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John Tyrrell
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1988 Nobel Peace Prize Winner ;-)
[Shared with maybe a million other UN Peacekeepers] ;-)

What other consenting adults do with each other is none of my damn business unless I am invited to join in.

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Dark Angel, Arches National Park, 24 August 2007

#photography #landscape #redrock #geology #bluesky #ArchesNP #Utah #CanonPowerShotD1000
A narrow near-rectangular rock formation reaches up to the sky. It stands atop a red dirt slope. The base of the formation is light coloured, but turns dark with desert varnish a few feet off the ground. Small shrubs are scattered around the rick. A cloudless blue sky forms the background. And no-one is considering the possibility of an orange fool as US President.
June 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ, 2 September 2007

#photography #landscape #redrock #canyon #naturalabstract #SonyA100
A narrow twisting canyon, horizontal lines of sandstone layers visible, multiple shades of red rock, a small patch of white at the top where the canyon is open to the sun Looking through a narrow gap where both walls of the canyon appear a deep violet into l more brightly lit section which is glowing orange. On the lower right is a silhouetted head where someone crept into the image
June 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Waterfall, Logan Pass, Going to the Sun Highway, Glacier NP, MT
Mountain in second image is Clements Peak. 30 July 2006
#photography #landscape #waterfall #GlacierNP #hiking #bluesky #Polaroidi832
A waterfall cascades down a rocky slope to disappear into a culvert under a paved road on which there is a double yellow line. On the left side of the slope are tall evergreens, on the right, low shrubs. Overhead, cloudless blue skies. In retrospect, the Polaroidi832 was a pretty good little camera which I picked up, remaindered for C$99. Even in 2006, a real bargain. A paved highway runs across the image, below it is a lightly treed slope, across it there is a steeper slope with grasses leading up to evergreens on the left, on the right a waterfall tumbling through a rocky gorge then a steep rock slupe. Above, on the left is a mountain, steep and rocky. Overhead, the sky is blue.
June 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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University of Montana and City of Missoula
Photographed from above the big "M" on the mountain overlooking the university and city, 26 July 2006
#photography #landscape #cityscape #hiking #Missoula #ClarkForkRiver #Polaroidi832
Scene overlooking a city with a river running through it. In the immediate foreground is half of a large concrete "M" on a downslope. Just at the foot of the M, a couple of people are sitting on the grass enjoying the view. At the bottom of the slope are university buildings including a tall residence building and sports stadium. In the distance, beyond the city, lad rises into surrounding hills / mountains. Overhead a narrow band of hazy blue sky. And there is no thought that an ignorant orange clown could possibly become US President.
June 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Crawford Arch on Bridge Mountain, Zion NP, March 2006

The arch looks small in the image, but it is 427 ft (130 meters) long. It is about 1000 ft or 300 meters above the floor of the canyon.
Handheld with 300mm lens

#photography #landscape #RockyTuesday #analogue #Zion #redrock #bluesky
On a steep reddish sandstone incline surrounded by trees, a natural arch reaches higher up the mountain. Above, cloudless blue skies.
June 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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The Larson and Fife cabins, Kolob Canyons, Zion NP
8 June 2006

Constructed in the 1930s as summer homes, these two cabins were on the verge of collapse when photographed. Stabilized and repaired to a degree since then
#photography #architecture #landscape #logcabin #Zion #SonyDSCF828
Larson Cabin: A small log cabin in disrepair stands in red dirt clearing amongst trees. Behind, a red rock butte towers into the blue sky (washed out by overexposure) A couple of lens flares obscure the butte. And the US president is not whining about his lack of a Nobel prize. Fife Cabin: A log cabin stands in a clearing amongst trees. The roof has holes and there are unplugged gaps between the logs. A metal mesh door blocks entry for safety reasons. On the right in front of the cabin is an information sign. Light shines through the leaves. And an orange clown is not the American President.
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I think The Razzies (aka The Golden Rasberry Awards) need to award a Peace Prize.
June 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Double Arch Alcove, Kolob Canyons, Zion NP
8 June 2004

#photography #landscape #redrock #ZionNP #Utah #SonyDSCF828
Looking into an alcove in red sandstone. Tree branches covered with fresh green leaves are in the foreground. The red rock is streaked with desert varnish. Deep in the alcove, the dark streaks are from water seeping through the rock. At the top of the image the red rock and the small patch of sky turn white (overexposure of that part of the image)
June 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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View from Indian Gardens / Bright Angel Trail
23 November 2003

#photography #landscape #GrandCanyonNP #bluesky #BrightAngelTrail #CanonPowershotG2
From a shadowed viewpoint in a valley (actually an earthquake fault) in which dusky-green trees and shrubs are just visible, we look out on a flat plateau, and beyond that, the sun is shining on a number of buttes. Through the clow clouds, another higher butte is just visible. Billowing clouds reach up into a blue sky. On this day in 2003 there was no sense that someone who could run multiple casinos into bankruptcy could possible become US President, nor that he could somehow be more ludicrously incompetent at that job than in operating casinos
June 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Remember Pearl Harbor? Still known as the "Day of Infamy" by many Americans.

