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A recent one that was just a good story and hard to put down? In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts Nothing grabs your senses more than his description of his walking along a ledge in a Southwest canyon and coming upon a 1500 year old woven basket in perfect condition looking as though it...

Tom, It’s a nice abstract as it is and since I perceived it as looking upslope I didn’t think of the ‘edge of the snow’ as a horizon. I wouldn’t worry about that, IMHO. I like the left side of the image better than the center and right because of the shadow detail. So I did cropped the image...

Fabulous shots, as always, Tim. Your first shot is reminiscent of our hike up the Jewell Trail to Jefferson two seasons ago where we climbed out of the undercast to a fabulous day. Keep 'em coming. We all like to live vicariously through other people's great trips and photos. JohnL

A quick search of this guy indicates he was more of a film maker and actor than a mountaineer although he was athletic enough to do the mountain stunts in the film so well he took over the lead role in a film. He was also described as an idealistic and nationalistic person and his films...

#53 on National Geographic's list of Greatest Adventure Books of All Time 53. THE LONG WALK By Slavomir Rawicz (1956) The author, a Polish cavalry officer, and six other men escaped from a Siberian prison camp in 1941, walked across Mongolia and the Gobi, through Tibet and the Himalaya...

Kinsman Falls Windblown on Adams 4 What's better than a winter hike up Mt Washington in short sleeves? The Lakes Hut and Mt Monroe from a different perspective. Whiteout near the summit of Mt Pierce Whiteworld, Crawford Path Contemplation The Foxes: A mother and her five...

Aetherian Symbol? A painted symbol on the Star Lake Trail on Mt Adams. It is believed that this symbol, though not an exact duplicate of the Aetherian symbol, was painted by the Aetherians on one of their pilgrimages to the mountain. The painting appears to be weathered and defaced. This...

Hmmm, not really. The link you provided shows that the camera will program larger apertures for Portrait settings and smaller apertures for Landscape modes. The camera will set the aperture to various settings per pre-set creative apertures depending upon the type of Image Zone selected by the...

Switch your aperture range to f/8 - f/11. These apertures yield the optimum image sharpness and contrast for most lenses. Your aperture selections of f/2.8, f/3.2 or f/4 are wide open or nearly so and will result in 'softer' images. If you are using a tripod then your shutter speed is...

Mt Monroe reflection (of sorts) from one of the Lakes of the Clouds North Kinsman reflection from Kinsman Pond Mt Cabot's Horn from Unknown Pond JohnL

I found this set of photos quite by accident as I was browsing through some unrelated flickr photos. They are part of an archival project from the photos of a founder of Teradyne Corporation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/sets/72157600073036195/ JohnL

“According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration there are about 1.5 million car accidents with deer each year that result in $1 billion in vehicle damage, about 150 human fatalities, and over 10,000 personal injuries.” There may be another reason to understand your vehicle’s...

I'm a Salomon fan and I've had my B-52's for about 4 or 5 seasons now. I've worn them to 10 below without any issues. I don't even think about trying to find my plastics anymore. JohnL

Knowing the mechanics of your camera is an essential part of the fundamentals. Knowing what ‘buttons to push’ is important. Knowing what buttons to push to truly achieve your desired effect is another matter altogether. As your desire to create something more than snapshots increases, your...

Winter solo hike of Mt Waumbek. Now I know the mere thought of this sends shivers up your spine but that’s not even the scary part. I knew that trail would be broken out because I knew of some other VFTTers who were there the previous day. I was the first one up the trail and it was a mild...

Oh, I almost forgot. Great shot. Very Blair Moose Project'ish. JohnL

Moose pheromones. Gotta be moose pheromones. That's it. Yep. That's gotta be it. Like a moth to a flame. Yep. JohnL

Love the mama moose shot with water dripping from her chin. It's nice how you create a neat little story with photos and a few words. Well done! JohnL

I met up with the same (I believe!) female moose that I spotted on Sep 5 along the Georgiana Falls trail today. I posted a couple images of her here. She was no more than 10 feet off the trail but behind a wire fence almost directly underneath the I-93 southbound lanes. I stopped and talked...

A comparison of stream levels from Sep 5 and today: Downstream from Georgiana Falls: Georgiana Falls: Bridal Veil Falls today. I don't have any comparison photos to share but from other photos of the falls I have seen, there's a lot of water up there today. JohnL