Western Luna
Telegraph Mountain Wilderness – Eastern Nevada
(2008)
▲ Bad Moon Rising Challenge on The CatRaven Challenge Group
(2011.JAN.07)
▲ May Avatar Challenge on Favorite Places You Make, Take, Or Paint
(2010.MAY.03)
▲ Your Favorite Place To Go Challenge On ImageWriting
(2009.OCT.29)
▲ 10+ Features
(2010.AUG.24)
▲ Circles of the World
(2010.JUL.12)
▲ Full Moon
(2010.JUN.26)
▲ Shoot The Moon
(2010.APR.04)
▲ Steptoe Valley Photographers’ Association
(2010.MAR.14)
▲ Featured Only
(2009.NOV.27)
▲ Before and After
(2009.NOV.20)
▲ Once In A Blue Moon
(2009.OCT.30)
▲ America’s – Rural, Urban, Wild, Free
(2009.OCT.20)
▲ Photographers of RedBubble
(2009.OCT.05)
▲ Victorian Viewfinders
(2009.OCT.03)
▲ The Wild West Show
(2009.OCT.01)
▲ Lifeline
(2009.SEP.21)
▲ Peace, Love, & Tranquility
(2009.SEP.21)
The Challenge: “If you had 24 hours to live …”
For me, the answer was easy!:
I would follow my heart to Telegraph Mountain, to explore again the familiar crags and peaks, and rugged canyons running down to the high desert.
I would climb to the top and look out once more across the vast expanse of the mountain itself—then further – across Butte Valley, the Butte Mountains, all the way to the Rubies to the west, and the Egan and Cherry Creek Ranges to the northeast. I would climb higher still – to see Steptoe Valley and the Schell Creek Mountains that disappear into the southeastern horizon.
I would talk to the deer and the elk, and the wild horses that roam the foothills. (May I not live to see the day of no mustangs on this land!)
I would drink from pristene springs, and sing along with the perpetual song of the creeks rushing to find the desert.
If my last hours should happen to be in Fall, I would pick wild berries and pinon nuts. I would eat my fill beneath the quakies, without care for tomorrow’s consequences.
Up there, I can see the whole wild world, much as it looked a century ago. Up there in the Wilderness, the cares of Humanity are far away.
Let my last act be a shutter-click lightning-strike: a crack through which my spirit may slip from this world into the next. Let my last word be “Freedom!“
Experimental composite – Digital double-exposure.
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Canon 350D EOS
Canon 18/55mm and Sigma 75/300mm
Corel PhotoImpact x3 and JASC PaintShop Pro x7
Gradient filters
Elements Of Composition:
Original image
(2009.JUL.15)
Canon 350D EOS
Canon 18-55mm
JASC Paintshop Prox7 + Corel PhotoImpact x3
The Moon
(2009.JUL)
Canon 350D EOS
Sigma 70-300mm
Views: 2,191 (2011.MAR.16)
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