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Temple of the Moon
The sun casts its early morning light over the Temple of the Moon in Capitol Reef, Utah.
Here's a photo I grabbed down in Capitol Reef while on a trip out with David Swindler of ActionPhotoTours and his buddy Dennis Maisel. I was fortunate enough via David's magnanimous spirit to spent all last week scouting and exploring the desert southwest with he and his buddy. What an adventure that was, exploring some of the most remote locations in the southwest with amazing photographers and friends. While scouting this area the day before I noticed a butte across from the temple, so in the early morning I climbed up there to get a view out over the valley. I knew I would be doing a bit of hiking around this morning so I went to grab a bottle of water from my ice chest which sat out all night while we were out nightscaping. When I opened the lid I couldn't believe my eyes, the whole contents of the ice chest was frozen solid, Humm... I guess they only work from the inside out. Hehe. I pulled out my buck knife and started to chisel one away quietly as not to alarm the others, That's all I need for a first impression is of me going "Psycho" on my ice chest for a bottle of water. It's so great to shoot the southwest in the winter, that is if you can stand the cold mornings and bone chilling wind. I found the southwest in the winter is eerily like a ghost town, not a soul around, except for some locals and ranchers going about their daily business and the roads are wide open, no need for a passing lane at this time of year, and the Christmas decorations in all the little towns along the way really helped to boost my holiday spirit. Only drawback is that "ALL" campgrounds are closed during the winter, so you have to camp primitive style in BLM areas. The only campground I found open was the Goblin Valley campground which was convenient since I was planning to do some nightscapes there. :-)
Warning!!! I like my scenes to depict a lack of humanity so I have removed the roads and signs from the shot so don't expect it to looks exactly like this if you show up there looking for this same shot. :-)
For a great photography adventure at the best times of the day or night, look no further than Action Photo Tours, David is an award winning, excellent guide and accomplished landscape photographer, and all around super nice guy.
Click the link below to book your tour today!!
Here's a link to Dennis's Website
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, If you like them please share them with your friends or add it to your gallery, and as always your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great day ahead everyone. :)
If you have any questions about this photo or about photography in general, I will do my best to help, just post a comment or send me a Flickr mail and I will respond as quickly as possible.
For those of you new to photography, I would like to provide you with some very helpful videos, they should help you get more from your photography. They where very useful to me while I was learning and I hope that they will help you out as well. Just click the link below and there are pre-made playlists on everything you could ever want to know about photography. I hope you enjoy them and as always my friends "Happy Shooting"
www.youtube.com/user/EricGaildot21Studios/playlists?sort=...
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Copyright 2018©Eric Gail
Temple of the Moon
The sun casts its early morning light over the Temple of the Moon in Capitol Reef, Utah.
Here's a photo I grabbed down in Capitol Reef while on a trip out with David Swindler of ActionPhotoTours and his buddy Dennis Maisel. I was fortunate enough via David's magnanimous spirit to spent all last week scouting and exploring the desert southwest with he and his buddy. What an adventure that was, exploring some of the most remote locations in the southwest with amazing photographers and friends. While scouting this area the day before I noticed a butte across from the temple, so in the early morning I climbed up there to get a view out over the valley. I knew I would be doing a bit of hiking around this morning so I went to grab a bottle of water from my ice chest which sat out all night while we were out nightscaping. When I opened the lid I couldn't believe my eyes, the whole contents of the ice chest was frozen solid, Humm... I guess they only work from the inside out. Hehe. I pulled out my buck knife and started to chisel one away quietly as not to alarm the others, That's all I need for a first impression is of me going "Psycho" on my ice chest for a bottle of water. It's so great to shoot the southwest in the winter, that is if you can stand the cold mornings and bone chilling wind. I found the southwest in the winter is eerily like a ghost town, not a soul around, except for some locals and ranchers going about their daily business and the roads are wide open, no need for a passing lane at this time of year, and the Christmas decorations in all the little towns along the way really helped to boost my holiday spirit. Only drawback is that "ALL" campgrounds are closed during the winter, so you have to camp primitive style in BLM areas. The only campground I found open was the Goblin Valley campground which was convenient since I was planning to do some nightscapes there. :-)
Warning!!! I like my scenes to depict a lack of humanity so I have removed the roads and signs from the shot so don't expect it to looks exactly like this if you show up there looking for this same shot. :-)
For a great photography adventure at the best times of the day or night, look no further than Action Photo Tours, David is an award winning, excellent guide and accomplished landscape photographer, and all around super nice guy.
Click the link below to book your tour today!!
Here's a link to Dennis's Website
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, If you like them please share them with your friends or add it to your gallery, and as always your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great day ahead everyone. :)
If you have any questions about this photo or about photography in general, I will do my best to help, just post a comment or send me a Flickr mail and I will respond as quickly as possible.
For those of you new to photography, I would like to provide you with some very helpful videos, they should help you get more from your photography. They where very useful to me while I was learning and I hope that they will help you out as well. Just click the link below and there are pre-made playlists on everything you could ever want to know about photography. I hope you enjoy them and as always my friends "Happy Shooting"
www.youtube.com/user/EricGaildot21Studios/playlists?sort=...
Please do me a favor and follow me on my other social sites found below:
500px | Facebook | Flickr | Google+ | Instagram | Youtube
Copyright 2018©Eric Gail