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(via Eagle owl (Bubo bubo) with orange eyes in wintry landscape. Pet Bandana by Luggnagg)
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“We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Ernest Hemingway || The Owls head light beaming across the Rockland Harbor. She protects the ships from her jagged point as they head to sea or return to the home fires. (I tagged Rockland because I shot this photo from the Breakwater Light Park) #lighthousesofnewengland #lighthouse #lighthouses #sea #ocean #midcoast #midcoastmaine #owlshead #rockland #light (at Rockland, Maine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgE8ZjVuXRW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Owls Head State Park.
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Owls Head Light is feeling festive in this chilly weather! 🎄 #Maine #lighthouse #OwlsHead — at Owls Head Light State Park.
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Lighthouses of the World
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The lighthouse at the nice State Park in Owlshead , Maine. It might just be the photo, but the process shot looks better then the second image after I got it into the studio and worked on it a little bit. It looks like I changed the shape of the lighthouse, although that definitely wasn’t a plan! The first image is darker, and has higher value contrasts. It’s always hard to judge a photo online, because different screens show a painting differently. I find it helpful to take photos of my artwork, and then use that information for touchups. Anyway, I can always bring it back. 8 x 12” or 20 x 30 cm, oil.
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Hikers are seen in the distance at the Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California. This rugged desert landscape holds the world's record for the hottest air temperature—134°F in 1913. Tourists still flock here to experience the blistering heat. Photograph By Raul Touzon, National Geographic Image Collection
How Did Death Valley 🏜️ Gets Its Name? Not From The Heat
In December 1849, a group of settlers seeking their fortunes stumbled upon this inhospitable valley. The few who made it out alive assigned the haunting moniker.
— By Erin Blakemore | July 25, 2023
As a heat wave continues to blanket the Northern Hemisphere, tourists are making pilgrimages to the hottest place on Earth—Death Valley, California—in hope of experiencing a new world-record high temperature. The valley already holds the record for hottest air temperature ever recorded, a whopping 134°F in 1913.
But if they think the valley was named after its scorching summer temps, they’re wrong—it actually got its name from a winter disaster. Here’s how Death Valley got its name, and why it continues to lure visitors with its extreme weather and barren landscape.
Photographing Death Valley’s starry skies shines a light on pollution. A national park artist-in-residence captures the fragility and beauty of the desert at night. August 20, 2020! As an artist-in-residence at Death Valley National Park, photographer Harun Mehmedinović captured images of its night skies and increasing light pollution. In this snowy shot, he caught both stars and, on the right, the glow of the city of Las Vegas. Photograph By Harun Mehmedinović
Inside A Desolate Desert
Located in southeastern California near the Nevada border, Death Valley is nestled in the northern Mojave Desert between four mountain ranges: the Panamint Range to the west, the Amargosa Range to the east, the Grapevine Mountains to the north, and the Owlshead Mountains to the south.
The area’s original inhabitants, the Timbisha Shoshone, lived in harmony with the valley for millennia. But when European settlers encountered it during their westward migration, they were flummoxed by the landscape. Though surrounded by mountain ranges, the valley is situated at the lowest elevation in the United States. The alkaline desert floor is bone dry and lacks vegetation, while the surrounding mountains trap the heat reflected by the sparse desert floor—making it blindingly hot in the summer and inhospitable even in winter.
Even before gold was discovered there in 1849, California attracted white settlers searching for a new life filled with natural riches. Many of these emigrants were completely unprepared for the arduous trip across both mountain and desert—and some fell victim to people who falsely claimed they knew the safest, fastest routes.
In one particularly famous case in 1846, a group of pioneers known as the Donner Party became snowbound after following the shortcut that a booster named Lansford Hastings had advertised. Stuck in the Sierra Nevadas, some of these pioneers eventually resorted to cannibalism and lost nearly half of their group to starvation and exposure.
Photographing Death Valley’s starry skies shines a light on pollution. A national park artist-in-residence captures the fragility and beauty of the desert at night. August 20, 2020! The Milky Way looks brighter above Death Valley’s Panamint Springs thanks to the dim lighting at this gas station. Mehmedinović says the image shows the benefit of cutting out excessive light around national parks. Photograph By Harun Mehmedinović
On The Trail To Death Valley
Despite the Donner Party disaster—and the fact that they lacked familiarity with the terrain—boosters and wagon train leaders still attempted to find shortcuts on their journeys to California, especially after gold was discovered there.
