Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Everybody saw this coming.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Books are my comfort food!

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

We still have time to mess this up!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

People are weird.

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

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On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

Have a wonderful day and weekend, and enjoy the pictures!

 

We’ve got some marvelous things lined up for next week, but first – wow!

Today, pictures from valued commenter HinTN.

We spent some time in early October at the Grand Canyon. This was the first time I’d experienced rain there. These shots try to capture the mist hanging below the rim.

Taken on 2018-10-07 00:00:00

Grand Canyon

Another thing that’s really hard to do is capture how much you can see in the rocks when with the sun blazing in your eyes.

Taken on 2018-10-06 00:00:00

Grand Canyon

We were promenading along the path that registers the years of the canyon’s existence by placing markers in the path and occasionally placing a sample of the rock deposited in that epoch by the path when this cloud brewed up. Yes, there’s a color burst in there.

Taken on 2018-10-06 00:00:00

Grand Canyon

It’s really hard to capture the gauzy effect that the rain has on the in-your-face color scheme.

Taken on 2018-10-07 00:00:00

Grand Canyon

I couldn’t resist this for of the river.

Taken on 2018-10-06 00:00:00

Grand Canyon

It wasn’t all rainy days. The weather changes really fast when they’re having it.

 

Thank you so much HinTN, do send us more when you can.

 

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23Comments

  1. 1.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    The 10/7 river view photo should be enlarged and framed – so beautiful!

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    MarthaD

    I wandered to this site from a link in someone’s bio on Twitter. What an amazing collaborative idea! And these photos are just gorgeous! I saw the GC once very long ago as a child and always wished to go back and take my son but sadly we never made it. Now his father and I are both chronically ill, he is grown and unfortunately suffers from addiction. Still, who knows? Maybe one day we’ll make it there to enjoy the breathtaking vistas.

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    David Evans

    Lovely. I thought you captured the rain well. Maybe increase the contrast a little in Photoshop (or in my case Picasa)?

  12. 12.

    waratah

    The Grand Canyon is magnificent. I think your photos capture it.
    I was dressed for the desert one time we went and it was was foggy, I nearly froze.
    Your photos are beautiful.

  14. 14.

    HinTN

    Thank you all for the praise. Unlike some of our professional photographers here I’m just a tourist with my Samsung. The river shot came about because I really enjoy trying to frame things and I just zoomed way in on that view. That’s where the softness comes from. That and the landscape itself. I’m really proud of that one! As for the contest and such, since I gave up darkroom work 40 years ago I’ve not done any post-processing. Maybe when I retire. Glad you liked them. I love me some National Parks!

  15. 15.

    Spanky

    Wow. My first thought was “looks like oil on canvas”. And I see you guys agree about the painting-like quality there.

  16. 16.

    HinTN

    @Sab: Sunset

    That one, too, was zoomed way in to take out the lighting overload from the remainder of the sky. Serendipity is good!

  19. 19.

    mapaghimagsik

    Happy Holidays from MurderCorp! Named so because NegligentHomocideCorp just doesn’t have the same ring! After a series of dismal team gatherings where management professed to know nothing yet for everyone to be prepared for deep, deep, changes. There was a holiday gathering where we were told we are the most amazing X department in history, and that there was not a better team in all America.

    I don’t know about you, but some vapid hyperbole makes me nervous, though in retrospect, I probably have nothing to be nervous about. My resume is up to date, and I am at peace with my maker, someone who I refer to as “Stoned Geppetto.” But as has been said, “a day above ground…”

    In any event. I get to celebrate the closing of a week without my company killing anyone huzzah!.

  21. 21.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    Wow is an understatement. Stunning is as well, but it’s all I got. Thanks HinTN for submitting these, and thanks Alain for posting them.

  22. 22.

    stinger

    The photo with the river looks like an oil painting. (I see I’m not the first to think so.) All are spectacular!

  23. 23.

    J R in WV

    Great Set of photos HinTN !!

    My favorite is also the one with the river, but only by a smidge, I also like the ones with the clouds lying on the rock walls.

    We don’t need a darkroom anymore, just a click or two on a photo tool, I use a free tool called GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) which runs on Linux – I think it also works on Windoze, which I left behind after years of being chained to it for work. There are several other free tools, like Polarr that you could use to get that rock wall to come out below the sun. I fooled with the image you loaded, but the original image would be better to tune up.

    They do have a ton of gadgets, and are tricky at first, but there are magazine articles, help files and even books about how to do it. Exp for Adobe, but I avoid giant evil corp tools, and Adobe is, well not as giant as they want to be, but evil for sure.

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