signed: Vinz Clortho
Posted on 12/01/2011 12:58:34 PM PST by Winstons Julia
Ben Canales has astounding skills as a night photographer, capturing the child-like wonder and awe of our world as we stare up at the stars. When he was younger, he lived in an urban area where a starry night means maybe seeing a maximum of 20 stars. Now he lives on the West Coast “nearby some very dark, much less light-polluted night skies. It’s been a thrill and a treasured experience to look up and see a literal field of diamonds in the stars above.” Besides photographing the stars for personal enjoyment, Ben does it for us so we can feel the wonder of the sky as if we are standing under it ourselves and gazing up. He snaps glittering starry shots in amazing natural landscapes and also captures the night sky nearby abandoned houses way out in the middle of nowhere. He climbs mountains and pitches a tent far away from civilization to better bring us these amazing images of the stars.
for later
Beautiful Photos.
Beautiful
very beautiful photos.
Beautiful, Winstons Julia. I’m pinging SunkenCiv... I think he would get a kick out of this as well.
signed: Vinz Clortho
For those not from the Pacific Northwest some of the photos may seem odd.
There is a replica of Stonehenge located in Columbia River gorge. Some of the photos were of that installation.
There is a installation of galloping horses somewhere near or in the Columbia Gorge. I’ve never been to see it, but understand there are a number of rusting metal horses erected there.
The rusting hulk on the beach is located on the Clatsop sandspit in Oregon. It was the Peter Iredale:
Per wikipedia - “The Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. It was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel. Wreckage is still visible, making it a popular tourist attraction as one of the most accessible shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Pacific.”
A lot of nice photos. I really enjoyed them.
For those not from the Pacific Northwest some of the photos may seem odd.
There is a replica of Stonehenge located in Columbia River gorge. Some of the photos were of that installation.
There is a installation of galloping horses somewhere near or in the Columbia Gorge. I’ve never been to see it, but understand there are a number of rusting metal horses erected there.
The rusting hulk on the beach is located on the Clatsop sandspit in Oregon. It was the Peter Iredale:
Per wikipedia - “The Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River. It was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel. Wreckage is still visible, making it a popular tourist attraction as one of the most accessible shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Pacific.”
A lot of nice photos. I really enjoyed them.
Eh, I heard that the gatekeeper has an iron heart with a rusted lock.
Wow. Thank you.
Excellent...sent to link to family and friends. Thanks.
bkmk
I only go by the picture in the article....Iron hearts and rusted locks be damned.
Many of the photos look like HDR types with contrasts squeezed in away to attempt how the human eye perceives and deals with contrasts! Very pretty results!
From the picture it doesn't look like much of a replica to me.
ML/NJ
I agree - it doesn’t resemble the original, as when it was built the purpose of Stonehenge, England, wasn’t yet known.
“A full-scale replica of England’s famous neolithic Stonehenge and built as a tribute to the local soldiers of Klickitat County , Washington who lost their lives in World War I.”
“Built by Sam Hill above the Columbia River Gorge near Biggs, Washington. Hill was a Quaker pacifist and a legendary road-builder. He was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica to remind us that ‘’humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war.’’ The location now also includes monuments to the soldiers of local Klickitat County who died in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam.”
“...It originally stood at the center of Maryhill, Washington, and everything burned down except the Stonehenge; history notes that there was no water system that could have enabled the fire to be put out. The monument was dedicated in 1918 but it wasn’t finished until twelve years later. Sam Hill died in 1931, living just long enough to see his Stonehenge completed.”
This per: http://www.pbase.com/devonshire/stonehenge
Penetrating oil helps to open a rusted lock.
There may have been an anointing ... but it seems like that heartlock’s stuck.
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