“Endangered Species”
They were going to tear it down, but endangered peregrine falcons nesting on it have saved it for a bit longer. I think I’d be up for a ride if anyone wants to go photograph it sometime.
Bayfield Ore Dock, Bayfield, Wisconsin
August 19, 2006
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“Untitled”
Between homework and dealing with my vehicle matters, I didn’t have a lot of time tonight so I grabbed an old picture from my first digital camera (2.1 MP, bought in 2000) to see what I could do with it. The colors were bad so I greyed it and I don’t think it looks awful considering the source.
Mackinac Bridge, Michigan
June 24, 2004
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“Respect”
I think I’ve always appreciated nature, but never realized the impact that I’ve had on it. I started to realize it after first visiting Muir Woods National Monument and Yosemite National Park in late 2007. Having been to six National Parks since then, I have grown to appreciate how precious and fragile our small earth home is and made many changes to reduce my footprint.
So after hearing about the vandals that caused Old Faithful Geyser to become less regular, and witnessing teens poke and throw things in the thermal pools at Yellowstone (yes, I made them stop), it is no accident then today that I show my respect to someone who, 140 years ago recognized similar and reported to the Committee of Public Lands, “the vandals who are now waiting to enter into this wonder-land, will in a single season despoil, beyond recovery, these remarkable curiosities, which have requited all the cunning skill of nature thousands of years to prepare”, Ferdinand Hayden.
Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
May 31, 2009
In celebration of National Parks week, and Earth Day
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“Contrast”
It probably doesn’t jump right out at you, but the black mass on the right side is a glacier. It contrasts from the glacier on the right not only because it really is black, but because it is two miles wide and is receding, whereas the glacier in the left is white, one mile wide and is advancing.
Margerie Glacier (left) and Grand Pacific Glacier (right), Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
June 5, 2010
In celebration of National Parks week
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“Chipping Away”
By time you hear the crack as loud as thunder of the glacier calving, you probably missed it. You really have to pay attention to catch it.
Unfortunately the photo doesn’t do the grandeur of this amazing place and justice. One easily gets lost in the enormity of it all. To give some perspective, the ice you see above the water is about 250 feet high, which makes the part that calved about 20-30 feet high with the resulting wave about 5-10 feet high.
Margerie Glacier, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
June 5, 2010
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“Hanging in the Cold”
While it seemed to be a top news story all week that it was going to be in the fifties and windy, that forecast didn’t stop a bunch of windsurfers from catching the waves.
I was just happy to get a decent shot after getting ambushed with blowing sand and salt-water mist for a half-hour.
Torrey Pines State Beach, La Jolla, San Diego, California
April 7, 2011
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No photo of the day yesterday due to my moving jeffasman.com to a new host.
Kelli and I got the snowshoes out again today and headed down to 1000 Islands Nature Conservancy in Kaukauna for a late day, 2.5 mile hike. I haven’t been down there in a long time and forgot how nice it is. Was wishing I brought the 7D, but only had the pocket cam with us.
Fox River
Kaukauna, Wisconsin
January 16, 2011
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