Showing posts with label Comstock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comstock. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2016

GIFs of Far West Texas: Santa Elena Canyon, Pecos High Bridge, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Guadalupe Mountains

More fun with GIFs... This one is made from my video taken just inside Santa Elena Canyon in the Big Bend National Park (with a glimpse of Charles Angell, owner of Angell Expeditions-- highly recommended). 





This GIF (below) is of the Pecos River high bridge just past Comstock at the US-Mexico border. When you're driving on highway 90 you don't see the gorge until you're just about about over it-- one of the wiggier driving experiences to be had in all of Texas.




A GIF of the Big Bend Ranch State Park entrance:






Finally, a simple GIF, two shots of the Texas' other national park, Guadalupe Mountains, from who knows how many thousands of feet:

Hmm for some reason this GIF isn't working. Here's a good jpeg:






I'm working on my book about Far West Texas, and apropos of that, the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project with 20 of a projected 24 podcasts posted to date. Listen in anytime here.








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Monday, May 25, 2015

Rock Art Adventure in Far West Texas

The book in-progress about Far West Texas is turtling along.... meanwhile, I've posted a few new videos from the travels. All my videos are extremely brief, edited, and with soundtracks. The idea isn't to be the next Ken Burns --though I do love that "Ken Burns" option in iMovie-- but to simply illustrate the text. (Think of them as a pirouette up from GIFs.)

From a recent outing with the Rock Art Foundation (to a site about an hour from Comstock, on the banks of the Pecos River):



LEWIS CANYON PETROGLYPHS





BANKS OF THE PECOS RIVER; 

LEWIS CANYON PETROGRAPHS AND TINAJA




MEYERS SPRING






Sound tracks on all three are courtesy of English composer Ergo Phizmiz.


Listen in anytime to my interview with Greg Williams, the director of the Rock Art Foundation, "Marfa Mondays" #15


 All Marfa Mondays Podcasts


About the book in-progress


 More of my mini-videos of Far West Texas


A TV news clip about some of the fascinating cutting edge research going on at the Shumla School in Comstock

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