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I created this panorama from pictures I took in February at Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas. The day was overcast, but we were able to enjoy the view from an overlook at one end of the mountain. You can see the Arkanss River at the extreme left of the image.
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Betsy and I visit the Walled Garden almost every time we go to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The flowers on display change with the seasons, but they are always beautiful. It is a wonderful experience to walk among those blossoms, but it also interesting to get an overall view from an observation point overlooking the Walled Garden. I got this photo a few years ago when the tulips were in bloom. I used software to give the photo a ‘vintage’ look.
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Betsy and I have had Mount Hood daffodils in our yard for several years now. Their large white blossoms are always a welcome sight. I used software to make this photo of a Mount Hood blossom look more ‘artsy’.
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I don’t often take photos in monochrome, but for some reason I thought Waterkii Falls would make an interesting black-and-white picture. This is the result of my experiments that day, and I still think the falls make an interesting monochrome picture.
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My Beautiful Bride and I have been taking a February winter vacation to Arkansas for almost 20 years. We stay at ‘our’ cabin in Mt. Nebo State Park, but we usually visit a couple of other nearby state parks while we are there. One of those parks is Mount Magazine State Park, which contains the highest point in the state of Arkansas. The park has several overlooks which provide views of the valley below. I created this panorama from shots taken several years ago on a visit to Mount Magazine.
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When My Beautiful Bride and I visited Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona back in 2011, we were both very impressed with the Teepees area of the park. The rock formations in that area contain layers of blues, purples, grays and reds.
Although I took many photographs while we were there, I used software with one photo to create an image that resembles a painting. You see the result of this experiment above.
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Cold winter days are perfect for armchair traveling. I spent a couple of days going through pictures I took several years ago in the Petrified Forest. We came upon this rock covered with petrolglyphs in the Puerco Pueblo portion of the park. The pueblo was built about a thousand years ago, but later abandoned. It’s fascinating to try and decipher the story these petrolglyphs were written to tell.
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I created this panorama from three shots I took in the late afternoon of the day we arrived in Ocean Isle. The beach was empty (and beautiful) and the clouds only added to the tranquility of the scene. The glow of the setting sun added some color to the extreme right of the image.
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I enjoy stitching together individual photos to create panoramas of some of the scenes we’ve enjoyed visiting. This panorama is created from three photos shot at Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina on the morning of June 23, 2023.
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Back in June Betsy and I drove along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. The clouds and the mountains were beautiful, as you can see from this panorama of the view from Beaver Dam Gap Overlook.
Photos and Drawings by Senior Hiker 