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Night on Fire

Anasazi Part 4:

The Anasazi were a Pre-Columbian Indian people that lived in the SW region of North America.

 

This is the Anasazi or ancient Puebloan ruin called House on Fire or Flaming House ruin in Mule Canyon, Utah. The name comes from the appearance on the rocks just above the ruin. In the morning at a certain time the rock takes on a color that looks like flames. I wondered just what it might look like at night, and found that the warm lights on the rock did reproduce the appearance, perhaps even better. I shot the standard close up views of the ruins but liked this wide view as well, which is a bit more unusual. The ruins are tucked in below a large rounded or elliptical rock dome with the arching Milky Way overhead.

 

Disclaimer: No rooms or ruins were touched or entered in the making of this photo. The lights were placed in the rooms using a fishing pole and string. (No fish were harmed in the making of this photo either!).

 

This is a panorama of multiple vertical images combined in Lightroom. Nikon 810A camera, 14-24 mm lens, at f 2.8, 14 mm, 30 sec., and ISO 8000.

 

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Anasazi Ruins Photos in Prime Time!

I recently had the pleasure of working with Tom Ranzweiler of Al Jazeera America News on a short segment about The Ancient Puebloan Ruins I photographed at night. It aired as an First Person piece on Monday night.

Here is the clip (it's will need to download):

 

america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/live-news/2015/10/a-pho...

 

Thank you Tom!

 

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