The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Today is Saturday, essentially the next to last day at Petrified Forest. Tomorrow morning I will make one last dawn trip to Blue Mesa, then clean the cabin and pack up, leaving early Monday morning for Sorrel River Ranch in Moab, UT. Today I probably won’t shoot much, but will spend time looking at what images I have taken, try to figure out what I have missed, and cover that tomorrow. [Between drafting this last night and posting this morning, I got some good shots of a 3 foot gopher snake right in front of the cabin. Although we saw some during the road survey, this was live and in its natural habitat.]
I haven’t spent much time off the beaten path in the dessert with the exception of Blue Mesa and the Painted Desert below the Inn. Early and late are the key times, midday the light is uninteresting or unpleasant, being contrasty and glaring. Also I noticed that as the day goes on the air seems to get hazy, so looking out to bluffs toward the horizon doesn’t work.
Did some wide angle images yesterday, getting right down on the ground to put big chunks of petrified wood against the formations. Some of them may have worked.
In general I am finding that after about two weeks at these parks I have exhausted my immediate ideas, and hit the high points, and would either need much, much longer, or need to leave for a while and then come back in few months. There are some physical limitations as well – I know there were opportunities on the higher peaks in the Rockies, but it was just beyond my capabilities – although I am slowly improving my physical condition. I would consider returning here in the future as this is actually a good season to be here. I caught part of the “monsoon” season and got some rain, rainbows, and a little of the dramatic skies, but there were only a few days with “interesting” weather.
Although I am making an effort to post more consistently, I probably won’t post Sunday or Monday, but hope to have something new from Moab on Tuesday.
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