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BistiArt > Monarch Cave The Anasazi could create beauty in the most unusual places! Dawn patrol; winding my way through the canyon bottom on one of the tributaries of Comb Ridge, shielded from direct sunlight by a spring cloud pattern to the East. Seeking the best vantage point for photography while enjoying lights soft, diffracted presence through the clouds. The climb from the canyon bottom up along the sloping canyon walls presented no danger. Investigation of the best shot point occupied several minutes. Then, as I began to home in on the final point, the morning Sun, which had been softly reflecting from the ruin and canyon walls, suddenly strengthened. Feet dangling off the cliff edge, a stabilizing tripod let me do a panoramic high dynamic range HDR 3EV capture of Monarch Cave. The digital darkroom challenge; attaining a light balance between departing shadow and incoming light before the entire scene was subject to day's harsh glare... Again, the beauty of being able to go where you want to go, when you want to go suits to photographer's deepest need. Find the light, find the sight (site), and shoot to your hearts content... ©2009-2010, Chopawamsic LC, All Rights Reserved
BistiArt > Fallen Roof The Anasazi could create beauty in the most unusual places! Fallen Roof ruin is located on Cedar Mesa, southeast Utah. Like most Pueblo III ruins, it faces south southwest. The prominent overhang shades in hot summer and low afternoon sun angles warm in winter. The mid afternoon silence was broken only by the occasional bird. I set up the tripod and watched richer color pervade the roof's fascination. Then I began to pick up sounds down canyon. As the sounds became clearer, excited chirps and squeaks of a little boy and girl approached. In a natural, very curious way, these children and their parents approached fallen Roof. The boy might have been nine or 10; between his natural curiosity and knobby kneed agility, he became the epitome of Anasazi life for me. First here, then there - as he climbed over this and peered into that - I realized, "Joe, you're seeing a reenactment of life a thousand years ago from a family who built this place, tilled nearby fields, then moved on..." Cedar Mesa is full of beautiful ruins hidden in a remote backcountry setting, the sort of setting that seemed to fit the hunt a while/gather a while nature of our first inhabitants of the Southwest. The beauty of being able to go where you want to go, when you want to go suits to photographers deepest need. Find the light, find the sight (site), and shoot to your hearts content... ©2008-2010, Chopawamsic LC, All Rights Reserved
BistiArt > Cave Towers The Anasazi could create beauty in the most unusual places! Cave Towers ruin is located on Cedar Mesa, southeast Utah. Near a mid-October days end, I enjoyed the contrast between fine light glancing off the canyon's top and more subtle light of cliff and nearby thicket. A prominent red sandstone ruin stood within a few meters of the cliff edge. A not-so prominent golden sandstone ruin was much farther a long the cliff. I knew the Nikon D70 would reproduce sunset's light on the nearby ruin, but distort if not strongly darken shadows of the thicket. So I took three high dynamic range shots one EV a part to composite later. Cedar Mesa is full of beautiful ruins hidden in a remote backcountry setting. It's become my place to sit, listen, and contemplate today's mysteries of Old Ones who lived all over the region between 500-1300 A.D., built awesome, enduring stone architecture, then, almost within a breath, left forever... The beauty of being able to go where you want to go, when you want to go suits to photographers deepest need. Find the light, find the sight (site), and shoot to your hearts content... ©2007-2010, Chopawamsic LC, All Rights Reserved
BistiArt > Moon House Moon House is located in a remote canyon of Cedar Mesa. Some climbing is involved to get in and out. Pictographs are prominent behind the long wall which protects the living quarters. The nature of solitary placement and complex egress combine to provide the photographer with a much more direct sense of being in a true Anasazi ruin. Six images were taken at different exposures to capture the high dynamic range of early morning's panoramic scene.
BistiArt > Bullet Cataract Bullet Canyon, located south of Grand Gulch ranger station, is west of Highway 261 which bisects Cedar Mesa. Numerous Anasazi ruins occur in Grand Gulch. The cataract is down canyon from the parking space. While it's easy to traverse, just the sense of a wall of water rushing at you from a monsoon rain storm adds to the incredible vision of this remarkable canyon sluice way. Local terms for this sort of structure suggest a pour off.
BistiArt > Cave Tower This image shows the same tower as the prior image; it's red hues, emblazoned by the sunset, are enhanced by the deep blue of the evening sky. Three images were taken at different exposures to capture the high dynamic range of the late evening scene. The HDR combination creates this provocative image.
BistiArt > Cave Towers Canyon Dry Wash is located west of Comb Ridge, near Blanding, Utah. Several minor ruins are located near the cliff edge of Dry Wash. Three images were taken at different exposures to capture the high dynamic range of the late evening scene. The image won an award in a judge's competition at the Enchanted Lens Camera Club in 2007.
BistiArt > Hovenweep Castle Located just across the Utah border from Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, this ruin is built atop a cliff. The cloud pattern would presage a pushy day of 60 mile an hour winds. Careful examination of the wall beneath the crow showed this was a long-time favorite place to land.
BistiArt > Sleeping Ute Sunset Coming off the mesa at dark, a stray reflection in the rear view mirror netted this gorgeous sunset over Sleeping Ute Mountain west of Cortez, Colorado. "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Walk beside me that we may be as one." _Ute proverb This Ute proverb is part of a banner from the College Campus Compact to the President of Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The image won an award in a judge's competition at the Enchanted Lens Camera Club in 2007.
Monarch Cave

