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Photo of the day 4/6/11 – “Rare Rain”

April 6, 2011 Jeff Leave a comment

“Rare rain”

With an annual rainfall total of just over four inches a year, and only .1 of those occurring in April, we had what I think is a rare opportunity to experience Joshua Tree National Park in the rain today. We got wet and dried off several times, but got soaked about a quarter way in to our two mile hike to Lost Horse Mine. I took a minute on the way back to grab this shot though.

Joshua Tree National Park, California
April 6, 2011

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Photo of the day 4/5/11 – “Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer”

April 5, 2011 Jeff Leave a comment

“Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer”

Without any real plans or scouting of where to be when sunset came, I hurried to find a Joshua Tree that I could actually get a photo of when the sky started turning. I quickly learned that finding a shapely one, without some sort obstacle to work around to get in the right position is quite a task. I’m happy with the result of this ‘with the motor running’ shot.

Joshua Tree National Park, California
April 4, 2011, 7:12 PM

About the photo:
Straight from the camera

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Photo of the day 1/11/11

January 11, 2011 Jeff Leave a comment

I’m restarting my pic of the day series to force myself to get out taking photos and to edit some of those that have been piling up. Here’s the first.

Overlooking foggy Yellowstone Lake at Yellowstone Park, Wyoming.
May 31, 2009
Location: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=44.567006,-110.383587&spn=0.01784,0.046756&t=h&z=16
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Alaska Railroad arriving at Denali National Park

January 8, 2011 Jeff Leave a comment

The Alaska Railroad arriving in Denali National Park. As you can see, they keep these trains spotless. Check back tomorrow to see 5+ minutes of video of the ride from the observation platform.

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Denali National Park @ Eielson Visitor Center 360 video

January 7, 2011 Jeff

I’m finally starting to do something with all of the vacation video I’ve taken the past few years. Downloaded Adobe Premier Pro last night and created this. Technically, it is nothing fancy (I’m just proud enough I was able to download and install the software, and figure it out enough to create a video in under an hour and half) but as you can see, this place is absolutely beautiful.

See if you can figure out where the peak of Mt. McKinley is. The answer is below the video.

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Mt. McKinley is hiding behind the weather it is making in the center of the screen at about the 20 second mark.