This is actually the first time I've taken a look at this thread. These photos are really beautiful.

I took a trip to the mountains about a week ago and took some photos for the first time with my digital camera. Unfortunately I'm not home at the moment but I will share a few that I took with my cellphone until I have access to my camera again.

edit: dreadmeat your goats were hardcore (or maybe just dumb)!

ha ha they were super hard core and staunch as, we'd come up the driveway and they wouldn't move, they'd put their horns down and try to butt the car.
our manky old horn-goat 'jim' used to piss all over himself too the dirty fucker, the chick goats really dug him though

goats eat all sorts of weird shit, you remember seeing them eat tin cans and old boots and stuff in cartoons? it's based on truth ha ha
they like to stand on stuff too, they'll even stand on each other if there's nothing else around, they were a constant source of amusement.

Haha, girls like it dirty.

Yeah, I know and I remember various mean cartoon goats from my youth. I've seen my fair share of goats in my life. There are many here and I just stop the car, go into the field and observe them freely.

Some pics from my short vacation at the Grand Teton National Park and the Yellowstone National Park:

Grand Teton Range


Grand Teton Park


Jackson Lake


Cute marmot


Old Faithful Geyser


Death by volcanic sulphur


Weird dead tree


The Grand Prismatic Spring




Acid forest @ Mammoth Springs


A buffalo herd


Baratheon emblem


Petrified tree


A motherfucking black BEAR


Yogi and Boo-Boo?


Best traffic jam ever:


The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. If anyone knows what that white patch is (snow? limestone deposits? wat), I'd very much like to know.

Sweeeet. Those are great, Morrigan. My eyes crave such focal lengths.

Great pictures, Morri!



I'm adoring this cute little creature before ortab does!



Limestone deposits.

Someone told me it was snow, another one said limestone deposits. At first I was leaning more towards the latter, but up close it really did look like snow... hard to say, really. Are you sure?

this is some national geographic stuff in here, that marmot would make a great toque
i'm joking, feed it some pine nuts! those white trees are excellent.
re WHITE LUMP OF STUFF to me it looks like there is some vapour/steam coming off it, it could be a reflection though, the white trees had it too.

ha ha yaks or highland cattle?
i really like that photo, do you have a coloured one?

that'd be snow; the mist you see in the pics is from spray coming off the whitewater. The moisture and lower temps by the water (plus, it's away from direct sunlight) have probably kept the snowdrift from melting after all this time.

Yellowstone and Grand Teton are both within a day's drive of me but yet I've never been to either place. Now I'm all syched to go!

Wonderful shots




sorry, only these and some more close ups;

Beautiful photos Morrigan! Love them.

A bunch of new ones from me, from my walks yesterday and today:







And here is my lovely home:

holy shit man, nice! mossy rocks, misty mountains, caves, rivers, streams and woody glades are my favourite types of scenery
might have to wallpaper some of those, on the computer not my house, well probably not my house...

Nice photos!
ForestCorpse, this one is ala Negura Bunget!

Thanks a lot again, very appreciated!

dreadmeat: Glad you liked them, and you just described my favorite photo types to,hehe.

I continue with some new ones from yesterday, Black/White:

















Normal summer weather here in Norway

Very nice



Blimey



Looks like Godspeed You! Black Emperor art



More photo's please, the last lot disappeared!

Believe it or not that picture I took was also (sort of) a typical winter day down under.

Sorry but...

http://host.fotki.com/



I'll need to upload lots of photos again!

More photos, this time from my home stomping grounds (Southwestern Idaho/Eastern Oregon)
I'm having some problems with photobucket, so hopefully this will work.


A little Garden of Eden spot in the foothills of the Owyhee Mountains. This 40' waterfall and pool is a popular swimming spot, for good reason: This place is so badass that if you could imagine what the birthplace of Dio, Ozzy, Lemmy, and Chicago Bears first round draft pick Shea McClellin would look like, this would be it. It was 100 degrees this day and needless to say, I jumped in shortly after taking this (and incidently, Shea McClellin is the only one of the aforementioned people who WAS born here. His home town of Marsing is just a couple miles away- you sports trivia guys would appreciate that.)


