From: Jack Fulton (jefulton1@attbi.com)
Date: 11/06/02-09:51:53 AM Z
Beautifully stated. Particularly the last sentence. The two of you were most
fortunate.
About twenty years ago I took our oldest daughter for a walk through the
Grand Canyon. We left two feet of snow and walked down the Tanner Trail into
warmth. A few days later we made it to the Hopi Salt Trail, about 10 miles
up the Little Colorado River, just beyond the Hopi's holy sipapu. Near the
top of the Salt Trail, two ravens were in love and calling like a stream
flowing . . no caws . . just water lightly falling on rocks. They flew near
us as the two of us sat on a precipice eating a chocolate bar.
> One of the greatest joys experienced from my involvement with
> photography, greater even than image making, has been the
> experiences derived from seeing things that most never see.
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> Yesterday, at Tallulah gorge near Clayton, Georgia offered such an
> experience. The gorge itself is awesome, some several hundred feet
> high with a fairly large stream at the bottom that cascades down the
> side of a mountain. And the fall colors this year are spectacular.
> However, as Sam Wang and I stood at the top of an overlook over the
> gorge something quite unique to both of our experiences took place. A
> large number of eagles, perhaps as many ad 12-15, suddenly began
> soaring beneath us, quite nearby at perhaps less than 25-50 feet. And
> from time to time one of the eagles would fly straight up toward us,
> coming to with 10-15 feet, and then at the last moment veer off the
> one side. I have seen eagles fly above me on many occasions, but the
> sight of them soaring beneath us, and the bottom of the gorge
> hundreds of feet below them, was simply awe inspiring. We could even
> see the way they used the top tips of their wings to adjust to the
> thermals, as they circled around just beneath our vantage point.
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> Happily I did not have on hand a suitable camera to photograph the
> experience. Better I think, because that might have distracted me
> from seeing.
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