Photo of the Day - October 2022

[tizeye]

Fun day at the beach yesterday.

 

[mtbdudex]

The year is 1981. My father and my two brothers and I went on a driving tour from our home in the SF Bay Area around the Western US (dad: driving, us: touring). Our easternmost stop was Mount Rushmore, and while there we heard that there was another monument being created: an entire mountain was being carved into a monument to Lakota hero Crazy Horse. Neat!

So we went looking for it. And when we found it, it was…a mountain. No different than any other mountain. No face carved into it, no recognizable features. Just a mountain. Except, there was a hole right through it. You could see the sunlight going right through it. We were told that that hole was part of the gap between the outstretched arm of Crazy Horse and neck of his horse. But other than that, nothing.

The year is 2012. My daughter and I are driving from a family reunion in Palm Springs, California home to Minnesota (me: driving, daughter: touring). The High Desert, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and more. Near Mount Rushmore we find the still-underway Crazy Horse monument:

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It’s been thirty years, and they have made some progress! (The hole in the mountain is still there, and has been serving as a quick way for sculptors to get from one side to the other.)

Love your picture and the story!!
We did something similar, in 1978 we did a 5 week out west camping vacation, visited Mt Rushmore my parents and us 5 siblings.
2014 I take my family of 5 on a 3 week out west camping vacation, we visit Mt Rushmore and Crazy horse. I have this piece from crazy horse on my work desk, took picture just now.

Took my new then Canon 70D on this trip

 

[mtbdudex]

From this weekends visit to my
2 MTU college students (in da UP of Michigan) , we went to a on campus Jazz concert Saturday night, with accompanying dancers. For 90 minutes I was transported back to a much simpler time.

 

[lkalliance]

Love your picture and the story!!
We did something similar, in 1978 we did a 5 week out west camping vacation, visited Mt Rushmore my parents and us 5 siblings.
2014 I take my family of 5 on a 3 week out west camping vacation, we visit Mt Rushmore and Crazy horse. I have this piece from crazy horse on my work desk, took picture just now.

Took my new then Canon 70D on this trip

That's tremendous! The photo of the tunnel through the rock...is that one of the many tunnels on the approach to Mount Rushmore that "frames" the monument, or is that the actual tunnel through the mountain at Crazy Horse? There were (are?) van tours that could take you all the way up to Crazy Horse's face, but we did not take advantage at the time. Did you do anything else in the area?

 

[lkalliance]

Love your picture and the story!!
We did something similar, in 1978 we did a 5 week out west camping vacation, visited Mt Rushmore my parents and us 5 siblings.
2014 I take my family of 5 on a 3 week out west camping vacation, we visit Mt Rushmore and Crazy horse. I have this piece from crazy horse on my work desk, took picture just now.

Took my new then Canon 70D on this trip

That original 1981 trip we did something we just couldn't do now: we did the whole thing with no reservations except one: we had to reserve a spot for the mule trip down the Grand Canyon. Other than that, five weeks, no motel reservations. Vegas, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Yellowstone, none of it. No way that is possible now. I wonder, if my daughter were to someday have her own child and take her on the same trip...if there are things that we did in 2012 that she would tell my grandchild, "Yeah, my dad and I did this, and if you believe it we [insert thing here that will be impossible later]."

 

[citysnaps]

SFMOMA, in San Francisco.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

Maple and Mountain Ash in Fernie, BC
Lumix ZS200 camera.

 

[OldMacs4Me]

The year is 1981. My father and my two brothers and I went on a driving tour from our home in the SF Bay Area around the Western US (dad: driving, us: touring). Our easternmost stop was Mount Rushmore, and while there we heard that there was another monument being created: an entire mountain was being carved into a monument to Lakota hero Crazy Horse. Neat!

So we went looking for it. And when we found it, it was…a mountain. No different than any other mountain. No face carved into it, no recognizable features. Just a mountain. Except, there was a hole right through it. You could see the sunlight going right through it. We were told that that hole was part of the gap between the outstretched arm of Crazy Horse and neck of his horse. But other than that, nothing.

The year is 2012. My daughter and I are driving from a family reunion in Palm Springs, California home to Minnesota (me: driving, daughter: touring). The High Desert, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and more. Near Mount Rushmore we find the still-underway Crazy Horse monument:

2014 I did a major road trip. A friend had told me about the Crazy Horse Monument. I visited Rushmore one day and Crazy Horse the next. Rushmore felt an awful lot like a mausoleum. A monument to what was, and what should be, but sadly is not. I suspect about 95% of the visitors to Rushmore emerge with nearly identical sets of photos. The cafeteria had little to nothing going for it and I chose not to eat there.

Crazy horse was different. At the pace they're going it will never be finished, certainly not in my lifetime. What I found there was a vibrant community, friendly guides, a vision, and a restaurant that demanded my attention. Would love to get back there next year, if the madness has subsided to the point where I can count on border crossing rules being the same for at least 3 weeks.

 

[Snowlover]

 

[Matsamoto]

Shot taken from westcoast Sweden in late August 2009.
Nikon D40X, Nikkor 18-55 mm
55 mm - f/5.6, iso 800, 1/400s

 

[NameRequired]

We have 6 dogs, and these two tiny sisters are by far the worst 😂

 

[katbel]

Smiling alpaca, kind of

 

[lkalliance]

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Smiling alpaca, kind of

Oh that little rascal...

No, wait, that's Alfalfa. Never mind.

 

[AllergyDoc]

Moon over the mountain.

 

[fauxtog]

 

[macguru212]

from the left: Lee Harris, Guy Pratt, Nick Mason, Gary Kemp, and Dom Beken performing very early Pink Floyd on the Saucerful of Secrets Tour.
*Nick is 78 and still plays like a teenager*

 

[Clix Pix]

 

[rjjacobson]

 

[CK Williams]

 

[Steven-iphone]

Self portrait spirits

 

[jazz1]

 

[inkmich]

Barley Pond by Lance Randall, on Flickr

 

[mollyc]

I got my Yashica Mat 124 back yesterday; the glow seems to be cured. It was very overcast today, so maybe not the perfect test but I'm pretty sure the cleaning of the optic worked. Also tried my hand at developing with real chemicals today instead of a monobath solution. It appears to have worked!

Also not sure how I feel about bw for fall images, but here we have it. I haven't worked up the nerve to try color processing yet, and I wanted quick results from the first roll back. Shot on Ilford HP5+

 

[Steven-iphone]

I got my Yashica Mat 124 back yesterday; the glow seems to be cured. It was very overcast today, so maybe not the perfect test but I'm pretty sure the cleaning of the optic worked. Also tried my hand at developing with real chemicals today instead of a monobath solution. It appears to have worked!

Also not sure how I feel about bw for fall images, but here we have it. I haven't worked up the nerve to try color processing yet, and I wanted quick results from the first roll back. Shot on Ilford HP5+

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Quite a lovely image and chemical processing. Post processing too?

 

[mollyc]

Quite a lovely image and chemical processing. Post processing too?

I convert in Negative Lab Pro, which is a plug in for Lightroom and is not just a flat conversion. So yes?