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Kissing Camels formation NO MORE!

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Posted by Ken Wyatt on April 1, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Kissing Camels formation NO MORE!
I drove down to the Garden this morning to try getting some sunrise shots and to my horrer, saw that the right-hand camel head had apparently fallen off sometime last night! Nearby residents recalled hearing a large crashing sound around 2:30 this morning, but the full impact of what had transpired didn't hit until early this morning. Fortunately, no one had been hurt, as the debris landed well off the trail on the east side of North Gateway Rock. This picture was taken from the visitor center parking lot.

A sad day! :frown:

Ken
Posted by Ken Wyatt on April 1, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Here's another shot taken from the main parking lot. There was a crowd of several joggers standing around the debris pile. Fortunately, park officials had closed off this rock to climbing several years ago, due to other rock falls. Otherwise, the situation could have had much worse consequences. In fact, one camel lost part of its hump a few years back. Now we face the end of an icon.

Ken
Posted by Ken Wyatt on April 1, 2007 at 10:32 AM
In Memoriam...taken in October 2004.
Posted by Jennifer Geck on April 1, 2007 at 10:59 AM
*gasp* How awful. :frown:

http://butterflysis.smugmug.com/photos/140165732-M.jpg
Posted by Jon Leibowitz on April 1, 2007 at 11:03 AM
now now, call me a skeptic....but it IS April 1st!!!!
Posted by Jennifer Geck on April 1, 2007 at 11:12 AM
LOL, dam him! :razz: :rolleyes: :biggrin:

Okay, you got me.

I did think those "dodged" places looked funny, but I totally forgot it was April Fool's Day... Doh.
Posted by Don Grall on April 1, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Nice PS work, the light colored "debris" trail was a thoughtful touch!

Posted by Todd Caudle on April 1, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Surely you can do better than this. Better luck next year. Now, if you'd said Balanced Rock had toppled...
Posted by Ken Wyatt on April 1, 2007 at 1:53 PM
Todd, I was hoping you'd have driven up here just to see for yourself! I'm dissapointed! :cool:

Ken
Posted by Don Eason on April 1, 2007 at 2:51 PM
Great gag, Ken! :toast: You had me going for a while!

Though fictional, it is still a good reminder of the ever changing nature of nature. Today's icon could be tomorrow's debris pile.

I suppose Landscape Arch was too big a PS vandalism project to consider seriously. You might have gotten a War of the Worlds scale response to that!
Posted by Kalin Wilson on April 1, 2007 at 5:02 PM
Pretty funny, Ken. Good one being the first one out of the gate. It will be hard for any other gags to be perpertrated now.

I have to admit you had me going... :biggrin:
Posted by Grant Collier on April 1, 2007 at 5:03 PM
When I witnessed Balanced Rock topple over this time last year, I was a bit disappointed. But to the Kissing Camels I say good-riddance. I never much cared for those libidinous creatures anyway. It was always distracting to have them making out above me while I was trying to take pictures. :biggrin:
Posted by Ken Wyatt on April 1, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Hey, that Balanced Rock gag last year was tops! I knew right then what this years gag should be. Shoot, I waited all year for this! :biggrin:

Ken
Posted by Joshua Hardin on April 1, 2007 at 10:55 PM
First the Fantasy Canyon teapot has toppled and now this? What are we going to take photos of now?

Very funny Ken. :biggrin:
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on April 2, 2007 at 5:12 PM
With alI the previous collapsing icon gags, this one didn't catch me.

But here's one on an announced Kodak-AT&T merger that I swallowed - hook, line & sinker:
See 2nd post on April 1 - http://theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com/
Just can't trust anyone on April 1. :biggrin:

Nice work Ken. :toast:
Posted by Jack Brauer on April 3, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Ha Ha !!! You got me... I'm so clueless.