I love these pictures, Pluck. I don’t know where you’re headed, but if you come back through Amarillo, check out the Palo Duro canyon just south of town. Bonus, very cool museum in Canyon. But, it’s a cool canyon.
Those ravens! Gorgeous. I actually find their song beautiful — I hear them best when I’m out hunting and one glides overhead with that particular liquid call that I only seem to hear when I’m out alone in the woods like that.
It’s a hard thing to hang onto your humanity when so many can’t help but unload fear and rage. I appreciate you.
Awesome images, Thomas. I can only imagine the views and photos that your must have seen and taken. I really like that image of the horizon fiery red. Incredible.
That's great to hear that ravens are part of the habitat as well. They're such a fascinating bird and just be having the time of their lives living and flying in such a vast area as the Grand Canyon. Definitely a place on my bucket list.
Beautiful photos and excellent post, Thomas. Made me think back to some days I spent at the Grand Canyon earlier this year, sounds like we saw a lot of the same stuff--though I did not go for a Pink Jeep tour, despite being in a country of adept grifters.
I did think of Ed Abbey quite a bit, how he wasn't wrong but also wasn't quite right. Regardless of ability to walk or bike, people deserve to see that place and others like it.
700 photos is actually quite reserved. Maybe it's because I keep mine at 20 photos/second even when I'm not taking birds, but I ended up with so many beautiful pictures to delete. I birded quite a bit in the area, but the ravens were indubitably special. Thank you for sharing your photos and experience.
Thank you, James. I was trying to record my trip, but not spend all my time looking through a lens. Philosopher Eric Fromm wrote about how we alienate ourselves from the moment by focusing on seeing it through the camera—he was referring to the era of "slideshows" that came about in the '50s after the Interstate Highway System and automobiles gave Americans more access to their National Parks—and it stuck with me. Yes, take photos... but remember that they will only ever be an artistic rendering of the experience, a curated and cropped section of a memory that can never be truly captured.
Fromm is spot on. There were times at the Grand Canyon--and these happen elsewhere too--where I decided it was best just not to bring my camera. I find it easier to leave landscapes and scenery to be experienced and not captured than to do so with birds.
Birds feel kind of like outdoor Pokemon "gotta catch [photograph] em all." I'll sometimes have my camera in case I see a bird, end up thinking oh what the hell and taking pictures of everything I see--and with the bird settings, so 20 frames/second.
The answer is to apply Fromm to everything . Even if photographing birds feels like an act of collection, it's merely a collection of artistic renderings of moments that might've been better experienced without a camera.
I love these pictures, Pluck. I don’t know where you’re headed, but if you come back through Amarillo, check out the Palo Duro canyon just south of town. Bonus, very cool museum in Canyon. But, it’s a cool canyon.
Well, I was planning on a road trip around the country at one point. If I do it, I'll try to swing by.
Those ravens! Gorgeous. I actually find their song beautiful — I hear them best when I’m out hunting and one glides overhead with that particular liquid call that I only seem to hear when I’m out alone in the woods like that.
It’s a hard thing to hang onto your humanity when so many can’t help but unload fear and rage. I appreciate you.
Thanks, I'm trying. And I do enjoy their gronks.
Awesome images, Thomas. I can only imagine the views and photos that your must have seen and taken. I really like that image of the horizon fiery red. Incredible.
That's great to hear that ravens are part of the habitat as well. They're such a fascinating bird and just be having the time of their lives living and flying in such a vast area as the Grand Canyon. Definitely a place on my bucket list.
Beautiful photos and excellent post, Thomas. Made me think back to some days I spent at the Grand Canyon earlier this year, sounds like we saw a lot of the same stuff--though I did not go for a Pink Jeep tour, despite being in a country of adept grifters.
I did think of Ed Abbey quite a bit, how he wasn't wrong but also wasn't quite right. Regardless of ability to walk or bike, people deserve to see that place and others like it.
700 photos is actually quite reserved. Maybe it's because I keep mine at 20 photos/second even when I'm not taking birds, but I ended up with so many beautiful pictures to delete. I birded quite a bit in the area, but the ravens were indubitably special. Thank you for sharing your photos and experience.
Thank you, James. I was trying to record my trip, but not spend all my time looking through a lens. Philosopher Eric Fromm wrote about how we alienate ourselves from the moment by focusing on seeing it through the camera—he was referring to the era of "slideshows" that came about in the '50s after the Interstate Highway System and automobiles gave Americans more access to their National Parks—and it stuck with me. Yes, take photos... but remember that they will only ever be an artistic rendering of the experience, a curated and cropped section of a memory that can never be truly captured.
Fromm is spot on. There were times at the Grand Canyon--and these happen elsewhere too--where I decided it was best just not to bring my camera. I find it easier to leave landscapes and scenery to be experienced and not captured than to do so with birds.
Birds feel kind of like outdoor Pokemon "gotta catch [photograph] em all." I'll sometimes have my camera in case I see a bird, end up thinking oh what the hell and taking pictures of everything I see--and with the bird settings, so 20 frames/second.
The answer is to apply Fromm to everything . Even if photographing birds feels like an act of collection, it's merely a collection of artistic renderings of moments that might've been better experienced without a camera.