Nicole Jean Hill, Highway 14

Nicole Jean Hill
Highway 14, Ucross, Wyoming, 2011
From the Artifacts & Incidents series
Website - NicoleJeanHill.com

Nicole Jean Hill was born in Toledo, Ohio. She received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her photographs have been exhibited in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia, including solo exhibitions at the Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR), Gallery 44 (Toronto, ON) and The Front (New Orleans, LA). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah, and the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR. Hill currently resides in Eureka, CA and is an associate professor in the department of art at Humboldt State University.

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Joshua Dudley Greer, Imperial Sand Dunes

Joshua Dudley Greer
Imperial Sand Dunes, California, 2011
Website - JDudleyGreer.com

Joshua Dudley Greer received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and his MFA, with distinction, from the University of Georgia in 2009. His photographs have appeared in The Collector's Guide to New Art Photography Volume 2, Flash Forward 2010, Smithsonian Magazine and Photographer's Forum. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Commission and in 2012 was named one of the New Superstars of Southern Art by Oxford American. He is currently living in Johnson City, Tennessee where he is a visiting assistant professor of photography at East Tennessee State University.

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The lone tree on top of Inferno Cone - take II

You can see the lone tree on top of Inferno Cone in this view from the loop road heading back to the entrance area of Craters of the Moon National Monument.  You can also see the shoulder on the right flank of Inferno Cone that fools climbers into thinking they've got a short hike to the summit ahead of them. This image was taken with my 24mm lens and an exposure of 1/160 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

URL: http://pixofmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lone-tree-on-top-of-inferno-cone_12.html

The Great Rift

This panorama was assembled from 9 images taken with my 24mm lens on my 20D during our visit to Craters of the Moon National Monument at the end of our Ranger led Broken Top Hike more than 2 weeks ago.  It shows a section of the "Great Rift", a  fracture that is the cause of the Craters of the Moon lava flows.  You can trace the sources of the lava flows to sources right along the Great Rift, from its north end to its south end.

The leftmost image from the pan shows the flank of Broken Top cinder cone on the right as well as distant cones in the background that run along the Great Rift to the north.  This image was taken with my 24mm lens on my 20D and an exposure of 1/160 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

The rightmost image in the pan shows the flank of Broken Top cinder cone on the left as well as the flank of Big Cinder Butte on the right with the Great Rift running generally southward towards the cinder cone.  This image was taken with my 24mm lens looking into the sun with an exposure of 1/100 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

URL: http://pixofmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-great-rift.html

Hiking among the lava flows

Our group, led by Craters of the Moon park ranger Rebecca, hikes along the trail at the base of Broken Top cinder cone with Pahoehoe lava flows to their left. This image was taken with my 24mm lens and an exposure of 1/200 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

This panorama shows the lava flows between Broken Top cinder cone (behind the photographer) and Big Cinder Butte at the left in this pan.  This image was built from 7 frames taken with my 24mm lens on my 20D.

This is a Pahoehoe flow along the trail.  You can see a bluish tint to some of the surface layer.  The image was obtained with my 24mm lens with an exposure of 1/200 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

The section of this Pahoehoe lava was pushed up after it cooled so that you can see the layering inside.  This image was taken with my 24mm lens and an exposure of 1/160 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

URL: http://pixofmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/08/hiking-among-lava-flows.html

Buffalo Lava Caves, Craters of the Moon National Monument

Entering the cave - not too much clearance!  I bumped my head a couple times....  We left most of our backpacks at the entrance.  This image taken with my 24mm lens with an exposure of 1/250 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

A view of some of the stalactites hanging from the ceiling of the lava cave - these are not caused by the usual dripping calcium Carbonate but instead by the rock on the cave wall melting in the heat of the lava flowing through the cave below it.  This image was taken with my 24mm lens with an exposure of 1/800 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 3200 with a flashlight illuminating the central part of the image.

A view of more stalactites in the lava cave - smaller in this case than the first image.  This image is the combination of 2 images each with the flashlight pointed at slightly different parts of the ceiling , the exposures were 1/50 and 1/200 seconds, both at f/1.8, ISO 3200 with my 24mm lens.

Looking back at the entrance to the cave.  You can see the rough surface of the ceiling, covered in stalactites as well as the complex structure of the floor.  This image was taken with my 24mm lens with an exposure of 1/60 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 3200.

These last two photos are different views of the same section of a collapsed cave section.  The ceiling was around 3 or 4 feet thick before its collapse.  In the upper image, you can see some horizontal banding in the cave wall which  are the result of lava flows of differing depths when this was an active lava tube.  I forgot to reset my camera for outdoors shooting after climbing out of the cave, so the first image was taken at 1/4000 seconds at f/1.8, ISO 3200, the 2nd (after the D'Oh! moment) was taken at 1/25 seconds at f/8, ISO 100, both with my 24mm lens.

URL: http://pixofmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/08/buffalo-lava-caves-craters-of-moon.html

Interesting rock structures

Walking around on lava flows finds lots of interesting features - here are regular fractures in basaltic lava flows near Broken Top cinder cone.  These fractures are similar to those found at the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland or Devils Tower in Wyoming, though with different shaped fractures and not as long a column as those well known structures.  It is likely caused by rapid cooling of the lava flows and these square patterns were visible over a large area.  The area is not far from some lava caves (see my next post!).  This image was taken with my 24mm lens with an exposure of 1/100 seconds at f/8, ISO 100.

URL: http://pixofmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2012/08/interesting-rock-structures.html