This episode of the Here series almost
did not happen. I was too busy with writing and working to go out and
take photographs, but then I unexpectedly had a week off from
working; so I decided to go out for three days.
Prairie Creek at Bridge
I uploaded this one first and according to Badoogle it is still processing while the others are already finished. I tried the download, and it downloads. If Badoogle mucks this up I will upload it again and give you to new link to it in a new message soon.
On Mineral Ridge--View
When you go to this link it offers you a player to preview it with, before you download.
Mineral Ridge--Creek
This one also offers a player for previewing.
I have no idea about the bird. I think it was fishing in the pool below the surface.
Please set the screen colors of your computer and monitor to 'default' temporarily. Remember your previous settings.
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Just a random shot to get things started.
In Goldfield.
Going north from Goldfield.
Starting to turn eastwards now. The skies are mostly clear, but at ground level there is a very intense wind going north-northeast.
Looking northwards. The top layer of this canal is being blown northwards with wave action while the flow is heavy and southwards. If this intense wind was also going southwards there would be sine waves in the canal higher than the sides of the canal.
Still going eastwards, zig-zagging towards downtown Olaf.
Olaf.
At a conservation area north of Olaf.
Still going eastwards, zig-zagging towards Nashua.
The also-illusive Blue Heron, except this one looks decidedly purple-ish on some of my computers. I passed this bird at 45mph and went another quarter mile and turned around. Herons can be blue or grey -- usually grey -- and always ignore passing traffic at 45mph. I knew that he would take off when I glided back at 2mph, so I had the window down and the camera ready. The lighting was dark, but I got these shots to prove his existence.
Dougherty in the distance.
Dougherty.
From Dougherty I returned west and caught this picture of the sunset before turning south on other business. End of Day 1.
Start of Day 2, which you will not see much of because I do not think you would be interested. No wind on this day. Remember, I am still taking videos too.
In Wright County, north of Belmond.
Going east again.
I have now turned completely around and I am north of Clarion.
Now north of Goldfield.
End of Day 2.
Day 3 begins with a Real Iowa Classic.
Sneaky cat just east of Woolstock. I passed him at 45mph while he was digging in a drainage pipe for a mouse. When I returned, he saw me coming back and hid in the grass.
Very typical one lane bridge out here.
Never pass up a good rock pile. Everyone needs a good rock pile. What would the world be without rock piles? I have left Wright County after deciding to go up onto Mineral Ridge, which proved to be very difficult due to very wet and muddy roads everywhere on the ridge.
Those ever-illusive pelicans again.
Very close by, still on the ridge.
The creek that you see in the video runs down from the ridge into this valley.
From this point onward I am taking desktop background photographs for my readers.
The remainder of these shots are taken in the Pilot Mound area in Boone County.
Even so, I was not going to release
this episode of the Here series. I have too many other things to do.
Then, while I was out in the field for three days taking photographs,
a Good Crazy Person came driving along and told me that it was a
great idea to take pictures of Iowa. He meant the Real Iowa. I was
still not convinced, but then back at 'Civilization' two Bad Crazy
Persons told me that it was a bad idea to do anything except
manufacture artificial vaginas for the anuses of each and every
Filthy Monkey Horror in each and every FM station -- so the poor
freaks can have a gender again. Or, at least imagine that they do.
Whose advice do you think I took?
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My main idea this time was to create
1080p videos of the Real Iowa that would help people to relax.
Meditative videos, without a lot of fast action about nothing. During
my three days in the middle of everything I made six videos, three of
which you will see here.
Prairie Creek at Bridge
I uploaded this one first and according to Badoogle it is still processing while the others are already finished. I tried the download, and it downloads. If Badoogle mucks this up I will upload it again and give you to new link to it in a new message soon.
On Mineral Ridge--View
When you go to this link it offers you a player to preview it with, before you download.
Mineral Ridge--Creek
This one also offers a player for previewing.
I have no idea about the bird. I think it was fishing in the pool below the surface.
