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Tonight at Antelope Island I met two young ladies from England. Their names are Sophie,and the one in the picture is Alisha. They are filming a documentary for the Discovery Channel on North America and are including a small segment on Antelope Island. LOOKS BEST BY CLICKING ON "L" ENLARGED AND ON BLACK
Got up early to spend a little time on Antelope Island as the sun came up. The Burrowing Owl pair are getting a bit more trusting. I only saw one Short-eared Owl and no Harrier.
It's getting warm. A few days in a row now near 90°. It won't be long before all the lush green we've been enjoying turns dry and brown.
This is a shot with my 2 sons spinning some colored glow sticks while I was shooting the Milky Way last September.
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Although Dead Horse Point State Park is not part of Canyonlands National Park, its vicinity to the park (its near the entrance to Island in the Sky), amazing panoramic views and solitude makes it a must see stop for any landscape photographer.
I’m getting writer’s block so I’ll “borrow” some lines from the official description of the park: The legend of Dead Horse Point states that around the turn of the century the point was used as a corral for wild mustangs roaming the mesa top. Cowboys herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck was then fenced off with branches and brush. One time, for some unknown reason, horses were left corralled on the waterless point where they died of thirst within view of the Colorado River 2,000 feet below.
Personally I find this place much more intriguing than the Grand Canyon. Hollywood has found this place intriguing too.
It was here at Dead Horse State Park where Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon drove off a cliff and into a canyon in the classic road movie "Thelma and Louise" (in the movie they were supposedly at the Grand Canyon).
[last lines]
Thelma Dickerson: [with a cliff in front of them and cops behind them]
Thelma Dickerson: OK, then listen; let's not get caught.
Louise Sawyer: What're you talkin' about?
Thelma Dickerson: Let's keep goin'!
Louise Sawyer: What d'you mean?
Thelma Dickerson: ...Go.
Thelma Dickerson: [Thelma nods ahead of them]
Louise Sawyer: You sure?
Thelma Dickerson: Yeah.
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Dead Horse Point, Utah.
In the 1800's Cowboys would herd wild horses onto this mesa and use this gate to corral the horses in. The not so happy story is that on one of these wranglings the Cowboys forgot to come back and provide food and water to these horses. Of course, sadly, the horses perished in the cruel summer conditions. Some jumped to death from the mesa, most just laid down and died in sight of the Colorado River that lay just over a mile away.
The truth of the matter is the cowboys would select the horses that would fetch the most money at market. Horses that were young, strong and healthy and the rest, those that were old, decrepit or injured were segregated and brought to this mesa. These horses were referred to as "Broomtails" and were herded and corralled here by the Cowboys and left with the intention of not returning and letting nature do the dirty work.
Today, tourists often say they can hear the whiney of wild horses as the spirit of these Mustangs roam the mesa and display there disgust at the treatment that man had mete out to them, This location in summer, however beautiful, is very demanding and unforgiving. Several people each year die in this area due to the heat and lack of resources to hydrate. Not far from here Aron Ralston became trapped while Canyoneering in a slot canyon became trapped and was forced to amputate his arm to survive. The movie 127 hours tells his story.
It was starting to rain while taking this shot,with a down pour and strong winds moments later. Hoping there is lightning tonight. Taken 7-9-2011
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This is a 4 shot Panorama from the east rim trail on your way to the Dead Horse Point Overlook.
The blue lakes you can see in the distance are actually the Potash Solar Evaporation Ponds. You can see more info here: www.intrepidpotash.com/AboutUs/LocationsOperations/MoabUT...
This was an incredible view for the entire 2 miles of the hike, well worth the trip if you are in the Arches or Canyonlands National Park area.
After leaving Zion National Park, we were on our way to our hotel in Kanab and I saw a sign for Coral Pink Sand Dunes. I visited this park four years ago and it was absolutely amazing so I took the opportunity to stop again. Such a beautiful, peaceful place!!
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On my way back to Salt Lake City from Escalante, I took the time to loop into Kodachrome Basin State Park (Utah). Red-tinged rock everywhere, monolithic spires or chimneys jut up from the valley floor or protrude from the sandstone rocks. Plenty to shoot, just gotta find the right light and perspective. Appropriate that a National Geographic Society expedition named it Kodachrome in 1948.
It was to my dismay that there were four wheeler tracks........but it is allowed on these dunes.
www.duneguide.com/sand_dune_guide_coral_pink.htm
Another unexpected find along my way. Perfect PINK
Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah State Park U.S.A.
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Lady Finger Point - Antelope Island, 3-11-2013.
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Quick weekend trip to Moab while the National Parks were Closed due to Government Shutdown (BS) landed us at Utah's Dead Horse Point State Park. Pretty cool place! Now I want to find the road to take me to the bottom of this canyon. That would be cool too.
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Goblin Valley State Park in the snow.
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I'm posting three images of a Short-eared Owl I shot earlier this summer. All three are heavy crops so I've hesitated posting them. But I really like them. They are about 3mpx images.
We were at Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in southern Utah for the final hour of the day. This was winter -- Mid-February.
It seems like the natural color of the sand is approximately the color of cayenne pepper or a the flesh of a sweet potato, or maybe coral pink. The color varies greatly as the sun goes down and, of course, due to the exposure of the camera.
This state park allows the Off-Highway Vehicles (OHV). So, many of the big dunes had OHV tracks on them. This picture was taken of a smaller dune that had no footprins of tire tracks. It was also not in any kind of shadow so the late evening sunlight turned it an amazing orage color.
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Aperture f/8
Exposure 1/500
in-camera panoramic
Bridger Bay, Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah.
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It was to my dismay that there were four wheeler tracks........but it is allowed on these dunes.
www.duneguide.com/sand_dune_guide_coral_pink.htm
Another unexpected find along my way. Perfect PINK
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Deadhorse Point State Park, Utah
Dead Horse Point State Park is located in Utah, not far from MOAB. It's an absolutely beautiful place to camp. the point looks out on all sides to Canyonlands National Park, another GEM to visit. Water and electric hookups, bathrooms and showers on site.
All images copyright Bettina Woolbright. Use of or copying any of these photographs without permission is not permitted.
Dawn at Dead Horse Point, Moab, Utah. As I'm reading this amazing book by Edward Abbey, I can only imagine his river ride from Moab down to Glen Canyon. Being here at dawn in winter, once cannot help but savor the solitude and beauty of the canyon and the river flowing below.
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls."
— Edward Abbey
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