Clayhaus Tumbles

A photography blog with photos, of course

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No Fear of Flying (on a Great Salt Lake Overflight)

No Fear of Flying (on a Great Salt Lake Overflight)

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Clear Thoughts on Clouds

Clear Thoughts on Clouds

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Shadow-Light

Shadows are the yin to light’s yang. Though, strictly speaking they are not always the opposite or absence of light, as some details often can be seen lurking deep in the nooks and crannies of dark regions. They are merely the blockage – partial or otherwise – of light. I call their presence shadow-light. Shadows can be as strong a force in photography as light itself. The same is true in…

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Scenes from the Village of Sủng Là, Đồng Văn District, northern Vietnam (28-sep-22) #clayhausphotography #pentaxphotography #vietnam https://www.instagram.com/p/CpyE_nvPegI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sometimes walking the pups on the university campus can be quite interesting. #clayhausphotography #monochromatic #modernarchitecture #iphonephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CprYo93utjO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Lao Và Chải Panorama Vista, Yên Minh District, Ha Giang, 🇻🇳. #clayhausphotography #vietnam #panorama #pentax #pentaxk1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpouCVBuowW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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No more international travel for a few months and the skies here continue to be grey (thwarting my astrophotography) so I'll continue to work through my deep catalogs of unprocessed images from past trips...such as this photographic return to the Vestrahorn region of eastern Iceland, visited in August of last year. #vestrahorn #icelandtravel #icelandscape #clayhausphotography (at Vestrahorn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpWxCRPOThJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Jodhpur at Dusk and Beyond. #clayhausphotography #jodhpur #rajasthan https://www.instagram.com/p/CpULB3zuOef/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Portraits of a Happy Smoker. #clayhausphotography #jaipur #rajasthan #chillim https://www.instagram.com/p/CpEVEgLLFrS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A few infrared images from January's trip to the Moab area. These were captured on a couple of hikes off of the Potash Road, ~1500' below Dead Horse Point, but about 600' above the Colorado River. The sheer towers and cliffs are Wingate Formation (~200 million years ago) whilst the rounded, softer underlying sandstone that we were walking through and over is from the Organ Rock Formation, which is about 260 million years old. The Potash Road itself rests on ~275 million year old Cedar Mesa Sandstone. #clayhausphotography #potashroad #greatercanyonlands https://www.instagram.com/p/Co_iXzAuZH7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Yesterday we took the two crazies to the West Desert for a right proper romp. They enjoying it. #clayhausphotography #westdesertutah #basinandrange https://www.instagram.com/p/Co3MSnBPLDa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thar Desert Sunset. #clayhausphotography #rajasthan #thardesertphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/Cozqi4HLGXY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Woman at Gadiser Lake, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. #clayhausphotography #rajasthan #jaisalmer #gadiserlake #nathanhortonphotographytours (at Jaisalmer,Rajsthan,India) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cof4tOXvLg9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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More grey skies with rain and snow equals more opportunity to re-visit old astro-data. In this case, M 42 | Great Orion Nebula & NGC 1977 | Running Man Nebula, captured 4-Dec-21. I've learned some new processing steps and have new software tools at hand, as well. This version of the Orion Nebula explodes with the red of excited hydrogen molecules. The use of a special nebula "booster" filter -- and much processing -- helps bring out the details. For those that might ask, I added no color to the image. In fact, I reduced the saturation so that it looked less like the evidence of a crime scene! (No aliens were harmed in the production of this image!) Tech details: https://www.astrobin.com/ppeaae/ #clayhausphotography #idasnb1 #asi2600mcpro #orionnebula #williamopticszs61 #celestronavx #astropixelprocessor #pixinsight #astrophotography #astronomy https://www.instagram.com/p/CniH5GpPG03/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Klondike bluffs region of arches national park. On display, for your viewing pleasure and intellectual edification, many tens of millions of years of sand, silt and mud deposition then solidification with eventual sandstone erosion. The action begins some 300 million years ago when a shallow see evaporated leaving a vast deposit of salt. Seas came, seas shrank, swamps appeared, to be replaced by vast ergs: huge sand dune deserts. The large salt dome under a good part of what is now Arches national park, eventually began bulging and fracturing the hundreds of feet of sandstone that had become the landscape. In this photograph in the distance, you can see that fractured Slickrock member of Entrada sandstone that gives us so many of the Arches and fins of the Park including tower arch, which is below the largest tower in this image. Leading up to the bluffs we can see the Tidwell member of the Morrison formation in brown and closer to the camera, the lighter Moab member of the Curtis formation. Somewhere around 50 million years worth of geologic history on display. #archesnationalpark #sandstone #geologyrocks #geology #jurassic #desertphotography #sonyrx100 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnftEupvPnP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A few great day iPhone snaps from our snowy walk this morning. #clayhausphotography #iphonephotography #walkies https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfOBXkPhz-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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An Alien Heat. #clayhausphotography #oman🇴🇲 #oman #omantravel #wahibasands (at Wahiba Sand Desert, Oman) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQ4pd0uH24/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=