Last Flight

Flying home after a busy summer...

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Bell Before Dawn

The bell-shaped mountain on the right is Bell Mountain.  But not why you think-- According to SummitPost.org, it was named after Robert Bell, Idaho's first state mining inspector.  Color and texture credit to the vast quantities of smoke from several fires in the central part of the state.

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Green Light: Dual Widescreen Wallpaper

Hostas.  I always shoot way too many photos of them because I like their bright electric veins so much.  Here's a little bit of an experimental treatment.

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Prehistoric

A living fossil (well, not living anymore, but he was this week) in my back yard.  How many millions of years did these bugs have to buzz around waiting for us to finally grace the evolutionary stage?  Do you suppose their lives were the lesser for our absence?

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Halo Flower

So perfect a sunflower that it has a halo?  Or perhaps under aerial attack by Luna moths...  Or tiny UFO's.  Yeah, that's the ticket!  UFO's!

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Fishing Dinwoody Creek (Dual Widescreen Wallpaper)

Mike Hart looking for a fish in Dinwoody creek after our descent from base camp at the foot of Gannett Peak  (the big one in the back).  Thick thick water with rock flour from the Gannett, Gooseneck, and Dinwoody Glaciers, so no wonder there weren't any fish.

Download size is 3840x1280.  Original is 8600x2875--maybe I could squeeze a 5x7 out of that?

Edit 8/23/12:  Forgot blogspot won't let you download photos at full res.  Gettin' foggy in my dotage, I guess.  Anyway, linked the download to deviantART so you can see it at my advertised resolution.
Cheerio--
j

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The Waterfall at Bomber Basin

Hiking South along the Glacier Trail in the Wind River Range, you come pretty quickly to Bomber Basin.  This little falls isn't visible from the trail, but is certainly worth a little rest break.  I'll always remember it as the place I lost my sunglasses...

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