The 'Rasta Man' site is located on a cliff wall above a sloping shelf that sits some 200' above a rose colored chert and milky white chalcedony strewn graben valley below. Though there are a dozen or so 'Barrier Canyon Style' Archaic rock art sites in the immediate vicinity --and as many as 200+ other known sites on the Colorado Plateau that express the same set of stylistic and iconographic characteristics generally-- the 'Rasta Man' site is highly unusual. One 'norm' for sites of this type is that they're located almost universally along routes that pass from one resource area to another, almost in billboard fashion, and were meant to be seen by anyone passing by. The 'Rasta Man' site is not similarly located; access is difficult; there's only one way in and one way out on that high bench. I know of only four other sites that share this same degree of isolation.

There are three loci --or sub panels-- at the site. The images shown are in reverse order relative to what a person would see first, then second, then third. It should go without saying the the highly colorful images/details have been digitally enhanced in order that the iconography and the otherwise barely discernable details can be better seen. Part of that enhancement was accomplished with the assistance of a plug-in (called D-Stretch [by Jon Harmon], a plug-in for the open source image editing program called 'Image-J') developed for the express purpose of 'revealing' the difficulties and differences between pigment values and base rock color values often encountered at prehistoric pictograph sites. The images here are part of the IMACS site recording paperwork on file with State and Federal agencies, that documentation intended for use in assisting site monitoring and management.

The enhanced versions are also kinda pretty, I think, in their unique and colorful way. Despite this being essentially documentary photography.

The 'Rasta Man' site is located on a cliff wall above a sloping shelf that sits some 200' above a rose colored chert and milky white chalcedony strewn graben valley below. Though there are a dozen or so 'Barrier Canyon Style' Archaic rock art sites in the immediate vicinity --and as many as 200+ other known sites on the Colorado Plateau that express the same set of stylistic and iconographic characteristics generally-- the 'Rasta Man' site is highly unusual. One 'norm' for sites of this type is that they're located almost universally along routes that pass from one resource area to another, almost in billboard fashion, and were meant to be seen by anyone passing by. The 'Rasta Man' site is not similarly located; access is difficult; there's only one way in and one way out on that high bench. I know of only four other sites that share this same degree of isolation.

There are three loci --or sub panels-- at the site. The images shown are in reverse order relative to what a person would see first, then second, then third. It should go without saying the highly colorful images/details have been digitally enhanced in order that the iconography and the otherwise barely discernable details can be better seen. Part of that enhancement was accomplished with the assistance of a plug-in (called D-Stretch [by Jon Harmon], a plug-in for the open source image editing program called 'Image-J') developed for the express purpose of 'revealing' the difficulties and differences between pigment values and base rock color values often encountered at prehistoric pictograph sites. The images here are part of the IMACS site recording paperwork on file with State and Federal agencies, that documentation intended for use in assisting site monitoring and management.

The enhanced versions are also kinda pretty, I think, in their unique and colorful way. Despite this being essentially documentary photography.

The 'Rasta Man' site is located on a cliff wall above a sloping shelf that sits some 200' above a rose colored chert and milky white chalcedony strewn graben valley below. Though there are a dozen or so 'Barrier Canyon Style' Archaic rock art sites in the immediate vicinity --and as many as 200+ other known sites on the Colorado Plateau that express the same set of stylistic and iconographic characteristics generally-- the 'Rasta Man' site is highly unusual. One 'norm' for sites of this type is that they're located almost universally along routes that pass from one resource area to another, almost in billboard fashion, and were meant to be seen by anyone passing by. The 'Rasta Man' site is not similarly located; access is difficult; there's only one way in and one way out on that high bench. I know of only four other sites that share this same degree of isolation.

There are three loci --or sub panels-- at the site. The images shown are in reverse order relative to what a person would see first, then second, then third. It should go without saying the highly colorful images/details have been digitally enhanced in order that the iconography and the otherwise barely discernable details can be better seen. Part of that enhancement was accomplished with the assistance of a plug-in (called D-Stretch [by Jon Harmon], a plug-in for the open source image editing program called 'Image-J') developed for the express purpose of 'revealing' the difficulties and differences between pigment values and base rock color values often encountered at prehistoric pictograph sites. The images here are part of the IMACS site recording paperwork on file with State and Federal agencies, that documentation intended for use in assisting site monitoring and management.

The enhanced versions are also kinda pretty, I think, in their unique and colorful way. Despite this being essentially documentary photography.