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Buford Posts: 416
1/13/2022
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New year, new thread.
Desert sunrise from the first trip of 2022:
None of these were the desert birds I was looking for:
More shots from my Borrego timelpase stacked to simulate long exposures:
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Brian Posts: 144
1/13/2022
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Very nice pics. I always love seeing your shots of the ramp.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2551
1/14/2022
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Looks like a good start to 2022..!
Nice DOF on the bird shots 
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rockhopper Posts: 638
1/14/2022
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Great eye! I always enjoy your superb wildlife photos and desert panoramas too!
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Buford Posts: 416
1/14/2022
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Thanks. I was looking for owls or other birds of prey but only found the birds pictured and only got bird on a stick shots. I have seen owls in those areas before multiple times. I know I could always go to the campground for owls but that is less fun.
One more bird on a stick:
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Buford Posts: 416
1/17/2022
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Buford Posts: 416
1/18/2022
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Anyone know anything about this:
Found on a trip that started in Rockhouse and went up into the Santa Rosa range. Google turned up nothing for me.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2551
1/19/2022
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Have not run into that one before, have found a few others however...nice find.
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Anyone know anything about this:
Found on a trip that started in Rockhouse and went up into the Santa Rosa range. Google turned up nothing for me.
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Buford Posts: 416
1/24/2022
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Stormy conditions make for better photos and timelapses. New shots, old locations and compositions.
Multiple timelapse exposures stacked to simulate a long exposure:
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1278
1/29/2022
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Great photos Buford.
Really like the bird on the Ocotillo shot and the time lapse scenery photos
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Rocko1 Posts: 508
1/31/2022
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Buford wrote:
Anyone know anything about this:
Found on a trip that started in Rockhouse and went up into the Santa Rosa range. Google turned up nothing for me.
Where abouts on the ridge was this? Looks close to Toro.
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Buford Posts: 416
1/31/2022
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Rocko1 wrote:
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Anyone know anything about this:
Found on a trip that started in Rockhouse and went up into the Santa Rosa range. Google turned up nothing for me.
Where abouts on the ridge was this? Looks close to Toro.
Very close to Toro. Roughly ESE of the high point.
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Buford Posts: 416
1/31/2022
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Best mountain range in the park
A new timelapse is coming at some point.
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Brian Posts: 144
1/31/2022
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Very close to Toro. Roughly ESE of the high point.
Wow, that's quite an undertaking to get to that area from Rockhouse. I've explored Alta Seca Bench from the top, but never gone up any of the ridges from the bottom. Maybe soon though!
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Buford Posts: 416
1/31/2022
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Brian wrote:
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Very close to Toro. Roughly ESE of the high point.
Wow, that's quite an undertaking to get to that area from Rockhouse. I've explored Alta Seca Bench from the top, but never gone up any of the ridges from the bottom. Maybe soon though!
My idea of a fun hike is probably different than most. Toro Peak is only ~6 round trip from the upper rockhouses and Nicholias Spring.
More random shots
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Rocko1 Posts: 508
2/1/2022
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Buford wrote:
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Very close to Toro. Roughly ESE of the high point.
Wow, that's quite an undertaking to get to that area from Rockhouse. I've explored Alta Seca Bench from the top, but never gone up any of the ridges from the bottom. Maybe soon though!
My idea of a fun hike is probably different than most. Toro Peak is only ~6 round trip from the upper rockhouses and Nicholias Spring.
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Only 6m from there huh? Interesting. Can you share which route?
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Buford Posts: 416
2/1/2022
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Only 6m from there huh? Interesting. Can you share which route?
Head up the ridge from the cottonwoods. When you hit the Santa Rosa crest, follow that to Toro. Nothing technical and navigational wise easy enough. I can add a map later but it is a simple route. Works out to ~3 miles each way. Not easy.
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Rocko1 Posts: 508
2/2/2022
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Buford wrote:
Only 6m from there huh? Interesting. Can you share which route?
