@elaterite I agree about the city-creatures.
I have always been afraid of darkness, and horror movies. I got really scared by my father at a very young age, so I am really struggling with my to vivid imagination while out at night but I still go out there because at the same time I love it.
The nights are no longer dark enough to see the auroras up here anymore, so I have to wait for the dark evenings in August now. But.. in June and July there will be chanses for noctilucent clouds :)
@ambivalena When I was young I was scared of the dark. But after leaving the city and living in the woods for a time, in what was supposedly Bigfoot country (lol!), I got over it. I love to hike alone at night now.
@ambivalena Well, I didn't exactly see a Bigfoot but I do have a Bigfoot story! A Bigfoot was first reported in the area of Willow Creek, California (NE Humboldt County). That's about 500km north of San Francisco just west of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
In the late '70s I lived in Humboldt Co, California. One year I attended a Humboldt Co History class at the local college. The instructor was historian Andrew Genzoli, a retired reporter & columnist for the Eureka Times-Standard. 1/3
@ambivalena In October, 1958, Genzoli published the article "Giant footprints puzzle residents along Trinity River," where he first coined the term "Bigfoot." In the style of the wild west sagebrush school literary movement of tall tales & hoaxes, popularized by Mark Twain, Genzoli wrote the article and many followup articles. They sold papers, and the wires carried the stories worldwide. And that's the birth of the legend of Bigfoot. 2/3
Addendum: Legendary anthropologist, Jane Goodall, has stated that she believes Bigfoot exists. But she caveats that statement by saying she is also a romantic--and wants to believe. (Source: Science Friday with Ira Flatow, September 27, 2002.) 3/3
@ambivalena Here's something spooky. I have to admit, I had to focus on doing photography while--in the middle of the night--I was in this remote kiva that I backpacked out to. It kind of gave me the heebie-jeebies being in there. There was no body else around for many kms. It's uncertain what prehistoric Puebloans used kivas for, but modern Hopi use them for religious purposes. The waterfall like streaks on either side of the ladder in the underground photo is 800 years of pack rat urine!
@elaterite Interesting, and I can rally relate to that feeling, it seems really spooky.
How come there are lights from the place if there is noone in there? Did you have laterns with you while photographing?
@ambivalena Yes, one year I spent time going out to some of the old cliff-dwellings with glow sticks to make an effect like they were occupied. I need to try it again. I used a flash as well but it was too much and looks unnatural in those last photos. This, I think, was the best of the series. Still would like to redo them sometime.
@edgren@ambivalena A fire would be more authentic but I'm sure the government land managers would love to throw me in jail for such an act of vandalism. Interestingly, however, The US Nat. Pk. Service does use luminarias to light the big ruin at Mesa Verde Nat. Pk. once a year. It looks very cool! >>> https://www.chriseatonphotography.com/photo/cliff-palace-luminaria/
@ambivalena@edgren I figured you were, but I thought I'd use the opportunity to post the "Visit With Respect" link. Perhaps lurkers out there might click on it and learn something! That's my goal moving to Bluff, Utah (where I just was on my roadtrip), if I can figure out how to deal with the increase in healthcare costs, is to volunteer at the Bears Ears Education Center.
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