Each of these videos will require about
3 Gigabytes of data to download. Depending upon your Internet service
it could cost you as much as $10 to download each Gigabyte. You must
decide if it is worth it to you. It will add videos to your
collection that are probably unlike anything else that you have; no
people, no games, no noise, no flashing lights, no plastic interest,
no hype. Just the Real Iowa.
If my readers like these I can easily
make many more. They are converted to mp4 format, so Windows Media
Player and VLC will play them without the need for extra codes. The
photographs only happened because the shots were there as I traveled
around several counties looking for scenes to take videos of; thus
the collection represents what is really here without any intentional
emphasis.
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Please set the screen colors of your computer and monitor to 'default' temporarily. Remember your previous settings.
With all of these pictures I had to
decrease the green. If I show them at the real level of 'greeness'
that exists out here, no one who does not live here will believe how
intense the greens are -- and -- because of the technology of the
cameras such an intense 'greeness' reduces the details of the
picture. This picture is shown without any reduction of the green
color so you can see what I am talking about.
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These are shown in chronological
sequence.
Just a random shot to get things started.
Immediately north of Eagle Grove with
Goldfield in the background.
In Goldfield.
Going north from Goldfield.
Starting to turn eastwards now. The skies are mostly clear, but at ground level there is a very intense wind going north-northeast.
Looking northwards. The top layer of this canal is being blown northwards with wave action while the flow is heavy and southwards. If this intense wind was also going southwards there would be sine waves in the canal higher than the sides of the canal.
Looking southwards, same bridge.
Still going eastwards, zig-zagging towards downtown Olaf.
Olaf.
Floodwaters just north of Olaf.
At a conservation area north of Olaf.
And there they are again; the
ever-illusive Great American White Pelicans. Nice of them to NOT
notice that clump of grass crawling on the ground holding a camera.
Still going eastwards, zig-zagging towards Nashua.
The also-illusive Blue Heron, except this one looks decidedly purple-ish on some of my computers. I passed this bird at 45mph and went another quarter mile and turned around. Herons can be blue or grey -- usually grey -- and always ignore passing traffic at 45mph. I knew that he would take off when I glided back at 2mph, so I had the window down and the camera ready. The lighting was dark, but I got these shots to prove his existence.
Dougherty in the distance.
Sunset just west of Dougherty.
Dougherty.
From Dougherty I returned west and caught this picture of the sunset before turning south on other business. End of Day 1.
Start of Day 2, which you will not see much of because I do not think you would be interested. No wind on this day. Remember, I am still taking videos too.
In Wright County, north of Belmond.
Going east again.
I have now turned completely around and I am north of Clarion.
Now north of Goldfield.
End of Day 2.
Day 3 begins with a Real Iowa Classic.
Sneaky cat just east of Woolstock. I passed him at 45mph while he was digging in a drainage pipe for a mouse. When I returned, he saw me coming back and hid in the grass.
Very typical one lane bridge out here.
Never pass up a good rock pile. Everyone needs a good rock pile. What would the world be without rock piles? I have left Wright County after deciding to go up onto Mineral Ridge, which proved to be very difficult due to very wet and muddy roads everywhere on the ridge.
Those ever-illusive pelicans again.
Very close by, still on the ridge.
The creek that you see in the video runs down from the ridge into this valley.
Now I turned southwards and went to
Atheist Aims on business. This is just north of Atheist Aims.
Looking at Atheist Aims from the northern heights. That large forest in the background houses Atheist Aims.
West and north of Atheist Aims, down in
the Des Moines River Valley.Looking at Atheist Aims from the northern heights. That large forest in the background houses Atheist Aims.
From this point onward I am taking desktop background photographs for my readers.
The remainder of these shots are taken in the Pilot Mound area in Boone County.
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As you can see, the Real Iowa still
exists -- no thanks to the ButtUgly Windmill Imperials and the Big
Business White Assholes. In Reality, I took twice as many shots as
you see here, but I removed half of them because I did not think you
would be interested. They remain in my archives.
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Markel Peters