This week’s photo challenge is to provide a sense of scale in a photograph. This ship anchor, is as big as the picnic table behind it. The tables and house in the background provide additional dimensions to the scale in this photo.
Tripped across this beauty at West Beach Resort, Orcas Island, Washington ~ USA
This bedraggled gasoline pump caught my eye when I walked by, and seemed a fitting subject for sepia coloration.
Those were the days — when gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon!
This week’s challenge provides an opportunity to spotlight Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, USA. Originally named Mount Mazama, it was the tallest peak in Oregon at 12,000 feet until around 5400 B.C. when the mountain had a massive eruption, which created the caldera and reduced it’s height to 7,000 – 8,000 feet. Over the next 720 years water filled the caldera to its present depth, and lava eruptions created Wizard Island and Merriam Cone.
Wizard Island
Merriam Cone
Crater Lake is 5 by 6 miles across and has no inlets or tributaries. Its average depth is 1,148 feet and at its deepest is 1,949 feet, which makes it the deepest lake in the United States, the Western Hemisphere and the third deepest lake in the world. If it is compared to the average depth of lakes with basins entirely above sea level, Crater Lake is the deepest.
Deep Blue
From every vista Crater Lake’s intense beauty is profound.
Damselfly
This challenge prompted me to review photos I took when my sisters, niece and I visited the San Diego Zoo in September, 2012. Here are a few snaps of particularly expressive birds and mammals.
Here are a few of my favorite vistas in nature where earth, water and light create a sense of tranquility and peace. When I am there, the sounds of birds, water and breeze add to the calm I experience.
Wet, cold and dreary is the forecast for the Pacific Northwest (USA) the rest of the week. This photo of water flowing and freezing was taken during an earlier cold snap.
All the more reason to be inside with a warm fire!
~ a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.
Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935 Standing Woman (1932) Bronze
~ lightness, darkness, and all the shades of sun, water, wind and earth ~
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.“
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Lindy Low LeCoq 