Sights of Escalante, II
From roughly 400-1,350 A.D. the Fremont culture populated regions throughout Utah, growing corn and other crops, hunting game, establishing mysteries for later generations to unravel. Though not as famous for architecture as their Anasazi neighbors, they did leave behind a scattered trove of granaries, pit houses and other minor stone structures. Rock art seems to [...]
Sights of Escalante, I
Above most things in life, I am captivated by the landscape of Utah. The geology is often beyond description and even a camera tends to fall short of conveying scale as it keenly exists. Time loses meaning, ‘being lost’ is suddenly idyllic and the concept of ‘necessity’ becomes stripped of vanity to expose the pure [...]
Dead Horse Point Panorama
Today’s image is comprised of four separate frames, stitched together to create a rather large panorama. Having completely forgotten I’d taken the series, I was anxious to work with them a bit to see what I could come up with. I burned in the bright sky in the upper-left, popped the color and contrast about [...]
Winter Desert Light
I enjoyed going through my UT images the other day, enough so that I thought I’d do another post. This image was taken in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument during March of 2006, a very chilly time of the year to visit the desert. When one expects a scene to imply warmth and instead it [...]
Canyonlands Depth
Having been nearly six months since my last UT post, I decided to revisit the archives to see what I could dig up. It’s pretty amazing how images ‘change’ over time while doing nothing more than sitting in storage. Each viewing brings new perspective and ideas, new ways of approaching the same subject - as [...]
Life of Lizard
During my last trip to Utah I was perched peacefully on a rock looking out over a huge landscape when a bit of movement and muffled noise next to me caught my attention. I looked over to find two lizards chasing each other in a strange orbit around a small boulder, like rings around [...]
Smoking Rock
Despite having several other things I’d like to post, I decided it was time for another shot from Utah. I haven’t needed to dive back into the archives lately, but today I was out driving with a good friend who’s spent a lot of time crawling around the rocks down there also and it [...]