Thanks Jim - I think of the Ponderosa forest floor east of the Cascades as being somewhat naked compared to the wetter west side. I thought about a pano crop but kind of liked the extra pine cones down in front. I did add an edit with a 16:9 crop which does clean up the relatively empty space...
A nice cluster of Arrow-Leaf Balsamroot at Riverside State Park in Spokane Washington. From a springtime visit a several years back.
C&C always welcome.
Edit: New crop
Almost a sparse crowd for that location. Once upon a time you could grab a spot in the elevated viewing area and have an unfettered view of the Beacon and the Zabriskie point hills but anymore that view nets you a seemingly endless view of photographer butts. Rare to see a viewer without a...
Hidden Lake at Glacier National Park
Beacon Sunrise in Death Valley:
A view up the Columbia River Gorge:
Sunset at Cascade Locks:
Sunset over Vancouver Lake:
Sunrise over Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams:
Nice roses. I have never been a rose aficionado so have no clue about the specifics of which kind it might be or how common a triplet is for this flavor of them.
Such a worldly intro logo - it almost looks like the saguaros are flipping a bird at it 😁
I might have an image or two in my stash with some skies showing......
Sweet - I love small scenes like this along waterways and you picked a good shutter speed for this water feature. Hard to shoot larger scenes in that area of Zion anymore with this being the turnaround for the park busses.
One of my favorites from that area of Oregon. I ended up shooting from the same place you did and never even considered dropping down to the bottom. One of the better examples of columnar basalt with a waterfall.
I hate to break up the string of nice blue hues but I am a bit short on blue wings in my stash without going into reruns.
A well loaded bee heading away from a generous coneflower from last summer:
And a ptarmigan at Mt. Rainier National Park. This bird is apparently quite used to not being...
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