Category: Foto Friday Fun

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by nine readers including travels from the Northwest to the Southwest with some South African animals thrown in.

Sherry chose #7346.  This giant 3-4 foot long tortoise hung out in the campground at Gamka Mountain Nature Reserve in South Africa during my March 2014 visit.  Signs everywhere reminded to check under your vehicle before starting off.

Diane and Nigel chose #1303.  I love curvy mountain drives like the Cedar Canyon Highway 14 through the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah.  A favorite route between Bryce Canyon and Cedar City for shopping and maybe a stop at Cedar Breaks National Monument along the way.

Melissa chose #111, one of five in a panorama.  Cave Creek flowing past my camp-hostess site on the Siskiyou National Forest only four miles from my Ranger job at Oregon Caves during the summer of 2007.

Yogi chose #2019.  Sunset and monsoon are a perfect combination seen from the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

Rita chose #7373.  Nature is the best artist when sculpting sandstone as seen somewhere near the upper Buckskin trail in southern Utah.  These are ancient sand dunes with cross-bedding, cross-cutting, and mineral-filled dikes.

Jo chose #4038 “2019 x 2”.  And she gets x 2 Hammerkops seen at Kruger National Park, a bird I’m sure she’s familiar with.  But for those birders who want to see what I’d call exotic birds, because they live in South Africa then check out this link.

Sallie and Bill chose #818, one of five in a panorama.  Vermillion Cliffs parallels SR89A in northern Arizona between Lee’s Ferry and House Rock Valley at the eastern foot of the Kaibab Plateau.  The original route was called the “Honeymoon Trail” for Mormons headed to Salt Lake City to get married.

Lisa chose #2776.  This sunset shot over Grand Canyon was taken from the Transept Trail on the North Rim 9-29-10.

Doris chose #0317.  This late afternoon shot across canyon to snowy Humphrey Peak was taken from the North Rim Lodge before that side of Grand Canyon was open for 2015.

My choice this week from one of many delightful sunsets seen from my current yard still on BLM Darby Well Road near Ajo, Arizona.  I’m safe and hope to get some propane in town to keep me going.  I’m in a good place to practice social distancing and I hope you are too.  Let me know how you’re doing.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by 10 readers including elephants, Grand Canyon, two panoramas, and lots of clouds because I love clouds.

Diane and Nigel chose #603, a place they know.  My first visit to South Africa in March 2010, we took several days exploring Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve as a marvelous introduction to the ‘veld’ landscape including this panoramic view at God’s Window.

Doris chose #2354.  Toroweap offers an iconic view looking 3000 feet straight down into the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.  Yet it’s also a rather narrow area of the canyon and this shot is looking across during the late light of the day.

Jo chose #7000.  As she’s been ill, I’m sending healing sunrays as seen from Cape Royal on the North Rim Grand Canyon National Park.  (My favorite this week.)

Jeff chose #1948, “the year San Felipe’s Bar Miramar opened.”  Where he’s probably sipping margaritas.  I’ve been known to sip a few Prickly Pear Margaritas on the North Rim’s lodge veranda where this shot was taken but not when under early morning light.

Rita chose #7563.  My favorite animal, who I could watch all day and that would be possible at the waterholes in Addo Elephant National Park.

Jennifer chose #2020.  Although I am mostly a landscape photographer I am also a nepholographer because I am fascinated by clouds.  Taken in Kirkland, Arizona 2014.

Sherry chose #742, a three-shot panorama.  Another South African stop after the above God’s Window was the Three Rondavels overlook.  Houses and chalets are often called Rondavels taking after cone-topped cylindrical shapes in nature.

Melissa chose #7, a scanned image from March 1975.  Growing up in the west suburbs of Chicago, Illinois I am thankful for forest preserves and state parks where I played in nature.  Starve Rock State Park along the Illinois River offered forest and tiny canyons with waterfalls and creeks.  Beautiful in all seasons.

Yogi chose #1824, the year in American history of the Corrupt Bargain when an ancestor of mine was elected president.  Go ahead, look that up.  After you look down on these clouds that swirled at our feet when hiking in the Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa in 2010.

Lisa chose #9005.  More low clouds, this time at sunset over the Widforss Plateau from the North Rim Lodge Grand Canyon National Park.  Rangers get paid in sunsets.

My choices: from the last morning on the Kofa compared to first morning at Darby where I am now waiting out the rain.

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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features images chosen by seven readers including lots of green and orange, South African Gemsboks, and my last Yarnell sunset.

Liberalwarrior chose #1918, “a reference to the 1918 Pandemic.”  In my mind, viruses come and go all the time and I’m just trying to stay away from peopley places.  If in South Africa, I might hike into the Drakensburg Mountains where people are few, but views are magnificent.  I am not making light of this but refuse to live in fear.

Doris chose #792.  Whenever I cross Navajo Bridge I stop and look for Condors but also enjoy the interesting view looking down into the Colorado River below the walking bridge.  Sometimes, the flash of muddy water can be seen in the flow.

Rita chose #639.  One of several abandoned Native American structures to be seen at Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.

Jo chose #4800.  My favorite monsoon view over Grand Canyon from Crazy Jug Point.

Diane and Nigel chose #2902.  Having met Bill they know he’s a calm mannered man.  I was impressed he kept his cool when the clutch blew in his truck and it had to be towed out of the sand dunes.

Sallie and Bill chose #2989.  From the same incident as above.

Melissa chose #8795.  One of the best places to see wildlife on safari is by a waterhole.  This shot of the Gemsboks was taken through a windshield at Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa during my last trip in March, 2014.

My choice while recently labeling photos from April 2019.  My last sunset from Berta’s little house in Yarnell.  The place became a part of me having spent at least part of winters there for 15 years.  And I took, and shared, a lot of sunset shots over those rocky Weaver Mountains.

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