Yesscapes

[About The Round]

Meteora in Greece is hereabay a Yesscape! I stood up early one morning and wandered the winding road up towards the monastries that clutched on the steep cliffs there. The wind played forth and back with the fog and revealed a true Roger Dean Yesscape.

Please write about any landscape or apparition that you think is reminiscent of Yes or of Deans imagery.

Also if you have stumbled upon a place of any referance to the Yes lyrics. Like Caesars Palace or sutch...

[Erdy1]

I don't know if this counts, but I can't resist. My father is a hobbyist photographer. He took one photo that, when viewed properly, appears to have rocks floating in the sky, much like a Roger Dean painting.

It's actually a photograph of the surface of a lake, with a mountain scape reflected perfectly on it, then viewed upside down. The effect is really cool though. He just finished a set of CDs with scans of most of his photos, I'll see if I can find it and post it here, if there is interest.

[gt76yesman]

About the Round, that image is very small, maybe only 100 pixel wide. I would love to see a larger version. It looks surreal.

Lady Susan and I found a place in the Sierras called Bald Rock above Oroville. There are some rock scapes that look like Roger Dead sculpted them We did not have enough film in the camera. We will go back there soon and I will add some photos.

Here is a shot of me on a portion of Bald Rock. This doesn't show the great rock formations. I will post more later.

[BrianD]

Glad to see the revival of this type of thread. A similar thread ran for a while about a year ago but I bet there are many new Yescapes out there. Here is one from a park in Sydney that was sent to me by a friend. He labeled it Roger Dean Wonderland.

[About The Round]

About the Round, that image is very small, maybe only 100 pixel wide. I would love to see a larger version. It looks surreal.

Lady Susan and I found a place in the Sierras called Bald Rock above Oroville. There are some rock scapes that look like Roger Dead sculpted them We did not have enough film in the camera. We will go back there soon and I will add some photos.

Here is a shot of me on a portion of Bald Rock. This doesn't show the great rock formations. I will post more later.

I'll see forward to it! The photos of mine just doesn't do this place (Meteora) any justice. But here are a couple of sites that gives you a better idea of it.

Hellenic ministry of culture
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/212/21207a/e212ga02.html

http://www.meteora-greece.com/

http://www.great-adventures.com/destinations/greece/meteora.html

[About The Round]

A place reminiscent of the Yesshows cover, just lacking the Yesbird. This photo was taken when I was entering a glazier and when crossing it- this shaping of the nature drawed my attention. I took a lot of pictures but this was the best due to the contrast of the snow covered glazier and the jagged cliffs. Seems like the one cliff is having and interview with the other- with microphone and all!

ATR

[About The Round]

Nothing to do with any Roger Dean imaginary -just some photos that shows some interesting touring areas where I live. I could have scanned some photos of my own, but it's easier just to point at this link. The foreign language won't bother since it's the pictures that matters.

http://www.iriss.no/fotturar/hjorundfjord/

[About The Round]

They don't build bridges like this anymore-

[About The Round]

Here's from my latest cross-country ski tour where I went on a mountain that just ends abruptly into the atlantic ocean. This is on the way up – looking back over the fjord towards my favourite places to go.

[Silent_wings]

When we we (Earl, Dee, Alec, Patrick and me) were driving back from San Jose, we drove down Pacfic Coast Highway here in CA. We saw a bunch a views of coastlines and trees that reminded us of Roger's work.

[allpurechance]

I am a connoisseur of fine sunrises and sunsets...

Whenever I see a beautiful one I am always reminded of Roger Dean's color shading in the background of Topographic Oceans...

Particularly the last or first light of day...those shades of blue/green--that deep,deep blue...

[Bugeyes]

...Particularly the last or first light of day...those shades of blue/green--that deep,deep blue...Twilight! The magic hour. My daughter can't pass going out side to watch this light. Some amazing reveal themselves in this light.

[sissywoods]

I thought this was really cool scenery. The picture quality isn't great but maybe you get the idea. This was taken on the train at Stone Mountain.

[BrianD]

In contrast to the gentle twilights and sunsets in temperate zones, I really like the bold, brash colourful sunsets from the tropics - here are two, one from Darwin in northern Australia, the other from Fiji.

[allpurechance]

In contrast to the gentle twilights and sunsets in temperate zones, I really like the bold, brash colourful sunsets from the tropics - here are two, one from Darwin in northern Australia, the other from Fiji.

Which reminds me,Brian - of the sunsets and sunrises,the twilights and gloamings from the sea.

Those who have been out on the open ocean might back me up on this:You have never seen a real sunrise/sunset until you've seen one at sea.There are no horizon obstacles,it is endless.No trees,no mountains obscuring the view.Every hue reflected in the surface of the ocean...every ripple in every wave throwing off the reflected light...

Then there are the stars...light pollution is not an issue...I have seen,witnessed the Milky Way casting my own shadow...I didn't know at first what I was looking at,I had to doubletake and triplecheck!

Roger Dean has superior command of his color tones...he can capture the essence of this kind of thing...as demonstrated on Topographic Oceans.I have seen it professed elsewhere on the site...my favorite Dean artwork has to be the 360 degree waterfall/caldera on the inside of Close To The Edge.Relayer is wonderful.Topographic is the most evocative,and I think of it always at the beginning and the end of days.

Thanks for the lovely pictures,Brian.

Frank

[BrianD]

I couldn't agree more Frank - sunsets and sunrises at sea are just magical, especially if there are some clouds around to provide some shapes and contrasts with the colours. I'll be at sea for a few days in June and I was only dreaming earlier today about seeing another marine sunset over the Great Barrier Reef.

[True Believer]

Brian, are you going to the Whitsundays?

[BrianD]

Brian, are you going to the Whitsundays?

No - we're cruising for 4 days from Cairns north to Cooktown and Lizard Island, then 4 days in the Daintree rainforest.

[About The Round]

Here's picture from a rather small but distinct canyon. It takes a day to go through it with the nice company of ravens playfully in the air. It's quite hot and dry during the summer season, the moss called reindeer moss gets dry and crisp to walk upon. Then you're probably guessing what Dean picture I'm thinking on when the fog stoops down among the pines in the afternoon...

ATR

[About The Round]

Have a look:

http://www.iriss.no/bildeseriesommar/runde/12.htm

[Yes2Yes]

Close to the edge,down by the river!
<img src="http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a395/NYMikeC/clifcity.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">

[About The Round]

A rather elegant formation. Named after William C. Slingsby who travelled everywhere to climb the mountains. The good news is that sutch places have their easy routs; you don't have to climb- just 5hrs trot.

ATR

[About The Round]

A pan:

http://www.voldaveiret.no/images04/web030304lisjetind-pano.jpg