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"Ooooh". This was my initial response to this scene in Capitol Reef
National Park. The vertical stripes in these sandstone walls are called
"desert varnish". Although these stripes are common in the
sandstone canyon walls found on the Colorado Plateau, this
was definitely one of the more dramatically striped walls I have ever seen.
Even though this image has soft, shadow-free light, it was shot on a sunny
day. In this particular canyon, late afternoon sun strikes the opposite
canyon wall and acts like a giant fill card providing warm, soft light to
the image. Over the next two hours I managed to make several different
images here. Some were too "tight" and included too little
foreground. This one which included some shrubs and lichen-encrusted rocks
was one of my favorites.
Away from the visitor center and main campground, Capitol Reef
is truly a wonderful, relatively uncrowded, park to explore.
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