My thoughts are with National Park staff and National Forest staff during these absolutely ridiculous times.

#nationalparks #nationalforests #publiclands #wilderness #tahoma #mountrainiernationalpark #cascades #photography #landscapephotography

The Ecstasy of Gold

A ribbon of larches in the Sawtooth Wilderness Area, Washington State

#larches #nature #naturephotography #mountains #landscapephotography #cascades #trees #autumn #gold

Hanoko Arasaka

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Her Majesty

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Something a little different from my Nature pictures. Virtual photo of a Porsche 550 from the game Forza Motorsport. She looks great in black and white!

#porsche #virtualphotography #xboxseriesx #motorsport #blackandwhitephoto #forza

Tahoma

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I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

Wallace Stevens

#mountains #nature #highsierra #sierranevada #blackandwhitephotography #alpine #lake #water #naturephotography

"There’s a creation, a creating force. But whatever it is, is in everything we see. It’s in that log, in that stone. It’s just the power. And I’ve had many experiences with it. Certain circumstances bring it out, which all the mystics know. That is part of our Zen training too. It’s called an "opening." … For a second, you see what the world is. It is a whole other way of seeing, which is horrible, terrifying, and extraordinary and a great blessing to have."

Peter Matthiessen

#mountains #nature #patagonia #blackandwhitephotography #mystic #petermatthiessen #blessing

"It is all very beautiful and magical here---a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake it into you. The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago."

Ansel Adams

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