Our challenge from Anne is for Black and White and/or Monochrome images.
Monochrome photos contain only variations of one color. Monument Valley in Utah was the filming location for many old western movies. I thought it would be fun to bring back memories of those old western movies so I chose a few images from Monument Valley and converted them to sepia tones.
Some of those movies were directed by John Ford and starred John Wayne. In the image above John Ford’s Point is in the foreground with Monument Valley in the background. The next three images reminded me of other scenes in the movies.
One of the Mittens formations in Monument Valley, UtahJohn Wayne’s cabin from the movie “She wore a Yellow Ribbon”Stage Coach at Goulding’s Trading Post, Monument Valley, Utah
Black and white images contain only the colors of back and white. I chose three images from Florida and Georgia and converted them from color to black and white to add some drama to the landscapes.
Pa-hay-Otee overlook in Everglades National Park, FloridaLaura S. Walker State Park, Okefenokee Swamp, GeorgiaOkefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia
Our final guest host for the month of July is Ana Campo of Anvica’s Gallery. Her challenge is Postcards. She writes about thinking about how many postcards were used in the past “to congratulate, as a souvenir of the places we visited or simply as collectibles.” The above image is a real post card I brought back from our trip to Hawaii.
Once upon a time, when long distance phone calls were too expensive, before Facebook, Instagram, WordPress blogs, and many other internet options were available, travelers would mail postcards to their friends and family back home.
I love receiving postcards so when we were planning our first RV trip across the U.S. and Canada I knew I wanted to send postcards to our grand children. I have kept up that tradition for all our trips, whether we were gone for a few months or just a few days. I enjoy picking out the cards, writing to them about our adventures on the back of the card, and even searching for a mailbox to mail them.
The cards usually were 25 cents each and sometimes I could get 5 for a dollar. I still have a collection of extra cards that never got mailed.
Sometimes as I edited photos from a trip I would find one almost identical to a postcard I had purchased! For this challenge I chose to show three postcards and my similar photos. The cards are in the left column with my photos in the right.
I hope my grandkids had as much fun receiving the postcards as I had picking them out, writing them, and searching for a mailbox to mail them.
It was my pleasure to host last week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge #158: Along Back Country Roads. Thank you Tina, Ann-Christine, Patti and Amy for inviting me to host. Many thanks to every one who contributed to the challenge. Your beautiful photos took me along back roads of the United States and Canada, and around the world to South America, Europe, the U.K, India, Kuwait and many more amazing places. Thank you!
Welcome to the next post in my series highlighting states we have visited throughout the years. I hope you will enjoy coming along for the ride! I will be featuring the states alphabetically and next up is
Arizona
Arizona, nicknamed “The Grand Canyon State”, became the 48th state on February 14, 1912. Phoenix is the capital and the state’s largest city.
I first saw the Grand Canyon back in the 1960’s when I was in the third grade. I sat in the back seat of our Ford station wagon with my two brothers as our family went on a cross country trip seeing some of our National Parks and of course the Grand Canyon was one of the highlights of our trip.
Henry and I made our first trip together to the Grand Canyon in 1985 when we loaded up our mini van with our kids and tent camping gear and made the trek from Georgia to the Grand Canyon South Rim. Henry returned the next year and backpacked into the canyon with three friends. Having done the South Rim, we decided to make the North Rim of the Grand Canyon our first major destination in our inaugural cross country RV trip in 2006.
Before we got to the North Rim we traveled across Arizona and took in the Meteor Crator, Petrified Forest National Park, Painted Desert and the Vermilion Cliffs .
Meteor Crater in Arizona
Petrified Forest National Park
Painted Desert
Painted Desert
Vermillian Cliffs on way to Jacob Lake
Our home base for exploring the North Rim was in the Kaibab National Forest. We saw evidence of recent wildfires and beautiful meadows each day as we drove to and from the canyon.
Grand Canyon North Rim Point Imperial
Grand Canyon North Rim Cape Royal Overlook
Grand Canyon North Rim Point Imperial
Grand Canyon North Rim Cape Royal Overlook
Grand Canyon North Rim Point Imperial
Grand Canyon North Rim Point Imperial
Burned section of Kaibab National Forest on the way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
Meadow on the way to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon
Later travels through Arizona found us at Monument Valley, Lake Havasu , and the Four Corners.
The Mittens at Monument Valley
Monument Valley
Monument Valley
Monument Valley
Lake Havasu in Cattail Cove State Park, Arizona
Cactus in Cattail Cove State Park, Arizona
London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Four Corners – the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada meet here. It is the only place in the U.S. shared by four states
To read previous posts about the states featured in this series just click on the state name: Alabama Alaska
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