Land’s End
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
These fields seem to be slowly eroding away into barren wasteland. At 30,000 feet one can more easily see geographic transitions like this and it’s one of the reasons I find flying so enjoyable.
Note: there was ice on the window and you can see it in the bottom of the image. Also, I bumped up the contrast some here to get it closer to the way it looked to my eye.
A great aerial, image Richard, with rich colors. It looks like the foreground is falling off into space.
Gary, according to some, the background is what’s falling (see Kees’ comment on flickr). ;)
Digg it!
Good stuff, Richard. Your shots are amazing, wonderful website too. Came across it ’cause it was on the front page of digg.com.
http://digg.com/science/Incredible_Photo:_Land_s_End__2
This picture got dug over at digg.com and that churned up 50,000 views in two hours. Gad, the internet can be a ferocious place it seems. And, somehow my metaphoric comment got taken as an environmental statement about erosion. Gad. Zooks. Crap. Ugh!
5 minutes later, 690 digs and climbing fast and it’s on the front page of digg.com. Oh brother, this is not a good sign. I’m currently being raked over the coals as an environmental idiot and I didn’t even mean to make a statement about that stuff. Crud.
Heh. Congratulatiuons! (i think!)
I hope you get a good deal on bandwidth. It is a really fantastic picture though. Well done.
Alex and Jamie: Thanks very much. One of the reasons I blog my images from flickr is to save bandwitdh here so unless this site gets overrun I think I’m safe (for now).
Thank you for the compliments on the image, and thanks for the warning about digg.com.
Someone in my flickr comment string for this image posted a link to this wonderful resource on the history and geology of the area.
“The Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), the southern extension of the High Plains of North America, lies south of the Canadian River in northwest Texas and northeast New Mexico.”
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