tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33363674840576298292012-02-12T11:05:39.338-08:00Pictures & PalabrasMadelinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01651415800956205777noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3336367484057629829.post-24815093823587006472011-09-04T05:37:00.000-07:002011-09-04T05:41:19.769-07:00

Well, that was embarrassing. I really meant to start posting photos within 2 months of moving here (or for that matter, probably within 2 weeks). I've got a new camera (SLR! for the first time since high school! this one has all kinds of fancy tricks like autofocus, and no darkroom required) and a ton of photos from Switzerland, Italy, and Iceland. Including this one, which I've been meaning to

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I'm going to keep this blog just focused on posting my photography, and possibly linking to/commenting on photography-related things that interest me. I definitely want a travel blog, but I've come to the conclusion that I don't need to feed all my travel mishaps to the Google spiders for the entire world to laugh at. So, I'll be setting up another slightly more private, personal life-in-Europe

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Two (digitally enhanced, yes) wildflower photos from a last hike on Peavine Mountain. The first is a lupine, and the second is.......that red plant that grows all over Peavine. You know that plant? I'll miss living on the side of a giant piece of BLM land. I'll miss wildflower hikes with my friends here. I'll miss the high desert, although I will not miss snow in June. And I

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So I'm moving to Switzerland. This started out as a photoblog, because I got sick of having a political blog (I've since begun to miss that one). Then, I discovered I like writing a few words or sometimes a random little story or a travel narrative along with the photos. So now it's, what? Photos + writing? Seemed to work ok. Now the blog is going to be a few more things, I think.

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I know, I have been a truly terrible photoblogger lately. Road to Tongue, Scotland I took this picture last summer on my trip to visit my friends in Scotland. We drove all the way up to the northern coast and visited the tiny town of Tongue. As you can see, there's not much for miles around. It's so small that the postal van doubles as a bus, and so far north that it never got totally dark. We

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Patos Island is at the top of my list of favorite places on earth (we all should have such a list)—top five, for sure. It’s one of the outer San Juan Islands in Washington State – also one of the smaller and least visited of the park islands. There’s a kayak camp, a lighthouse, an outhouse, and not too much else. Patos Island: View From Near Lighthouse When I was in high school, I did a

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I suppose this is not an amazing photo composition-wise...but it makes me smile. Located in Tokushima on the Island of Shikoku. Japan. Edit because...my coworker just informed me that Godzilla is apparently a LIZARD. Not a big furry thing. Pop culture knowledge fail of the week...

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This is a simple, slightly random photo that I've always liked. I took it in Puerto Madryn in Patagonia two and a half years ago. Between finishing grad school and starting my job, I wandered around Argentina for a month or so, working on my Spanish/taking pictures/being fed and shown around by extremely hospitable family friends. It was great... I was in Puerto Madryn for most of a day after

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I went to Argentina in late December/early January (I was going to say, "as I tend to do"...but it's actually been over two years). I was in the Northwest, Salta and Jujuy Provinces, as usual (plus 6 hours in Buenos Aires, during which I had lunch with my friend at an "American" restaurant and honed my speed-shopping skills at Zara). We did go on some new adventures: I convinced my parents that

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Hands San Francisco City Hall & Sculpture

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Salina Grande, originally uploaded by Madeline_Mundt.I'll be in Argentina in less than three weeks (and then 30+ hours of travel, but who's counting). I don't think we'll go to Las Salinas, but there will be adventures and photography for sure.

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Bee and Wildflowers  Just another picture from Yosemite. In September I went to Wawona, and drove through the valley on my way out. Miraculously, there were hardly any people there.  If you ever want to visit Yosemite Valley, I recommend the weekend after Labor Day. This photo was taken there...I'm pretty sure that's El Cap in the blurry background.

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Truckee River in the snow Thistle (I think?) with ice It snowed! So I bundled up and took my new camera outside. I love desert plants in the snow...so pretty. If the roads clear out today, I might head to Pyramid Lake for a photo adventure. We shall see...

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Fall Festival  Another old photo from my JET (English teaching in Japan) days. This was taken in fall '04 in Arashiyama, which is on the northern edge of Kyoto City.

