A Marginal Day: No blue hour, no golden hour, no mauve or pink or salmon or grape hour either. Only a gray hour that lasted pretty much all day long. And a few drops of rain, but not...

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

No blue hour, no golden hour, no mauve or pink or salmon or grape hour either. Only a gray hour that lasted pretty much all day long. And a few drops of rain, but not enough to make things interesting. Truly a marginal day. Probably best to just stay home and watch re-runs on the TV machine.

Nuh-uh. Not on your life!

Bits and pieces from around Dugout Ranch in Indian Creek Canyon and some lesser traveled portions of the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

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Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Nice shots though.

hankm1 Loc: Mount Prospect IL

Great captures of a beautiful area!!

Sylvias Loc: North Yorkshire England

Excellent downloads and compositions Cany, love the dramatic skies.

wham121736 Loc: Long Island, New York

Cany143 wrote:

No blue hour, no golden hour, no mauve or pink or salmon or grape hour either. Only a gray hour that lasted pretty much all day long. And a few drops of rain, but not enough to make things interesting. Truly a marginal day. Probably best to just stay home and watch re-runs on the TV machine.

Nuh-uh. Not on your life!

Bits and pieces from around Dugout Ranch in Indian Creek Canyon and some lesser traveled portions of the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

There is no bad light, only bad use of light. These are great shots, in perhaps less than optimal light. I personally love the shot through the fence.

loosecanon Loc: Central Texas

I just have to say that I am amazed at your consistent artistic vision and technical mastery

grandpaw

I was at Canyonlands National Park last month. You captured some really nice images!!!

Kathyjuk Loc: Hove, UK

Love the dramatic skies, which really seem to fit the landscape too.

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Outstanding work, Cany. I love the composition of #1. The road and bit of fence, man made elements, add a nice touch. #2 is a picture within a picture. The gnarly little evergreen growing between the boulders would made a great close up shot. I also love the "fenced in" shot. Again, the man made elements add an appealing element to the picture. It is a unique view of this beautiful part of the country.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Nice again, Cany. I have to wonder what was lost on the rock art panel in the last shot, over the last +/- 800 years.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Retired CPO wrote:

Nice again, Cany. I have to wonder what was lost on the rock art panel in the last shot, over the last +/- 800 years.

Hard to say, CPO. Ranching has been going on in there since the Scorrup and Scrupp operations of the 1880's, and without doing any research, I'd suspect the road was beginning to be carved out around that time. Given the man-made (blade) angle of the bank along that section, I'd guess the boulder had been in the way so it got rolled off to the side where it now sits. If that was what actually happened, its amazing that the (remaining?) two figures are right side up. You're probably already aware that there are hundreds --maybe thousands-- of rock art panels/associated archaeology in Indian Creek and its side canyons, so the area is unusually rich, even for Utah. I used to work with Heidi's (Redd, the owner/operator of the now deeded-to-the-Nature Conservancy ranch) adopted daughter, and times we'd talk about it, she described some of the ruins etc. that she and the other cowboys would stop by while out cowboying. Pretty amazing stuff that very few are aware of. (Well, except for a particular scene in the made for tv movie version of 'Riders Of The Purple Sage' that was filmed mainly at the ranch and in one of the nearby cliff ruins.) Now, apart from a few bullet holes from days past, here and there in a more obvious panel, the bigger threat comes from rock climbers, not ranching. This much I am sure of, though: I lost a Pentax Spotmeter V somewhere in that vicinity twenty or so years ago, so there's that.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Cany, these are superb. Number four tickled me. Looks like some prehistoric creature crawling over the rise.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Cany143 wrote:

Hard to say, CPO. Ranching has been going on in t... (show quote)

Yeah, Cany I'm familiar with Indian Creek's place in the local archeology scene.. I was remarking on this particular small panel because there doesn't look like there is a protecting overhang and there is/has been some exfoliation weathering and loss of desert varnish through the years.

Who knows? Maybe 800 years from now someone/thing will find your Spotmeter and it will start a completely new archeological period in the South West. I lost a medium format film holder in the Green River near the mouth of Water Canyon about 10 years ago. Maybe we will spawn the "Dumb Ass Man" Period of archeological research in the area.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Nice work.
But I'm just wondering if anyone else sees the face of Jabba The Hutt carved in the top of the rock that has the petroglyph in the last photo.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

lmTrying wrote:

Nice work.
But I'm just wondering if anyone else sees the face of Jabba The Hutt carved in the top of the rock that has the petroglyph in the last photo.

OMG! You're RIGHT!!!1!!1! What's more, you just PROVED BEYOND ANY DOUBT the theory that some actually believe about petros either portraying Extra Terrestrials or having in fact been made by ETs (and not always by 'nice' ETs like 'Paul' or Speilberg's 'ET' either). Jabba was clearly Hutting in Indian Creek Canyon! Run away! Run awaaaay!!!