Spring 2019 Road Trip – Bisti – Day 4 – Sunset

On day 4 of my March 2019 photography excursion, my son and I went to the little area on the north side of Bisti, which we think is actually on BLM land and is not a part of the designated Bisti wilderness.

Sunset Day 4 March2019
A smug looking rock. Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm at 20mm, f/11, 1/50s, ISO 64. Edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

I had spotted this rather smug looking rock on an earlier scouting of this area.  The rock has a cartoon like face expression, maybe implying “I’m not talking to any of you”.  [Not that rocks actually speak to me, at least not in actual spoken words].

Sunset Day 4 March 2019
Final Curtain Call of the Day. Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm at 24mm, f/11, 1/50s, ISO 64. Edited in Adobe Lightroom and Dxo Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

One of the hoodoos that we also found on an earlier scouting here is in the above photograph.  It is too bad that the sky was so drab and uninteresting on this day.

Sunset Day 4 March 2019
Future flows from Past. Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm at 24mm, f/11, 1/13s, ISO 64. Edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

The photo above is an attempt to use the drainage pattern and the broad band of red pebble covered ground as leading lines into the background features; but there might be too much of the foreground in this case.  It would have been good to have something else of interest in the near fore ground.

Sunset Day 4 March 2019
The Final Spotlight before Night’s Curtain falls. Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm at 24mm, f/11, 1/15s, ISO 64. Edited in Adobe Lightroom and DxO Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

I like this smaller (but actually fairly large) feature in the center here with the sand pattern around it from erosion of that feature.  I would have liked to have gotten a bit more isolation of this feature, but I could not find a suitable place from which to photograph it to achieve that on this day.  Anyway, this composition does give a good sense of the environment here and the setting for this feature.

As a reminder, clicking on any of the photos in this post will take you to the photo on Flickr, where they will probably look better than on this web page or in your e-mail.  Also big screens are better for viewing these photos than small, mobile devices.

Until next time,

Ken

P.S.  I will be traveling again for a few days, so the next few posts might be delayed, since I do not know where or when I might have adequate internet connectivity.

 

2 thoughts on “Spring 2019 Road Trip – Bisti – Day 4 – Sunset”

  1. So the question is… should I worry about you when you start seeing faces in rocks and the rocks begin to “talk” to you?

    1. Shutterpug, I did not say the rocks talk to me, only that I hear their voices, especially those with faces!

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