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Sundae 09-19-2007 04:37 PM

Shawnee said it BigV - I often send postcards to family when I want them to know I'm thinking of them, and your images are of that quality.

I found myself saying, "Ooooh the sky! The sky!"
(although I like the horns too)

Wow - beautiful.

BigV 09-20-2007 04:02 PM

less postcard-y more snapshot-y
 
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Our campsite at Boyer Park below the lower Granite dam, on the Snake river, and the view from the campsite.

glatt 09-20-2007 04:34 PM

Nice!

LabRat 09-20-2007 06:21 PM

What's with the gravel? Don't see that around here...

jinx 09-20-2007 06:27 PM

Amazing shots V, the first one and the wheat fields are my favorites. Really, really beautiful...

BigV 09-21-2007 12:48 AM

LR: The gravel is a good base for a tent. Unsurpassed drainage, so you don't have your tent in standng water, ,it's very easy to level so you don't slide down hilll... it's easy to define where you want pple to camp. right here! not tearing up the grass here and there and over there....
think of it as portion control for the rv park set. like a pad/hookup, just for tents. this particular park had ... a hundred rv slots and seven tent slots.
this wa sthe pick of the litter.
right ... no, fifty yards from the river. just lovely.

I could have pitched on the grass. it was quite dry, and flat. I mean level.. Iddidnt' check if it was flat. like no bumps.. .gravel was easier. espeically since I pitched the tent alone inthe dark with oly my headlamp at about midnigght after the football game.

SonofV was asleep in the car... I didn't have the heart to rouse him to pitch the tent. I did all the setup this time , shook him awake and led him to the sleeping bag after a quick stop to water the tree.

In wilderness camping I never get a layout like this. It's always primitive. This was .. .amenable to car camping. In fact, you can see the car in the second picture. It was just a couple steps.

Camping season is officially open though. I can't wait to get out into the woods. I **love** camping.

BigV 09-21-2007 12:54 AM

jinx:

thank you!


I love the Palouse. it is just achingly beautiful. I do especially like the last one with the mailbox.

I took over two hundred pictures, and wheat is in about three quartes of them. I have another small set that has some interesting features for the roadside geologists among us, but tomorrow. and lots of sky, the hills are endless. I never did get a shot I was happy with. I took several that would be stitched together... twentyfive pics for a 180 deg stitch. It looks good, but doesn't do it justice and unpostable here. It's a million pixels wide.. .well, reaaaaaallly wide.

I haven't been satisfied with many of the pictures I've taken in this area. Some are pretty, and these are among the best, but I assure you, they're pale imitations of some of God's most beautiful country.

Kitsune 09-21-2007 08:28 AM

Wow -- extreme envy on both your photographs and the trip. Really beautiful stuff, especially the rolling fields. I really like the very first image, too, because it has a strange, dreamlike feeling to it.

I can taste the green off that one farm image. Damn beautiful, sir.

BigV 09-21-2007 10:50 AM

Hey, Kitsune! You made it over to the Palouse!

Thank you for the compliments... Much appreciated.

BigV 10-07-2007 04:37 AM

by request
 
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Magpie

DucksNuts 10-07-2007 05:52 AM

WOW....I missed these previously....but they are seriously awesome V.

I love them, the colours and scenery....I'm gushing...I am....great photography.

BigV 10-16-2007 03:31 PM

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More of east of the Cascades. Two shots of a beaver pond and dam. Not to mention some lovely fall colors.

BigV 10-16-2007 04:26 PM

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Hazy woods

Contemplative woodsman

HungLikeJesus 10-16-2007 04:34 PM

BigV, those make me feel like taking a hike.

Thanks.

BigV 10-16-2007 04:54 PM

HLJ, I feel the same way. I thought of you as I took many of these. I'm glad you enjoy them too.


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