A Few of Pathfinder's Images from the Shootout in Moab

pathfinder · October 29, 2008

It has taken me a while to get caught up with processing, after over two weeks of shooting in Utah before and during the shootout. But I finally have a few shots to present for comments and criticisms.

Lower Calf Creek Falls in the Escalante-Staircase Wilderness - two frames from a G9 combined, but not as a pano - prints very nicely at 10 x 15 inches

Another at Lower Calf Creek Falls with a 5D

We shot aspens in the snow on Boulder Mountain - 5D

Nightingale and I shot hundreds, and hundreds of petroglyphs, and dozens of pictographs as well from hundreds of miles of back country double track. Many were not that great as images, but I have a few I like a bit.

From Buckhorn Draw in central Utah

And another from Buckhorn Draw from the Barrier people

And a landscape 5 frame pano from Cottonwood Wash up Buckhorn Draw - the bottle monolith

We saw a few lizards - 40D Tamron 28-300 Di

And a few deer - 40D Tamron 200-500 ISO 800 both frames

We shot Double Arch with the group with Marc, and Aaron's lighting

We shot sunstars at Turret Arch

A fellow shooter at Turret Arch as well - Hi Fred!

I shot Delicate Arch with a 50mm lens on a 1DsMkii

And I shot Delicate Arch with a G9 as a 4 frame pano

Great fun and a fabulous trip! I can't wait to go back to Utah again!

dlplumer · October 29, 2008

The Double Arch Shot is my fav

pathfinder · October 29, 2008

That really was great lighting that night, I agree. It is a hard image to print, rather than look at on a display though..

jamesl · October 29, 2008

Great job on these! I especially like the Delicate Arch shots, but the double arch night shot is awesome too. Looks like you had an awesome trip.

James

spechtal · October 30, 2008

Beautiful. I too like the double arches. I also think the aspens are stunning too.

anwmn1 · October 30, 2008

Bout time you posted.

Very nicely done.

Nikolai · October 30, 2008

Great shooting, Jim!

Tee Why · October 30, 2008

wow, nice shots.

Dee · October 30, 2008

Love the aspens!

Awais Yaqub · October 30, 2008

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black mamba · October 30, 2008

An all-around great group of photos. A few really stand out, but all are very well done. Thanks for sharing.

Tom

Marc Muench · October 30, 2008

You always seam to have so much fun on these trips, because the images are telling

That shot of the buck behind the rock is sensational.

It was much fun shooting with you up in the wind at Delicate Arch

glad that G9 stayed on the tripod

wfeller · October 30, 2008

black mamba wrote:

An all-around great group of photos. A few really stand out, but all are very well done. Thanks for sharing.

+1

I like these kind of shots, the ones that drive me.

pathfinder · October 30, 2008

Thanks, everyone for the nice comments and no criticisms. I guess I'll not learn as much this go around

For you Marc, a few more of those deer - I shot them in Echo Park near the boat ramp right in front of that colored rock wall. They were about 40 yards from me and I had no place to hide so I was kneeling slowly in the wide open hoping they would let me get few frames and not bolt off.

No one liked my petroglyphs

, but i have a couple more anyway

Thanks for looking and commenting.

I am looking forward to shooting with Marc again in Utah next fall.

Marc Muench · October 30, 2008

Those are even better

I think I see Kathy in the last one explaining to you how to focus

My father has spent much of his life in pursuit of rock art. He too does not receive many comments on his committed work and even published a book called "IMAGES IN STONE". There is a following but only those crazy about history. He and I have spoken about this and have come to the conclusion that it is not so much about expressing yourself creatively but rather discovering and witnessing in person what folks thought was creative thousand of years ago. I am always moved by the tremendous stories behind the figures, as the implications are quite advanced for what we perceive as old fashioned, stone age thinking.

pathfinder · October 30, 2008

Kathy keeps me in line, thats for sure.

I have had a copy "Images in Stone" for several years. I need to look at it again tonight, I think.

Hopefully, we will have less wind next fall than we did up there on Delicate Arch.

jdryan3 · October 30, 2008

Great Shots Jim. Love those Buck images. Creek Falls is beautiful with the range of colors.

picturegirl · October 31, 2008

All Gorgreous shots, my favs are the waterfalls, the Aspens and the lizard. Also love the deer shots, it's like they were playing peek a boo

grimace · October 31, 2008

dlplumer wrote:

The Double Arch Shot is my fav

It's my favorite too. It puts mine to shame!! Great work all around!!

pathfinder · October 31, 2008

Thanks for the kind words, Adam. I've seen enough of your images to know that yours are just fine also

Kathy and I enjoyed the dinner with you all in Moab at the Brewery.

