Antelope Canyon above. I think I have seen pix of since I was a kid without knowing much about it. I remember reading, probably in the Audubon mag, as a kid about the many slot canyons and was very intrigued. They are spectacular. Antelope Canyon is a tourist trap now. To my surprise, there …
Month: September 2025
Jökulhlaup
I love the chaotic jumble. I am reminded of the ice after the tide is out here. Captured on Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 2:50 PM, this film showcases an extraordinary natural event on the River Sjoa in Heidal. With temperatures plunging between 20 and 30 degrees below zero, the conditions were set for a …
A Vampire on a Vampire?
A scientist caught this bat during a biodiversity survey. When Piotr Naskrecki spotted the parasite on the bat’s head, his interest was immediately aroused and he quickly started to take photographs for research. Piotr didn’t have much time before the bat was released, and the parasite was removed, but he did manage to capture the …
Speaking of Villeneuve, Dune 2
I got it out of the library, last week. There was a time I couldn’t wait to see it. Now I dragged my feet for months. I saw the Dune movie, a month ago, and I have been meaning to post about it but, as usual, time burns away. I had mixed feelings about it. …
Rendezvous with Rama film by Villeneuve
Film In the early 2000s, actor Morgan Freeman expressed his desire to produce a film based on Rendezvous with Rama. The film has been stuck in “development hell” for many years. In 2003, after initial problems procuring funding, it appeared the project would go into production.[12] The film was to be produced by Freeman’s production company, Revelations Entertainment. David Fincher, touted on …
Sideways Volcano
Quite the show! People for scale on FB. More online.
Utah Tornado
It was supposed to be down for an hour on Sat the 13th. Tons of images etc online. It was an impressive one. The media seemed to lose it over it. Rare Utah tornado touched down, why it’s uncommon More https://youtu.be/pUmq7HjnBjI?t=196
Ice Carvings, The Mountains of Greenland
There is some spectacular scenery under the polar ice. Antarctica must have amazing features. A good setting for Lovecraft’s mountains of madness. Adelsteen Normann (1848–1918) Adelsteen Normann had a talent for capturing the drama of Norway’s fjords. He painted them with crisp light, sweeping perspective, and a sense of scale that makes you …
Kudu!
Kruger National Park Kudu bull. There was a lot of flap online if it was real but it seems to check out. Hemingway was looking for one like that in his Green Hills of Africa. Chapter 67 in Steve’s A Sportsman’s Library. Another pic for comparison. The record horns. Bob Kuhn (1920 – 2007)Bull Kudu and …
Seamounts
An “enormous” submerged mountain that rivals peaks in the Rockies has been mapped for the first time in a previously unexplored area of the western Pacific, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration. The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau—an island country east of the Philippines—and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet …