For most of 2020, I sat out the lockdowns right across the street from this place. I've got a lot of my own content to post up eventually, but that's all down on the task list a bit... Until then, this is a pretty decent video of the old Vernonia mill, aside from where he calls a holly bush mistletoe! Ha! Fair enough, we all oops some times!
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area: McCloud River Arm, Shasta Lake
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| McCloud River Arm, Shasta Lake (2010) Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area. California. December 7, 2010 http://www.aflitt.com/whistkeytownshastatrinitynra Copyright © 2016 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved |
Photo of the Day (#2) by A. F. Litt: October 28, 2016
Just a quick post as I create, what for now, at least, will be a placeholder gallery on the website. The Whiskeytown Unit of the NRA is managed by the National Park Service, while the Shasta and Trinity Units are managed by the Forest Service. But the NRA was all created at the same time in 1965 and appear as the Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area on the NPS' system map...
I'd get into more detail, but family life calls. Hopefully I can find some more photos, but just digging this one out revealed some startling repairs that need to be made in my Lightroom catalog, and I'll need to repair that first before I get into editing any more of these older photos.
Unfortunately, if I do find more photos, they'll probably be taken from this same rest area on northbound I-5. I really haven't explored the area much at all.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Grand Teton National Park: Afternoon At Jenny Lake
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| Afternoon At Jenny Lake Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming. August 3, 2014. www.aflitt.com/GrandTetonNP Copyright © 2016 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved |
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: Day of Several Photos - July 20, 2016
I was going to write about how afternoons are the worst at this park for photography, but I covered that in my first post on the Tetons. It's late and I don't have much thought left in me today. I wanted to get through many more photos than I did, at least, spread out around more parks, but I got everything I have out for Scotts Bluff National Monument and Chimney Rock National Historic Site.
My focus on National Parks this summer is largely inspired by this being the centennial of the National Park Service. If I had the chance to plan ahead a bit more, my spring trip through the southwest might have turned into an across the country expedition to photograph as many parks as I could have... Something like what the guys at 59in59.com are doing, though I'd include as many of the monuments, historic sites, recreation areas, etc. as I could, too. In fact, while the big name national parks have their reputations for a reason, they also have the crowds and are well known already... My heart is drawn more towards the lesser know places, the quieter spaces...
Speaking of the 59 in 59 guys, we pretty much crossed paths in Utah this spring. I even thought about trying to contact them to meet up, but that trip was more about isolation and self-exploration. And even being on the road for nearly a month, I still barely had the time to visit everywhere I wanted to visit and to shoot and film everything I wanted to capture.
That trip, this spring, was a lot different than this family vacation in 2014. That trip was dedicated to photography. While I took a lot of photos on the 2014 trip, it was all on the fly as we tried to see as much as we could in the time we had available. Because of that, at times, my photos were rushed, and the timing was not always optimal for the subjects I was wanting to shoot. While I think a lot of the shots I've been posting this week were nice, many of the locations don't have the "wow" shots that I would like to have captured if I had a little more time, and a little more attention to pay to the work.
However, visiting the sorts of spectacular places that we were visiting that summer, in many of the locations, the scenery provided as long as I didn't mess up the camera on my end. I joke from time to time that, in places like Grand Teton National Park, photography is easy. You can pretty much just randomly point the camera over your shoulder and walk away with a spectacular photograph.
In this shot, I am not absolutely sure which mountains are pictured... Cascade Canyon is the main canyon on the right, and I believe that is Hanging Canyon in the center between the peaks... So, I think this is all part of Mt. St. John, with Storm Point and Symmetry Spire being the two peaks, from left to right, rising between Cascade Canyon and Hanging Canyon. However, I am not certain. I should have taken a photo of a peak finder at the overlook, a practice I have since adopted.
According to Wikipedia, the lake is 423 feet deep, 1,191 acres, and "is named after a Shoshone Indian woman who married an Englishman, Richard 'Beaver Dick' Leigh," She and her six children died of Smallpox in 1876.
