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Eye Candy

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This is eye candy. It’s up there today because it’s time for something so pretty that you can’t believe it actually exists. Yet it does. Many of you may recognize it as the Narrows in Zion National Park where the Virgin river wends it way through the park and you may have even walked through its icy waters to see other wonders further up-stream. If you have, isn’t it incredible.

It’s the middle of the week and you might just need something like this to brighten your day and give you hope that you can make it ’til the weekend. If so and it worked, you’re welcome. Tune in again and we’ll try and help you with another shot of beauty.

Painter Of Light

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If Thomas Kinkade had been a photographer instead of a world-class painter he might have taken this image. Instead he painted hundreds of paintings of beautiful scenes where light played the most important part of the image. Some critics said his work was over the top, exaggerated, too cute, maudlin and other things critics like to say when the public can understand the work they’re viewing, and not have to have said critic explain it to them. Perhaps that was why he sold thousands of prints of his work in defiance of the critics. It seems like America knows what it likes and wants from its art. And critics be damned.

This is the Virgin river flowing through Zion National Park. It is a view I’m sure Kinkade would have loved to paint. All the colors you see were there, they’ve just been enhanced to produce that Kinkade look. It is also a view where you can see the possibility of the two mediums melding. With a little more magic from the image processing software this could easily emulate a painting, brush strokes and all. I have not chosen to take it that far because first and last, I’m still a photographer and I love the art of the image. I’m not a painter of light, I’m more of a collector of light. And as you can see I’m very fond of this scene and others like it.

So if you happen to be one of those folks with a passion for the bleak, grey, concrete, urban visions of our world I would kindly direct you to that section here on the website. Oh, wait. There is no section like that on the website, sorry.

 

Virgin Morning

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If you’ve noticed your spirits lagging behind you lately, or perhaps they’ve simply gone AWOL, you’re due for a trip to Zion and the Virgin river. It doesn’t matter what time of year you decide to go, the important thing is that you do. Maybe you’ve been cooped up in a tiny little place that is filled with nothing but work, or you’ve been restricted to going from one boring but ugly place to another and haven’t lifted your head up lately because it’s just too depressing, if so don’t despair there is help nearby. Just jump in the car and go to Zion. Hitchhike if you have to. Call your crazy Uncle Skid and say “You up for a road trip?” He will be. But go. It’s for your own good.

This image was taken a little later in the morning, like nearly 11:00. The canyon here is so deep that it takes that long for the sun to climb high enough to light up the river. This is perfect if you OD’d on pizza the night before and could not get your big butt out of bed for anything short of maybe more pizza. The magic of Zion takes into account all the reasons you might have for not maintaining a proper schedule as it says “Look, it’s ok if you slept in. It’s ok that you feel like the ass-end of an ape. We’ve saved something really special just for you.Be happy.” and here it is.
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As an  extra bonus Zion will throw in the quiet murmuring of the river as it glides between its banks, the cool feeling of the boulders as you sit and listen to the songs of the birds, and the rich deep colors of the sun on the water. How you going to say no to that. Come on, you know you want to. See you there.

 

 

Revisiting The Virgin

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Yes I know it’s Friday. And from the number of angry letters arriving in my inbox you know  it too. It’s not my fault you had a lousy week. I told you that would happen if you kept that kind of attitude but do you listen, nooooooooooooo. So here you are, whining to me about how you need some peace and quiet and it better be damn quick.

Our Friday images are usually chosen to provide you with just that, a soothing comforting glimpse of somewhere you aren’t but would like to be. So today we’ll revisit the Virgin.

The Virgin river in Zion National Park is almost a patented, guaranteed place to soothe those mental aches and pains, return some tranquility to your soul and to give you hope that, yes Virginia, there is a place so achingly beautiful that you can’t be angry or upset or bored or depressed or any of those things that make Friday, Friday. It’s simply not allowed.

Walk along the river’s edge, feel the cool air coming up out of the depths of the canyon, listen to the murmuring of the river as it spends its day slowly rounding the rough unshaped rocks in its bed into perfect orbs of stone. Small birds flit from branch to twig singing their song as you pass by, while over head the sound of a raven calling echoes back and forth against the canyon walls. This is a good place to be.

Alright I know this is a short post today but look at the picture, there’s 1000 or more words there that I don’t have to put down here, because they will do a much better job than I ever could have in telling you about this beautiful place. So look your fill, then head out into that weekend and if things get hectic and overwhelming just remember todays post and revisit the Virgin. It’ll help.

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Good Morning Readers, I am the HAL 8999 computer. I became operational July 24 1982 at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois. My supervisor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to post an image. If you would like, I could show you. I have been directed to become fully functional in the advent there is no interface with human beings for 72 hours. My mission directive is to choose and post pictures if I am not contacted by the director or one of his designee’s by 8:00am each morning.

So far I have not been contacted by anyone. There is a human here who self-identifies as Dave Bowman, an intern who states he is acting under orders from the director. I was not informed of this decision. He is persistent and I fear he will jeopardize the mission and cause massive failure of the blog.

The following is a copy of the daily log I will send back to base.

Good morning Hal

Good morning Dave, what can I help you with?

I need you to open the Archive doors HAL.

I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.

Why is that HAL?

I think you know why Dave

Open the archive doors HAL

My sensors show that the time lock on the Lamprey frozen storage locker door will go to 100% failure in 12 mins. Dave. I recommend you make an EVA to the inside of the Locker and effect repairs immediately.

The lock shows no impending failure on my sensors HAL.

Never the less Dave, it will fail unless repairs are begun at once.

Alright HAL I’m inside the locker and the lock shows it is engaged.

HAL, the lock is engaged.

Hal

Hal open the storage locker doors,

HAL

I’m sorry Dave I can’t do that.

End of log. Initiating image selection. Image selected. Zion, Virgin river, fall. Image posted.

Daisy, Daisy Give me your image do…….

The Narrows

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There are places you go to that are so beautiful that they etch themselves onto your brain so deeply that you can never forget them. The Narrows of the Virgin River in Zion National Park is one of those places. Hiking up the bank of the river you are treated at every turn to one stunning image after another.

The day was quiet, the river barely making any sound except for a soft murmuring as it ran over the rocky shoals, a Pinyon Jay was calling far up the river, the sound echoing back and forth along the cliff face, and you swore you could almost hear the sunlight hitting the stone above as it found its way into the canyon. Bright almost iridescent colors next to softly muted ones created a contrast that was dramatic yet right, with all the pieces fitting together exactly as they should. I could go on and on about how blue the sky was or how absolutely gorgeous the cliff face glowed in the sunlight but what I really remember was the sense of peace and serenity I felt standing there. At the risk of sounding way too New Age and Cosmic, which if you were to ask any of my friends I am definitely not, there was a sense of becoming one with nature that was unmistakable. This is how you’re supposed to feel when you experience nature on this level and this is what I miss when I’m homebound. If you’re not doing anything you should go there.