John Holbrook
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Thursday’s Task: National Park landscapes. My examples below:
Grand Teton National Park, WY
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Thursday’s Task: National Park landscapes. My examples below:
Grand Teton National Park, WY
AlanLichty
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Cool topic - and one of my favorite parks to start us off 
I love the icy view at Oxbow and the sunset view in #3.
I love the icy view at Oxbow and the sunset view in #3.
AlanLichty
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Olympic National Park - Ruby Beach:
Zion National Park:
Bryce Canyon before sunrise:
A rare moment in snow - Hoh Rainforest Olympic National Park:
Reflection Lakes in Mt. Rainier National Park:
A telephoto panorama of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park:
Zion National Park:
Bryce Canyon before sunrise:
A rare moment in snow - Hoh Rainforest Olympic National Park:
Reflection Lakes in Mt. Rainier National Park:
A telephoto panorama of the Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park:
John Holbrook
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Alan, a beautiful variety of national parks you’ve shared—and I thank you for doing so. The Olympic and Rainier Parks are gorgeous images, but my favorite is the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park captured with SNOW! I also like the Zion and Bryce National Parks, beautiful parks and your images represent that too. The telephoto panorama was a good idea to capture the unique cliff palace in Mesa Verde National Park. Thanks for sharing each of these very nice images.
AlanLichty
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Thanks John - I typically do most of my traveling during the winter months and have seen low elevation snow a couple of times on the Olympic Peninsula but it rarely lasts the day when it falls. The first time I saw the Hoh was during a visit before my wife and I moved up to the NW from Salt Lake City and it was lightly snowing. We thought it was perfectly normal to see spring snow but the locals were all freaking out about it
John Holbrook
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Craig, truly beautiful landscapes you have shared today! Thank you so much for posting these gorgeous images. Whenever, early or late––I can wait! Perhaps “Sundown” and “Tower Overlook” are my favorites, so hard to say! I appreciate the perfect composition and light captured in each. Thank you for sharing each one.
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John Holbrook
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Larry, very, very beautiful captures from Arches NP. I love the two Balanced Rock images—day or night you captured its unique beauty! The Park Avenue and Organ Rock images are also well composed and capture with light and shadow their rugged beauty. It’s nice to see the couple beneath the North Window Arch giving it a sense of its immense scale. Thank you for sharing these great images Larry!here are a few images from my archive from Arches National Park:
North Window Arch
The Organ Rock
Park Avenue View
Balanced Rock
Sunrise at Balanced Rock
Tipsoo Lake, Mt Rainier NP
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone NP
Arches NP
Grand Tetons NP
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone NP
Arches NP
Grand Tetons NP
John Holbrook
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Jameel, thank you for sharing these very beautiful images! I’m sorry not seeing your images until today, but rewarded when I did—perfect! Tipsoo Lake is definitely a favorite —and perhaps one of yours as well! Very nice! The Grand Canyon with a double rainbow is an incredible capture, and of course another favorite. The Arches B&W is another favorite as well. Great composition! And the Grand Tetons image with perfect reflection…is perfect! Thanks for sharing!
Aaron Cowan
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Wow! some wonderful images here! I'll share a few though I'm late
John Holbrook
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Aaron, you may be a little late—but so am I seeing your gorgeous park images. Thank you for sharing these. I like your close up image of Mesa Arch—a lot! I also love the falls and clouds image in Artist Point Yellowstone Falls—nice! Not sure of the locations of your third and fourth image—but I love what youv’e captured. Very nice images and thanks again for sharing all your images.Wow! some wonderful images here! I'll share a few though I'm late
Aaron Cowan
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Thank you, John! The last two are from Rainier. The Mesa Arch photo was the last one I took there. I actually packed everything up walked away about, then handheld one last shot. I'm glad I took one more!
John Holbrook
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I’m glad you took the last handheld shot too! Thanks for identifying the last two images—very beautiful too. Thanks again.