The National Parks Foundation is a support organization for the U.S. National Parks Service. One of the ways they celebrate the parks is through an annual Share the Experience photo contest for amateur photographers to submit their favorite shots.
Here are the winners, runners up, etc. I found the first place winner's photo beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Kim
Photo contest featuring U.S. National Parks
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Beautiful shots!!
The family, friends and fun shot (White Sands) caught my attention too...I loved the expressions of exhilaration on the kids faces. One can almost experience their thrill as they run over the dunes!!
The family, friends and fun shot (White Sands) caught my attention too...I loved the expressions of exhilaration on the kids faces. One can almost experience their thrill as they run over the dunes!!
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The most interesting-named park in the US is called the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY!
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"What I like most about USA parks", by Chris Greaves.kdock wrote:The National Parks Foundation ...
Many of them are CICO.
I met this acronym first in Letchworh State Park, twenty MILES of grassy and treed beauty alongside the Genesee river in Western New York State.
Deer graze calmly by the roadside.
The Northern end is graced with the Flood Control Dam known as "Mount Morris".
"CICO" baffled me until i got home and looked it up on the internet (back in the days when I had internet at home)
Carry-In-Carry-Out.
Brill!
There are NO RUBBISH BINS in the park and there is NO RUBBISH in the park.
The fences are not decorated with styrofoam trays and coffee-cups. There are no hamburger wrappers.
For twenty MILES!
(And the park on the east side is likewise CICO with composting toilets etc.)
I have met other CICO parks since then, and the experience has modified my own already-strict ecological footprint behaviour.
I am, as far as i know, the only anal-retentive adult on Bay Street who eats the entire apple except for the two-centimetre stalk, which goes into my pocket or my shoulder bag, destined for my kitchen vermicomposter.
CICO shows that people CAN be responsible for litter, if shown the way.
Cheers for Parks!
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Once again, great photos and I'm jealous.
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BTW, my avatar was taken in front of Mirror Lake at Mt Lassen National Park. Come next September I suspect it will be from somewhere in Yellowstone or Crater Lake. (I'm taking full advantage of my lifetime senior pass )
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Who are you trying to kid, Kim? You are certainly no "senior"!!
Thank you for the link. Those are wonderful photographs.
Thank you for the link. Those are wonderful photographs.
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You are too kind Bob. And that's what my mind says, too! But more and more my mirror is starting to argue with me about it. At least they're mostly lines.BobH wrote:Who are you trying to kid, Kim? You are certainly no "senior"!!
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