Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:54 am
WW, great images, Carrizo Plains is an amazing place. Looks like you’ve found the Magic Hawk, that’s a powerful image - perfect for you.
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:55 am
Awesome logo! You're right. The photo doesn't look real. Mountaineer, What a riot of color. Looks like anything in focus in that stuff would be nice. Could be wrong, but that bunnie looks like a young black tail jack. jls
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:17 am
Great logo! WW! 
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:33 pm
Wow Mountaineer, I'll make a note to visit Shell Creek too..Great Photos!
Thanks everybody!
Thanks everybody!
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:16 am
Not much hope for wildflowers putting on a show there this dry year. But miracles have happened before like in the miracle March of 1991. I was out there a couple times last spring of 2005 while I was working Shell Creek. Not nearly as good as the El Nino spring of 1998 and 1995 was the most recent mindboggler. Like Antelope Valley and some of the other desert areas, it is amazing how much more impressive Carrizo looks in the big years.
Soda Lake is the largest in that area but for photos, I prefer some of the smaller alkali ponds that one has to hike a ways off the road to visit. Mornings in that large basin often have nicely calm conditions for reflections. However because all is so flat, there is little vertical component to one's image frames so working the smaller ponds gives one more interesting components to the closer opposite shores. And one needs to pray for some clouds.
...David
Soda Lake is the largest in that area but for photos, I prefer some of the smaller alkali ponds that one has to hike a ways off the road to visit. Mornings in that large basin often have nicely calm conditions for reflections. However because all is so flat, there is little vertical component to one's image frames so working the smaller ponds gives one more interesting components to the closer opposite shores. And one needs to pray for some clouds.
...David
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:14 pm
Gorgeous pictures Windwalker...I love the little bunny..so very sweet.
Great logo for you!
Very pretty pictues Mountaineer
Thanks for sharing WW
Great logo for you!
Very pretty pictues Mountaineer
Thanks for sharing WW
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 5:25 pm
I just returned from there a few minutes ago. Incredibly bad weather. However, I still saw about 40 pronghorns, eagles, hawks, and a peregrine, wild pigs(about a dozen), and all manner of weird waterfowl. Awesome place and only took me about 55 minutes to get o Soda Lake.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:30 pm
Where is this place? I lived in California for thirty years and never heard of it!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:42 pm
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:47 pm
The carrizo plain is pretty much due east of San Luis Obisbo ( http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/carrizo/ ) I've heard it referred to as one of the most remote places in California. I doubt that, but it IS pretty remote.BSquared wrote:Where is this place? I lived in California for thirty years and never heard of it!
Cool. Sounds like you had a good time despite the weather!mountaineer wrote:I just returned from there a few minutes ago. Incredibly bad weather. However, I still saw about 40 pronghorns, eagles, hawks, and a peregrine, wild pigs(about a dozen), and all manner of weird waterfowl. Awesome place and only took me about 55 minutes to get o Soda Lake.