Shooting the Shooters - Grand Staircase-Escalante Edition

Given that the day photographing at Devil’s Garden along Hole in the Rock Road was so productive, it shouldn’t surprise you that the day provided us with great examples for our shooting the shooter series.

The first pair of images comes from early in the day as the sun’s first rays were catching the clouds.  I’d noticed the clouds behind me after I finished another image in the other direction and I swung the camera around, framed an image, shot it and realized that Ann was by the left-hand edge of the frame (hopefully nice and warm in her bright red down jacket).

Only later did it dawn on me (pardon the pun) that Ann might have made an interesting image at the time I’d taken one of her.

Sure enough, she had.  For me, the image has the quiet stillness that being there that morning was.

The shot of me is from later in the day during our excursion down Harris Wash Road. 

We’re including it here because it ties back to the story from the Burr Trail about driving down the road, looking for images and suddenly noticing the smallest of details from which to make a photograph.  This time the composition was about 20 feet in the air, so naturally I had to climb up on Beast to get as close to even with it as possible.

And like the Burr Trail image - it is a composition, although probably of an area about 2 feet by 3 feet.  It’s the only image I made from up there.