Photo-Swap-Thursday - #3

Hoodoo Heaven” at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (USA)

Heather:   A couple of years ago, I took my three kids to southern Utah for a week of hiking and adventure.  Our biggest luxuries lay in the challenges, the stunning views and the freshwater we carried on our backs.  Below, I’ve posted a photo from Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah where a sudden hail storm turned a simple hike amongst the hoodoos into quite an adventure!  To read more about our experience, click the link below.

…One’s imagination can run a little wild amongst hoodoos, and each visitor’s unique vision seems to personalize the Bryce experience. My vivid childhood memories of spired castles rising above pink, red and orange people brought me back -with my own children this time. Intermittent rumbling soon lent a deeper hue to the sky as we hiked the Queen’s Garden and Navajo Trails. Eventually, I shoved the camera into our dry bag, and we raced for cover from a pelting storm!  

(click for MORE on “Hoodoo Heaven”)


Heather Dugan is a writer/photographer and voice-over/on-camera talent based in Central Ohio with clients worldwide.  A frequent traveler and lover of the outdoors, she is never without her camera and running shoes.
Her travel adventures are chronicled on "Footsteps"   www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW 
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Spurs as Modern Honors

Spurs for Cowboy boots - captured in Wyoming

Spurs as modern honors

Just as a medieval knight was said to have "earned his spurs", the awarding of spurs has continued in the modern era as an honor bestowed upon individuals in organizations with military heritages, and among motorcycle riders. Members of the Papal Orders of Chivalry receive gilt spurs directly from the hands of the Pope; members of the British Order of the Garter similarly receive gilt spurs from the Monarch. Inductees into the American Order of the Spur receive gold-colored (usually brass) spurs if they have earned their membership through combat, or silver-colored (usually nickel) spurs if they have not seen combat, but complete a rite of passage.

Read more about spurs, its history and today's use here

More posts on this blog about "Spurs" are here:

Hi my friends,

Tomorrow is my "Photo-Swap-Thursday" again and it is  already our # 3 !!

Come back tomorrow and read what my guest blogger Heather Dugan is writing and 

to see her excellent travel photo matching the text. In reverse I'll be posting on her blog http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW  - go there also to see and to read what I have to say on her site. 

Thanks in advance  :))

 

Thank you also to all your kind comments and compliments and for all the "thumbs up" on Facebook

to my last post. It's great to have so many wonderful friends, like YOU!!

~Susanne

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Photo-Swap-Thursday #2

Edge View From Horseshoe Bend

Heather: Sometimes, the view itself is the adventure… Last spring I spent a week hiking around Arizona with my oldest son. I shot this photo from my own breath-taking cliff’s edge position at Horse Shoe Bend in Page, Arizona where there are no barriers except your own common sense.

“Sunset photos of Horseshoe Bend near Page, Arizona take a bit of planning.  Bursting, changing light and a cliff side tripod perch are just a couple of the challenges.  Wind and blowing sand can make the experience even more interesting…”

More photos, audio and the full story can be found here: Photo’s Edge

Heather Dugan is a writer/photographer and voice-over/on-camera talent based in Central Ohio with clients worldwide. A frequent traveler and lover of the outdoors, she is never without her camera and running shoes.

Her travel adventures are chronicled on "Footsteps" www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW

Writing samples/article links and recording demos can be found at www.heatherdugan.com. "

Find her on Facebook here!

Where are they going to?

Where are they going...???

Hi my friends,

thanks for all the wonderful comments yesterday - you all made my day with your words!

Tomorrow is not only Thanksgiving Day - it is also my "Photo-Swap-Thursday". 

Heather and I have decided to do a post swap together and we hope you'll find still the time to have a look to our both post after all that turkey and smashed potatoes - and not to forget all the yummy pies! 

Reading our blogs is a great excercice....LOL...

HAPPY THANKSGIVINGS DAY to all of you and see ya' tomorrow here!

~Susanne

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Photo - Swap - Thursday # 1

Hi Everyone,

Like all of you, I’m a big fan of Susanne’s work. I hope you will enjoy our Photo Swap Thursdays as much as I know Susanne and I will! This first photo was taken at sunset in Bodega Bay, California. The story behind it is below:

It was an ordinary sea gull doing nothing more than what sea birds ordinarily do. But the sun was dragging the light of coastal California back into the sea and launching its final spears of light at a craggy shoreline… It was too cold for crowds on the bluff, and soon it was only the bird and me. A fierce and chilling wind whipped my hair, blinding me until I turned to face its force directly. The bird soared effortlessly on its current, floating up again and again without twitching a muscle, merely tipping from side to side to catch the wind’s lift and riding the gusting draft as the sinking sun ignited sand and surf below…

A warm car awaited me. And dinner. A long drive too, during which I would be able to sink into my seat and watch the creeping night absorb the silhouettes along the road. The intensity of the chilling wind would fade instantly to a faint whistle when I leapt into the heated car. And so I could linger for a moment.

It was one of those perfect moments where the intensities of the external and the internal blend into a lasting sensory picture to file under “memories” in your inner library.

The wonder of this one was that I also got the photograph…

"Heather Dugan is a writer/photographer and voice-over/on-camera talent based in Central Ohio with clients worldwide. A frequent traveler and lover of the outdoors, she is never without her camera or running shoes.

Her travel adventures are chronicled on "Footsteps" www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW

Writing samples/article links and recording demos can be found at www.heatherdugan.com. "