Pivot
In my previous post, I shared an image from Utah's Gunlock State Park. It was taken facing (roughly) north. To compose this current image, I took a few steps and pivoted 180 degrees so I was facing (roughly) south. Quite a different view, this one featuring the Gunlock Reservoir, and an example of "Photography by walking around."
The Gunlock Reservoir lies In scenic red rock country, 15 miles northwest of sunny St. George, Utah. I composed these two images of it during a short road trip through this area on the Old Spanish Trail, which was used by horsemen and raiders from Sante Fe, New Mexico to Los Angeles from the 1820's until the gold fields became the destination after 1849 and a shorter route was taken.
The name Gunlock is the same as the small farming community one mile to the reservoir's north. William Haynes Hamblin (nicknamed Will or Bill), a Mormon pioneer born in Ohio, settled in the present area of the lake in 1857. Gunlock Will was a good hunter and sharpshooter, and was skillful in repairing gunlocks, which are the firing mechanisms for muzzleloaders.
His brother, Jacob Hamblin, was actually the more well known of the two. He was a Mormon settler and a missionary to the Indians of southern Utah and northern Arizona, particularly the Shivwits tribe of the Paiute Indians, who still live in this area.
Pivot
In my previous post, I shared an image from Utah's Gunlock State Park. It was taken facing (roughly) north. To compose this current image, I took a few steps and pivoted 180 degrees so I was facing (roughly) south. Quite a different view, this one featuring the Gunlock Reservoir, and an example of "Photography by walking around."
The Gunlock Reservoir lies In scenic red rock country, 15 miles northwest of sunny St. George, Utah. I composed these two images of it during a short road trip through this area on the Old Spanish Trail, which was used by horsemen and raiders from Sante Fe, New Mexico to Los Angeles from the 1820's until the gold fields became the destination after 1849 and a shorter route was taken.
The name Gunlock is the same as the small farming community one mile to the reservoir's north. William Haynes Hamblin (nicknamed Will or Bill), a Mormon pioneer born in Ohio, settled in the present area of the lake in 1857. Gunlock Will was a good hunter and sharpshooter, and was skillful in repairing gunlocks, which are the firing mechanisms for muzzleloaders.
His brother, Jacob Hamblin, was actually the more well known of the two. He was a Mormon settler and a missionary to the Indians of southern Utah and northern Arizona, particularly the Shivwits tribe of the Paiute Indians, who still live in this area.