Jumping the Monkey's Lips

A basejumper takes a leap of faith at the Monkey Lips formation in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

 

Here's a fun adventure shot I took while on my last trip to Colorado. We worked our way down from Colorado into Utah to this location which has been dubbed the "Monkey Lips" by the local jumpers. We arrived to this second location after a long drive in Canyonlands National Park. I must admit that when my friend Scott Wakefield advised me of the opportunity to shoot these guys and reported the location I couldn't think of any "Really Tall" formations that would allow a jump. I found out later as you can see that they only need a couple hundred feet to jump. I consider myself a little bit of a thrill seeker, but this is plain crazy folks. At least they found an interesting spot to do the jump, the formation they jumped off does look like a monkey pursing it's lips. Don't you agree. Hehe. :)

 

The first location I used my canon 6D, but I decided to switch to the 70D because of the faster frame rate. I shot this as a series using High Speed Continuos mode, and then set my camera to capture only Jpeg files and to increase even further the speed that I can capture to the card. Hope you like it. :)

 

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