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Arches National Park
Read more about our October trip to Canyonlands and Arches National Parks.
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Thank you to Pareeerica for the texture www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3569764986/
and to Kim Klassen for the texture Sweettart.
Following on from my itsy bitsy Monument Valley, I decided to make a handheld version of Delicate Arch. It's four inches wide, laser engraved, and assembled from four layers of cherry veneer plywood.
This represents probably upwards of fifteen hours fiddling around in Inkscape getting the little details just so. It started with photos of the arch, traced for shape. After that was a lot of manually filling in the lines and details in such a way they would look decent coming out of the laser cutter, and then a lot of iteration to get the physical product to look something like what I wanted. Sure, I could have just plopped a photo down and let some image processing software do the work, but where's the fun in that?
If you've got a laser cutter and gotta have one, the design is available on thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:3111976
If you don't have a laser cutter and gotta have one, send me a message or hit me up with a request on my etsy store:
Highlight of our Southwest geology tour, the sunset at Delicate Arch is worth the wait.
The fact that you will be joined by a crowd turns the arch into a kind of natural shrine. A truly centering and uplifting experience.
My sleep this morning is "delicate." (Defined by Google as "easily broken or damaged.") I've been tossing and turning for four hours--perhaps worried my alarm would wake up my hubby. Now I got up for a Mimio presentation at 7 ET, seven hours earlier for me (that is 2 am). Here I am waiting for the presentation to start.
The Delicate Arch appeared all of a sudden at the end of a strenuous trail from the parking lot, at Arches National Park, in Utah. This arch is hidden from view, and the only way to get up-close to it is to hike about a mile and a half, under the harsh sun and a steady incline. No wonder this is one of the most photographed arches in the world. People seemed to flock around the base of the arch, taking pictures.
I had to wait till sunset, to be able to photograph the arch without any people around it :)