In this shot, I am not absolutely sure which mountains are pictured... Cascade Canyon is the main canyon on the right, and I believe that is Hanging Canyon in the center between the peaks... So, I think this is all part of Mt. St. John, with Storm Point and Symmetry Spire being the two peaks, from left to right, rising between Cascade Canyon and Hanging Canyon. However, I am not certain. I should have taken a photo of a peak finder at the overlook, a practice I have since adopted.
According to Wikipedia, the lake is 423 feet deep, 1,191 acres, and "is named after a Shoshone Indian woman who married an Englishman, Richard 'Beaver Dick' Leigh," She and her six children died of Smallpox in 1876.
Links
NPS - Centennial
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/centennial/index.htm
NPS - Grand Teton National Park
https://www.nps.gov/grte/index.htm
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Canyon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_Spire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_John
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Canyon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_Spire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Saint_John
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
North Chimney Rock In Firehole Canyon
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| North Chimney Rock In Firehole Canyon Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Wyoming. August 12, 2014 Copyright © 2016 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved http://www.aflitt.com/flaminggorgenra/e73350960 |
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: Day of Several Photos - July 19, 2016
This was the last stop on a long, two week trip through many states back in 2014. We rolled all the way across Wyoming the night before, traveling from Scotts Bluff, Nebraska along the old Oregon Trail route, past Independence Rock, and arriving at the Firehole Canyon Campground sometime around midnight or later.
Originally the plan was to drop down US 191 to Vernal, Utah and Dinosaur National Monument, but first we headed back up to I-80 and civilization in search of breakfast, which we were all too burned out to cook ourselves that morning. Once back out on the freeway, I realized that we were a day's drive (true, a very long day's drive, but do-able) away from home, and we decided to cut the trip a day short and to sleep in our own beds that night.
I still haven't made it back to Dinosaur... I've been there a couple of times before, many, many years ago, when I was a kid. On one of these Southwest trips over the next couple years, I hope to take my kids there to visit.
As for Flaming Gorge, this spot is pretty nice, as you can see. It's about all of the area we got to explore, though, since the whole family was pretty tired and it was time to go home.
As I wrote in the last post, Today, I plan on burning through several photos, filling in some of the gaps in the National Parks section of the website (http://aflitt.com/NationalParks). I am not sure how many I will get through, but there should be several "photo of the day" posts today.
As I wrote in the last post, Today, I plan on burning through several photos, filling in some of the gaps in the National Parks section of the website (http://aflitt.com/NationalParks). I am not sure how many I will get through, but there should be several "photo of the day" posts today.
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Firehole Canyon Panorama
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Wyoming. August 12, 2014
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Links
USFS
http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ashley/specialplaces/?cid=stelprdb5212203
Wikipedia
Flaming Gorge NRA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Gorge_National_Recreation_Area
Flaming Gorge Reservoir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Gorge_Reservoir
Utah.com
https://utah.com/flaming-gorge
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Tour Boat on Crater Lake
Tour Boat on Crater Lake (2012)
Rim Village Visitor Center. Crater Lake National Park. Oregon. August 22, 2012.
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: December 1, 2015
Scrolling through a ton of photos from our family's 2012 summer vacation today, looking for one that leapt out at me... I was thinking mountain, or coast, but this one, overlooked for years, really struck me today.
On that trip, two of the places we visited I found to be remarkably difficult to shoot, the Redwoods and Crater Lake... Both due to the scale of the subjects. These are both incredibly beautiful, photogenic places, of course, but they also have challenges. In the Redwoods, it can be difficult to convey the size and scale of the trees while at Crater Lake, it is difficult to show much of the lake, when shooting from the rim, without resorting to a pano, and I sort of hate most panos, unless they are blown up large and hanging on a wall.
You'll notice that most of the fantastic shots you'll see of Crater Lake are not taken from the rim, but from the peaks circling the rim, back a bit from the edge. Unfortunately, another challenge I faced as a photographer on this trip (and most) is that my main role while visiting was not as a photographer, but as a dad on a family vacation, and due to the limitations of time and children, not much hiking happens on these trips.
