Thursday’s Task

John Holbrook

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Thursday’s Task: Landscape SCRAMBLE game board: Arch. Your interpretation.
My examples:

State Park, KY (forgotten which park, visited 19 years ago from EXIF)

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Arches National Park, UT

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Canyonlands National Park, UT

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Trent Watts

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Some pretty spectacular arches to start us off John. The Canyonlands National Park, UT images really jumps out at me with the glowing rock.

I have three arches for today's scrabble.

This bridge was built in the early 30's as a make work project during the Great Depression. It features wonderful concrete arches that today's bridges don't match in design.
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A treed arch over a pathway.
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Freezing water on a branch stuck in the shallow water on the river's edge.
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AlanLichty

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I like arches and have a few for this one.

Technically a bridge but it does show an arch - Sipapu Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument:
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Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills:

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Arch Rock in the Samuel Boardman Scenic Corridor:

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An unnamed feature in the Bisti:

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Grosvenor's Arch in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument:

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John Holbrook

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Some pretty spectacular arches to start us off John. The Canyonlands National Park, UT images really jumps out at me with the glowing rock.

I have three arches for today's scrabble.

This bridge was built in the early 30's as a make work project during the Great Depression. It features wonderful concrete arches that today's bridges don't match in design.
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A treed arch over a pathway.
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Freezing water on a branch stuck in the shallow water on the river's edge.
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Trent, great “arch” interpretations! I especially love the branching arching over the woodland path—nice. Perhaps my favorite is the arched branch along the river’s edge—with its shadow completing the arch above. Thank you for sharing!
 

John Holbrook

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I like arches and have a few for this one.

Technically a bridge but it does show an arch - Sipapu Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument:
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Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills:

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Arch Rock in the Samuel Boardman Scenic Corridor:

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An unnamed feature in the Bisti:

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Grosvenor's Arch in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument:

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Great selection of arches Alan—and thank you for sharing each of them. I’m glad you included Grosvenor’s Arch—very nice (I’d forgotten all about that one while searching my files for arches! Very nice image. The unnamed Bisti arch is another favorite—another beautiful image! I also like the first image of the Sipapu Bridge—looks like an “arch” to me! The Arch Rock image is also well composed, the beautiful ocean’s waves adding colorful contrast. Very nice! Of course the Mobius Arch is also a beautiful image—with the window to the beautiful mountains beyond!
 

John Holbrook

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Craig, I love every arch image you posted—especially Moon Arch! (Wow!) My personal favorite is “Storm Across The Valley”—perfect! The arch framing the mountains beyond is perfect! “Mistish Moodiness” is another of my personal favorites—love the mist and composition! “Blue Sky Beckons” is another perfect composition as well—nice! Thank you for sharing all of these images Craig!
 

John Holbrook

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Here are a few...

1) Delicate Arch
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2) Mobius Arch
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3) Garrapata Coastline
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4) Stornetta Coast - an arch within an arch within an arch
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Kyle, beautiful arch images you’ve shared—and thank you for sharing each of them. A very well composed Delicate Arch with beautiful light captured—my favorite! The Mobius Arch image definitely benefits from your evening capture—also my favorite! Hey, I can have two favorites! The Stonetta Coast with the perfectly aligned arches in your well composed image is another wonderful arch example! The Garrapata Coastline image’s colorful foreground makes a memorable image too. Again, thank you for sharing.
 

John Holbrook

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