Vernal Falls pic and clip from yesterday....today: Breakfast, then a nap, a long nap!...didn't get out and about until around three...paddled over to the Village through Bobcat Meadow..returned same way...on return, sighted Hawk fly from the Oak Grove to the Tall Snag...farfar away pic...not sure of Hawk's name(Redtail, Zeke)...Hawk flew off just as I was sighting the digi...tried to follow into the Artists Grove...but no luck....wintry day, cool, lots of clouds moving along the rims, and dark, but I can see the Moon peeking through the clouds tonight, more rain on the way....the Falls clip goes together with some more clips of the Merced along the Mist Trail...will try to put them together and post to youTube in hd....
A Note:
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In a broader sense, topography is concerned with local detail in general, including not only relief but also vegetative and human-made features, and even local history and culture. This meaning is less common in America, where topographic maps withelevation contours have made "topography" synonymous with relief. The older sense of topography as the study of place still has currency in Europe.
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In my watercolor classes, (I took art classes shortly before coming to the Valley for like three years at nearby community college--Palomar, Escondido), I gravitated to making a pencil drawing, inking the lines with an India ink quill pen, and then using transparent water colors, which I'm happy to find is how the early topographers did their paintings. In class, one went from very light pencil sketch to the watercolors. The page I've linked is great, giving a history of the topographers. Anyway, it was my notion to come to the Park and be a topographer, a notion that sorta diverted to photographer, blogger, something! But I think my underlying purpose has held true. And I like this paragraph by the author on the page:
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But during the period 1750 to 1850 the number of amateur artists significantly increased, and provided crucial momentum for the development of watercolor painting. The qualifications to be an amateur painter then, as described by Martin Hardie, might well apply to amateur painters of today: sufficient prosperity to afford leisure time; the cultural education to value art; a talent for drawing; the confidence and persistence to pursue painting without too much reliance on the judgments of others; and the supportive interest of a small circle of family, friends or fellow amateurs.
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