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About Me ~ Alison Hardenburgh
Posting from Nevada’s High Desert
Website: http://northerndesert.smugmug.com/
I love deserts and the creatures that live in them. I work where I look out at the arid, rocky hills; longing to be out there while co-workers from softer, damp country, with city eyes decry it as ugly and useless. I use my camera to log my encounters with the desert and the animals that live in it or on its edge. Like a great ocean that on the surface looks devoid of life, you need only break the surface to find out otherwise.
Judith Wright, an Australian Poet wrote this Poem. I found it in this form in the Introduction of Larry McMurtry’s, Leaving Cheyenne. The original poem is much longer but these stanzas speak to me.
The Blood’s Country
South of my days’ circle
part of my blood’s country,
rises that tableland… clean, lean,
hungry country…
I know it dark against the stars,
the high lean country,
full of old stories that still go walking in my sleep.
Judith Wright
from South of My Day’s
Gear
Canon 7D Mark II
Canon 6D
Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Canon Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens
Tamron 150-600mm f/5-6.3
Induro CT-214 8X Carbon Tripod 4 Section 61-Inch
Kirk BH-3 Ball Head with Quick Release Platform
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Thank you for following my blog, Allison. You might live in a very different environment than I do, but I think we share the same love and appreciation for the wildlife that inhabits the areas we live and work.
Thank you Jo Ann, I think we do too. : )
Wow, I am so impressed by your gallery, Alison!
Thanks Jo Ann!
Hi Alison! Nice to meet you. Love the mule deer series; absolutely beautiful. Thanks too for liking one of my recent posts “Watering Hole”.
So glad you looked and liked Laurie. Thanks for visiting.
I grew up in Nevada and spent summers in the northern high desert – your gallery is stunning. I spent a decade in the Klamath Basin and your refuge shots took me right back there – so glad to have found your blog.
Thank you so much artsifrtsy!
I don’t have enough time to press the like button so often, so I will simply tell you here: your photos are simply stunning, especially since where you live is such a contrast to where I live (a temperate rainforest). I will try to visit as often as I can…
Thanks Pierre! You are very kind to say such nice things about my photos. 😉
Hi Alison. Thanks for visiting my wee blog. Loving your wildlife photography! Cheers from Edinburgh
Thanks rose. Hope I called you the correct name. Looking forward to looking at Scotland through your eyes.
i love the photos, they are real!!
Thank you Billie. 🙂
Hi Alison, You did me such a favor by following my blog because I found yours. Wow. I really admire your photography. And I share your love of nature and wildlife. May I ask, do you take your cameral everywhere you go? I’m starting to want to do that but it begs the questions of possible theft and plain old inconvenience. Thanks again, PK
Hi PK, I am so happy you enjoyed my photos. I certainly admired yours. 🙂
Thanks for visiting and mommenting. As for carrying my camera around; I do not. I worry about theft of course and I live where temperatures can be extreme. I don’t want to get into situations where I have to leave my camera in the care and expose it to those extremes. I wish I could though.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog! I usually visit the visitor’s blog in return, but I seldom spend as much time looking as I did on yours. I really think the photos are superb renditions of animals in a harsh but beautiful habitat. I lived in southern California for many years, and know both the mountains and the desert areas, but never saw much wildlife outside of an occasional deer, owls, coyotes and quail. Oh yes, and there was the unfortunate rabbit that one of my cats captured on Easter Sunday…I am now surrounded by an abundance of wildlife, but do not have the fantastic landscapes you have so successfully portrayed. So I’ll follow your blog, awaiting the next set of unique photographs.
Thank you for liking my blog and commenting here Alli. I can see that you share my love of the desert, nature and horses. I hope my photos bring you the joy and wonder the desert has a unique and special hold on. 🙂
Me too!
I am an ocean loving soul who once (and forever 🙂 fell in love with Joshua Tree high desert.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful high desert photography!
Thanks shamanictracker. 🙂
Hi: From me to you:
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Thank you seeker! 🙂
My pleasure and you are welcome. 😛
Thank you for the follow. You have awesome photographs here.
