Devil's Postpile

[BarryHamilton]

Here's another from last October's trip. This time with what I call a bare naked sky. It made for tough lighting conditions on this morning but I came up with this. It's one of the playgrounds of our youth, so I wanted to share.
Devil's Postpile National Monument.
Back in the late '50s and '60s my family vacationed in the area every summer. Camped at Red's Meadow, back-packed up into the high country....Minarets, Garnet and Thousand Island Lakes, Rainbow Falls (both of them!), fished Sotcher Lake, the San Joaquin River and explored everywhere with my brother, Randy.
I miss those days and was grateful to get to see it again!

 

[AlanLichty]

That's a site I would like to visit some day. Fascinating geology.

 

[JimFox]

The Devi's Postpile is a place with a limited window to shoot, but it sure is fun! I have been trying to get back up in there the last 2 years but haven't been able to due to late snows keeping the road to it closed.

This is a nice one Barry, and it's great that it brings back such fond memories. I wonder how this would look in B&W?

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great one Barry, also my playground of youth. I was there on a YMCA trip in 1954 when we hiked into and camped at Rainbow Falls. I was amazed at the geometric precision of the basalt columns.

 

[BarryHamilton]

Thanks for lookin' in guys!
It is a very cool place to visit.
Jim, I actually looked at making a b&w from this, but couldn't come up with something I liked. Yet! May try again.

 

[Kyle Jones]

I think you did well with what you had. Always a fun place to explore and photograph.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

An inteesting place that I have not visited. Maybe some day.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

This is one of my favorite places too, Barry. Nice job of capturing the rock pile at the base of the lava flow.

 

[dan swiger]

Here's another from last October's trip. This time with what I call a bare naked sky. It made for tough lighting conditions on this morning but I came up with this. It's one of the playgrounds of our youth, so I wanted to share.
Devil's Postpile National Monument.
Back in the late '50s and '60s my family vacationed in the area every summer. Camped at Red's Meadow, back-packed up into the high country....Minarets, Garnet and Thousand Island Lakes, Rainbow Falls (both of them!), fished Sotcher Lake, the San Joaquin River and explored everywhere with my brother, Randy.
I miss those days and was grateful to get to see it again!

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Barry, love this area. Only visited once. It has what my workshop teacher said had "visual irony"