Uploads from SLEEC Photos/Suzanne, tagged absolutelystunningscapes

...Weather the Weather

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:35:00 -0800

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. -- Carl Reiner
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. -- George Carlin

The southern California mountains look more like the Sierras this week. It snowed all last night and all day today. My Suburban is completely covered so I'm not driving anywhere for a while. Oh well, this flat lander city girl asked for it. I drove up the hill voluntarily thinking that all the rain predicted for the coast would be boring and...damn it...I missed the Huntington Beach tornado!

Thank you, chri.spins for including the "Whether the weather" poem in your 1/17 post. I'm only British 12 generations back but I do get the mindset. :o)

Like a Rock

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:46:00 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities. -- Michael Kenna

Kern River
California

Summer's End

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:44:43 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

Sunset Beach, California

Field of Dreams

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:17:55 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

Big Bear Lake, California

Winter Wonderland

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:15:07 -0800

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

There is no season such delight can bring
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
-- William Browne

Taken along North Shore Drive (Hwy. 38), just outside of Fawnskin, Ca. That section of smooth white snow is actually part of Big Bear Lake.

The Broken Fence

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:59:00 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms 'shoot' and 'take' are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term 'make' define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events. -- Ansel Adams

Moonridge
Big Bear Lake, California

Till the Clouds Roll By

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:33:00 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

We don't make a photograph just with a camera...we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved. -- Ansel Adams

Big Bear Lake, California

Clouds over Moonridge

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:34:00 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

I chose nature photography as a way of capturing and sharing the beauty, power, and fragility of wild places and the life that inhabits them, so that those who have become mired in the man-made chaos may open their eyes to the real world. - Guy Tal

Moonridge, Big Bear Lake, California

Shallow Water

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:50:00 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

The camera always points both ways. In expressing your subject, you also express yourself. -- Freeman Patterson

Big Bear Lake at Fawnskin Bay
Fawnskin, California

Golden Oaks

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:59:38 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

San Bernardino National Forest
near Big Bear, California

Boulder Bay 2

nobody@flickr.com (SLEEC Photos/Suzanne) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:30:53 -0700

SLEEC Photos/Suzanne posted a photo:

Art and picture making with a camera are fundamentally the same, requiring such essential qualities as good taste, beauty of line, and perfect juxtaposition of tone, together with atmosphere that stirs the emotion.. ..With vision and imagination in the mind of the operator, the most exquisite results can be obtained with detail that no other medium can record with such precision. -- Gilbert Adams

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Boulder Bay
Big Bear Lake, California