One other thing the Marsing area foothills are known for, is that you can find some truely fucking wierd ass rocks. I mean, what kind of twisted genius would come up with rocks that looked like this??


Another lovely example of local geology at work. A sick joke of geology, perhaps. What the hey is this anyway, petrified mucous?? (it's actually some type of agate/silica formation, apparently)


Lair of the Owyhee Mountain Mortiis-faced trolls.


The summit of South Mountain in the Owyhee range. There was a lot of silver mined from here. Killer views.


The entrance to Moria. Or actually, it's the entrance to the Laxey Mine, one of hundreds of abandoned mines located throughout the western United States. Lots of silver and gold was taken out of here back in the day. Kind of a cool spot to explore.


Lime iron deposits like this one formed naturally in the silver lode and were removed as tailings. The calcium-iron silica deposits would crystalize into clumps of bladed crystals like this one. Kinda cool looking, if worthless.

Great photos Oxenkiller, I'm also having problems with PhotoBucket




Young(?) damselfly






Them!

Wow, this is a cool thread! I have a TON of pics from various camping trips and hikes I've done. I think I will figure out the best way to upload some later on after I get home..

So much album cover potential here...

the ants = consuming impulse ha ha
that cross-eyed dragonfly cracked me up

sorry for shitty cellphone quality

Cool photos! I climb those Utility poles in the last photo almost every day at work

Some new ones from me:

dude, it's like i'm there

those are some nice mossy rock photos there forestcorpse, the moss in the trees is cool too.
i'm starting to think photographing cool mossy stuff is your job ha ha 'the mossman cometh'

A few of those pictures remind me of Vetusta II - Dialogue with the stars

This Shire horse pulls a barge full of people like it was a paper boat



.. along this river

forestcorpse should be renamed to "mosscorpse". great pics as always.

that horse looks fucking enormous, mindshadow


here are some more Cellphone Quality™ pics at dusk i took today

If everyone is mobile phone pics, I've got some too. The low fi quality can actually have a cool effect sometimes.

Click to view full size

I'd feel guilty for quoting a lot of these photos and hogging up more page space. You lot should number the photos so i can point out the ones i like a lot easier.

But outstanding photos, i would really like to visit all of these places.

Haha thanks for the comments!

The mossman returns, but without mossy photos this time:











And a perfect photo to describe the Norwegian summer:

Taken from my living room

apart from the poor bloke on the horse wearing a noose the first one reminded me of sigh's gallows gallery [the blue cover reissue]

Here are some from the Mojave Desert.

Ridgecrest looking towards Death Valley at Sunrise.




The Final Frontier and the original Planet of the Apes were filmed here.

hey cool! that panoramic one would make a sweet picture for the wall aye, but without all the weird shit on the lens ha ha
the last one looks wicked too, were you on foot or driving? people die out there sometimes don't they?

All of them except the first were taken from my Jeep- which also explains the spots on the panoramic one. Not since I've been living here, but I've heard plenty of stories. Usually they involve some towny wandering off into the desert without any water.

the Mojave Desert looks insane! One of the most intense looking places I've seen, like another planet or something.

This thread further increases my need to get out of where I am. Norway looks fantastic.
My family may or may not be taking some form of camping trip in the fall, may get some pictures then!

There was some story a while back about some Canadian fugitive named George Johnston who hid out in the Mojave Desert for over a year, and somehow survived by breaking into cabins and pilfering campsites. He would escape from persuing agents by outrunning them in 100 degree weather, and just had insane wicked desert survival skills. I don't know if you 've heard about this guy, but I guess he was pretty wily, and had people chasing him out there for over a year.

What sort of creatures do you get in the Mojave Desert?