Highway 95 passes through a small section of the Glen Canyon Reservoir in the North West corner.
To adquately capture some of these vast landscapes I choose to shoot several images at near 50 mm and pano acrosss the intended image and stitch them together later when I arrived back in Florida of 2002. I'm just now getting around to some of these forgotten images. This is 4 images.
This route was taken from Natural; Bridges NM over to Capitol Reef NP.
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To adquately capture some of these vast landscapes I choose to shoot several images at near 50 mm and pano acrosss the intended image and stitch them together later when I arrived back in Florida of 2002. I'm just now getting around to some of these forgotten images. This is 6 images.
This route was taken from Natural; Bridges NM over to Capitol Reef NP.
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I'm in one of my creative moods for whatever reasons. So I have revisited some of my western landscapes made back in 02 and thought that I would see what I could come with for that extra added element to boost certain images. I have hundreds of these 4 corners region images that have never been worked on.
This area near Mexican Hat, Utah is very similar to Monument Valley with these massive pillars of rock formations along a 16 mile dirt road. You can actually camp in this area wich allows one to spend quality AM/PM time at each one of these pillars.
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This is the full frontal image. The far left is where you can climb up to the top of this mesa. This would be where the Anasazi cultivated their crops.
I love how the color striations in the massive boulder leads your eye right to the ruins.
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This image is around the corner to the right of the previous post. That is not snow, but the inability of that old Sony's 2.1 MP sensor to handle the extreme tonal range. I should have reshot these four images again for the highlights
I would suspect that this group of dwellings held perhaps up to 6 to 8 families or more.
The front pano shows more housing to the left of the previous post, along with the opening where these people climbed up to the top of the mesa.
I would guess that the bottom of Mule Canyon was about 40 feet below these structures, as I had to do some climbing to get up there.
I sat there for over an hour, not doing any shooting but just looking out over the canyon to the other side and thinking about what it might have been like to have been amoung these people and their way of life.
A much simpler life for sure, but without photography...bummer!!!!
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