Photo Friday – “Colours (of Autumn)”

Firstly and most importantly, today is my little sister Liz’ birthday.  Happiest of birthdays to you, Lizzie!    I love you bunches!!!!!  (Crossing my fingers you get the ER job!!!  You will love being an ER nurse…)

Secondly…

 

I sort of wish this was NEXT week’s challenge as my OTHER little sister, Whitney, and I are taking her son Mitchell on a road trip to look at the golden autumnal Aspens up in the mountains tomorrow!  One day late!!    I made the same drive three years ago during my first fall in Colorado.  The pictures I took on that drive were with an old camera and didn’t turn out well.  So I am going to share a picture I took in the Rocky Mountain National Park two falls ago here in “Color”ado, or should I say “colour”ado!  .

 

Coming up, on Photo Friday…

3rd October: Eiain’s choice – Music (musicians, concerts, still life of musical instruments or musical  scores, musical boxes etc - I could go on and on …..) You may also like to add a YouTube clip of your favourite music!

10th October: Mrs Nascar’s choice – Night ( moon, stars or any interpretation of night)

17th October:CuriousCs choice - Bridges / Arches

24th October: Eiain’s choice - Paws for thought

31st October: Author’s choice - Halloween!

7th November: Tina’s choice - Action Shots

14th November: Author’s choice - Windows (unusual or favourite windows, in your own home, or other homes, or churches, buildings etc – you may even include the view through a window. This can be a selection of photos or just one favourite pic).

Please take the time to visit the work of the other players and tell them what you think!

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1,000 Places…

Five or six years ago a friend of mine gave me the book “1,000 Places To See Before You Die”.

Up until about two years ago, I’d been highlighting all the places that I’d been to.  Then I moved.  Today I finally unpacked the box that the book was in.  I sat down to get it all caught up.

I added some interesting ones!  Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado.  St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.  The Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota.  Mt. Etna in Sicily (I’m counting this even though it was a drive-by!).  Moab and the Red Rock Country in Utah.  Zion National Park, also in Utah.  To name a few!    While going through the book I found that I had never highlighted Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia, which I’ve been to twice, actually, or The Freedom Trail, in Boston!  So I took care of yellowing them out!

I have picked a few more places that I’d like to go to in the very near future.  There are seven places listed as must visits in Colorado.  There’s a national park called Mesa Verde in Cortez.  It looks FASCINATING.  And I bought a national park’s annual pass last month, so I can get in “free”.  Bonus!

Maybe next weekend!

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I Love Black and White

One of my favorite artist-photographers is Ansel Adams.  I don’t even aspire to his greatness as I know it is something that is not even remotely achievable.  I fell in love with black and white photography long before I ever heard of AA.  I was in the sixth grade.  My teacher decided we should learn a bit about photography.  We did so in black and white and we even got to go to the high school photography department and develop our own pictures!  Very cool.  (My sixth grade year was by far the best year of schooling that I ever got.)

This picture was taken with a good old fashioned 35 mm Canon EOS Elan.  It was fall in the Rocky Mountain National Park and I and some friends were there for the elk rut.  I threw in a roll of B&W film to take pictures of the fall colors.  It was my “fall colorless” homage to fall colors.  There was a mist descending over the mountains and within hours it had started to snow, the first snow of the year.  Beautiful.

Click HERE to view the snowfall later that day and an elk in rut. 

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Snow in the Rocky Mountain National Park

(Snow in the Rocky Mountain National Park, originally uploaded by Blah Blah Blog)

Last October while visiting the Rocky Mountain National Park it started to snow. It was so quiet. The snow against the backdrop of the last of the fall colors and the dark wet branches is absolutely other-wordly, isn’t it?

This is one of my favorite pictures.

That’s all.

You Think You’re In a Rut? (Round Robin Photo Challenge)

Here’s my latest Round Robin Challenge Entry.  The theme for this week is “ABCs of Autumn”.  We were to use the first initials of our names as the basis for our picture choice(s).  For example if my name was Apostrophe Langorous, I might choose Autumn Leaves as my topic.  But my initials are LN.  I had to think about that for awhile!  This past week I went to the Rocky Mountain National Park.  The elk were in rut.  I took this picture of a spectacular bull while he was bugling.  I wanted to be able to use this picture somehow in the challenge.  So, in order to do so, I had to use my middle initial as well as my first and last.  My initials are LRN and my entry is called:

“Loud Rutting Noises”

(You Think You’re In a Rut?, originally uploaded by Blah Blah Blog)

Since you can’t hear this fantastic sound in this picture, I thought I’d put a little movie in for you to watch and to listen to.  Now, you must be quiet to hear this well!!!

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