Obsessive Doodle XXI

Obsessive Doodle XX

Inspired this:

Future Island

Future Island, originally uploaded by cuibel.

Puddles and the Sky

Puddles and the Sky, originally uploaded by cuibel.

Lake Objects in Orbit

Lake Objects in Orbit, originally uploaded by cuibel.

A Feather on a Rock

A Feather on a Rock, originally uploaded by cuibel.

The Yellow Bush

The Yellow Bush, originally uploaded by cuibel.

Speaking of Antelope Island . . .

Antelope to Stansbury Pano, originally uploaded by cuibel.

Antelope Island is an arid, treeless--some would say ugly--island in the middle of a barren, salty--most would say ugly--lake. It would take a person with a special vision to see the beauty in this area, and it would take someone with an incredible vision to depict its beauty.

Charles Uibel (aka cuibel) has an incredible vision, because he sees this beauty and is able to capture and depict it in his photos of Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake. His photographs are dramatic and moving and breathtaking and visually stunning.

Some more of my favorites of his--all found on flickr--will follow in subsequent posts.

Oh, so that tunnel leads to the Atlantic Ocean!

Inspired by another entry at Bill Rankin's Radical Cartography called The Errant Isle of Manhattan, I created my own Manhattan scale comparison.

Antelope Island sits in the middle of the Great Salt Lake, directly west of Bountiful, Utah, where I grew up. I woke every morning to the view of that island outside my window, and in all the time I knew it I wasn't aware that it was so big. When I first did the comparison of Antelope Island and Manhattan in Google Earth, I had to double- and triple-check, because I couldn't believe Antelope Island was actually bigger than Manhattan, that 1.5 million people could potentially live on that piece of land. (And when I have more time to play with Photoshop, I'll imagine what that would look like.)

The reference in the title is to a myth once held that the Great Salt Lake was connected by an underground tunnel to the Pacific, and that's why it was salty.

Obsessive Doodle XIX

Obsessive Doodle XVIII

Obsessive Doodle XVII

This inspired an artwork I'll be turning into a painting soon: