The Great Temple Mound at Etowah

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5 responses to “The Great Temple Mound at Etowah”

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   Jennifer

   October 19, 2007

   That cloud formation is so wild I thought you had digitally altered it.

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   Idyllopus

   October 19, 2007

   No, the clouds are not digitally altered. They’re exactly as they were.

   The only Photoshopping done on the two images was at the top of the mound there was barely visible a woman who had just climbed it and was seated at the far right edge, and a couple sawhorses blocking the path down the slope. I went ahead and Photoshopped those things out.

   When I turned and knelt to take my photos from that angle I really was awestruck. When I was atop Mound A, I had become aware that the clouds were moving oddly, and I had stayed up there a long while watching them, while Marty went on down with H.o.p. They climbed Mound B while I stayed up on Mound A watching the clouds. I even took a couple of photos of the clouds from up there, but they were nothing of interest. I only took the photos to remind myself later how the winds up there had caught my attention.

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   gin

   October 19, 2007

   lovely, just lovely

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   Nina

   October 20, 2007

   Your photos of the mounds, both Etowah and Ocmulgee, capture the presence those mounds have. There is something about your photos that transcends time, so that I feel, when looking at them, that I’m looking back in time at the same time that I’m seeing them now. I don’t entirely know how to put into adequate words what your photos-and the mounds-say. There is strength, dignity, power. They give me goosebumps.

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5. 

   PoliShifter

   October 22, 2007

   Great civilizations of the past…

   will future civilizations look upon us with as much awe? Or will our structures crumble long before anyone notices.

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