The Reason Its Called 'Redrock'
Oct 17, 2018 09:18:00 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
As ever, I'm pleased you like the image and appreciate each of your comments, folks.
Oct 17, 2018 09:22:05 #
miket22
Loc: Northern Massachusetts
Great shot. A real beauty. It's not just seeing the shot but getting there at the right time. Thanks for sharing it.
Oct 17, 2018 10:10:08 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
miket22 wrote:
Great shot. A real beauty. It's not just seeing the shot but getting there at the right time. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks, Mike. Re: 'getting there at the right time....' is important, too, of course. Though in this instance --as in many of our various instances-- being very, very familiar with a place, and having seen over and again how such and such a sky/light may (or just as often, may not) produce the kind of image you want in a particular setting helps immeasurably as well. A casual visitor to a place can certainly get lucky, but someone who visits for a single day, and isn't familiar with what could be happening where is at an obvious disadvantage. I live maybe ten miles away from the place in the image, I worked in that park for a number of years, and there's no telling how many times I've seen this or similar scenes, so I have what could be considered an unfair advantage. Just as I'd be the disadvantaged one while trying to find something 'good' in anybody else's neighborhood. And it doesn't take a lot of skill to watch the weather, gauge the possibilities, and get up early and go.
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Oct 17, 2018 11:07:53 #
wayne barnett
Loc: Grants Pass, Oregon
Cany143 wrote:
Thanks, Mike. Re: 'getting there at the right ti... (show quote)
Spot on for knowing when the best times are for a particular opportunity. Most of us who are just traveling through have to take what is available at the time. Not necessarily the best way to get great photos, but what we stick ourselves with in order to see the most in the least amount of time.
Oct 17, 2018 12:32:36 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
wayne barnett wrote:
....but what we stick ourselves with in order to see the most in the least amount of time....
Yup. 'The most in the least amount of time.' That's precisely where the difficulty arises --if one recognizes it as a difficulty, that is. Times enough, like everyone else, I've done the whirl-wind thing, so I'm hardly immune. But an equal number of times, I've stopped and spent a few days or a week or whatever in some previously unfamiliar place, and came away with (what I consider) a lot more than some nice pix. Namely, some connection to a place, be that through seeing what happens with light from one glorious morning to the next that's drab, but is somehow more telling of the place than the 'glorious' one could ever be. Or having an area resident consider you first with suspicion, then upon seeing there's no need for fear or derisiveness, ask if you'd like to see more of their world. I don't know who I'd be quoting, but whoever first said 'I'd rather know one mile well than ten thousand miles not at all' is someone I could spend serious time with, and learn something from.
Oct 17, 2018 14:21:25 #
Awesome! That one shot tells the world why that is one of my favorite venues to photograph! Thanks for sharing.
Oct 17, 2018 15:43:23 #
GreyOwl40
Loc: Quebec City
Cany143 wrote:
Yup. 'The most in the least amount of time.' Tha... (show quote)
An excellent philosophical approach to the world and all its beauty, Cany143!
Oct 17, 2018 16:18:07 #
Oct 17, 2018 17:15:13 #
Longshadow wrote:
Wow!
Download is superb!
Download is superb!
You MUST see the download. Longshadow is right and then some. It is one absolutely magnificent picture. Cany, kudos to you!!!!! If this is a "stitched" panorama, you did a beautiful job.
Oct 17, 2018 17:39:22 #
Cany143 wrote:
First light along the Windows Primitive Loop Trail, Arches Nat'l Park.
Oct 17, 2018 18:21:08 #
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