The Anasazi could create beauty in the most unusual places!
Dawn patrol; winding my way through the canyon bottom on one of the tributaries of Comb Ridge, shielded from direct sunlight by a spring cloud pattern to the East. Seeking the best vantage point for photography while enjoying lights soft, diffracted presence through the clouds.
The climb from the canyon bottom up along the sloping canyon walls presented no danger. Investigation of the best shot point occupied several minutes. Then, as I began to home in on the final point, the morning Sun, which had been softly reflecting from the ruin and canyon walls, suddenly strengthened.
Feet dangling off the cliff edge, a stabilizing tripod let me do a panoramic high dynamic range HDR 3EV capture of Monarch Cave.

The digital darkroom challenge; attaining a light balance between departing shadow and incoming light before the entire scene was subject to day's harsh glare...

Again, the beauty of being able to go where you want to go, when you want to go suits to photographer's deepest need. Find the light, find the sight (site), and shoot to your hearts content...

©2009-2010, Chopawamsic LC, All Rights Reserved
BistiArt > Monarch Cave The Anasazi could create beauty in the most unusual places! Dawn patrol; winding my way through the canyon bottom on one of the tributaries of Comb Ridge, shielded from direct sunlight by a spring cloud pattern to the East. Seeking the best vantage point for photography while enjoying lights soft, diffracted presence through the clouds. The climb from the canyon bottom up along the sloping canyon walls presented no danger. Investigation of the best shot point occupied several minutes. Then, as I began to home in on the final point, the morning Sun, which had been softly reflecting from the ruin and canyon walls, suddenly strengthened. Feet dangling off the cliff edge, a stabilizing tripod let me do a panoramic high dynamic range HDR 3EV capture of Monarch Cave. The digital darkroom challenge; attaining a light balance between departing shadow and incoming light before the entire scene was subject to day's harsh glare... Again, the beauty of being able to go where you want to go, when you want to go suits to photographer's deepest need. Find the light, find the sight (site), and shoot to your hearts content... ©2009-2010, Chopawamsic LC, All Rights Reserved
Monarch Cave

The Anasazi could create beauty in the most unusual places!
Dawn patrol; winding my way through the canyon bottom on one of the tributaries of Comb Ridge, shielded from direct sunlight by a spring cloud pattern to the East. Seeking the best vantage point for photography while enjoying lights soft, diffracted presence through the clouds.
The climb from the canyon bottom up along the sloping canyon walls presented no danger. Investigation of the best shot point occupied several minutes. Then, as I began to home in on the final point, the morning Sun, which had been softly reflecting from the ruin and canyon walls, suddenly strengthened.
Feet dangling off the cliff edge, a stabilizing tripod let me do a panoramic high dynamic range HDR 3EV capture of Monarch Cave.

The digital darkroom challenge; attaining a light balance between departing shadow and incoming light before the entire scene was subject to day's harsh glare...

Again, the beauty of being able to go where you want to go, when you want to go suits to photographer's deepest need. Find the light, find the sight (site), and shoot to your hearts content...

©2009-2010, Chopawamsic LC, All Rights Reserved
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