Sign of spring

Spotted this Pasque flower on a bike ride (another test ride) a few days ago.



These are quite pretty flowers that only bloom for a short while in spring around Easter as their name suggests.

On the same bikeride, I also took this pano of an area that burned a few years ago. It's close to the upper parking lot (I rode from below of course, I don't take shortcuts) in the Mount Falcon open space park. Mount Falcon is popular amongst Mountain Bikers because it is a good long uphill slog that is not very technical giving a good afterwork workout and has some good singletrack in the back on Parmalee Gulch.

Canyonlands tree

I just uploaded an image to flickr to remind myself I need to process and upload my images from last November in this amazing place.



This image was from a dayhike I did together with one of my friends (the rest was drinking cocktails at the campsite - Mimosas at sunrise!) from the White Crack campsite all the way down along an old jeep road that goes down into the white crack. The trail is almost impossible to see in many places and almost nobody ever goes there as it is not marked on maps. At the end of it is the site of an abandoned mining camp. Apparently there are two spring beds still standing there but we didn't get that far as we lost too much time waiting for our friends to decide to go. They turned around halfway down the first downhill when they realized they were already too buzzed. They missed an amazing hike.

Sauron moon

This burnt tree (looks like a ponderosa pine) in White Ranch open space reminded me of the tower in the Lord of the Rings movies where the eye of Sauron was perched between two spires. So I framed the moon between them to be perched like the eye of Sauron.


This was assembled from nine images at 55 mm, f/22, 1/15s, ISO 100. Buy a print.

Close to this burnt out hunk, I found some nicely structured dead trees. These were the same as I put on flickr a while ago when I photographed them using my iPhone on a bike ride (the reason I returned here with full photo gear).

Lava

Single shot, 70mm, f/16, 1/5s, ISO 100. Buy a print.

Glow

9 images at 150mm, f/16, 1.3s, ISO 100. Buy a print.

Eyes

single image at 150mm, f/16, 1.3s, ISO 100. Buy a print.

Chunky

9 images at 70mm, f/16, 1/5s, ISO 100. Buy a print.

There is a set of images on smugmug here where you can order large prints. If you're into the social networking thing, check out the set at flickr.