What is the difference from yesterday's unprovoked American attack in Iran? Just another "Day of Infamy."
June 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I would have thought it nearly impossible to turn the fundamentalist misogynistic Iranian regime into the "Good Guys", but Netanyahu and Trump accomplished it with ease.
June 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Half Dome Sunset - Yosemite NP - 23 September 2002

#photography #landscape #YosemiteNP #sunset #CanonPowerShotG2
An image of Half Dome at sunset. A shadow line across the rock face shows the progress of the setting sun. In front of the rock formation, a line of pine trees are silhouetted. Above the rock the sky is a cloudless blue. In a wide stream, sandy banks on both sides, an orange reflection of Half Dome framed by reflections of trees and a blue sky. The stream narrows further up the frame as it flows through meadows and green trees.
June 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Wildlife in Yellowstone - June 2001
Image quality is low by today's standards - taken with a Sony Mavica which stored images on floppy discs at 640x480

#photography #wildlife #marmot #elk #bison #SonyMavica #YellowstoneNP
A Yellow-bellied Marmot sitting on a rock poses for a photo. An American Bison stands atop a slight grassy rise. Beyond the bison, the grass continues to the edge of forest, and in the distance there are snow covered mountains. Roosevelt Elk graze among grasses and low shrubs. An American Bison nurses her calf.
June 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Pacific Banana Slug - Sayward, Vancouver Island 18 June, 2025

#photography #slugs #moluscs #gastropods #creepycrawlies #VancouverIsland
A greenish-grey banana slug makes its slow way across a rocky forest floor
June 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Trump LIVE in Washington: Less than 9,000
Pope BY VIDEO in Chicago: More than 30,000
June 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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My father at 2 years old, some 110 years ago

Happy Fathers' Day to all you m*therf*ckers.

#photography #FathersDay #toddler #dog #sepiaphotography
A toddler in a white bonnet and pinafore and white booties. He is holding onto a chain leash attached to a scruffy dog. They are standing in straw, a folded white tarpaulin behind them. beyond that, might be a garden.
June 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Inkcaps - In June of 2010, I had a good collection of fungi on my lawn in Medicine Hat

#photography #fungi #inkcaps #MedicineHat #Alberta
June 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Bodie - a California ghost town 21 July 2009

#photography #landscape #ghosttown #California #Bodie #mining
A dirt road leads down to a group of mostly wooden buildings in a hollow. A few more buildings can be seen on top of the first ridge beyond the town. A small sliver of blue sky can be seen above the final ridge of brown grass covered hills
June 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Israel has disregarded the International Court of Justice’s orders to facilitate the delivery of urgently needed food and supplies to Gaza and has been accused of gunning down starving civilians

The Madleen’s mission was to force the world to acknowledge, Israel’s disregard for international law.
Israel Intercepted the Madleen. What’s Next? | The Tyee
The ship was bound for Gaza with activists and aid. Here’s an analysis of whether its capture was legal.
thetyee.ca
June 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Wachirathan Waterfall, Chiang Mai 31 Oct 2022

#photography #waterfall #waterfallWednesday #ChiangMai #Thailand
Water tumbles over a near vertical rockface in several separate streams, some wide, some narrow. The left of the falls is in shadow, the right in sunlight. Green shrubs are in the foreground, trees line the other side of the waterfall.
June 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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From Punch in 1910

#cartoon #progress #Punch #scan #humour #automobile #aeroplane
June 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Most likely a Pacific Reef Heron, though I stand to be corrected
Phuket 10 November 2022

#photography #birds #heron #Thailand
A pale grey bird in the heron/egret family stands on a rock. Feet are yellow as is it's eye. Legs are a pale grey. Beek is grey too with a hint of yellow. Background is the calm waters of the Andaman Sea
June 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Myna - Phuket, Photographed 7 November 2022

#photography #birds #myna #Thailand
A myna with a yellow beak and yellow around its black eyes stands on one foot. The small upright spiky feather on its head give it a punk look.
June 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Jeep Sculpture, Hole N"The Rock, Moab, Utah
Photographed 26 August 2007
A Jeep, the bodywork covered in old license plates from many states, the front bumper possibly an old radiator, the wheels and seats constructed out of metal scraps. It is in a parking lot in front of a wooden building singed as a General Store On of the wheels of a jeep sculpture, made out of scrap metal A scrap metal jeep sculpture. It is carrying a large white bone, a dog sits atop the bone In this image, it can be seen that the seets and steering wheel of the jeep are made of scrap metal.
June 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Doi Suthep-Poi National Park, Chiang Mai. Photographed 30 October 2022

#photography #TheravadaBuddhism #temple #ChiangMai #BlueSky #Stunday #Thailand
Thai visitors pose in front of the gold covered chedi of a temple. The chedi is behind a red and gold fence. The ground is gold coloured tiles, but a pink carpet covers for foreground. There are a few white fluffy clouds in a blue sky
June 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM