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AZPaul3
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Message 16 of 39 (772984)
11-22-2015 2:06 AM
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11-20-2015 5:57 PM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
That's one big hole in the ground. If I haven't said this before, Tany, you do mighty fine work. Congrats. Any idea what the ankle-grab is about?

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Message 17 of 39 (772998)
11-22-2015 12:01 PM
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11-22-2015 2:06 AM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
Beginning stage of a yoga pose. Possible variations:
She could have done it further from the brink and have the photo look like she was at the edge.
Enjoy
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Message 18 of 39 (772999)
11-22-2015 12:08 PM
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11-22-2015 2:06 AM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
Thanks Paul.
Any idea what the ankle-grab is about?
Nope. One of my friends said, "Nutjob." I guess I have to agree.
When I arrived at the GC I had a serious phobia about getting close to the edge of a cliff and looking down. I started walking down to viewpoints that were fenced, without having the hole in the ground grabbing me and pulling me over the edge. I forced myself to approach the edges so I could take photographs, but also to just visually take it all in.
By the time I left the canyon my fear seemed to be cured. I still will not stand on the very brink, even on two feet, but at least I can enjoy the experience and I look forward to returning.
During the whole trip to the SW I thought about the discussions of geology we have had here at EvC. I made my way around the GC and stopped and explored many areas and one thing that struck me was that very few places look like Faith's description of "flat, level layers of strata exposed in cross section. Most of the strata looks uneven, even when observed from a distance. In general, taking the region as a whole, diagrams depict the layering as relatively flat, but up close it is much more complex than that.

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One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
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Message 19 of 39 (773006)
11-22-2015 2:41 PM
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11-22-2015 12:08 PM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
Thanks Paul.
Any idea what the ankle-grab is about?
We had one person (woman, ex ballet) that could do the right-hand side picture, mine looked like a crude attempt at the left version. You start with the ankle grab the straighten the leg while holding on and twisting away with the other arm extended.
A simple posture is the "tree pose" where you have one foot up near your crotch and the arms overhead. Some people can place their foot, but most (including me) have to grab it and pull it up.
When I arrived at the GC I had a serious phobia about getting close to the edge of a cliff and looking down. I started walking down to viewpoints that were fenced, without having the hole in the ground grabbing me and pulling me over the edge. I forced myself to approach the edges so I could take photographs, but also to just visually take it all in.
When we visited Jason was 2 1/2 years old. I had heard that they had no guard rails, so I made a harness with nylon webbing that I could lift him in and that had a 10 foot tether tied to my hand. Several parents said they wish they had one for their older children.
During the whole trip to the SW I thought about the discussions of geology we have had here at EvC. I made my way around the GC and stopped and explored many areas and one thing that struck me was that very few places look like Faith's description of "flat, level layers of strata exposed in cross section. Most of the strata looks uneven, even when observed from a distance. In general, taking the region as a whole, diagrams depict the layering as relatively flat, but up close it is much more complex than that.
Indeed, the scale is overwhelming when seen in person, and no pictures (including yours, sorry) capture that feeling of overwhelming scale. You look down and see specks floating in the river, through your binoculars they are 10 person rafts.
Enjoy

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Message 20 of 39 (773126)
11-24-2015 10:47 PM
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11-22-2015 12:08 PM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
One of my friends said, "Nutjob." I guess I have to agree.
No, that's not it. If she had gone through a number of positions in sequence (Crois, Arabesque, Pli, Pirouette then ending with Grande Jet) then, yes, nutjob. But I've been staring at that picture (on and off) for days and she hasn't moved one bit.
I'm thinking nutjob apprentice or nutjob wannabe.

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Tanypteryx
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Message 21 of 39 (773127)
11-24-2015 11:05 PM
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11-24-2015 10:47 PM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
I'm thinking nutjob apprentice or nutjob wannabe.
Yeah, you are probably right.
I have to say that watching gave me a hell of a shot of adrenaline and a feeling of fear that I had not experienced since my daughter at the age of 9 leaned over the edge of the Crooked River Gorge in Oregon so she could see the bottom. Changing the subject .......

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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Message 22 of 39 (773128)
11-25-2015 12:10 AM
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11-24-2015 11:05 PM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I took all that time wrapping a story around a not-so-subtle joke and you didn’t FOFL or LOL or even chuckle. I even googled (or rather DuckGoGoDuck’d — How does one make DuckDuckGoDuck into a verb?) ballet positions to give the setup a bit of snap. But, nooo! You did see the joke? How I stared at the picture and the lady never moved? It’s a picture, Tany. It’s not supposed to move, see? That’s the joke, or was supposed to be.
Now I’m left empty. Hollow. A good joke fallen flat. An ignored joke. A joke with no future, no appreciation, no levity.
I am taken low. Lower than wait for it the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a ballerina falling on me.
Sometimes you really gotta reach for these things.

