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Photography Road Trip to Utah & Arizona

In mid October, my good friend Bob and I took a week and a half trip to explore the sandstone country with our cameras, mostly around the Utah-Arizona Border. We investigated:

  • The Maze Petroglyph to the west of Coyote Buttes;
  • Cottonwood Cove sandstone formations in South Coyote Buttes;
  • White Pocket sandstone formations east of Coyote Buttes;
  • Colorado River’s Horseshoe Bend south of Page;
  • Paria Toadstool hoodoos between Kanab & Page, next to highway 89;
  • Cottonwood Canyon Road between highways 89 & 12;
  • Anasazi ruins below confluence of Calf Creek and Escalante River;
  • Burr Trail area, especially Strike Valley Overlook in Upper Muley Twist;
  • Capitol Reef National Park’s Cathedral Valley;

Unfortunately we weren’t able to obtain a permit into The Wave … hopefully next time!

The trip’s picture galleries can be found here: Utah & Arizona Road Trip Galleries.

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Golden Lake in the Three Sisters Wilderness

About a week ago (August 17-19), four of us hiked into my favorite lake in the Oregon Cascades, Golden Lake. This year’s Cascades snow melt is extremely late and therefore I estimate that the wildflowers are also almost 3 weeks late. In addition, the flower displays seem quite anemic. Nonetheless, we had a great time and I came back with some “keeper” images: Golden Lake Gallery.

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Canyon Creek & Three Fingered Jack Photos

Earlier this month (August 7-8) I took a two day hike to check out the wildflowers in the Canyon Creek drainage at the eastern foot of Three Fingered Jack. Specifically, I hiked into Upper Canyon Creek Meadows, a place I have visited each of the past two years. However, similar to last year, I found the flower display to be disappointing. The lower meadows had an average display, but the upper meadows were nowhere near even a normal year’s show. Nonetheless, I did bring back a few good images: Canyon Creek Meadows Gallery.

I did discover that Circ Lake, on the flanks of Three Fingered Jack above the upper meadows, had burst through part of its moraine dam a few days before. As a result, it lost 10-15′ of its water and washed a huge amount of glacial mud and rocks down on the northern quarter of the meadows. In addition, a large winter avalanche had deposited a lot of timber debris on the same area!

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New Canon 5D Mark III Camera

For the past year or so, I have been waiting for a new Canon SLR model that was lighter, smaller, and had better image quality than my 4+ year old, 21M pixel Canon 1Ds Mark III. When the new 5D Mark III was announced a few months ago, I was initially very bummed that it was effectively the same image quality as my 1Ds3 (albeit it did have better noise characteristics at high ISO). But the 5D3’s 1+ pound lighter weight, video capabilities, and improved user interface caused me to take the leap and buy it early this summer. And after a couple of months of using the camera I am now loving it. But I would still love to have the same camera but with 30+M pixels and with better dynamic range — effectively a Canon answer to Nikon’s new D800 model. I suspect that Canon will respond in the near-ish future and therefore I will have a very difficult (and somewhat expensive) decision to make.

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