#John Muir park

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Soooo many slugs!

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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

- John Muir

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Mount Ritter, just south of Yosemite National Park on July 1, 2022

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Places - National Parks (5/63): Grand Canyon, Arizona

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple woods in autumn, when the sun gold is richest.

[thebeautifulbook]

OUR NATIONAL PARKS by John Muir. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909). Illustrated.

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[psidrako3]

I like to think The Season of Moments is an homage to National Parks

Like:

The friendship between The Reassuring Ranger and The Moments Guide is supposed to be a reference to John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt with Prairie Peaks being Yosemite National Park.

As you can tell I relate with this on a deeper level.

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How Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 trip to California gave birth to modern conservation

Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite. Credit: National Park Service Theodore Roosevelt is our hero.  The 26th President of the United States was a soldier, a historian, an amateur scientist, a best-selling writer, an avid outdoorsman and much much more. He has been called the “father of conservation,” because, as president, he authorized the creation of 150 national forests, 18 national…

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Nevada Falls a few years back 🏞️

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8 Spectacular Hiking Trails in the Mountains

#Mountain #hiking is like no other. It presents a rugged world full of unspoiled sights. But these spectacular hiking trail in the mountains are in a class of their own. See this list!

North America boasts stunning scenery from the west coast to the east coast. The views are truly breathtaking, including the rugged Rocky Mountains, the pristine Sierra Nevadas, and the timeless Appalachians, to name a few. Many people see mountain ranges as a place to escape and enjoy outdoor activities, while others view them as a thrilling adventure in nature’s playground. These untouched…

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📚🌳John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude #BookReview #NBMPublishing #ARCReview #GraphicNovel

John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude is a graphic novel depicting the how and why John Muir came to be one with nature. My review: #Bookthreads #Books #Booksky #BookBlogger #BookReview #GraphicNovel #JohnMuir #NBMPublishing #ARCReview #Edelweiss #ReadersofInstagram #Bookstagram #Lomig #BargainSleuth

As someone who lives next to a park named for John Muir, I have read several great biographies written for adults, as well as a few picture books that I bought when the kids were younger. John Muir: To the Heart of Solitude is a graphic novel depicting the how and why John Muir came to be one with nature. Most books mentioned in my reviews can be found at the affiliate links below. (Amazon US)…

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YOSEMITE, MARAVILLA GEOLÓGICA; Por Rosana Saburo

El Parque Nacional de Yosemite desde 1890, gracias a la gran aportación del naturalista John Muir, se convirtió a parque nacional, imponente, majestuoso,  con bosques de secuoyas gigantes, robles, hayas, atractivo por su fauna, siendo los protagonistas los osos negros, paredes granitoides sólo aptas para escaladores preparados en cuerpo y mente, exhibe recibir a más de cuatro millones de…

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John Muir is One of My Heroes

I had done a post yesterday talking about a person of history in the documentary series I am watching, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea named John Muir.  This guy is such an interesting character.  At first, I thought he was just an oddity.  You learn about him, a man from Scotland whose father was a crazy preacher who forced him to memorize the Bible, and would beat him if he got things…

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Donohue Pass from the north, in Yosemite National Park on July 2, 2022

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"Let children walk with nature." - John Muir

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Just finished ch 23 in my Nona reread and i think Ianthe dismissing Blood Of Eden as "terrorists" is especially jarring because of the evolution of how BOE is presented in the text

like first in GtN, Gideon never mentions who or what she could be fighting if she had succeeded in her dreams of joining the Cohort. she wants to be part of the "invasion force on whatever", and her fantasies of violence are exclusively oriented around perceived personal freedom and making Harrow feel bad

And then in HtN, Blood of Eden is finally named as the Empire's enemy, but they're very specifically never called "terrorists". they're "insurgents" per both John and Judith, which not only has a wholly different definition (revolutionaries!) it's also an interesting intentional choice on the part of the *writing*. It would make in-universe character sense for Cohort Captain Judith Deuteros to call BOE "terrorists" in the personal notes she takes while prisoner, and it would make in-universe character sense for Emperor John Gaius to call them "terrorists" when he is explaining to Harrow that they are The Enemy. and i feel like it is narratively important that Blood of Eden is very intentionally *not* presented to us the readers with the kind of aggressive dehumanization/dismissal connotation combination that the word terrorist has.

and then like, obviously, the first BOE character we meet is a hot MILF with a gun. and sure she's trying to kill God, but Augustine and Mercymorn also try to kill God like 3 pages after we (properly) meet Wake so it's not like killing God is presented as a negative thing.

So going into NtN, I feel like the general impression of BOE is revolutionaries who hate the Empire and hot ladies with guns. which as far as impressions go is like, pretty positive, and that impression is only emphasized in the first 300 or so pages of the book. You have more hot women, you have more hot women with guns. There are factions of BOE that hate Our Protagonists more than the ones we meet, and there's infighting and hostages and burning suspected-necros in the park, but the BOE members we meet are explicitly sympathetic to the characters that we the audience care about, so the "scarier" parts of BOE are in many ways de-emphasized to the reader. We're *also* given an up-close-and-personal view of how bad it is for the people living under the Nine Houses' rule/resettlement via Hot Sauce and the gang, which further solidifies BOE as *at least* bordering on (if not outright!) "someone to root for", even for resistant readers.

and then Ianthe shows up and calls them terrorists and it feels a bit like a slap to the face. It serves to emphasize and perhaps consolidate what has been building for the series, which is essencially that the protagonists of the previous books are on the wrong side. Necromancy is on the wrong side. the Empire is doing bad fucking things and they are calling the revolutionaries who resist them "terrorists" as a way to delegitamize their resistance and dissuade support, something that no longer works on the *reader* because of the way Tamsyn Muir has hansel-and-gretled the fuck out of that story arc. send post.

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Simple Steps For Taking Better Photos: Bokeh

This isn't a guide on which camera to get or philosophies (arguments) on film stocks. The best camera you have to learn on is the one you have in your hand and for most people, that is a smartphone. You are doing great!

I have divided the class up across several posts to make it more digestible and to allow for more photo examples.

Here are the chapters:

Bokeh

Point Of View

People

Composition

Landscapes

Wildlife

Still Lifes

Street Photography

Documentary

Filters (optical & digital)

Phone Apps

The Fine Art Of Black & White

New Rules

Let's begin with...

Bokeh is difficult to get on smartphone unless you are using something like portrait mode on an iPhone.

Most smartphone photos look like this...

I took this shot in Arches National Park. It would have been cool if the tree had been out of focus or the arch in the background. But alas.

To achieve the bokeh effect, essentially the object you want to focus on is the only thing that is in focus, the rest is out of focus. Here is an example...

The spines on top are in focus and the background is blurred. Bokeh adds an artistic element to the object of the photo.

Here is another stab at it. This is from the flower beds of John Muir's homestead in California. Geeting this in focus was tricky because the wind was blowing the flower all around and the depth of field was kinda chaotic.

All of that said, there are times when you want foreground and background to be in focus like this photo from Utah.

Now, get out there and give it a try!

Next lesson is Point Of View.