Photo Adventure - Layers

We are photographing in many of the iconic locations in the Moab region during our class this week. One is the Washer Woman formation in Canyonlands National Park. It is often photographed through the frame of Mesa Arch.

We visited the Mesa Arch overlook on our second morning. As can happen with very famous park locations it became very crowded with visitors, even at 5:30 AM !

The weather has been cool and hazy in this part of the desert. It is snowing today up towards Sale Lake City. All of our mornings have had clouds which have made for challenging and exciting lighting.

I shot this image especially to emphasize the 'layers' of the ridges, buttes, towers, etc. out from the edge of the mesa.

Photo Adventure - Tire'd

The main event for our trip to Moab is a photo school. It is a landscape photography oriented class. So what did we do for one of our first shoots? We went to visit a ghost town and worked on an assignment to shoot small details.

This old truck wheel has been setting in the grass for a long time. There was more interesting junk on the ground and around the abandoned buildings.

The class is also focused on Photoshop for post processing. All steps in CS4

Photo Adventure - Nine Mile Canyon

Debbie and I are out in Utah for some time off. Of course that means photography.

We will be in Moab for most of the week, but today we drove up Nine Mile Canyon near Price, UT. Nine Mile contains what may be the largest collection of ancient native american rock art. This petroglyph panel is one of the most impressive in the canyon. The amount of content is amazing.

Sadly, much of the art has been vandalized. This panel shows a little. Other locations have had images drawn on, shot at, or initials or names put next to or on top of the original images.