What my visiting friend had failed to mention was that though he'd hiked into the area before, he'd never driven into the area before, but off we went, me in my Jeep and he in his Toyota pickup. (It should be noted that access into the Needles' backcountry via the 4WD road that begins at Elephant Hill is considered the most technical and challenging drive in Canyonlands NP.) After camping in Devil's Kitchen, the following morning my friend noticed that one of his tires was about half flat, and his spare was even flatter (whoa Jeez!), so it became obvious we weren't going to reach our intended destination. But there's only one logical way out, and that was through Devil's Lane, so off we went. Spent a portion of the morning surveying the archaeological sites --including a couple my archaeologist friend had not previously seen--, and finally made it back out to pavement some hours later. We got his tire inflated, and he decided to stay in the area, while I decided to return home.
The 'rock art' included here has been purposefully enhanced by use of a plug-in called 'DStretch.' This was developed by a programmer for a specific purpose in an open source image editing program called ImageJ: its intended use is to bring out details in pictographs that literally cannot be seen by the human eye. There are other (and better) photographic techinques to do the same thing --most notably, the use of highly selective filtration of specific light wave frequencies--, but the DStretch-ed images are kinda fun, too. I hope you enjoy.
So I guess you guys are experienced off-roaders. Wow. The pics are great and the info about D stretch was interesting as well. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! I'd love to explore the area with someone as knowledgeable as you. Thanks for sharing!
Cany143 wrote:
What my visiting friend had failed to mention was that though he'd hiked into the area before, he'd never driven into the area before, but off we went, me in my Jeep and he in his Toyota pickup. (It should be noted that access into the Needles' backcountry via the 4WD road that begins at Elephant Hill is considered the most technical and challenging drive in Canyonlands NP.) After camping in Devil's Kitchen, the following morning my friend noticed that one of his tires was about half flat, and his spare was even flatter (whoa Jeez!), so it became obvious we weren't going to reach our intended destination. But there's only one logical way out, and that was through Devil's Lane, so off we went. Spent a portion of the morning surveying the archaeological sites --including a couple my archaeologist friend had not previously seen--, and finally made it back out to pavement some hours later. We got his tire inflated, and he decided to stay in the area, while I decided to return home.
The 'rock art' included here has been purposefully enhanced by use of a plug-in called 'DStretch.' This was developed by a programmer for a specific purpose in an open source image editing program called ImageJ: its intended use is to bring out details in pictographs that literally cannot be seen by the human eye. There are other (and better) photographic techinques to do the same thing --most notably, the use of highly selective filtration of specific light wave frequencies--, but the DStretch-ed images are kinda fun, too. I hope you enjoy.
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Nice shots, Cany. Briefly thought about that drive. Decided it would be a nasty thing to do to the rental car.
Very unique and compelling compositions. Enjoyed the background info on this "rarely seen" portion of CNP.
Awesome! Love #3. The colors are beautiful!
Fantastic downloads,Cany!
Hal81
Loc: Bucks County, Pa.
Off road around here means your in a bad neighborhood.
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