These are all from the Catavina boulder area taken on various mornings before the light got too harsh.
Skipjack Joe - 3-1-2007 at 02:08 PM
Skipjack Joe - 3-1-2007 at 02:09 PM
Skipjack Joe - 3-1-2007 at 02:10 PM
And you've seen the following:
Bajagypsy - 3-1-2007 at 02:28 PM
Does anyone know how all the bolders came to rest there? Was it due to a volcano?DENNIS - 3-1-2007 at 02:45 PM
They were placed there by the hand of God while he sculpted the Baja Peninsula.Ken Bondy - 3-1-2007 at 03:21 PM
Those are all strikingly beautiful Skipjack. That is such a gorgeous part of the peninsula. Great job.Cypress - 3-1-2007 at 03:59 PM
Thanks for the pictures Skipjack!!Your avatar is neat alsoMexitron - 3-1-2007 at 04:16 PM
Bajagypsy--the granite was formed underneath the surface as part of a deep magma chamber(batholith)...it was then slowly exposed by uplifting and
erosion--same as the Sierra San Pedro Martir and Sierra Nevada. That's my layman's memory of the process.Skipjack Joe - 3-1-2007 at 04:23 PM
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Your avatar is neat also
Do you know who those two are?Skipjack Joe - 3-1-2007 at 04:33 PM
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Originally posted by Ken Bondy
Those are all strikingly beautiful Skipjack. That is such a gorgeous part of the peninsula. Great job.
Thanks Ken. I'm glad my images are finally coming to some use. They've been sitting in the shelves for years. Nobody looks at slides anymore and even
then not everybody was willing to make an evening of it looking at images on your livingroom wall.
I've always enjoyed looking at pictures and when you somehow capture a feeling or mood on film it's always very satisfying. Plus it forces you to slow
down and appreciate what's there.
Everyone has his or her own style of seeing things. I have my own way and I hope people will accept and enjoy how I see things and what I find
significant.David K - 3-1-2007 at 04:47 PM
Thanks for asking us along on your walk!
I love the desert!!!woody with a view - 3-1-2007 at 04:53 PM
"I've always enjoyed looking at pictures and when you somehow capture a feeling or mood on film it's always very satisfying. Plus it forces you to
slow down and appreciate what's there."
very well said. i also love when you have to stop, grab the camera, get out while your passenger is looking at you like you're loosing your grip on
reality and you run back to frame a "PERFECT" shot!Pompano - 3-1-2007 at 04:57 PM
I like the avatar, too...and have good times watching that old movie, "Captains Courageous." You choose well, Skipjack.
Those two are the main characters. Spencer Tracy plays Manuel, a seasoned trawler fisherman, and young Freddie Bartholmew plays Harvey, a spoiled
rich kid who is washed overboard from his luxery ship and rescued by Manuel, who becomes a father figure to the boy, and teaches him to fish, work
hard, take responsibilty, and become a better lad.
Based on an old Rudyard Kipling novel about lives of fishermen, I believe. I have about worn that movie out....a classic and Oscar winner.DianaT - 3-1-2007 at 05:37 PM
Nice, very nice----thanks for sharing them. Catavina is just amazing, and I like the way you see it.
Dianelatortugaguera - 3-1-2007 at 05:44 PM
beautiful pics Skipjack, thank you for sharing.Skipjack Joe - 3-1-2007 at 07:07 PM
Right on Pompano! I figured an old salt like yourself would know.
It's a very masculine story. A boy grows to be a man through tough love. Our world looks at it differently now. It's now considerate to be child
abuse.
I picked the avatar not only for the story but because of the interaction between Tracy and Bartholomew. It's obvious from the image that the boy
idolizes the man who taught him what it means to be a man.
It's the bond between all fathers and their sons.David K - 3-1-2007 at 07:11 PM
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Does anyone know how all the bolders came to rest there? Was it due to a volcano?
As Mexitron says, they became boulders after eons of weathering, earthquakes, etc.
When you drive by El Pedregoso (the boulder pile mountain between Cataviņa and Laguna Chapala), you are looking at what once was the tallest mountain
in the region... newer volcanic activity filled the region with lava and taller volcanic mountains. That old granite peak has weathered itself to
pieces, but was tall enough to remain above the molten lava seas that rose around it.bajalera - 3-1-2007 at 08:58 PM
Hey, Skip, your way of looking at things gets beautiful results.Natalie Ann - 3-2-2007 at 06:50 PM
What wonderful desert shots, Skipjack! Your image of that early morning sun creeping across and through those boulders creates for me a perfect sense
of how it feels to be there... the somewhat chilly awakening in the shadows, followed by the wondrous warmth of fingers of sunshine on my face and
shoulders, traveling all the way down to my toes.
And that last photo - well you gotta know it is one of my favorites... I'm always happy to see it again. Those colors and textures, the blueish cast
of light over the desert floor, the plants.... simply marvelous! Sure does make me want to be there right now.
Thank you so much for sharing these photos.
BTW - I disagree with you that today this would be considered child abuse.
Nena
[Edited on 3-5-2007 by Natalie Ann]Skipjack Joe - 3-4-2007 at 06:35 AM
I've been off the internet a few days.
Cypress, David K, Woody, Pompano, Diane, Latortugaguera, bajalera, and Natalie Ann. Thank you for the kind words and encouragement. Perhaps you will
remain as enthusiastic about the next few images which will be considerably more abstract in nature.
Natalie Ann you are certainly entitled to your opinion about child rearing.
