The Moab Maiden
Jul 11, 2018 14:34:56 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Downriver a few miles from town, on a high bench overlooking the Colorado River.
Jul 11, 2018 14:38:13 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
Cany143 wrote:
Downriver a few miles from town, on a high bench overlooking the Colorado River.
Her "picture" makes her look so cute. Great shot. Love taking pictures of petroglyphs.
Jul 11, 2018 15:03:13 #
Jul 11, 2018 15:45:24 #
alby
Loc: very eastern pa.
nice pic and interesting ... just curious.. how big is this? i have never been but am always fascinated... thanks
Jul 11, 2018 15:50:53 #
Jul 11, 2018 16:12:38 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
wdross wrote:
Her "picture" makes her look so cute. Great shot. Love taking pictures of petroglyphs.
Thanks, wdross. She's for sure 'cute' enough, but she might want to find a new hairdresser. Petros and pictos are about all I shot for 20 years; its only in the past few years I've gotten away from taking a documentary approach to recording images/sites. I thank digital for that.
Jul 11, 2018 16:13:15 #
Jul 11, 2018 16:22:01 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
alby wrote:
nice pic and interesting ... just curious.. how big is this? i have never been but am always fascinated... thanks
The figure is about 30" tall. A mile or so beyond, on the other side of the river, and within direct sight of this site/shot are petros of five elk, each of which is over six feet in length. They're accompanied by a round bodied anthropomorph we call 'Polka Dot Man.' Several dozen other sites can be found within a radius of half a mile.
Jul 11, 2018 19:16:29 #
Nice once again, Cany. Picto's and petro's were what I first became fascinated with in the south west. I would hate to think how many miles I've hiked following verbal directions or something I read in an old book to find (or not) some rock art not seen by more than a 1/2 dozen white men. And there is the possibility that, in the process, I found some that no other white man has ever seen. Never seen or heard of the elk you mentioned.
Jul 11, 2018 19:55:44 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Retired CPO wrote:
Nice once again, Cany. Picto's and petro's were what I first became fascinated with in the south west. I would hate to think how many miles I've hiked following verbal directions or something I read in an old book to find (or not) some rock art not seen by more than a 1/2 dozen white men. And there is the possibility that, in the process, I found some that no other white man has ever seen. Never seen or heard of the elk you mentioned.
I got bit pretty bad by the rock art monster, even before I moved out here. Photographically, one site --'Intestine Man'-- in particular stands out because it literally forced me to learn new techniques involving Kodak TechPan, N+6 development, highly selective wavelength filtration, etc, that few in the world were doing at the time. Digital makes all that stuff so easy now. Apart from a few sites 'the team' and I discovered in the Grand Canyon's North Rim area, I'm relatively sure I haven't seen much that hadn't already been seen by some random prospector, cowboy, shepherd, or hiker who got lost in the Maze (literally and figuratively) somewhere. But it was always grand when I'd come across something I hadn't heard of before, or learned of by researching, or didn't already have a pretty good idea in advance that there would logically be something in the area where I'd be hiking. Oh, the miles and miles..............and miles and miles and miles!
Jul 12, 2018 06:42:22 #
Cany143 wrote:
Downriver a few miles from town, on a high bench overlooking the Colorado River.
Jul 12, 2018 08:11:45 #
Jul 12, 2018 09:33:30 #
Jul 12, 2018 11:21:20 #
Very nice shot. Certainly there is a story behind this lady "painted" on the rock. Who she was or what she did is lost to time gone by. Thanks for your added comments.
Jul 12, 2018 11:26:58 #
Very nice and an interesting subject.
--Bob
--Bob
Cany143 wrote:
Downriver a few miles from town, on a high bench overlooking the Colorado River.
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