Shooting Crater Lake from the rim is all about finding interesting details, and there are plenty of those. One of the things I like about this shot is that there is a sense of immensity conveyed, even though the actual subject of the photo is one of the smallest details you will see at the lake, a small boat made tiny by the vastness of the water and the maw of the caldera containing it.
Monday, January 05, 2015
Big Obsidian Flow in Newberry Caldera
Big Obsidian Flow & Newberry Caldera from Paulina Peak
Newberry National Volcanic Monument. Oregon. August 20, 2012
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: January 5, 2015
Time will be a bit crunched off and on over the next couple weeks, so on days that are getting a little tight, I’ll be posting some older photos. Some of these might have appeared as the photo of the day during the first incarnation of this endeavor, but I suspect that most of them will come from the period between the first and second incarnations of the POTD.
The writing might be a little thin, too, for the next couple weeks, which is one of the reasons why I’d rather avoid newer photos that I want to talk about.
Most of these photos will have been posted somewhere before, such as this one that was on my 500px profile for awhile a couple years ago. But this one has never been “featured” as a Photo of the Day before.
On www.aflitt.com: http://www.aflitt.com/newberrynvm/e338b68c2
On 500px: https://500px.com/photo/94734391/big-obsidian-flow-&-newberry-caldera-from-paulina-peak-by-a-f-litt
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Sunday, January 04, 2015
Fishing the Snags at Goose Lake
Fishing the Snags at Goose Lake
Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Washington. July 19, 2014
Copyright © 2015 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: January 4, 2015
Goose Lake is a very interesting spot. It’s a small lake formed by a lava flow, filled with snags from later human engineering work. Originally, it’s level was a bit lower, hence the trees, but it’s level fluctuated during the year, very much like the South Prairie Lake a few miles away (though not as dramatically). At South Prairie, a lake forms in the spring from snowmelt, but then drains later in the spring through the lava flow. The best guess, though not yet confirmed, is that the prairie lake drains through lava tubes that are choked with ice until later in the season than the surface snow, and then, once the tubes melt clear, the lake quickly drains.
At Goose Lake, there was once such a drain, as well. However, this drain was located and plugged in 1930 by the Forest Service to “improve fishing” at the lake. This raised the level a bit, and killed off the trees whose tall stumps still rise mysteriously from the water here and there throughout the lake.
Such an act seems almost sacrilegious today, but back in the day, recreational use of the land was seen as a higher priority than the preservation of such a unique geological oddity, and in the long run, it could be argued that opening up the land to recreational use led to increased conservation in the region over all.
Plus, it gave us the stumps, which are pretty darn cool and gives this lake a truly unique feel.
And the fishing, apparently, is excellent. On the drive out to Goose, more often than not you’ll be following a boat to the lake.
On top of all of the interesting tidbits above, there is also this…
For More Information:
https://curiousgorgeblog.wordpress.com/58-goose-lake/
http://rubble.blogspot.com/2014/05/south-prairie-lake-on-oregon-field-guide.html
http://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/lava-hand-prints/
On www.aflitt.com: http://www.aflitt.com/p183306977/e32f4413f
On 500px: https://500px.com/photo/94644169/fishing-the-snags-at-goose-lake-by-a-f-litt
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Kayaks Visiting Fishing Cone Geyser
Kayaks Visiting Fishing Cone Geyser
West Thumb Geyser Basin. Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone National Park. August 4, 2014
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 12, 2014
A late post, a busy day… This geyser, as seen in the photo below, is usually above water by this time of the year. However, it’s been a wet one, so the water tables are high all over the west.
This is a pretty interesting location. According to the National Park Service trail guide for the West Thumb Geyser Basin:
Mountain men told of a geyser along an alpine lake where one could catch a trout, swing the pole around, dip it into the boiling pool, and cook the fish without taking it off the line.
