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This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 6 images chosen by readers from my photo archives.  Our meme number for this week is 6387.  Please join in by digging into your archives and sharing a story.  And check out the other posts linked to the Foto Friday Fun meme.

Jonker chose #6387, which will be this week’s photo index number.  Taken in August during monsoon season, watching a storm cross the canyon and wondering if we’ll actually get any rain.  I zoomed in on Isis temple through the saddle between Widforss Plateau to the right and Oza Butte to the left.  Mid-afternoon sun highlights the walls of the south rim.  Light and shadow play provide endless changes to the shapes in Grand Canyon.

Bibi chose #6060, “like my vision, I think.”  She does have an eagle eye, and that’s the kind of view I got from the Suspension Bridge trail at Tsitsikamma National Park.  This immense and diverse coastal park offers many more trails than I hiked, a swimming beach to the right of the white float in the middle, tidal pools to explore, and this building houses reception, restaurant and shop with souvenirs and a few groceries.  I’ve stayed at nice chalets and camped and hope to go back.

Diane chose #7771 which happens to be one of many shots taken through the RV window at sunset through the trees at the edge of Transept Canyon.  Some nights I’m just too tired to walk to the rim.  But even then, photos never seem to do it justice.

Sherry chose #6753, a place I know she’d enjoy hiking on the Waterfall Trail also at Tsitsikamma National Park.  It proved to be a challenging and wonderful hike, but not for the feint hearted.  This reminds me of a stairway to heaven.

Yogi chose #1621, or rather random dot org chose it for him.  Because his number is part of a panorama shot I kind of cheated and gave him #1622 instead.  I know he’ll understand.  Besides I didn’t want to show you just a piece of Deer Lake in early June when it was only the size of a large mud puddle.  Monsoon rain brought it up to the next ring-line out from the water.  The lake is fenced to keep cattle and bison-hybrids out while allowing wildlife in.

Elaine chose #1254 which is a close up of a hoodoo in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah.  I’m a pareidolia so see a funny face in the shadow.  Do you?

My choices this week, because I couldn’t decide on just one and am catching up through September, includes rain falling in Grand Canyon seen from Paraswampitts Point…

…and  looking for fall colors on two separate hikes along the Ken Patrick trail.

Please share your own #6387 photo and story by adding your post’s link below and linking back to Foto Friday Fun 80.  You can also leave a number between 01 and 9990 in a comment for next week’s Foto Friday Fun.  First commenter will chose next week’s photo index number.

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Capturing the present for future memories of the past

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 6 images chosen by readers from my photo archives.  Our meme number for this week is 8888.  Please join in by digging into your archives and sharing a story.  And check out the other posts linked to the Foto Friday Fun meme.

Bibi chose this week’s #8888 because, “I like how the number looks.”  As I liked how the daytime moon hung over this dune at Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.

Yogi’s #510 comes “from my good friends at Random.org.”  My good shadow friend was enthralled by this view from Sunset overlook into Arch Creek Canyon at Cedar Breaks National Monument.

Diane chose #8881, also from the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, this Blackbacked Jackal looked quite comfortable and in no hurry to get out of the road.

Sherry chose #7430, “Since it is 7:43 here on the east coast.”  Amazingly enough this shot of a Fiscal Shrike was taken in Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa at 7:30 am.  Talk about coincidence.

Elaine chose #2222 which brings a far off view across the Esplande layer of Grand Canyon from Toroweap.

Sallie chose #74 because “I celebrated that birthday in the Yukon Territory this year.  Bill said he would take me to an exotic foreign country to celebrate.”  How about some Roman ruins in Frankfurt Germany for exotic and foreign.  I saw this in 2010 during a long layover on my way to South Africa in 2010.

My choice this week is the only successful still shot I have ever captured of lightning, and I took it through the RV window.  I used video for lightning in the past but the stills were very small.  Don’t have a lightning trigger or finger.  Did take about 20 shots with no lightning and this was the second in a double flash.  I’ve heard to watch for lightning on the edges of storms.  I was mostly lucky.

Please share your own #8888 photo and story by adding your link below and linking back to Foto Friday Fun 78.  You can also leave a number between 01 and 9990 in a comment for next week’s Foto Friday Fun.  First commenter will chose next week’s photo index number.

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Capturing the present for future memories of the past

This week’s Foto Friday Fun features 5 images chosen by readers from my photo archives.  Our meme number for this week is 1500 as last week marked my 1500th post.  Please join in with your own post and link below with a #1500 photo from your archives.  And check out the other posts linked to the Foto Friday Fun meme.

My #1500 photo for this week is the view across canyon towards the North Rim from Plateau Point trail.  During my second rim to rim Grand Canyon hike in 2009 with fellow Rangers we hiked to this point from our Indian Garden camp for sunset.

The Guy chose #6473 which is only one of three images from a panorama taken in August from the North Rim.  You can see the entire photo, and a few others, at the post Wonderful skies at Grand Canyon.

Diane chose #1550.  When visiting my childhood haunts during a high school class reunion a few years ago I had to drive further west to see farmlands that used to stretch forever across the grain belt of Illinois.

Sherry chose #07 which takes us back to 1992 where I began my Ranger career at Mt St Helens.  Spirit Lake recovery occurred so rapidly even scientists were dismayed when fish returned only five years after the 1980 eruption.  I felt honored to see daily regrowth in the ‘blast zone’ and know which way the wind blew by the pile up of dead trees in Spirit Lake.

Yogi chose #6825, “courtesy of Random.org.”  I’m really laughing over this because it gave me the same number when I checked out the site.  However, I’m sure you’ll never see anything the same as the dimensional paper tapestries created by Sue Britt, the North Rim’s Artist in Residence during August 2014.  Her paper selections are reminiscent of an exclusive fabric store and she weaves their colors to form an Art telling story.

Elaine chose #1878 which brings yet another laugh and memory of walking the River trail at Zion National Park with Pat in early June.  I asked this stranger if he had to raft standing up but he didn’t get it.

My (second) choice this week taken last Thursday from the Grand Lodge after attending another Artist in Residence’s program.  Stewart Thomson creates custom jewelry from the inspiration of images.  So I also share a photo of one of his pendant inspirations showing an Australian Boulder Opal framed in gold.  Think I’ll start look at rocks with a new eye.

Please share your own #1500 photo and story by adding your link below and linking back to Foto Friday Fun 78.  You can also leave a number between 01 and 9990 in a comment for next week’s Foto Friday Fun.  First commenter will chose next week’s photo index number.

Do you have a favorite from this week?

Capturing the present for future memories of the past