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Nikon Wednesday 2018: #10


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A good Nikon Wednesday to all. Happy to report that I have some electricity to power the computer I'm using to type this - we had quite the major wind storm a few days back, and wide-spread multi-day outages from trees dragging down power lines. On which note ... here's some of the mess from two doors down. It's sobering to see one of these utility poles getting decapitated and flinging a big transformer into the middle of the street with a splat. I've also included a somewhat unorthodox (by Nikon Wednesday standards) supporting snapshot from down the street that shows another large tree's fall across the road and scoring of a bullseye on a portapotty at a residential construction site. Direct hit!

 

I suspect at least a few other PNers were caught up in the same coastal storm, so let's see some drama. Or not! Whatever everyone's in the mood to share this week.

 

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We've had unusually good winter weather these past weeks. This is from a creek in Nuuksio National Park. D850, 85mm PC-E, f/9, 1/3s, ISO 64.

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This is a larger view of the creek. D850, 24-70/2.8E at 24mm, f/11, 1/5s, ISO 64.

 

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Finally the third image is from Kiikunlähde, which is a natural spring in Hollola. It stays open even though it has been -20 C-ish weather for weeks.D850, 300mm f/4E PF, f/8, 1/5s, ISO 64.

 

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Ah, storms. Last week's snow got a bit more serious after the last Nikon Wednesday. By British standards, at least. My area got about 3" of snow, and therefore ground to a halt. In my experience, Yellowstone copes a bit better with winter. Oh well.

 

Firstly, I was going for a "tundra" (or possibly funny-coloured beach) theme. Except the longest grass is about 6", so this is in miniature. D810, Sigma 150mm macro, f/5, about 1/200s and ISO 1000 (after exposure pushing).

 

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And finally, not one for artistic merit, but one for "weird" and I wanted to share: this is a shot through one of my windows at about 4am (well before any contribution from the sun). We have a bit of a light pollution problem, especially when LED street lights hit snow and clouds. This is ISO 1000 (well, 500 + 1stop), 1s, f/4, if anyone would like to work out the EV. D810, 14-24.

 

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Oh, and Dieter, I'm going to suggest Grand Canyon? Although the water is a bit bluer than I'd expect, so my backup suggestion is Canyonlands. (It'll turn out to be somewhere different that I should know better...)

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I'm going to suggest Grand Canyon?

And we have a winner! Grand Canyon indeed. I was also surprised by the color of the water - actually quite green (the bluer tone in the first image is due to shade/time of day). The first image is close to the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon Nationalpark - near Desert View (either Navajo or Lipan Point). The second image is about as far to the west as one can get from Grand Canyon Village (close to Hermits Rest and likely taken from Pima Point). The third one is also taken west of Grand Canyon Village, possibly from Mojave Point.

 

my backup suggestion is Canyonlands

If I was a geologist, then I'd say "wrong rocks" - the rock formations that are exposed at the top of the Grand Canyon are towards the bottom of the exposed formations in Canyonlands. And to see the Grand Canyon bottom layers in Canyonlands, you'd have to start digging. This image illustrates what I am talking about: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9402793/slides/slide_3.jpg

 

I just noticed a difference when "liking" a post - I need to confirm that I really want to like that post (and I lose the position in the thread when doing so) - what idiocy is this?

 

EDIT: the confirmation of "liking" seems to have vanished - what's going on?

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The first image is close to the eastern edge of the Grand Canyon Nationalpark - near Desert View (either Navajo or Lipan Point).

 

Huh. I'd have guessed the first one was from somewhere around Bright Angel trail or Mather Point. But I didn't get the chance to stop off further east (I was driving too fast to get to Antelope Canyon!) Only because there's some greenery, though.

 

The second image is about as far to the west as one can get from Grand Canyon Village (close to Hermits Rest and likely taken from Pima Point).

 

Being dry, I'd have guessed much farther west - near the Skywalk!

 

The third one is also taken west of Grand Canyon Village, possibly from Mojave Point.

 

Again, I'm a little surprised how dry it was. Canyonlands (well, the Island in the Sky drive) had some lighter rocks overhanging browner.

 

If I was a geologist, then I'd say "wrong rocks" - the rock formations that are exposed at the top of the Grand Canyon are towards the bottom of the exposed formations in Canyonlands. And to see the Grand Canyon bottom layers in Canyonlands, you'd have to start digging. This image illustrates what I am talking about: http://images.slideplayer.com/28/9402793/slides/slide_3.jpg

 

In my defence, it's out of focus! In my further defence, I did go through these places very quickly. :) I was told before going to university that I should study geology alongside computer science, on the grounds that everyone likes physics in school, but people who aren't real physicists change their minds at university. They were right: I shouldn't have done physics in my first undergraduate year. And now I know that geology would have been more useful!

 

Incidentally, I just tried the shiny new Google Lens feature in Google Photos. It identifies exactly none of Dieter's photos (at all, never mind location). It also thinks that a photo I took of the "Guardian Spirit" bear statue in Bozeman airport is of a crocodile, and that a stuffed wolf I saw in another airport was a penguin. It can identify cats, though. So far, I'm less terrified of our AI overlords than I might have been.

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@andrew: I checked again - the first image is one stop farther west than Lipan Point: Moran Point.

 

Skywalk: never been there - driving from the Grand Canyon Village is 4 hours (about 240 miles) one way. Even on the drive back home, taken a detour at Kingman would have amounted to a 3 hour drive to cover the 150 miles to go there and back. Too much if driving from the Grand Canyon Village back home takes 9+ hours.

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I've discovered that the problem with driving around the Grand Canyon is that someone put a canyon in the way. Otherwise I'd like to have visited the north rim (other than just by helicopter). My version was Las Vegas to the Skywalk (helicopter trip, where one recently crashed) to the south rim helicopter trip, sunset at Mather, and staying near Grand Canyon village (with dinner at Bright Angel). Then Grand Canyon village to Antelope the next morning. Fun fun. Some day I'll go back and relax a bit more.
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