Picturegirl, I am so glad you liked the lizard. Kathy and I have collected a lot of lousy lizard shots over the years, but this one I thought was one of my better captures, and I rather like its sharpness, and that I captured it with a Tamron 'travel' zoom.

Elaine · November 1, 2008

Beautiful set! I really like the petroglyphs...extremely fascinating. That second waterfall shot has great scale, with the light just touching the two people on the left. The pano and Double Arch are breathtaking and the lizard is razor sharp. Looks like a more than successful and satisfactory trip!

squirl033 · November 1, 2008

great stuff, especially the shot of the double arch at night. i wish i'd had more time there when i went last spring... as it was, i managed Delicate Arch (it was very windy there then, too!), Turret Arch and the Windows. didn't have time for too much else. oh well... gives me a reason to go back, right?

davev · November 1, 2008

Great looking shots Path.

Nothing wrong with the petroglyphs. We stopped and shot some, but they weren't all that great.
The star shot turned out great, and you were able to find some wildlife.

You did good.

work2fish · November 1, 2008

Loved all the shots! The one problem I had with some of the petroglyphs is that I was disturbed by the fact that somebody would add their graffiti to such fine piece of art work. For better or worse, I couldn't get around that disappointment on those shots. But all the others are really quite marvelous and extremely well done!

Thwack · November 1, 2008

I like the second set of petroglyphs much better (especially the first one in the second set). Seeing more of the figures in a shot is more interesting (tells more of a story).

The buck shots are very cool.

How long was the exposure on the double arches shot? None of the stars are streaked but the overall lighting looks like the effect of a longer exposure. Very cool picture.

pathfinder · November 1, 2008

Elaine wrote:

Beautiful set! I really like the petroglyphs...extremely fascinating. That second waterfall shot has great scale, with the light just touching the two people on the left. The pano and Double Arch are breathtaking and the lizard is razor sharp. Looks like a more than successful and satisfactory trip!

Thank you Elaine. The shot of Calf Creek Falls shows how you must always pay attention. I had shot several frames of the falls, and removed my camera from the tripod, in preparation for hiking back to the trail head, when I saw the two tourists step into the rim light, like I captured them. I hurried up as fast as I could, and put the camera back onto the tripod, to capture only that single frame before they turned around and left. It was my best shot of the morning! Whew!!

pathfinder · November 1, 2008

squirl033 wrote:

great stuff, especially the shot of the double arch at night. i wish i'd had more time there when i went last spring... as it was, i managed Delicate Arch (it was very windy there then, too!), Turret Arch and the Windows. didn't have time for too much else. oh well... gives me a reason to go back, right?

Delicate Arch must be windy quite often. The evening I shot Delicate Arch, Marc estimated the wind speed to have gusts of 50-70 mph. It was hard to walk at times because it was so windy.

pathfinder · November 1, 2008

work2fish wrote:

Loved all the shots! The one problem I had with some of the petroglyphs is that I was disturbed by the fact that somebody would add their graffiti to such fine piece of art work. For better or worse, I couldn't get around that disappointment on those shots. But all the others are really quite marvelous and extremely well done!

I agree, too many of the petroglyphs have been damaged by foolish folks, with rock scratchings, or chalk, or even bullet holes. I have not made up my mind whether it is better to present the images as recorded, or to try to do some cosmetic repair on the digital image, to help it resemble what I think it originally looked like. I know that there are two schools of thought abut these tactics.

pathfinder · November 1, 2008

Thwack wrote:

I like the second set of petroglyphs much better (especially the first one in the second set). Seeing more of the figures in a shot is more interesting (tells more of a story).

The buck shots are very cool.

How long was the exposure on the double arches shot? None of the stars are streaked but the overall lighting looks like the effect of a longer exposure. Very cool picture.

The exif data for the double arch shot says 56 seconds, (with a 24mm TS ) which sounds about right. I was surprised that the exif data had the correct exposure for a time exposure > 30 secs - so I learned something new also.

This one was 30 seconds at f5.0 at ISO 1600 - full moonlight

Fred W · November 1, 2008

Jim, Looks like another nice round of photos

. I had a great time shooting with you and Kathy at Arches. Can't wait till the next time. Hey, that's me in your Turret Arch pic !!! I hope to post a few soon.

schmoo · November 1, 2008

Very nice collection as usual, Jim! I always can count on seeing you and Kathy's familiar face and I really enjoy that. I also can always count on seeing a wide variety of great shots from you: details and big scenes, landscapes and wildlife and everything in between on your adventures.

There is really so much to see in the west. And I didn't see most of these !

A Few of Pathfinder's Images from the Shootout in Moab

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