Head up the ridge from the cottonwoods. When you hit the Santa Rosa crest, follow that to Toro. Nothing technical and navigational wise easy enough. I can add a map later but it is a simple route. Works out to ~3 miles each way. Not easy.
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Something like this?
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Buford Posts: 416
2/2/2022
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Rocko1 wrote:
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Only 6m from there huh? Interesting. Can you share which route?
Head up the ridge from the cottonwoods. When you hit the Santa Rosa crest, follow that to Toro. Nothing technical and navigational wise easy enough. I can add a map later but it is a simple route. Works out to ~3 miles each way. Not easy.
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Something like this?
Not exactly, South portion of that line swings too far East. As drawn it probably goes but is not necessary. Straight North from the cottonwoods to the ridge that looks over the spring is what I did. Your lines looks fine for the top half. The top part gets brushy but is ducked to get through the worst of the brush.
Just beware, my idea of a fun day hike is something along the lines of 6582 or worse.
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Both routes probably go and are close enough.
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Brian Posts: 144
2/2/2022
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Here's a pic I took from Alta Seca Bench. Is the ridge in the middle / behind the bush the same one you marked on the map?
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Both routes probably go and are close enough.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2551
2/3/2022
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Buford wrote:
edit -> more like this:
This looks like the route I have used. Although I know I have recorded it before, I looked thru all of my tracks and couldn't find one. Lots of brush also.
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Buford Posts: 416
2/22/2022
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Brian wrote:
Here's a pic I took from Alta Seca Bench. Is the ridge in the middle / behind the bush the same one you marked on the map?
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Both routes probably go and are close enough.
Hard to tell. Looks like it might be the right one. I didn't take any pics that showed it well. Here is one part way down.
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Buford Posts: 416
2/22/2022
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Here is more timelapse cleaned up a bit. Some new sequences from this year and a lot of the same older sequences I used previously. I cleaned up some of the technical issues. Still not perfect, still learning. I need to stabilize one of the sequences in post, the tripod was not steady enough in the high winds.
Click the image to play.
Edited to update the link to a newer version.
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Britain Posts: 539
3/3/2022
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Well done!
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Scooter Posts: 107
3/4/2022
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Excellent, they should play this at the visitors center !!
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Buford Posts: 416
15 days ago
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Costas
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A couple different takes on the milky way
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Buford Posts: 416
14 days ago
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One more from an area most people just drive past.
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Brian Posts: 144
12 days ago
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Great pics as always, Buford. I don't recognize the last one so I'm sure I've just driven past it too.
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Buford Posts: 416
9 days ago
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Brian wrote:
Great pics as always, Buford. I don't recognize the last one so I'm sure I've just driven past it too.
Scissors area.
Rockrunner
Tarantula hawk
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rockhopper Posts: 638
9 days ago
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Awesome photos. Please keep em' coming!
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Buford Posts: 416
9 days ago
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Thanks.
A couple more. The roadrunner tried to attack a dove and the dove got away.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2551
8 days ago
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Look great Bufurd, thanks for sharing.
The time lapse was really awesome, really nice work..!!
Last milky way shot looks like the culp valley / pinyon campsite at the end of the road near the trail to pinyon ridge.
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Buford Posts: 416
7 days ago
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Last milky way shot looks like the culp valley / pinyon campsite at the end of the road near the trail to pinyon ridge.
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Correct. I've scouted that site out before for milky way shots, never got around to shooting there until last weekend.
I usually try and get birds in flight instead of bird on a stick shots. I couldn't get the doves to cooperate.
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rockhopper Posts: 638
6 days ago
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Buford, looks like you worked for Nat.Geo. :-)
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2551
4 days ago
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For time lapse, how about watching one of those small sandy wash belly bushes creating that swirly pattern in the sand as the wind blows the branches back and forth? Or maybe an ant hill being formed? got make them unique to ABDSP so it's not "just another one of those swirly bush/ant hill" time lapse videos...
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