Revisiting The Desert
It's a #sublimesunday y'all! Got 40oz. to Freedom blasting and a fresh pot of Yirgacheffe on. If it gets better than this it's probably too rich for my blood.
Got to talking about desert rock formations with @victorbz earlier, the deserts in his neck of the woods reminded me of the ones in southern Utah. After that I had to edit a few from there.
I'd been meaning too anyways, seems like we can't go more than a day or two without a new news story about people needing to be rescued or dying while out hiking in the southwest.
Apparently everybody and their cousin decided to take up hiking when the pandemic hit. Judging by the casualty count, a good number neglected to familiarize themselves with best practices in their haste to get outdoors.
Wonder if that's been a global phenomenon or one of those peculiar American problems? Anybody else noticed the same thing in their part of the planet?
Most of these photos are from when I was in Arches National Park in Utah back in late September of 2017. It was hot then, near 90 (30C) and just barely feasible to hump camera gear and enough water over some of these trails. In the heat of summer (or the September we're having) I don't think it'd be possible.
It's been intermittently pouring the rain today so it's an indoors sort of Sunday. We're going to pay the southwest another visit next year, editing these photos has got me itching to start planning that. Anybody know of some cool, off-the-beaten-path places to visit out that way?
Hopefully we can dodge the flash floods that seem to be in fashion lately. There's some slot canyons that I want to revisit with a wide angle but them and rain don't mix well.
That's probably enough lollygagging in the land of no rain. Y'all have a good Sunday, or what's left of it at least!
beautiful photographs, you can appreciate the rock formations very well, I think that in the midst of the pandemic the people here, for example, visited more the rivers and the mountains far from the city, seeking not to feel confined
Thank you! Yeah, that sounds pretty similar to here. Did you see a noticeable increase in the number of people getting into trouble out there? Between extreme weather and people making poor choices there's been a lot more people needing rescued from or even killed by Mother Nature.
Here there have been many people who die by immersion, the number of people who migrate illegally and die in the jungle or in the river to cross the border has also increased, everything has been due to the crisis that worsened with the pandemic, people make impulsive decisions, They believe that crossing a jungle is easy and they die
Ah, gotcha. Here it's the desert or the river that people are trying to cross but the results are largely the same. With everything that's happened these past few years, is it impulsive decisions or a lack of better options that's more to blame?
the crisis is what drives people to leave, but if you don't have options, neither would I dare to defy nature without being prepared for it ☹️
It's a right proper Catch-22. There's people here in the US that go out and stash water and supplies so that the ones who make it over the border don't die. The border patrol tries to destroy the supplies and arrest the people doing it, it's a mess.
This is a very worrying situation here there is not even an embassy from your country due to political problems, just as in your country there is no embassy from my country, even the people who want to go legally to your country from here must go to another country to process the visa, they must wait up to 2 years just to get the appointment or for the interviews, people just want to escape from the crisis and every so often there are those who enter and others die trying
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Beautiful pictures friend , I love this kind of landscape , they are very rich in texture and all Rock formation looks great kind of remain me the Ansel Adams photography . Good job!!
Thank you, that's tall praise my friend. I've actually taken photos from some of the same spots that Ansel Adams shot his but mine never turn out as good.
Deserts make for some of the best landscapes :)
Thanks for dropping by!
these are wonderful forms and the huge natural "architecture"
thank you for the mention, I was glad to talk with you.
it hasn't rained here for 4 months.... too long a period without pouring from the sky water. I miss it
You're welcome, I always enjoy our conversations. Damn, is that normal for there? Rain follows me around too much for me to get to the point that I miss it. Still, there's nothing like being in the desert to make you appreciate it.
yes to see how little we are. like in some huge church
Beautiful geomorphologies!! I love how they look in black and white. Here in Argentina we have a pretty similar area called Ischigualasto, it’s in San Juan province. Your pictures kinda translated me there for a while. Amazing! I love them!
Thank you! The desert can be such and amazing place. I looked up Ischigualasto, I can see why you were reminded of it, I'd love to pay it a visit too. Is it equally as inhospitable?
Yes!! It’s a very inhospitable place! But you have the city pretty close, I believe 2 hours. If you travel by car as I did, it’s a very short distance.
Glad to see you still slamming the hits out of the park, well in this case the sandlot.
As always, Nice shots.
Thank ya! Good to see you around these parts again.