Ann & Dan’s Excellent Adventures
Phase 2 - Of Goblins, Hurricanes and Devils. Part 3
Spending the night hooked up to shore power did the trick. We woke up the next morning with a set of fully charged house batteries. The question then became what to do with the free day we had before we had to be back to the shop for the alternator replacement? Given the rains we had, most of the locations we were hoping to visit in Capitol Reef were either closed, or would be muddy messes. We decided to call Capitol Reef a bust and to make up for the lost repair day by heading back to the Boulder area to see what we could cobble together.
Phase 2 - Of Goblins, Hurricanes and Devils. Part 2
As planned, we were up and at it again in Goblin Valley State park early the next morning. And while the morning light was not as spectacular as the previous evening’s, it was a good morning of photography!
On Photography
“Photography, itself, became for me a new landscape.” Paul Caponigro
On this day of giving thanks, I want to give thanks to photography. Naturally I am ever thankful for Ann, my family, friends, the wonderful world I live in and my great fortune to have the life I am able to live. But this week my mind has been on how thankful I am for what photography has given to me over the years and continues to give.
Phase 2 - Of Goblins, Hurricanes and Devils, Part 1
Our morning photographing the aspens of the Pando Forest had been superb. It was time to start the second phase of our trip, which would take us to the more desert-like environs to places we’ve been to before, places we haven’t, and new routes in-between. In our planning, this was the part of the trip where we were supposed to stay in one general location for at least a couple of nights at a time so that we could explore an area deeper before moving on. Well, that was the concept at least! The best-laid plans of mice and men . . . .
More November Adventure - Four Images and One I Regret Not Making
On the third day of our November adventure, I thought about something that struck me during our fall trip (like, whenever someone would walk up next to our tripods and press the shutter of their DSLR, which was in sports rapid fire mode so they would fire off 20 or so images within a couple of seconds and then just walk away). Compared to a lot of photographers, I don’t make a lot of images when I go out. That doesn’t mean I don’t make a lot of exposures (I habitually take at least 3 frames of each image that I want to photograph - a habit from my film days when a film holder could have a light leak or a negative could get scratched when being processed). And, of course, if I’m photographing moving water I make a lot of exposures just to get the timing and texture of the water right. But in the end, I often don’t make that many different images in a day, even if I’ve been out photographing for several hours. Sunday I made 4 images, though I should have made 5 and even made a test image for that last one. I’m going to show you all of them!
Interlude - Phoenix Buttress
Well, things have gotten so hectic lately that Ann and I are on another photo trip long before I’ve finished the 2018 Grand Fall Adventure posts. I promise I’ll get back to them, but given I’m sitting in a time-share with the photographs I’ve taken from this morning on my laptop, I figured it would be better to share a blog post with you now than to hold off and keep things in sequence. So here are some images I took Saturday morning of Phoenix Buttress at Smith Rocks State Park.
Phase 1 - Of gorges, aspens, canyons and snot. Part 2
It was dark the next morning when we got up and, given that we’d camped at an even higher 9,500 feet elevation, very cold. After donning our long johns and brewing a pot of coffee to help warm us up, we made the short drive over to where we’d hoped to photograph in the morning. Clouds had started rolling in, so we had a mix of cloud cover and starry skies waiting for us as we set up for our first photographs of the morning. Even then, we had to wait around a bit as the sun approached the horizon before we could make our first images of the day.
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