Sifting through the epically beautiful trash

These pictures are from my visit to Yosemite National Park in July, 2007. My recent trip to Arches and Canyonlands made me think about the different national parks that I have visited and I thought I would re-post some of my older pictures from the different parks. Yosemite National park is an amazingly beautiful place. Grandeur and stunning are two words that describe it well. Katie and I camped in the park for two weeks and spent the entire time hiking, swimming and just enjoying the beauty. I might post some pics from the Grand Canyon and the Tetons later as well. Enjoy.

I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear..... Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years... Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

One more shot from my recent trip to Moab. The title of this post comes from a few lines from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Nature", it is an inspiring read, you should check it out.

Portland: Our people are weirder than your people.

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

I believe God used to wear Earth around his neck on a necklace, his own galactic bling. And Delicate Arch was the loop where the necklace clasped onto the Earth.

Canyonlands Panorama

Moabites

Dead Horse Point State Park

Here is my first set of pictures from my recent trip to Moab. These were taken at Dead Horse Point, I wanted to stay until sunset but it got a little too cold for the other people in my group. I will post more pictures later of Canyonlands and Arches.

Drops 2.0

I tried doing some water drop pictures again. These are really hard to get a good shot. You need a LOT of light with the way I am trying to do them, which is without a real studio set-up. I saw a picture that someone else had done where they set up a map on the wall in the background and the reflected water drop looked like a globe. It was really cool. I was able to get the map reflected in the droplet but it isn't very clear or sharp.

Step forward and drink deeply of the spirit of Christmas