Moonshadow
"Oh, I'm bein' followed by a moonshadow, moon shadow, moonshadow---
Leapin and hoppin' on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow---
And if I ever lose my hands, lose my plough, lose my land,
Oh if I ever lose my hands, Oh if I won't have to work no more.
And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry,
Yes if I ever lose my eyes, Oh if I won't have to cry no more."
-Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
song came to mind as I was working on the image and it seemed appropriate on many levels.
This unearthly view is known as the "moonscape" overlook, at Factory Butte, Utah. It is appropriately named. In various hues of purple in the pre-dawn light it looks vaguely ominous and definitely mysterious.
I had been trying various comps with the cool outcropping formations on this overlook, but nothing quite worked. So I decided to try a 2 frame pano, so I could catch a pair of the outcroppings from the overlook to form a frame, and that definitely seemed to work better for me.
Taken on a trip out west with Kevin Benedict back in April. One of those shots that I wasn't all that enamored with initially, but with a little bit of tweaking, mainly in the aspect and cropping, I decided it's decent enough. I've been hanging on to a whole crop of shots lately both because they're the ones that didn't quite work for me right away and because I've been just wicked swamped at work. Hopefully I can take a little time to start catching up on the photography soon.
Moonshadow
"Oh, I'm bein' followed by a moonshadow, moon shadow, moonshadow---
Leapin and hoppin' on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow---
And if I ever lose my hands, lose my plough, lose my land,
Oh if I ever lose my hands, Oh if I won't have to work no more.
And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry,
Yes if I ever lose my eyes, Oh if I won't have to cry no more."
-Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
song came to mind as I was working on the image and it seemed appropriate on many levels.
This unearthly view is known as the "moonscape" overlook, at Factory Butte, Utah. It is appropriately named. In various hues of purple in the pre-dawn light it looks vaguely ominous and definitely mysterious.
I had been trying various comps with the cool outcropping formations on this overlook, but nothing quite worked. So I decided to try a 2 frame pano, so I could catch a pair of the outcroppings from the overlook to form a frame, and that definitely seemed to work better for me.
Taken on a trip out west with Kevin Benedict back in April. One of those shots that I wasn't all that enamored with initially, but with a little bit of tweaking, mainly in the aspect and cropping, I decided it's decent enough. I've been hanging on to a whole crop of shots lately both because they're the ones that didn't quite work for me right away and because I've been just wicked swamped at work. Hopefully I can take a little time to start catching up on the photography soon.