Canyonlands 2016
Part One: Land and Rocks
I've been dreaming of faraway landscapes lately, and this one jumps to mind as one of the most enchanting I've experienced. Five years ago, in Spring of 2016, Dad, Dave and I did a 4 (?) day backpack trip in Canyonlands, Utah. I had my film camera then and took some of my favorite pictures with it on this trip.
The weather was decent, not too killer hot yet, however water was not omnipresent, and so keeping ourselves supplied was one of our main concerns. We had a few challenges of the height-fear variety as well. Otherwise, it was a beautiful landscape to be in, with a surprising green lushness and many wildflowers (which will be shared at a later date in Pt. 2).
Everything is so picturesque there. I feel like it is a blessing I didn't have a digital camera then, or I would have taken 100 million pictures.
Rivulets, becoming canyons, penetrate the earth's hard crust, enabling life to take root in the crevices.
I had some fun with double exposures. Many of the rocks here resemble human heads and human figures...
More figures... these ones remind me of my aunt Freda's abstract ceramic figures she'd portray in clay and also in her paintings:
Surprisingly green:
And at night (achieved by holding button on camera near-perfectly still for around 6 minutes or so):
Another double exposure experiment. This one is more subtle, almost redundant... rock on rock. But strangely intriguing?
That crevice in the picture on the right was more intimidating in person, trust me. Dad happy to be alive in this picture 😂
Another fun double exposure:
Very different when viewed this way:
Somehow this one has a fish-eye effect to me, even though there's no special effects at play:
Well, that about wraps up picture story time here. Thanks for coming along on a blast from the past!
