Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
09-30-2013, 08:20 AM
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One of the first Starlings visiting on a grey April day.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-28-2012, 03:06 PM
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First of all, thank you very much for this contest. I am pretty sure you will have a hard time to choose the winner. :) Here's my entry:
How does this picture show the "raw power and fragility of nature"? I would think it is quite obvious, but please let me give you some more detail.
The star of this picture is one of the countless hoodoos of Bryce Canyon, Utah. When first coming to the place I could not really decide where to put
my eyes (and lens) first. Wandering around, I took this quick shot mostly because of the light situation and hurried on to catch up to my significant other,
who thankfully has the patience of a saint. It was later on that this picture really got me thinking.
At first sight, nothing spectacular is happening in this picture.
However on a closer look, it shows the very destruction of this delicate structure. In changes so small one could never perceive them, the whole thing
is taken away grain for grain by wind and water, heat and frost. The raw, brutal force (not) shown is nature's heaviest weapon: time.
Time has rested little sea creatures on the ocean floor, baked them to rock, rose the ground thousands of feet and then instantly
began to wear it down again.
In a few years this spire will be completely eroded. The elemental forces already gnaw at the rocks you see to the right, turning a wall of stone into hoodoos again,
grinding them down, too. See, more than 16 million years captured in 1/250s! :lol:
Andreas
Ps.: Someone else was faster with this idea, great picture Mika! :o
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
05-20-2012, 03:12 AM
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This is a scene probably pictured a thousand times or so, but I couldn't resist to take a humble shot of my own. :)
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
09-01-2011, 08:34 PM
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