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This is the view of Sunol Regional Wilderness from Goat Rock. It was a bit of a hike to get up there, and got into the 90s when we where there. My batteries did not like the heat any more than I did, it seemed.
You can see that it would be easy, but painful, to go down the steep side of this rock. This shot shows some old goats up on this rock: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21595 This shot shows the "easy way" to get to the top: http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=21452 I am not sure why there are some chunks missing - the sky seemed perfectly intact when I took the photos. Maybe I will figure this out an repost when I do. |
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Coca Cola no doubt intended for this park to be used by business types, or perhaps for the students of the local university, Georgia Tech. Alas, Atlanta does not take good care of its citizens and the park is used as a place to sleep for the many homeless. And Georgia Tech students are kept from the park by a fence, or perhaps the residents of the park are kept from Georgia Tech. |
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The traffic never stops:
"The utter failure to create any meaningful pedestrian environment defines the heart of Atlanta today. Every bad idea in the service of contemporary urban design came together here with a public attitude that can be summed up as 'the outside doesn't matter.'" - James Howard Kunstler |
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I think there are at least seven parking lots in this one image not counting the street parking. This isn't anything amazing anymore, this is Atlanta.
I was trying to take fotos of the Dalai Lama giving a talk in the park, but - true to fashion - me and my camera gear were taken to be terrorists attempting to assassinate the Tibetan spiritual leader in exile. I cannot count the times I have been taken to be a terrorist in the US with only camera equipment. Thanks for the gigapan robot, maybe Atlanta isnt ready for it though. |
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I love the sterile glow and the friendly welcome from the drones within. "Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923 |
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This view of the Mississippi River valley was taken at sunset from the crest of King's Bluff in southeastern Minnesota. Just right of center is neighboring Queen's Bluff, and to its left Mississippi River islands, backwater channels and, in the background, the bluffs on the Wisconsin side of the river. Oak and hickory cover much of the visible bluff-top landscape and surround an open area lacking vegation on the steep flanks of Queens Bluff. This is a rare priairie ecosystem remnant called goat prairie. Occuring only on sunny southwest bluffland slopes and one of the few places in Minnesota where rattlesnakes can be found, goat prairies need periodic fires to keep cedars and other vegetation from encroaching. Kings and Queens bluff are mangaged as Scientific and Natural Areas by the Minnesota DNR, and their goat prairies are occasionally subjected to controlled burns. |
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Wish I could upload sound... I recorded the machines which were screaming something along the lines of, "Do not pay anyone claiming to be a parking attendant." But as the gates had long since been broken off and it was around 7AM on a Sunday, it made for a beautiful situation. |
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henri lefebvre eat your heart out |
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It seems that the traffic never stops, so there's this constant hum-hum-droning sound. But the picture doesn't really convey that so well. |