This cooking-on-the-hook feat at Fishing Cone became famous after being described by the 1870 Washburn Expedition. Visitors often dressed in a cook’s hat and apron to have their pictures at the “Chowder Pot” or the “Fish Pot.” Anglers often injured themselves while straddling the boiling water, and their feet damaged the geyser cone. Fishing is no longer allowed at Fishing Cone.Visitors are sometimes surprised to find Fishing Cone underwater. During the spring and early summer, lake levels rise from melting snow and cover the vent. When exposed, the temperature of the cone’s water averages just above boiling (199°F / 93° C).
As for the lake and West Thumb itself, this bay is actually a smaller caldera within the greater Yellowstone Caldera, and dates from a “powerful volcanic explosion approximately 174,000 years ago.” The size of Yellowstone Lake is hard to comprehend, even when standing on its shore. At this geyser basin, looking out over West Thumb, the lake is huge, but then you realize this is just a relatively “small” bay off the side of the much larger lake beyond the small gap visible in the image below, framing the “chef’s” fishing pole.
Hot Spring Cone – Yellowstone National Park
Frank J. Haynes
Yellowstone’s Photo Collection. Official Site of Yellowstone National Park. National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/history/postcards/fjhaynes/Images/11503.jpg
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/history/postcards/fjhaynes/Page-1.htm
On 500px: http://500px.com/photo/83094817/kayaks-visiting-fishing-cone-geyser-by-a-f-litt
On www.aflitt.com: http://www.aflitt.com/p66748386/e20e76b17
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Monday, September 08, 2014
A Short July Visit to Lost Lake
Paddle Boats on Lost Lake
Mt. Hood National Forest. Oregon. July 7, 2014
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 8, 2014
Today is a hectic day, so I am diverting from Yellowstone since I can use a photo I edited earlier today for use as a background for a new watermark I was working on for another one of my endeavors, Illuminated Imaging (https://www.facebook.com/IlluminatedImaging).
It’s not my usual watermark, but it is my photo!
This was taken in July on a short outing to Lost Lake with the boys and my Dad. We took the long way in up over Lolo Pass to get a little NW dirt on his Arizona Jeep.
A nice afternoon, but unfortunately we didn’t get to spend much time at the lake. On the list for a weekend stay next summer, those boats look pretty fun!
Back to Yellowstone tomorrow, hopefully...
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Friday, September 05, 2014
A Steamy Evening on Hell’s Half Acre
Steamy Evening at Grand Prismatic Spring
Midway Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park. August 2, 2014
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 5, 2014
On www.aflitt.com: http://www.aflitt.com/p66748386/e155b12c8
This is the largest hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. It is 370 feet in diameter and 121 feet deep, which doesn’t sound like much, but when you are standing next to it, it feels much more like a large pond or small lake than a hot spring… Well, except for the heat and steam pouring off of it!
The features of the Midway Geyser Basin, all huge, probably felt even bigger after spending the day wandering through the Lower Geyser Basin, which is spectacular and beautiful, but a little more life-sized, so to speak. The features at Midway feel unworldly… Like we’ve suddenly been transported, via wooden walkway, from Earth to Io or someplace.
The Grand Prismatic Spring is the third largest in the world. The only two hot springs larger than it are in New Zealand. According to the National Park Service, “a description of this spring by fur trapper Osborne Russell in 1839 also makes it the earliest described thermal feature in Yellowstone that is definitely identifiable.”
In 1889, Rudyard Kipling dubbed the Midway Basin “Hell’s Half Acre,” which is certainly a more descriptive name of this place than Midway, which “despite its small size … possesses two of the largest hot springs in the world.”
We hit there at a great time of the day for pictures, but not so great for actually seeing much of the Grand Prismatic Spring or the Excelsior Geyser Crater… The air was cooling and the steam was thick, adding much to the other worldly feel of the location.
But it was a spectacular place to spend the sunset.
So spectacular, in fact, that we accidently killed the van’s battery while wandering around up there. I thought we’d spend a few minutes here; we spent over an hour… Unfortunately, we were charging up a bunch of gear in the car and I accidently left the headlights on while the boy’s mom and Bella (our dog) were holding down the fort.