Your images are beautiful!
Thank you! 🙂
“Living on the Edge of the Sagebrush Ocean” WOW. So beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you allbuthomeless. 🙂
Fabulous fotos!
Thank you Cindy. 🙂
Wonderful gallery- Thank you for sharing
Thank you for visiting and commenting Cynthia. 🙂
I would just like to notify you that I nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award! Info on how to respond to the award is below. Congrats!
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there is beauty in the desert, the stillness and yet the roar of the wind, the shades of black and white, and the darkness when it comes with shadows that make the mystery deepen.
Indeed there is much beauty if one pauses to drink it in. Thanks for visiting and commenting. 🙂
Hello, i feel that i noticed you visited my web site so i got here to go back the choose?.I
am trying to to find issues to enhance my web site!I guess its ok to make use
of a few of your ideas!!
Sure. Thanks for visiting. 🙂
Great blog; wonderful photo’s; see you!
Thanks for visiting and complimenting. harrienijland. 🙂
love your gallery pictures – keep up the great work!
Thank you. I will try. 🙂
It is obvious from your photos that the landscape and its occupants speak to your heart. You certainly speak for them. Stunningly beautiful photos. I think in spare places transcendence calls more clearly to the soul. We are less distracted by everyday things, and more aware how small we are, in comparison with the universe.
Thank you for your kind words about my photos Anna. 🙂 Yes I think that is why the desert has been home to many seekers.
I love the desert. Living in Canada, I am used to a lush, green environment, but my heart is in New Mexico…..the canyons, the rock formations, the silence.
Looking forward to following your amazing photography. 🙂
Thank you for visiting, your kind words, and the follow. 😊
It’s a pleasure to meet you and view your amazing work Alison. Thanks for this opportunity. Eddie
Thank you so much Eddie. I enjoy your inspirational/philosophical approach to life as well. 🙂
Hello Alison!
We’ve been friends with Maurice over at iAMSafari for a long time, and it’s his recommendation that brought us to your blog. You sure have a beautiful blog, and we’ll definitely be back for more!
All the best
Dries @ de Wets Wild
Thank you for stopping in and your kind words about my little old blog. 🙂
You’ve got very nice picture of places I’m not used to visit. Desert are fascinating, I agree. I understand why you love them so much. If you had to recommend only one place, which one would you choose ?
Thanks very much. Wow, that is a very difficult question to answer because the desert is such a huge place with varied landscapes and characteristics. Big country with so much to recommend it. Let me just suggest two drives, and they are long drives, that cover a lot of ground and I think are amazing. Highway 50, Americas loneliest road, and Scenic Byway 12 through Utah. I know that’s two but hey. 🙂
I know my question was a tricky one and I’m glad you managed to answer 😀
I drove through Utah, but never took that road ! I must remember it for next time 🙂
Beautiful photographs! If you are up in the Malheur NWR and Frenchglen area again this spring or summer, let me know. As a seasonal worker at the Refuge, I can guide you to some places less known. 🙂
Hey thanks! I fully intend to get back up there and your offer is incredibly generous. It is one of my favorite places on earth! I will let you know. Thank you. 🙂
Your photography is amazing! You really capture those qualities that make this area so special and beautiful. Awesome work — I love it!
Thank you so much Allen. I love this area passionately and want others to see it through my desert loving eyes. 🙂
You recently gave a like to my blog about MS, and I thank you.
I also enjoy the beauty of the high desert, having lived in N. Az. for some 25 years. I look forward to spending more time on your site.
Bob
Thanks Bob. 🙂
Pleased to meet you. You are welcome to visit my blog when you have a moment or two. 🙂
I would like to thank you for following my site, and bringing your desert back yard, home to me.
Bob
Thank you for your visit and your like which in turn led me too your blog …love your photos..amazing 🙂
Thank you! 😊
Hey Judith, It has been a while.
Just to tell you that I love your photography 🙂 I cannot comment on smugmug 🙂
Thank you so much! 😊
Hi Alison
so glad I found your blog, it’s great! Loved the firefighting photos…
Fabrizio
Thank you so much!
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