I shot this handheld last month (March 10) while hiking at Palo Duro Canyon. I simply forgot the image even existed until yesterday, haha. That happens. I have a lot of photos. Shot with a Fujifilm X-T5 and Tamron 18-300 mm lens. #moon #moonphotography #moonrise #canyon #palodurocanyon #paloduro #amarillo #Texas #TexasPanhandle #nature #outdoors #landscape #hiking #Fujifilm #Tamron

After a long day hiking between boulders and jumping from rock to rock, I was finally awarded with this view right before I descended from this fjell. During my two-month solo hike in the Gaissene area, Norway, in 2024.

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These gulches, or "kuru" in Finnish, are potential death traps in the winter. Snow gets packed into thick and heavy patches on the sides, and when a skier enters, they might collapse on top of them. I always avoid these like the plague, though they are very pretty to watch. I once met two ski tourers who claimed that they always ski through these and their granny taught them to do so. In my opinion, it's just a disaster waiting to happen.

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A drive through the vast emptiness of the Raton-Clayton volcanic field, Sept 2024, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA. We encountered only one other vehicle in 42 miles - a ranch pickup literally stopped in the middle of the road, straddling the center line, with its two occupants working just outside the truck. They seemed surprised to see us out there. #NewMexico #road #black-and-white #monochrome #mesa #middleofnowhere #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #outdoors #mountain #Fujifilm #Tamron

More windy fjells in the Käsivarsi Wilderness Area, Finland, during my six-week solo ski tour. I was hesitant to leave the safety of the wilderness hut where I stayed during a blizzard that had winds over 20 m/s and lasted three days. (I’ve posted a pic earlier of that same hut in the storm. https://pixelfed.social/p/JakeHikes/791183662872251330) Once the storm wound down, I left but was still on alert that it might gain more power again.

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Misty Storelva in Norway, August 2023. We had to cross this river on a cold, wet day. Luckily, we found a shallow—but wide—spot to get across. If we hadn’t, we might’ve had to take a pretty long detour, possibly even retrace our old tracks back toward civilization—something I always try to avoid.

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An image from March 10th that I nearly forgot about. It seems like I nearly forgot the entire folder from that date. This is a dark, late blue hour shot taken while hiking back to my car at Palo Duro Canyon. This is a scene I see all the time from this trail, which is one that I commonly hike, and it therefore doesn't usually stand out to me. But there was something about the blue shades that evening that caused me to stop and shoot. #palodurocanyon #canyon #Texas #texaspanhandle #amarillo #texasparksandwildlife #hiking #bluehour #nature #naturephotography #landscape #outdoors #fujifilm #tamron

Two Great Black-backed Gulls quarrel over a long-dead stone crab. Bass Harbor, March 2025.
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