Thanks to the kind fellows from Illinois who gave us a jump and got us back on the road!
http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/midway.htm
http://mms.nps.gov/yell/ofvec/exhibits/treasures/thermals/hotspring/grandprismatic.htm
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Thursday, September 04, 2014
On the Second Day, Rain… (And Tower Fall!)
Tower Fall Showing Its Rainbow
Yellowstone National Park. August 1, 2014
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 4, 2014
On our second full day in Yellowstone, our afternoon was rained out, but not before we headed north from the campground to check out Tower Fall. I am used to waterfalls being named in the plural, “falls,” but the official name here, designated by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1928, is Tower Fall. It is the second most popular waterfall in the park, after Lower Falls, but I am not really sure what that means.
Wikipedia has some nice art of the falls: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Fall
Now, honestly, since I pretty much live in the Columbia River Gorge, my family and I are getting almost obnoxiously jaded about waterfalls. Lower Falls, arguably, is one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world, and yes, that one impressed us, but this one is, well… It is a very nice waterfall with some interesting pinnacles, old fossilized fumaroles, thrusting up above it.
But let’s face it- we didn’t go to Yellowstone to look at waterfalls!
Due to getting our reservations rather late, we needed to relocate for the third night, so we jammed down to Lewis Lake to grab a spot. Unfortunately, the afternoon thunderstorms we dealt with for most of the trip decided to camp down there as well.
Being good Oregonians, we busted out the tarps and books and settled in for a restful afternoon, though it did set our schedule back a bit later on, leading to a long catch up run late into the evening a couple days later, racing across the country trying to keep caught up with our reservations.
But a little rest was a good thing…
Reflections of Rain
Yellowstone National Park. August 1, 2014
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Gray Sunset at Lewis Lake
Yellowstone National Park. August 1, 2014
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Cool aerial video of Steamboat Rock & Grand Coulee
Some neat video shot over some of my old stomping grounds…
Flying Grand Coulee and Steamboat Rock - YouTube:
Published on Aug 29, 2013 Take off from Grand Coulee Airport flying over Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River, Lake Roosevelt, Northrup Canyon, Banks Lake, Steamboat Rock. Flying a Northwing Trike WSC (weight shift control) Light Sport Aircraft with Rotax 582 65hp 2 stroke and GT5 Wing. Filmed with wing tip mounted GoPro 3 Black Edition in 1080P, edited in Premier Pro. Converted to 720P for web share.
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Sunday, January 06, 2013
One Day On Earth: 12.12.12 - Stills II: A Pilgrim On The Road
One Day On Earth: 12.12.12 - Stills II: A Pilgrim On The Road from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.
A second collection of stills shot on 12.12.12 in the greater Sacramento, California area.
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Thursday, January 03, 2013
One Day On Earth: 12.12.12 - Fast Clouds & Tree
One Day On Earth: 12.12.12 - Fast Clouds & Tree from A. F. Litt on Vimeo.
Time lapse video of clouds moving across the sky… A shot from this year’s One Day video.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Pads & Reflections
Pads & Reflections. South Prairie. Big Lava Bed. Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Washington. September 16, 2012.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: October 1 & 14, 2012, Long Term Hiatus
Sun rising through forest fire smoke. Diamond Lake. Umpqua National Forest. Oregon. August 12, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: October 14, 2012. Start of a long term hiatus for the POTD.
Hiatus
Today I am posting the 412th photo of of the day.
Is this my last photo of the day post? It very well might be. I am using the word hiatus instead of end, but it will probably be a long hiatus.
Originally, last December and January, I was really aiming to get 366 photos up this year, one every day. Life was a little more hectic than I expected, and daily posting this year has actually been the exception, not the norm.
Still, I tried to get back in the habit through the month of September. But then October happened and, half way through the month, this is my second post.
It seems like it is time to put a capstone on this project and to move on, for now.
