The Middle Of Nowhere
May 3, 2021 22:21:12 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
....is the Center of the Universe. Or at least it may have been.... for someone, once, a long time ago.
Purposefully enhanced using Jon Harmon's plug-in 'DStretch' in the image editor 'ImageJ'. With additional tweaks in Lr and Ps.
This was very much not a walk in the park. Especially when the heavy rain began to fall....
Purposefully enhanced using Jon Harmon's plug-in 'DStretch' in the image editor 'ImageJ'. With additional tweaks in Lr and Ps.
This was very much not a walk in the park. Especially when the heavy rain began to fall....
May 3, 2021 22:22:59 #
May 3, 2021 22:24:36 #
May 4, 2021 01:13:26 #
May 4, 2021 11:05:23 #
Excellent images, Jim- particularly like #2- and appreciate, in #1, despite numerous trails and recent footprints, the sparsity of participants… makes me wonder what the artist’s inspiration may have been to, right then, right there, expend time and energy creating those fascinating images; was it to document an event or personality? To record an imagining? What was the “something” that earned such reluctant dismissal? Maybe, Jim, had you a chunk of charcoal or pocket full of colorful berries and leaves, and being cornered by that heavy rain….
May 4, 2021 12:05:15 #
Beautiful, Cany! Looks like the artist in number four has been hitting the Datura pretty heavy.
May 4, 2021 13:10:49 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
fuminous wrote:
Excellent images, Jim- particularly like #2- and a... (show quote)
Those numerous trails were not made by humans; wintertime grazeland cattle left them, oddly, and deer that call the region home. The fragility of the desert becomes all too apparent in places that are otherwise untouched, and once trodden, may take decades or centuries to regenerate and erase the traces of someone's/something's passage.
Though #1 doesn't well show the difficulty of the terrain, access to the bench where the rockshelter and its ancient art is no small matter. In places it poses no small amount of danger. I don't know who first 'discovered' this place, or when --apart from my speculations about the maker of the painted images about which I've a pretty good idea-- but its only been very recent, and the place would never have been found by a casual hiker because no casual hikers hike in this particular area.
Why the figures were painted, or what the painter's purpose may have been.... I only think I know. But I likewise know there is no way to factually know. Thanks for commenting, Fumi.
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