the other side of the mountain) and on a whim decided to grab my camera and see if I could drive the couple miles south to Indian Canyons (which I'd seen on the map) before losing the sun.

I didn't make it. Heck, I didn't even get to the car in time. Nonetheless, I still trekked down to see what there was to see down at the canyon, if for no other reason than I was already in the car.

The road was not exactly parking-friendly, so I decided to invent a new activity: Ph-auto-graphy. (Still working on the name.) It's taking pictures without getting out of the car. It increases the challenge by limiting the available shots to what one can get out the driver's window, only from spots where one can safely pull over momentarily.

In that (shall we say) impressionistic spirit of the shooting, the photos have not be cropped or enhanced in any way; these are exactly what I got (well, the better ones of what I got).

You decide whether it worked.

Mountains to the west in shadow.

Mountains to the east still in sun.

Indian Canyons was already closed, but down by the gate it was quite windy.

For this last one, I'd driven out of the valley and down Palm Canyon Drive. This is the back of those mountains that were to the east of the canyon in the shots above. From a parking lot. Hooray, nature!

Egad, this was self-indulgent. Sorry.