In October 1849, members of trail leader Jefferson Hunt’s Mojave San Joaquin Company wagon train grew impatient with Hunt’s pace and his preferred route, known as the Old Spanish Trail. Some worried they’d be stuck in the mountains during the winter like the Donner Party if they didn’t move more quickly. They briefly convinced Hunt to try an alternative route, but Hunt returned from a reconnaissance mission nearly dead of thirst and told them he’d keep to the Old Spanish Trail.
A subset of the party still thought they could find a path west across the Mojave Desert, however—and when they met up with another, smaller party on the trail, they were shown a hand-drawn map of a cutoff that was endorsed, they were told, by some of the region’s most experienced trappers and mountaineers. After Hunt refused to take the shortcut, which would shave 500 miles and potentially months off the journey, much of the party broke off to try out the supposedly superior route.
At first, it seemed like they’d made the right choice: travel was easy, and they made good time. But soon they encountered more and more inhospitable terrain, and increasing disputes about how to proceed. One group headed toward a nearby mountain in hopes of finding water. The other, a group of younger, unmarried men who called themselves “Jayhawkers,” broke off into their own party and attempted to press due west to find the mountaineers’ advertised trail—a route that, it turns out, didn’t really exist.
As both groups journeyed, water became harder to find, and many turned back in search of Hunt rather than face the coming winter in the deadly Sierras. “Grass there is scarce, wood there is none,” wrote Jayhawker Sheldon Young of the landscape. “It is a dubious looking country.”
Photographing Death Valley’s starry skies shines a light on pollution. A national park artist-in-residence captures the fragility and beauty of the desert at night. August 20, 2020! Light pollution from cities can encroach on rural areas. Here, in Mehmedinović’s photograph of Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa, the glow on the right comes from Las Vegas, more than 200 miles away. Photograph By Harun Mehmedinović
Disaster Strikes
Weak and exhausted, in December 1849 both groups eventually entered a massive valley filled with salt flats and surrounded by mountains on all sides. Water was scarce in the desert valley; they were only able to locate highly alkaline water sources.
The Jayhawkers slaughtered many of their own oxen to eat and walked across the valley, eventually finding a Native American who guided them to safety. The other party tried going the other direction. As they pressed onward, this time another group of men decided to strike out on their own, and would ultimately die of exposure along their preferred trail.
On the verge of dehydration, the remaining members of the original party were briefly saved by a snowstorm. But over time, oxen dropped dead from thirst and exhaustion, and several men died. Finally, all but a few of the men broke off find their way over the mountains. The others waited patiently at the bottom of the valley.
Finally, after more than a month, the remaining party members—mostly women and young children—were rescued by two young men they’d sent off to get supplies. As they made their final crossing of the Panamint Mountains, one of the party members is said to have turned toward the valley and said “Goodbye, Death Valley.” Overall, it took the shortcut seekers more than four months to find their way to the part of California they sought.
Photographing Death Valley’s starry skies shines a light on pollution. A national park artist-in-residence captures the fragility and beauty of the desert at night. August 20, 2020! "These images are meant to evoke a sense of wonder and curiosity,” says Mehmedinović. “I see images as a gateway to a discussion on the importance of the night sky and our impact on the environment.” Photograph By Harun Mehmedinović
The Highest Temperature Recorded on Earth?
The name stuck—and today, the valley is still known as one of the most barren and dangerous places in the United States. In 1913, the ambient air temperature reportedly rose to 134 degrees, still the world-record high air temperature.
Modern-day meteorologists dispute this reading, pointing out that the temperature was not in line with that of other nearby places and that even freak “hot spots” in the valley cannot account for those variations.
“It is possible to demonstrate that a temperature of 134°F in Death Valley on July 10, 1913, was essentially not possible from a meteorological perspective,” wrote meteorologist Christopher C. Burt in a 2016 analysis. However, the World Meteorological Organization, which validates world-record temperatures, still considers the reading a world record.
The group “is always willing to investigate any past extreme record when new credible evidence is presented,” the WMO wrote in a 2020 release, but to date the analysis has never been officially invalidated.
In the meantime, as a potential new extreme approaches, the organization says it’s ready to examine and validate any new records. Death Valley may not have gotten its name from a scorching summer’s day. But 174 years after it was named, the barren, salty valley is still as inhospitable as it was in 1849.
