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USA – Natural Monuments

28 Wednesday Aug 2013

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Arizona, Canon 1100D, Carlsbad Carvern, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Navajo, New Mexico, New Orleans, Photo Essay, Photography, Utah

For part five of my adventures in the United States I decided to put together all the really awesome nature shots.

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The Bayou in Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans.

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Native to the swamps is the alligator; a strangely majestic, dinosaur-era creature. Although they were pretty big, they have nothing on the salt water crocs in the Northern Territory.

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Inside Carlsbad Caverns. These were huge underground structures, lit beautifully and filled with people.

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Monument Valley. A collection of huge red stone structures rising out of the desert in Navajo country.

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It’s very hard to get a good idea of just how big these things are, and how unnervingly silent it is to stand amongst them.

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The Grand Canyon, from a helicopter, with the Colorado River running along the bottom.

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A rainbow over the canyon. The weather was quite beautiful on the chopper ride, we saw the rain sweeping over the canyon, leaving a patchwork of light and dark spots all over the rocks.

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There is no way to explain to someone who has not been there what it’s like to stand on the edge of the canyon and see nothing else all the way to the horizon. The sheer vastness of the landscape was like nothing I’ve ever experienced.

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USA – Arty

18 Sunday Aug 2013

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Adventure, Arizona, Brisbane, California, Canon 1100D, Maryland, Monument Valley, New Mexico, New Orleans, New York, Photo Essay, Photography, San Diego, Santa Fe, St Louis Cemetery #1, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington

The third in my series of photo essays from my travels in the USA. I like to think of these as the ‘arty’ shots; here I put less emphasis on what the photo is of, and more emphasis on the aesthetically pleasing elements captured in the image.
Given this, I’m not going to tell you a story about these photos, I’ll just tell you where they were taken, and you can make up the story that goes with them.

IMG_5711 Southbank, Brisbane.

IMG_6218 Battery Maritime Building, Manhattan.

IMG_6213 Battery Maritime Building, Manhattan.

IMG_6357 Washington D.C.

IMG_6532 Wytheville, Virginia.

IMG_6553 Nashville, Tennessee.

IMG_7073 St Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans.

IMG_7247 Somewhere along the road in Texas.

IMG_7484 Santa Fe, New Mexico.

IMG_7616 Monument Valley, it’s either Utah or Arizona, the state line runs through the whole area.

IMG_8063 San Diego, California.

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