When I first started the POTD on February 13, 2011, I was in a very different place in life than I am right now. I was in a rebuilding phase and, as a part of that rebuilding, I wanted to put more focus on photography as I moved ahead in life.
As I wrote when I created the first POTD album on Facebook:
I've decided to post one "featured" picture every day that I have internet access. Just for the heck of it. Feedback is appreciated. Some, obviously, will be better photographs than others. What I post will be somewhat reflective of my mood, so I may choose some shots more for their personal meaning to me than for their artistic "worth." It is just something to do, it sounds like fun, and it will kick my butt into gear getting out there to take some more pictures!
Well, if the main goal of the project was to inspire me to take more photos, that is a mission accomplished.
In fact, one of the main reason that I am taking a break from this project is that I now have thousands of photos sitting on my hard drives that I haven’t ever looked at on my computer, let alone edited or posted anywhere.
These days, in fact this is precisely why there have been so few POTD posts this month, I would rather spend the 45 minutes to an hour a day it takes to select a photo, edit it, post it, and share it working on editing this back log of pictures than spending all of that time working on one photo.
For the first six months or so of the POTD, I was worried that I’d run out of photos. That I’d have a hard time finding 360 plus photos worth posting. Now, it is just the opposite problem. There are so many pictures sitting on my hard drive untouched and forgotten… Not all, hell most, are what I’d consider POTD quality, but the good ones are getting lost in the shuffle and I need to start spending more time getting them cleaned up and brought out of the dark and into the world.
Also, life is getting busy again. We are entering into a busy phase with one of my kids’ special needs, I want to put at least one calendar up for sale by the end of October, most of my free time in November will be spent writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and in December, along with the holidays and long school breaks for the kids, I want to spend quite a bit of time compiling and curating my photos to enter some contests with end of the year deadlines and to start pursuing some new goals with my photography.
Coupled with all of this, I have some new projects I am working on with my blogs. One, for an example, is over on Suburban Eschatology Part Two where I am starting work on a series of posts about raising a child with Asperger’s Syndrome. Meanwhile, here on Rubble, I am trying to work through a series of posts I’ve been wanting to complete for over a year now on some local hikes, parks, and geological features.
So, I am busy. And, hopefully, there will be a lot more going on here on Rubble than just one photo a day, at best, or a couple a month, at worst.
I can safely say that this will be the last Photo of the Day until December, at the earliest. In 2013, I might return to the practice. Then again, maybe not. Only time will tell. Instead of a Photo of the Day, what I may do instead is throw up a semi-regular Featured Photo post, which is really what the POTD has become anyway.
However, that is the future and this is today. I can see possibilities where the POTD becomes a gratifying creative outlet for me once again. However, until that happens, until it is something I am fired up about again and not something where I randomly open up a recent folder and grab pretty much the first picture that catches my eye, I think it is time to put this project to bed.
Whether it ever wakes up again, we’ll see. I did, intentionally, choose a sunrise photo for today’s post, not a sunset.
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: October 1, 2012, Middle Fork Valley at Sunset
For a time this year, I tried to keep the POTD alive by not posting them on the blog, but just on 500px & deviantArt. Looking through the “recent” POTD posts, I noticed that I did this for the October 1 picture as well.
Quartz Mountain. Snoqualmie Lake Trail. Washington. August 14, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: October 1, 2012.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 28, 2012, Sunset Fishing, Newberry Caldera
Sunset. East Lake, Newberry Caldera. Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Oregon. August 17, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 28, 2012.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 25, 2012, Grotto Cove & Clouds, Crater Lake
Grotto Cove. Crater Lake National Park. Oregon. August 21, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 25, 2012.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Amazing time lapse film of Condit Dam removal from National Geographic
Actually, it’s by this fellow http://andymaser.com/
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Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 21 & 24, 2012, Black Wings on Display & Mt. Hood from Sherrard Point
Binford Reservoir. Gresham, Oregon. February 12, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 24, 2012.
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Mt. Hood from Sherrard Point, Larch Mountain, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. June 19, 2004. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: September 21, 2012.
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