Storm Across the Valley…
© Joe Bridwell
There’s a storm across the valley,
Clouds are rollin’ in
The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders…
…Hey, it’s good to be back home again
© Joe Bridwell
There’s a storm across the valley,
Clouds are rollin’ in
The afternoon is heavy on your shoulders…
…Hey, it’s good to be back home again
©1974, John Denver music & lyrics
White Rim Trail
A long, winding 4-wheel-drive road begins its steep descent near the Canyonlands Visitor Center at Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Late May storms and this vision quickly catapulted me from the car for a hand-held pano. Click-click-click ~ raw files flew on the card, capturing this resplendent scene, highlighting it by a brilliant exclamation mark striking distant mountain highlands far across the valley.
I could almost hear John singin’ somewhere down that lonely winding road. Some 18 months later, I was actually privileged to travel the White Rim…
Opus
Just as John’s soulful, easy listenin’ music could slip into a ‘forever memory’, so the soft pastel colors are emphasized by storm clouds reflecting early evening light. No matter where your eye seeks, there is another fascinating crevice or towering pinnacle to point it to more entrancement.
Of course, the metaphorical exclamation mark is a bit absurd; but, the rainbow seems to be like a Heavenly ribbon, accentuating a Christmas-gift sense to this marvelous image.
To show you how that day really went, with clouds, rainbows, and magnificent scenery, I hearken back almost a year and some 100 issues ago during early publication of Pathways of Light blog to Majestic Blessing…
Tryin’…
John had a number of memorable hits which evolved around the theme ‘country boy’. My country boy is enhanced by a love for our planet and a long time familiarity with nature, rocks, landscapes, tectonics, historical geology, and wilderness. I am fortunate to live where such truly remarkable scenery frequently occurs.
With time, a few DLSR’s and trekking the wilderness outback, these intricate emotional balances reliably reproduce memorable images. Some capture distant scenes, intimate landscapes, a strummin’ guitar (as in this case), and/or the indescribable Bard…
It’s the combination of all my senses evoked by such images which keeps me out there, tryin’ to find another superlative Magic Hour, tryin’ to improve my photography, tryin’ to commemorate all those great times ~ well, just…
Bein’ Back Home Again!
Thanks, John! I was at Los Alamos when you penned the Storm Across the Valley song line…
Enjoy…
A long, winding 4-wheel-drive road begins its steep descent near the Canyonlands Visitor Center at Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Late May storms and this vision quickly catapulted me from the car for a hand-held pano. Click-click-click ~ raw files flew on the card, capturing this resplendent scene, highlighting it by a brilliant exclamation mark striking distant mountain highlands far across the valley.
I could almost hear John singin’ somewhere down that lonely winding road. Some 18 months later, I was actually privileged to travel the White Rim…
Opus
Just as John’s soulful, easy listenin’ music could slip into a ‘forever memory’, so the soft pastel colors are emphasized by storm clouds reflecting early evening light. No matter where your eye seeks, there is another fascinating crevice or towering pinnacle to point it to more entrancement.
Of course, the metaphorical exclamation mark is a bit absurd; but, the rainbow seems to be like a Heavenly ribbon, accentuating a Christmas-gift sense to this marvelous image.
To show you how that day really went, with clouds, rainbows, and magnificent scenery, I hearken back almost a year and some 100 issues ago during early publication of Pathways of Light blog to Majestic Blessing…
Tryin’…
John had a number of memorable hits which evolved around the theme ‘country boy’. My country boy is enhanced by a love for our planet and a long time familiarity with nature, rocks, landscapes, tectonics, historical geology, and wilderness. I am fortunate to live where such truly remarkable scenery frequently occurs.
With time, a few DLSR’s and trekking the wilderness outback, these intricate emotional balances reliably reproduce memorable images. Some capture distant scenes, intimate landscapes, a strummin’ guitar (as in this case), and/or the indescribable Bard…
It’s the combination of all my senses evoked by such images which keeps me out there, tryin’ to find another superlative Magic Hour, tryin’ to improve my photography, tryin’ to commemorate all those great times ~ well, just…
Bein’ Back Home Again!
Thanks, John! I was at Los Alamos when you penned the Storm Across the Valley song line…
Enjoy…
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