Grand Canyon Panoramas #2 — Images by kenne
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ”
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above
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Grand Canyon Panoramas #2 1 comment
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Thunder Mountain, Sedona, Arizona (June 15, 2016) — Panorama by kenne
The story goes that Walt Disney, who once had a home in Sedona, was so inspired by the beauty of Thunder Mountain that it became a theme park concept — Big Thunder Mountain. Fact or fiction, Disney did spend time in Sedona and it’s easy to believe that such a creative person had to have been inspired by the Red Rock Country, therefore becoming an influence in a lot of his work.
While in Sedona recently, we went on a backcountry jeep tour taking us behind Thunder Mountain and one of the “fun facts” we were told was Disney and Thunder Mountain — what myths are made from.
— kenne
Thunder Mountain Panorama by kenne
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Grand Canyon Panoramas –#1 1 comment
Grand Canyon Panoramas (June 14, 2016) — Images by kenne
Grand, magnificent Canyon,
Where flows that wild, matchless stream,
That races its way through the mountains,
Where earth in its making is seen:
Where temple, cathedral, and castle,
Minaret, steeple, and dome,
Were carved by the mighty world builders,
From mountains on mountains of stone.
— from “Beauties of the Grand Canyon” by William Wendell Riley
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Elk At Grand Canyon Spring Water Fountain (June 14, 2016) — Photo Essay by kenne
“There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.”
— D. H. Lawrence
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Sedona Red Rock Country Panorama #3 Leave a comment
View South from Mini Masa Vortex at Sunrise (June 15, 2016) — Image by kenne
I am
earth blessed
feeling
the energy run
through
my very soul.
— kenne (5-7-5)
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Salt River Canyon Panoramas 3 comments
Salt River Canyon Panoramas — Images by kenne
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Cactus Wren on Saguaro Cactus Buds — Image by kenne
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A View of the Kosmos 4 comments
“A View of the Kosmos”– Photo-Artistry by kenne
Kosmos
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth and the equilibrium also,
Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider’d the body finds all its organs and parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, inseparable together.
— Walt Whitman
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Coyote Buttes and The Wave 3 comments
Coyote Buttes Panorama (April 2012) — Image by kenne
The Wave (March 2012) — Image by kenne
Coyote Buttes (March 2012) — Image by kenne
The first time I saw images of The Wave was in National Geographic some years ago and concluded if I every had a chance to go I would not pass it up. That chance came in March of 2012. The Wave and Coyote Buttes are located in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona. The hiking conditions in Vermillion Cliffs are harsh and can be very difficult depending on the weather. The trails are poorly marked, so it’s very easy to get lost. Our guide was a hiking friend from Tucson who had hiked the area several times before, so getting lost was not an issue. Click here to see more of my images in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
kenne
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Northern Shoveler Drake At Whitewater Draw 1 comment
Quack!
They waddle round, they do.
They eat all sorts of things,
And then they quack.
By barn and stable and stack
They wander at their will,
But if you go too near
They look at you through black
Small topaz-tinted eyes
And wish you ill.
Triangular and clear
They leave their curious track
In mud at the water’s edge,
And there amid the sedge
And slime they gobble and peer
Saying ‘Quack! quack!’
— from “Ducks” by F.W. Harvey
Northern Shoveler Drake at Whitewater Draw (December 30, 2015) — Images by kenne
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Standing On Thin Ice (Whitewater Draw 12/30/15)– Image by kenne
For the duck
standing on thin ice
is not risky at all.
— kenne
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Every Thing Has Its Time 1 comment
Bunk House Door — Computer Art by kenne
We name time when we say:
every thing has its time.
This means:
everything which actually is,
every being comes and goes at the right time
and remains for a time during the time allotted to it.
Every thing has its time.
— Martin Heidegger
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Our Association With Flowers 2 comments
Grunge Art by kenne
Everyone has many associations with a flower —
the idea of flowers.
You put out your hand to touch the flower —
lean forward to smell it —
maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking —
or give it to someone to please them.
Still —
in a way —
nobody sees a flower —
really — it is so small . . .
So I said to myself —
I’ll paint what I see —
what the flower is to me
but I’ll paint it bid and
they will be surprised into taking time to look at it —
I will make even busy New Yorkers
take time to see what I see in flowers.
— Georgia O’Keeffe
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Aspen Colors — Computer Painting by kenne
From his pipe the smoke ascending
Filled the sky with haze and vapor,
Filled the air with dreamy softness,
Gave a twinkle to the water,
Touched the rugged hills with smoothness,
Brought the tender Indian Summer
To the melancholy north-land,
In the dreary Moon of Snow-shoes.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors 2 comments
Mt. Lemmon Fall Colors Near the Ski Valley Lift– Image by kenne
Fall’s canvas becomes
A spectacle of colors
before dropping leaves.
— kenne
