Kolob Canyons of Zion NP

I wanted to capture images of the old original 1920s golf course north of Pioche before it was completely gone. Years back, steel poles with sheet steel numbers were at each hole as well as drags to smooth the sand greens before putting. Unfortunately, there's not much left: 2 benches, a few course markers, what's left of the club house, and of course the "greens."   I was using two cameras. The differences should be obvious. To begin, one of two benches

 

 a V-shaped drag to smooth the fairways

 a hole marker in the foreground and a "green" behind it

a bird that wanted it's picture taken

and getting there, remains of a WWII truck cab

Okay, here are some more converging lines shots, taken just for this assignment!

As always, comments and criticism welcome!

I took a good hike yesterday, watching all the while for good converging lines shots, when I got this photo.  I'm rather pleased with it.

I'll post some that actually have converging lines later.  I couldn't wait with this one.

Went over to Wendover

Historic Wendover Airfield

Newly restored Control Tower

Officers Club (Resto in progress)

Hangar (790 windows per each!)

Deuce and a Half (The Tour Bus)

Jeep (The Tour Taxi)

Bomb Assembly Building

A-Bomb Graffiti

A-Bomb loading pit

Targeting "Butt"

Enola Gay Hangar

Hangar Interior

Cruise Missile

A: 42!

Rock Slide

2:1 but Who's right?

Is it cheating to use a photo I took for a similar assignment on another web site?  Well, I hope not, because it's been a few days since I contributed, so...

Converging or Merging Lines

Two for Memorial Day.  The first is the Veterans of the World Wars representative placing a wreath.

This is the keynote speaker, a disabled veteran, giving his remarks.

God bless those who gave their all, and the loved ones who live without them.

Mandatory Memorial Day BBQ

Trying to grill healthy: turkey burgers, corn, green peppers, and onions (and cheese hotdogs for the grandkids).

These just bloomed right along the path to the street.

And now, from the department of things you don't see every day department, I give you whatever this instrument is, being played by one of the fine members of the Red Elvises:

And here's the whole scene, with the smoke-enhanced sunset behind the Jemez.

Tending the "Home Fires"

The human eye is really good at adapting to changing light levels.  As we were standing around watching the eclipse and asking ourselves if it was really getting darker or not, I decided to take a series of shots in full manual mode at the same settings, so I could see how much the light level was changing.  Here are the results, and the times each shot was taken.

19:05

19:24

19:37

19:41



And here's one about halfway toward totality (19:17, if you're curious), showing how things looked to the uncalibrated eye:

Finally, just for grins, here's a sunset picture.

Hovercraft