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As the final haze of last summer’s fires lingered on the horizon, I took this photo with a sideways tilt.  It pleases me to see the echoing swoop of hill beyond hill.  But, I’ve held it not knowing if others would enjoy.  Today, with the rain leaking from the sky in great gray rivulets, I’m palming it off on you.

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e.
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e.
15 years ago

I like it.

silverstar98121
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15 years ago

Well, it’s an interesting perspective, I must say. Very artsy-fartsy. I know people who would buy it.

bluelaker4
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bluelaker4
15 years ago

I like it too.

Kato
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Kato
15 years ago

I always appreciate being shown new angles on things, and I like it, too, Kym. It conveys some of the steepness of our local “hills” that’s usually really hard to portray in two dimensions. Even though that pitch is artificially induced, the first impression of it stayed after I adjusted my head to see the “real” landscape. And it took me a minute to recognize the view! That disorientation also reminded me of how our world was “skewed” by the threat of forest fire back then….

S.C.
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S.C.
15 years ago

When I squint my eyes and just look at ridgeline where it meets the sky, I see a profile of the stone heads on Easter Island. Ya coulda saved it til Easter Beltane Solstice celebrants are about:)

nursemyra
Guest
15 years ago

reminds me of the old Sara Lee advertisment… “layer upon layer upon layer”

I like it

Elaine
Guest
15 years ago

A great shot of history. This weather has me wanting to explore my archives as well.

Sophie Lagacé
Guest
15 years ago

I like the abstraction. At fist glance it made me think of a geode.

Toni
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15 years ago

I like the angle. I like the layers, too.

Ben
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Ben
15 years ago

Also a great movie.

steve ukiah
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steve ukiah
15 years ago

below averge keep trying

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth
15 years ago

you know what it reminds me of .. there was a 1800ft “mountain” where I grew up. When we’d go to the top, you’d look out on miles upon miles of tree tops, and it would look like – if you just jumped off, you’d fall onto a carpet of trees. This is similar, it makes me want to climb up the tree-top hill.

Staff
Member
15 years ago

Sophia, that is something I noticed, too. The layers have a smoky geode look to me also.

Maggie
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15 years ago

I like the picture and the vantage point. Really interesting and creative.

Ernie's Place (Branscomb)
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I don’t know how to say this Kym, but I think that I would have liked the photo better if you had posed it as a story. You have all of the salient details there. You could have put the rock in the lower right corner, like the pivot point of a fan, left the lone tree on the ridge like it was watching the fire in the distance. I really like the sharpness of the distant ridge on the sky line, like a burned page of a smoky novel with the haze still in the air. But then I’ve never appreciated art as much as I appreciate nature and this valley that we both love. So maybe I missed it. But, I thought that I would mention it, just so you know how much I appreciate the way you capture this valley, and the stories in it. But this one… I got a crick in my neck trying to move into a place that I would like.

I know, honesty is not a good policy. But you have a good enough grade point average, and with all of your extra credits, you still have a 4.o+ average.

And, You get even more credit now that the “Faux Snow” is gone.

“Ginchy”

Staff
Member
15 years ago

I took the snow off the blog just for you Ernie but I don’t promise not to take sideways photos any more;>

Ernie's Place (Branscomb)
Guest

Just don’t stop taking photo’s!!!

Ernie's Place (Branscomb)
Guest

(Stupid apostrophe!)

Bonnie Rolandelli
Guest
15 years ago

It reminds me of a Geode!