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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.
See my National Monuments album and Grand Staircase - Escalante album for more on lands under consideration for removal from national monument status.
Carrizo Plain National Monument is described on page 180 of my 320-page guidebook Photographing California Vol. 2 - South.
Nat Geo has published an article on the possibility of a "super bloom" in 2023: www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/2023-year-...
The massive field of phacelia in Carrizo Plain National Monument #california was stunning last weekend.
Let me know if anyone finds an SD card out there!
This pool in the BLM's Paria Canyon Wilderness reflects the sculpted sandstone that water helped form, and then shape. (Technically this formation lies in Arizona, but the trail head is in Utah!)
This and other sites that I've visited have been documented in my blog over the past several years: www.activesole.blogspot.com. Many of the sites are well known, but the timing of your visit to catch the best light can make all the difference in your results.
Some of the sites require significant efforts to reach, sometimes requiring significant preparation and specialized gear, so I can also lead trips best described as "adventure photography" for those willing to go to great lengths to explore unique landscapes.
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Three exposures post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 5 and PhotomatixPro v6 beta, Interior mode.
Carrizo Plain National Monument is described on page 180 of my 320-page guidebook Photographing California Vol. 2 - South. As it says on the back cover, "Whether your camera is a smartphone or a DSLR, this book can help you find the most interesting places,"
One of my first images post-processed in PhotomatixPro v6 beta.
I used the Enhanced mode on three bracketed exposures one stop apart to bring out the texture in the clouds.
Image captured this week in Carrizo Plain National Monument, California.
A "slippery when wet" or "watch your step" petroglyph, by a ledge halfway up a cliff in the Mojave Desert.
Colorful layers of sedimentary rock in Southern Utah.
This is from one of my road trips in fall 2006. I hope to lead photographers in Southern Utah in 2019. My workshop schedule should be ready ASAP!
Desert gold captured near Ashford Mill during my Death Valley workshop last week. The park was unusually crowded, so we entirely avoided unnecessary crowds such as those at Badwater and the Mesquite Flat Dunes.
To the right is Shoreline Butte, which shows ancient "strandlines" of ancient shorlines that existed on historic Lake Manly in this valley during Pleistocene ice ages.
A slot canyon in Coyote Gulch, from my visit to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah last month.
This Ancient Pueblan granary is in Mule Canyon in the BLM's Grand Gulch/Cedar Mesa Plateau property near Monticello, Utah.
Much of the BLM's land in southern Utah is currently threatened by oil and gas exploration. I toured Utah last Fall and while visiting BLM's Fantasy Canyon and witnessed firsthand the devastation wreaked by the oil and gas industry in the northeast end of the state. To prevent this destructive abuse in the most scenic portions of southern Utah, please follow this link to politely ask your Senators and Representative to co-sponsor America's Red Rock Wilderness Act:
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Apparently this slot canyon gets even better a few miles up. I didn't have time to explore it on my last visit, so I'll have to allocate a day for it on a return trip.
Light painting in Sequoia National Monument last week. The enclosed space inside would be big enough for 3-4 people to sit down and play a card game! We were a little too early for Fall colors on the dogwood trees, but it was fun to have a new type of subject for a few days.
Let me know if anyone finds an SD card out there!
Three exposures post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 5 and PhotomatixPro v6 beta.
The low hills in the background lie on the San Andreas Fault. Behind them is the Temblor Range.
This was taken just south of the large patch of blue phacelia towards the south end of Carrizo Plain National Monument, a little over a week ago.
The Grand Gulch / Cedar Mesa area in Southeastern Utah is littered with old ruins of Ancient Pueblan dwellings and granaries. Many ancient cultures such as the Mayans and Ancient Pueblans succumbed to droughts, as we're seeing spread in Africa, China, and the Western U.S.. Some leading scientists are forecasting a crash in global human population to 500 million by the end of this century. We're seeing clear changes and acceleration now in places like Antarctica, the Arctic, and Greenland, and many of us will live to see them affect global economies and societies. The survival of our children, and their children, are the stakes.
Global scientific collaboration is starting to gain an understanding of how natural (climate) and human (deforestation. topsoil erosion, population) forces have shaped human history. This will help us more completely understand, and hopefully influence, our future.
Projects such as the Integrated History of People on Earth (IHOPE), International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the American Quaternary Association (AMQUA, devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, the last 2 million years of Earth history) promise to give us the knowledge and tools to make more informed decisions about our future.
After 20+ years of largely ignoring the evidence (such as presented in the watered-down government-reviewed IPCC reports), we may no longer have the luxury of being able to wait and see what happens before our fate will be decided for us.
Sandstone basks in the moonlight under the stars on BLm land near Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument at night.
This is a 6-minute exposure taken on a Canon Digital Rebel XTi with the kit 18-55mm lens. It doesn't take fancy equipment to produce nice images!
Found abandoned on an old farm just south of the "sea of phacelia" toward the south end of Carrizo Plain National Monument. There were two more nearby, but they were less well preserved.
The hills in the background lie on the San Andreas Fault.
An incredible sunset in the Painted Hills in Central Oregon.
May 2011 update - Replaced a 2 exposure HDR with a better single file edit accomplished using Adobe Lightroom.
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Morning fog burns off by the Carrizo Plain. I recently re-edited this with Adobe Lightroom 5, to reformat it for my guidebook, and I like the new version better. It has more contrast, more black more color, without blowing out the clouds..
"In 1988, The Nature Conservancy partnered with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the California Department of Fish and Game to undertake an ambitious project of acquiring and managing this great expanse of land."
"Through cooperative effort, the initial 82,000-acre parcel not only grew to its current quarter-million acreage, it garnered federal support, becoming a national monument in 2001."