Here is my first submission to photoGraphica.  I plan on submitting on a regular basis and welcome critique.  More of my photos can be viewed at www.charlespallen.com
JBug and Mommy Crop Duster Sunflower

Two painters in Arcadia National Forest in Bar Harbor, Maine.Art imitating life

A sunset in my backyard in Illinois Sunset

A rappeller on the Matanuska Glacier in Alaska.Slippery slope

A lobster shack in Bar Harbor, Maine. Lobster shack

You knew you weren't going to get away without seeing some black and white.

Trail I
Light
Hollow
Trail II

Bonus One:  In color --

 Depth

Bonus Two:  Bruce and Don gave me an idea; I found some of my Dad's slides from 1969 and have included those --

Dad's I
Dad's II
Dad's III

What I decided was that capturing the "whole" canyon in some single, definitive photo was impossible and that I'd be better off if I focused my shots and tried to capture some detail and texture.  

Canyon 1
Canyon 3
Canyon 4

Canyon 2

Four more from the Grand Canyon:

Mist
Yin Yang
Hard Climbing
Promontory

(Yell Uncle when you've had enough!)

Here is a second set of photos from the Grand Canyon, all taken in the morning and all featuring the interplay of sun and shadow.

Each photo has been personally pre-adjusted for your viewing convenience.

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Two A
Two B
Four
Five

Here is my first time with photographica so I thought i would post a couple pics.image of black diamond mines landscape let me know what you think..black diamond mines landscape 2 i'm love to get feed back good or bad.. i feel that by feed by i'll become a better photographer.. thanks.

Travel shots:These were taken with a Leica Digilux  last year while visiting my daughter in Aspen, we drove to Grand Junction to see the beautiful views in the Colorado National Monument Park. Grand Junc 1 Grand Junc 2 Grand Junc 3 Grand Junc 4 Grand Junc 5 Grand Junc 6 Grand Junc 7

I have found that architecture can be alive, animate or inanimate, stone or sand, water or tree. Just the creation of an Island is a form of architecture in and of itself.
From the Sea Rises Up Pathways Vistas Rock Faces Grotos and Jungle Humans come along and inserts themselves into the process.  Sugarmill1 Sugarmill2 Sugarmill3 Build around Me Build with Me Build over Me But in the end the architecture of an Island reverts back to itself and disappears into the Ocean's Edge

OK, Today will be more story then Good photography.

As you know I headed up to Death Valley this weekend. I don't know why it took me 10 years but I am glad I got there. Death Valley is the size of the state of Delaware so you better be ready to drive. I put 944 miles on in 2 1/2 days so that will show you how much you drive. (That included there and back from my house)  And make sure you have plenty of Gas but you can leave you cell phone home as they don't work here. So keep a bunch of Food in your car, unless you want to eat the people you went with when you breakdown.

Death Valley is the Hottest, Driest and Lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. So how do you explain this? DV1 or This? DV2 On my first days shoot I battled a wind chill of 8 degrees on the top of Augereberry point with 30 MPH winds.

But, I think we can believe it is the lowest  DV3

So on day two I headed over to Badwater which is the Lowest Point in No. America. I know this cause DV4 and DV5. Now I showed you snow already but this is Not snow Not Snow It is Salt in the bottom of a Dry Lake Bed More not Snow
Yet More not snow So I had to stand in the Not Snow 666

Now when you look up behind you you see this sign on the Hillside Sign up thereThis is what is Says  It says So I think we now know we are low, very low.
But it is dry here this year after last springs record rainfall in the desert, there has hardly been trace amounts this year. So how do you explain this:  This

And just for the hell of it here is a  Beehive Kiln that was used to make Charcoal many many years ago.

Tomorrow, maybe the end of this series or maybe just another one too if it is too many for one post :)

Pictures Today - Story Tomorrow.
Aguereberry Point Sunset, Death Valley National Park, California
Apologies for so many Photos

"It's all about the Light"

Self Portrait

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Yesterday we went to the Vall de Nuria (Spain), next to the french border.
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A few more pic's from my daughter:

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MIRROR

Just a few pictures of some of the sites that are so close to my house.

High Plains close to Kenosha Pass, CO
Fall Kenosha Pass, CO
More High Plains, CO

Ravenous

This is my first post, so I'll try to learn as I go.........I took these on our vacation to the Sandia and Isleta Casinos in Albuquerque, N.M.Sandia Casion Sandia Mountains Mountains 2 . The water fountain outside the Isleta Casino was so gorgeous that I just couldn't resist it!!!!!Fountain. Hope everyone enjoys these as much as I enjoyed taking them.

Here is a random assortment of scanned photos,some OK, some not so OK, but hope that you enjoy them anyway.
Big tree
On the lake Car in a tree A different flower
Another different flower

Glacier

Classic Golden Gate - 1976

Maui Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui
Maui

Moon glow
Vancouver Island - Mt.Washington

Newport Beach

BC beach

Red Beach Monk Seal

Savory Island Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset
Sunset

Somehow I only get about 3 hours free each month and I use that time to fix up my web site and post a few photos around the internet...this being one of those places.

So here's a quick short and sweet version about a few highlights from the past month or two  :-)

There was a really nice sunset in phoenix a few weeks ago.

A couple of weeks ago we went to a small but expanding park called Out of Africa with all sorts of animals native to Africa.  I like tigers :-)

I took a small road trip by myself a couple of weekends ago and ran across this tree standing all alone.

Finally, this past weekend I hiked up Camelback Mountain in Phoenix for the first time.  It was a particularly cloudy and smoggy day.  I was disappointed at first until I found this image.

Thanks for looking!  Hope you enjoyed my detailed and lengthy stories  ;)

Early in the morning we came to a mountain lake that was as still as could be and reflected in it was mountain 5 mountain 6 mountain7 mountain 8

Earlier on the trip I got this shot of Mount Hood Mount Hood

From a trip to the Wild West Coast (of Tasmania) recently (Mollie couldn't come, it's National Park)
South Cape bay from creek
Lion Rock
Rock formation
Sooty Oystercatchers
Into the ocean
shapes and shadow

Well, it's been a couple of years since my last post.  But I stumbled back across here recently and thought I'd give it another go.  These are pictures from a little roadtrip I took starting in San Francisco and taking 1, then 101 all the way up the coast.  I eventually ended up in the Northern Cascades Nat'l Park in northwest Washington state.  Where I found out just out of shape I really was.  A couple 10 mile hikes will do that to ya, trust me.  Anyway, here are a few pictures from that trip.  Hope you all enjoy and of course feel free to leave any comments.

California Coast / California Redwoods / Oregon Coast / Olympic Mountains / Little Fawn / Sherman Peak / In the Cascades / Picture Lake / Mt Shuksan