Take a journey through the wilderness in the heart of the American Southwest - Eastern Sierras, Grand Canyon, Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons, Rattlesnake Canyon, Vermillion Cliffs, North Coyote Buttes, the Wave, Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley, Grand Staircase Escalante and the December 2011 Lunar Eclipse.
Film by Henry Jun Wah Lee, Evosia Studios
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11 comments:
"How anyone can spend their entire lives in this flat land of concrete and palm trees, I'll never understand..."
That is, possibly, the most ignorant, misinformed thing you've ever written.
Have you ever been to the Everglades?
You missed my point, Bill.
I've been to the Everglades. I love the Everglades. It's beautiful country. Go Hydrology! shows us every day just how lucky we are to have them.
But they're flat, without elevation and not as varied and exciting, for me, as the canyon lands and the mountains and the buttes of the American West.
I couldn't, and won't, live in South Florida all my life where most of what we deal with, day to day, is concrete and palm trees.
But thanks, once again, for dropping a comment that is condescending and snotty. You're nothing if consistent.
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I think you wanted to say, "You're nothing if NOT consistent."
As for the Everglades, I fell in love at first sight and remain enamored. Mountains bore the hell out of me, especially the piles of dead rock (and *shudder* snow) that dominate the west. I'm okay with New England's variety.
Good thing it's a big country with room for us all to enjoy what we like.
Agreed, squathole...on the "big country with room for us all" thing.
And, yeah, I guess I blew the saying.
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Agree with Squathole. There's plenty to go around. That being said I wear an alligator ring because I love the Glades. But beauty is everywhere and to each his own. Also, in live in a part of Dade that's tree hugger heaven. It's not all concrete down here.
I just spent 4 days in Arizona visiting family and playing golf. I couldn't live there. Everything looks dead and desolate. South Florida is full of life. I like it here enough to stay.
Sorry, rick, I agree with the other comments, places like the Everglades and the Keys are just so much more full of life.
Moutains are beautiful to look at, but do get boring.
And most of what we deal with "day to day" being concrete really isn't a fair comparison if you're not comparing a city to a city. The video was showing places where many of the people who live in the larger cities out there don't get to see on a 'day to day' basis. Yes, they may have the mountains as a backdrop, but many of us have beach as our backdrop.
You played golf there and you didn't think the courses were lush and beautiful? Too bad. They have some nice ones out there. Most of the desert course out there are fantastic.
Southern Arizona has too much desert for my taste but northern Arizona is gorgeous and Sedona is off the charts.
What is left in South Florida is definitely greener, but as developers continue to tear things up and build there's less and less of that.
"Full of life?" Yeah. Tourists, shysters, dirtbags and everyone trying to make do until they get back "home," where ever that is.
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Mountains are never boring for me, Silver. What is boring is a straight line of a horizon.
The Keys are "full of life?" And here I thought that was shell and tee shirt shops and South Florida city folk heading down for a weekend bender.
I know, I know..."95 heads North. Take it." It's about all the natives got these days as a response.
I'm counting the days.
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I guess my view of the Keys is different, but I was referring to snorkeling the reef, and fishing, and the wild bird center.
It's unfortunate that I mention the Keys and you think T-shirt shops. I'm sure a lot of New Orleans residents are upset that someone mentions their city and people think Mardi Gras.
I think unfortunately we get wrapped up in 'daily life' and we don't get to experience the things around us.
Same way that the guy in the 23rd floor office building in Denver probably rarely gets to see the cliffs of Mesa Verde.
As a native I would say, don't take 95-North. Take it south. Go to Fairchild, go to Pennekamp, ride your bike through Oleta, take a canoe ride in the Everglades.
Wow.....what a beautiful video. Thank you for making the stunning documentary available. I also know that if I ever have the opportunity to visit the Everglades or the Keys I would be just as moved. Nature when it is allowed to flourish is just stunning. However, I must add cities are equally important; it is the foundation of our ability to survive in the 21st century....sigh....
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