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Tanypteryx
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Message 23 of 39 (773130)
11-25-2015 12:52 AM
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11-25-2015 12:10 AM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
Now I’m left empty. Hollow. A good joke fallen flat. An ignored joke. A joke with no future, no appreciation, no levity.
Just goes to show you what happens when you read a joke after toking Blue Dream. (A rather psychedelic mellow high that is perfect for working on images in my digital darkroom.) (I am creating a calendar of photos from my recent trips.)
I promise I will read it again tomorrow as if for the first time.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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Message 24 of 39 (773134)
11-25-2015 7:43 AM
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11-25-2015 12:10 AM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
AZPaul3 writes:
Now I’m left empty. Hollow. A good joke fallen flat. An ignored joke. A joke with no future, no appreciation, no levity.
I am taken low. Lower than wait for it the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a ballerina falling on me.
My sympathies.
I explored the idea of noting that Ms. Sartre obviously hadn't read her grandfather's books, and so Ducked his distinction between fear and anguish in Being and Nothingness to refresh my memory...how the present self cannot trust the future self not to fuck up and fall, or simply jump, off a cliff: thus anguish, thus vertigo.
A real sidesplitter in the right salon...
Then I saw your perfectly adequate joke fall stillborn from the web, and I despaired. Sometimes you just have to stop and let the world catch up.
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Message 25 of 39 (773144)
11-25-2015 11:36 AM
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11-25-2015 12:10 AM


Re: A French woman on the Brink
OK, I guess it wasn't the pot, just my density.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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Message 26 of 39 (773279)
11-27-2015 9:43 PM


A Raven, Corvus corax on the South Rim. One of the wild animals that is relatively comfortable with humans closely approaching. They are highly intelligent and interesting to observe.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

  
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Message 27 of 39 (773325)
11-29-2015 8:29 PM


After a close encounter with a rattlesnake
My friends and I Visited a friend who manages Nature Conservancy land near the Arivaipa Creek Wilderness in SW Arizona. This was on an old ranch that also had a stage station. He was showing us some of the neat old buildings and I was following him and one of my friends when they stepped into the dark interior of a building with a dirt floor. As I stepped over the threshold I noticed a large toad hopping to my left. They turned around and said to me, "Stop! Don't move!" Then they said, "There is a rattlesnake right beside you!" When I looked I could see him coiled and buzzing, but the rattle was so faint I could barely hear it. Even with m y hearing aids it was barely audible. It turns out they rattle at a frequency that is right in the middle of my worst hearing loss and also very close to the frequency of my tinnitus. It was dark and my lens aperture was set at f18 so the shutter speed was 1/5 second., plus I may have been a bit nervous. I shit the image and slowly backed out the door. I think several of my friends got some good images and I will see if I can post one here.
If you look carefully you can see the head and the rattle.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

  
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Message 28 of 39 (773442)
12-01-2015 7:45 PM


Grand Canyon Experiments
This is a shot from the north Rim without any processing in Photoshop except conversion of the RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw.
This is the same image with some tonality adjustments mediated by luminosity masks, so I could address issues in the sky, distant canyon, near canyon and foreground separately.
The canyon was full of smoke from fires burning on the South Rim.
I am not very satisfied with the image yet and I may abandon further work on it, since I have a number of other shot from the same vicinity. I had to adjust the saturation to cut a blue shift in the near canyon and it still look over-saturated in the blue.
There are actually faint sunrays visible in the haze that I have not been able to enhance as much as I would like. Several of my other shots show them better so maybe I should cut my losses.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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Message 29 of 39 (773449)
12-02-2015 7:52 AM
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12-01-2015 7:45 PM


Re: Grand Canyon Experiments
Thanks. It really is unbelievably beautiful. Am I allowed to print the first photo, blow it up and put it and on a wall in my office? I will attribute that photo to you, of course.
Edited by Pressie, : No reason given.
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Tanypteryx
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Message 30 of 39 (773459)
12-02-2015 11:58 AM
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12-02-2015 7:52 AM


Re: Grand Canyon Experiments
Am I allowed to print the first photo, blow it up and put it and on a wall in my office? I will attribute that photo to you, of course.
I am flattered. This file is too small to blow up and print, it would look pretty bad. If you have a way to receive large files I can send you one that can be printed. I routinely print these shots at 16x24 inches and with the right shots I can blow them up more than that. We can discuss details in messaging if you want.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy

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