Hands? (Boulder #5)
Not at all ideal lighting with the sun getting low, again Enfuse comes to the (partial) rescue. I can't recall if it was this boulder or the next where the alarm I'd set went off -- it was an alarm to let us know we'd used half the time from when we left to when the sun would set (and local sunset would happen before that) so it was tine to start thinking about heading back.
This was the only one we with more than one or two glyphs on it. And the two on that hill were closest together we saw, most were spaced far apart with nothing on equally suitable boulders in between. If it hadn't been time to head back I'm sure we would have found many more than the seven we did, but it would have taken a while.
As far as the patterns, there's the wavy pattern on top/back -- this was just about down in a small wash (which must almost never have water in it), not sure if that has anything to do with it. ("If it's raining, do not stand here!") Or maybe this was a route to a spring at higher elevations? The hands are odd, as they appear to have 5 fingers and no thumb. But we'll come to an even stranger hand soon . . .
Technical details: Enfuse from multiple level adjustments of a single raw file. I also took an exposure bracketed set but was unhappy with one of the exposures, and was unhappy with the sharpness level in many of the exposures, likely motion blur -- I discovered the next morning that the lens' image stabilization was shut off. Argh.
Hands? (Boulder #5)
Not at all ideal lighting with the sun getting low, again Enfuse comes to the (partial) rescue. I can't recall if it was this boulder or the next where the alarm I'd set went off -- it was an alarm to let us know we'd used half the time from when we left to when the sun would set (and local sunset would happen before that) so it was tine to start thinking about heading back.
This was the only one we with more than one or two glyphs on it. And the two on that hill were closest together we saw, most were spaced far apart with nothing on equally suitable boulders in between. If it hadn't been time to head back I'm sure we would have found many more than the seven we did, but it would have taken a while.
As far as the patterns, there's the wavy pattern on top/back -- this was just about down in a small wash (which must almost never have water in it), not sure if that has anything to do with it. ("If it's raining, do not stand here!") Or maybe this was a route to a spring at higher elevations? The hands are odd, as they appear to have 5 fingers and no thumb. But we'll come to an even stranger hand soon . . .
Technical details: Enfuse from multiple level adjustments of a single raw file. I also took an exposure bracketed set but was unhappy with one of the exposures, and was unhappy with the sharpness level in many of the exposures, likely motion blur -- I discovered the next morning that the lens' image stabilization was shut off. Argh.