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Back from Utah!
11 Apr 2022 01:04First trip "post"-pandemic was a trip to Utah w/ the photography instructor whose workshops I have attended in the past. it was a really good trip -- it took me nearly the entire week to 'decompress', but I finally did towards the end.
I started out on my own in Moab, then joined the workshop in Hanksville. The pic below is from an outlook near Factory Butte. You may ask, was it really blue? Why yes, yes it was blue in the same way that the hollers in the Blue Ridge Mountains are blue in the shadows. I have bumped up sharpness/clarity, etc. to get sort of a "Martian Landscape" and bumped the vibrance, but yes, it was blue.
Every trip deserves a selfie. There was a family of 7 (Mormon families are always at least 7, it seems) coming up from behind, so I was rushing to take the selfie, lol!
This is Delicate Arch. There were ravens! What do I need to know that I keep seeing ravens? One very nearly landed on my head at Delicate Arch! The wind was blowing him off course, and he was looking for a landing spot among the people -- for a second, I was afraid he would land on me!
I have to say, on the ascent up to Delicate Arch, I stopped FOUR times to rest because my heart was beating out of my chest à la Looney Tunes! I am indeed out of shape, but I think I'm going to chalk this up to the thinner air.
There be a Milky Way! Of course, the camera sees more than the eye. To the eye, all you see is a faint milky river flowing across the sky. The camera sees much, much more.
Panorama at Goblin Valley --
And last but not least, some star trails. These take a bit of time in Bridge/Photoshop, but the process is not really complicated. The hardest part is removing the big, honking airplane trails that slice across the screen. That is something that I didn't understand how to do the first time I took star trails.
I started out on my own in Moab, then joined the workshop in Hanksville. The pic below is from an outlook near Factory Butte. You may ask, was it really blue? Why yes, yes it was blue in the same way that the hollers in the Blue Ridge Mountains are blue in the shadows. I have bumped up sharpness/clarity, etc. to get sort of a "Martian Landscape" and bumped the vibrance, but yes, it was blue.
Every trip deserves a selfie. There was a family of 7 (Mormon families are always at least 7, it seems) coming up from behind, so I was rushing to take the selfie, lol!
This is Delicate Arch. There were ravens! What do I need to know that I keep seeing ravens? One very nearly landed on my head at Delicate Arch! The wind was blowing him off course, and he was looking for a landing spot among the people -- for a second, I was afraid he would land on me!
I have to say, on the ascent up to Delicate Arch, I stopped FOUR times to rest because my heart was beating out of my chest à la Looney Tunes! I am indeed out of shape, but I think I'm going to chalk this up to the thinner air.
There be a Milky Way! Of course, the camera sees more than the eye. To the eye, all you see is a faint milky river flowing across the sky. The camera sees much, much more.
Panorama at Goblin Valley --
And last but not least, some star trails. These take a bit of time in Bridge/Photoshop, but the process is not really complicated. The hardest part is removing the big, honking airplane trails that slice across the screen. That is something that I didn't understand how to do the first time I took star trails.