After much wedging of my large pop-up camper into a spot that was probably more suited for a tent, this was the view from my front porch the next morning. This camp site was the only one left that had an resemblance of a tree,of which I had to tie a rope on one branch and pull it back so my awning would go up.

This place and pretty much all of the Desert SW is really hot in the summer month. I had a 5 gal catch can that caught the inside sink water. I had little rats of somekind chew the hose trying to get at the water...and a couple of them fell in and could not get out and drowned and began to decay by the time I was ready to leave. What a mess that was. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the sink cabinet and ran the drain hose out the bottom and out of site. The water dried up in less than an hour.

Most of the National Parks and Monuments are on a first come bases for getting a campsite. I really hate to pack up and go to another park only to find there is no campsites availalbe. So I got up early the morning before leaving this site and drove to Canyonlands-Needles and found a great campsite and registered it in for the nest 10 days. Now I had a secure site and could take my time in relocating.

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Back in the summer of 2003 I was camping at about 5 or 6 NP and NM in CO. & UT. Canyonlands NP is divided basically into two sections for those with campers...Island in the Sky and Needles. I camped at both sections for about a week each and then over to Arches for another week.

I quickly found that when out west the vast expanses of landscapes that trying to use an extreme wide angle lens to get as much into the frame as possible just did not work for me. The perspective from near to far was overly exaggerated. So when confronted with such as wide panoramic image such as this one I found it far better to set my camera's lens to about 45mm and make multiple images from left to right overlapping about 25%. I wished that I knew then what I know now about making panoramic images without parallax distortion when trying to stitch all of the images together. But that was over 14 years ago. Had I have know more on the subject I would have at least overlapped 50%.

The image title indicates the Wooden Shoe Arch on the far left. I made closer images of just that feature but later decided to come back and do a very wide pano of the entire rock feature and found it much more interesting. I might add that I did replace the sky in this as the skies at that time of the year out west are not what I would have liked.

And BTW, if you like a bit of humor of the things that have happened to me over the years on some of my photo adventures, try reading some of the stories in my Blog. I've just added the last two adventures that happened many years ago. Just waiting for the next humorous adventure to arrive.
I'm sure there must have been a couple of events that happened out of the ordinarily while some other photo adventures, but trying to remember back. 15 years now is a real task. But when I do I will write them up and post to my Blog.

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There are many noted geological features located on this side of Canyonlands NP. Candlestick Tower, shown in the distance on the far right with a hint of sun striking the very top of this feature, is probably my second favorite, but once again, without moisture in the air, the extremely fine suspended sand particles really diffuse the image. Sometimes this can work in your favor, but often not. Very early mornings are much better to somewhat eliminate the pinkish haze.

One of the most notable things you will see during the early summer months is the magent hue in all of the distant landscapes. This is caused by these pinkish sand particles held up vertically in the air column by the winds. There have been a couple of very high winds that have caught me by surprise. I had to hide behind some very large boulders until the winds subsided. One day the camper was full of very fine dust that managed to get in while the camper was closed up tightly...But I guess not tight enough.

There was one night, of 14 days of camping in two sections of this park, that it rained. The next morning the air quality was nice and clear. The rest of the time I fought sand particles.This was the morning after it rained that night. I might mention that my pop-up camper has a drain pipe that runs outside into a 5 gal bucket. The local mice ate hole in the pipe and some managed to get inside the bucket trying to get water and drowned.

And BTW, if you like a bit of humor of the things that have happened to me over the years on some of my photo adventures, try reading some of the stories in my Blog. I've just added the last two adventures that happened many years ago. Just waiting for the next humorous adventure to arrive.
I'm sure there must have been a couple of events that happened out of the ordinarily while in Canyonlands and Arches NP but trying to remember back. 15 years now is a real task.

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