Chocolate mousse?
Whipped buttercream icing?
Or would you believe mud after a flood in what was usually a dry desert wash?
I’ll take Door #3, Alex.
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Vistas #2, Metro Phoenix
Two lessons for me in these landscape shots:
- First, how indistinguishable the desert can be from the prairies, when I find the right place to stand.
- Second, how important it is to take the picture when I see it: This new-to-me bloom of algae at my favourite bird-watching ponds was here today, gone tomorrow.
Pond grasses against sky, Veterans Oasis Park, Chandler AZ
Algae on water treatment pond, Gilbert Water Ranch.
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Vistas #1, Metro Phoenix
I don’t take many landscape shots, being drawn more to the small surprises, perhaps. Well, and big bridges.
But sometimes the composition is right there for the taking.
Neither of these is an exotic or picturesque location in the usual sense; both are sometimes striking indeed.
San Tan Mountains viewed from Veterans Oasis Park, Chandler AZ
Waste land adjacent to water treatment ponds, Gilbert AZ
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Beach Views, Vancouver BC
With the Fraser River, False Creek, English Bay, Burrard Inlet, and Horseshoe Bay (just off the top),Vancouver has lots of places to walk along the water. Big water, much of it.
That variety offers lots of chances to try out new ways of looking at it all. Here are two such, from a walk at Spanish Banks Beach .
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Don’t Fence Me Out
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don’t fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don’t fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evenin’ breezes
And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don’t fence me in.
– Robert Fletcher & Cole Porter
In today’s world, even in the wide open country that I love, being fenced out seems to be a bigger challenge than being fenced in.
Southern Arizona
Bisbee AZ
Bisbee AZ
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