#Death Valley 🏜️#Inhospitable#California#High Temperature World Record#Desolate Desert 🐪#Mojave Desert#Timbisha Shoshone#European Settlers#United States 🇺🇸#The Alkaline Desert 🌵#Donner Party#Sierra Nevadas#Cannibalism#Jefferson Hunt#Mojave San Joaquin#Jayhawkers#Deadly Sierras#Panamint Mountains ⛰️#Meteorologist Christopher C. Burt#World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Jim “Murf” Murphy @owlshead 📸 @los4vws 💥 Dan Pensyl #owlshead 📸 #los4vws 💥 @bennettharada #owlshead 📸 #los4vws 💥 @xmikey662x #owlshead 📸 #los4vws 💥 @destined_to_flail #owlshead 📸 #los4vws💥 @josezapatero @golcondaskatepark 📸 @iansk8nyc 💥 @im.an.echo #owlshead 📸 @seehearinc 💥 @nycl_joey @cooperskateparknyc 📸 @nelphotomedianyc 💥Ian Clarke, Martin Maher, @andrewhgelles @ali_axelrod , Georgie the Brooklyn Destroyer, Marco Rawlings & Maximillion at Owls Head Skatepark. 📸 Ian Clarke 💥💥💥 Juice Magazine #77 features a different viewpoint on skatepark building, from the perspective of Martin Maher, Brooklyn Parks Commissioner of @NYCParks , as Ian Clarke of @nyc_skate_coalition talked to Maher about how to bring a variety of skatepark builders into the mix, and the process and victories of getting bigger and better parks in NYC. 💥💥💥 #skate #nyc #brooklyn #owlshead #skatepark #firstskateparkinbrooklyn #thankyou #andykessler #waybackwednesday 💥💥💥 Get Juice Magazine #77 in NYC at @substanceskatepark @pilgrimsurfsupply @unclefunkysboards (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL8L1gIlGzA/?igshid=14b2oo5b6pz73
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Home to a world-class operating collection, the Owls Head Transportation Museum (OHTM) features more than 150 antique automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, bicycles, engines and more http://bit.ly/3ab9Us0
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Concerned mother 🦉 #egggang #babylove #nurseryroom #owlshead #owls #naturephotography #motherhood (at Nopa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ZfGHiBqYk8w-oJg3CdUJp1i0CNlOKB0JNfCo0/?igshid=mseqgccrqu9g
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Chris Kotz-Fs Smith Grind Seatbelt Grab at Owls Head, Brooklyn, NY 2018
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Big Beautiful Maine Sky || The water was so smooth and calm. The clouds reflected off of it perfectly. The air is different when the sea is this calm. It is thicker and sweeter. The sky seems to go on forever just like the state I love so much! #reflection #bigsky #owlshead #maine #mainelife #pinetreestate #vacationland #mainetheway #mainethewaylifeshouldbe #midcoastmaine #maineocean #mainephotography #maine_instagram #mainecoast #whereinmaine #maine #clouds #mainemag #maine_igers #maineigers #downeast #mainelove #nikonnofilter #mainevacationland #mainecoastline #mainesky #mainetravel (at Ship To Shore Lobster Co.) https://www.instagram.com/p/COa7EBJhlQS/?igshid=2il7vshxyfrt
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So I have placed a decal on my car for what I think is a really important and timely cause here in Nova Scotia - the saving of an ecologically sensitive area called Owl’s Head Provincial Park and Little Harbor - at least it was deemed a provincial park until the government decided they wanted to sell it to a private company for $216,000 so they could build a golf course and employ 500 people - what golf course in this world employs 500 people? But I digress? Anyway - there is a petition - it’s a paper one because that’s what the government has said is needed to make a change - I have one if you want to sign it - and there is a Facebook group to join that is very active - (here is a link to the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/saveowlshead/?ref=share ) we are losing our coastline more and more everyday - I don’t know if you noticed but one of the McCains bought a property on the coast and cut off access to a beach that locals had gone to for decades - and it was disclosed in the last week that she has just bought several key properties in Peggy’s Cove - I f that doesn’t send a cold surgery vet down your back for the future if that community I don’t know what would #losingourcoastline #novascotia #ecology #saveowlshead #owlshead #golf #gentlemenonlyfemalesforbidden #halifax #dogkisserinternationalheadquarters (at Dogkisser International Headquarters) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPGVZKQnlvk/?utm_medium=tumblr
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A slideshow process of a painting of the lovely harbor in Owlshead, Maine.  6 x 10” or 20 x 25 cm, oil.#pleinairpainting #owlsheadmaine #mainepainting #landscapepainting #harbor#lobsterboat
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#tractors #harvesting #farmersmarket #punjabi #punjab #downeastboats #aquaculture #artsmarine #owlshead #marinediesel #lobstering #johndeeredealer #maine #commercialfishing #dieselmechanic #johndeereyellow #tractorsupply #landwirtschaft #farmingphotographydaily #nation #tractorpull #kabaddi #monsters #arjuntractor #lobsterboat #farmersonly #dieselrepair #harvestorganicgrill #agricultural https://www.instagram.com/p/CKybvWzJN-T/?igshid=1080e2k9v4i45
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