Goblin Valley and Great Basin
 

Here are a few pics from my trip to Goblin Valley and Great Basin with the family last summer. Goblin Valley is a spiffy place, it's like nature's petrified lava lamps. Here are some of the shots...

http://www.alanbellows.com/goblinvalley/P8240051.jpg

http://www.alanbellows.com/goblinvalley/P8240061.jpg

http://www.alanbellows.com/goblinvalley/P8240014.jpg


Here's one with my folks in it, shown to illustrate the scale of the formations:

http://www.alanbellows.com/goblinvalley/P8240024.jpg


...and this one is from Great Basin National Park:

http://www.alanbellows.com/goblinvalley/P8240010.jpg


These were all taken with my old Olympus c-700 digital camera, which treated me very well most of the time. And the very topmost picture was slightly altered to remove an RV in the distance, but the change was insignificant.

Great shots, makes me want to go back. Btw how do you get more than one picture in a post?:confused:

Bruce, he's hosting them from his web site, so he can throw in the url tag and voila! You're attaching them to the Cellar, which only allows one upload per post.

Duh..Ok. So when I click on "Goblin Valley and Great Basin" I go to his website? And my reply posts here in the Cellar? Thank god for Bill Gates or I couldn't get here at all. Ohhh..that's why you hate him. :D

It's like this:

- He uploads the images to his web site, or more accurately, his hosting server.

- In his Cellar post, he writes the HTML code (or VB code) to display those images which live on his server.

- Your web browser sees the code for the image and opens a connection to his server to request the image.

If his server is down, or he deletes the image from it, you'd get a broken image link.

If you attach an image to a Cellar post, roughly the same thing happens, except that the Cellar hosts the image and then it's my bandwidth. (Which I don't mind.)

The ability of the web to make all these connections rather seamlessly is what holds the whole WWW together. Any web page you bring up may cause your computer to connect to hundreds of other servers.

Bruce, you send out images in emails I think you said -- but if you preferred, you could send the HTML code for images hosted on a server somewhere, and people's emails would open those images. (Much like all the spam we're all getting right about now.)

Sneaky little devils, these PC's. Thanks Syc and UT.:thumb:

Those are some pretty nice pics. Wish I would have had the time to see 'em myself.

:cool:

Nice pics.

Wasn't Goblin Valley a popular film and TV site?

Just looked it up. Goblin Valley was used in Galaxy Quest.

Dammit I needs me a camera...
but i'm too brokes to buy one. :(

Make, take, beg, borrow, steal, reallot, rearrange, realign, reserve, whatever it takes, time. You will never regret it. ;)

Well, the wife wants to go back for Christmas. Just signed up for the days off, now let's see if we get to see these in person.

Woohoo!!

Oh wait, it's Friday. Double woohoo!!!
:D

TAKE US TOO! :D