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Half Dome, July 2010 North Dome's a nice hike...about 9 miles out and back from Porcupine Creek. You get to see Half Dome up close and personal without going near Yosemite Valley and its hordes of summer tourists. We even saw a bear!

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Arches National Park (near Fiery Furnace), May 2009 The thing with Arches: it's all driving, all the time. Fiery Furnace is about the only place you can actually get out of your car and go for a decent hike (no, ambling up to Delicate Arch does not count). Unfortunately one has to plan ahead to hike in Fiery Furnace, so all we did was stare longingly at it from the outside and hide from the

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Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan Kinkakuji is known as the Golden Temple in English...it's one of Kyoto's top tourist sites. I actually faded the color a lot in this photo to give it sort of an aged feel. It's hard to take a unique photo of something that gets photographed hundreds of times a day...

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Lanterns at Fushimi-Inari Shrine south of Kyoto City

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Here's where I went: Scotland (Castle Varich near Tongue) Northern Ireland (peace murals in Derry-Londonderry) More to come...sporadically, because I'm moving house and then going to Yosemite. Looks like Blogger learned a few new tricks while I was gone, too...

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Half Dome from Yosemite Valley, taken in May 2010. Apparently it's black & white conversion week for me...

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Birds' nests in Calilegua National Park in northern Argentina

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Newspaper Rock, Moab Area, Utah

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Street food in Seoul, South KoreaStreet Food Seoul South Korea by Madeline Mundt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

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I just despise ants. I can't believe I got close enough to this one to photograph it.Ant Detail Spooner Lake by Madeline Mundt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

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Reflection of Kyoto Tower, Kyoto City, Japan

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The Ophir Creek Trail is an 8 mile hike from Washoe Valley up to Rose Meadows (and 8 miles back). I got too lost to do the whole hike, but I did get some nice photos. Ophir Creek Nevada Log by Madeline Mundt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

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Nanzen-ji Temple in Kyoto. This is one of those photos that just turned out perfect. I barely remember taking it...

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Detail of giant log on the Hunter Creek trail near Reno. Hunter Creek is a good first and last hike of the season...it's lower than most of the Sierra hikes, so less likely to be snowy.

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Slightly different view of Half Dome. Yosemite Half Dome Olmstead Point by Madeline Mundt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

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Paper Cranes at Fushimi Inari. Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Clouds reflected in the water in Desolation Sound...there are these amazing waves of jellyfish (or jellies as I should properly call them) as the tide goes in and out.

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Roscoe Cove, Desolation Sound, BC. In the rain.

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...maybe the most sadly ironic photo I've taken.

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Taken in Canyonlands National Park - Island in the Sky

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Dear Pyramid Lake, why are you so ridiculously photogenic?!

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 Shikoku, Japan - Spring 2006

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Giant "Mountain Demon" in Kurama, near Kyoto. Boo!

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Moab area spring flowers from a year ago...I'm annoyed that I'm not going back till September!

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...on a cloudy May day. Taken with my crummy ancient little point and shoot.

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Fish at Ginkakuji - Kyoto City, Japan Madeline Mundt - Some Rights Reserved

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Turns out black-and-white photography kinda camouflages arch hogs (aka tourists who insist on hanging out in arches). Good to know for future holiday weekend national park visits... Madeline Mundt - Some Rights Reserved

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First snow of the season, 2008 Google's Picasa has this "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature that is actually pretty good. Yeah, I know it basically just rebalances the histogram as appropriate, and yeah I technically know how to do this in Photoshop myself, probably with better results. But I'm lazy and I don't own Photoshop.

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Ophir Creek TrailLate Summer

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Impending thunderstorms, Island in the SkyMay 2009

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Tahoe and Marlette, from near Snow Valley PeakTahoe Rim TrailSeptember 2009

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I annoyed my friends by taking literally 30 pictures of El Capitan. Oh well.(early May, late afternoon)

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Cortes Island, BC, Canada (Summer '09)

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Eggs boiling in hot springs - Beppu, Japan

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Canyonlands National Park, UtahSpring 2009

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Yosemite, Spring 2010

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Springtime on Peavine Mountain

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Ophir Creek, Nevada

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