Photos 31May18 – This was another bright Memorial Day. What I usually did after the ceremonies in town was to stall. It never paid to bring those feelings home with me so I would find a place to decompress which usually meant someplace a camera would come in handy.
This was a random day out looking for shots. It’s hard to find a frame that isn’t a boring brown, or filled with a brilliant blue sky. I honestly pray for overcast in the summer for a change of pace. There were another thirty or so shots that I could have included here but they’re all repeats of the above.
Photos 31May18
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Tesla May 31, 2018
Around Town
A note about the last image in the set. I used it as a weekly submission to a camera club I belonged to for a minute. I named it “Arroyo”. The club invited a pro photographer to be the judge every week. The lady judging when mine was in the mix commented that when she thought of an arroyo, she thought of water. I bit my tongue instead of asking if she could see. I figured that was it for the contest that week, then she picked “Arroyo” as first in class for the week. I never did figure out the “art” of art judging, but with mixed results over several weeks I figured out that the judges being picked were people like me with differing tastes and might not at all be objective like a judge should be. I slowly dropped out of competing and then out of the club without making a ripple in the tides of artistic time. Leave no sign.
What’s an Arroyo Gemini? An arroyo is a dry creek, stream bed, or gulch that temporarily fills with fast-flowing water after heavy rainfall, common in arid and semi-arid regions like the American Southwest.
While the word implies water to some, for most of the year, an arroyo is completely dry, defined by its steep, rocky, or gravelly banks. These landforms are highly prone to sudden flash flooding. The term comes from the Spanish word for “brook” or “gutter.” In geomorphology, they are also called washes, coulees, or wadis, characterized by rapid erosion during short, intense storms.
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