Arriving at the area above the Burr Trail Road Switchbacks, overlooking Strike Valley, we hastened to find quick compositions before the late day light disappeared.
We were fortunate to get golden hour sunset light on portions of the foreground rocks for a brief interval, before the foreground went entirely into shadow.
The repeating Vs in the image above remind me of themes or patterns often seen in Georgia O’Keeffe’s artwork that she did in in the New Mexico area near her home. The Vs begin in the old dead tree, continue with the intersection of the rock formations behind it and at the notch in the opposite valley wall in the background.
The gnarly, fallen old tree in the foreground seems to mimic the rock layers behind it.
I made a number of images with these rocks in the foreground. I’ve only included a couple of those in this post.
Likewise, I captured a number of images similar to these two, getting a portion of the Burr Trail Road, going down into the valley. As a reminder, clicking on the photos with embedded links will take you to the photo on Flickr and viewing on a large screen will better show the details in the images.
This concludes today’s shoot,
Ken
Great shots Ken. I have not been to this area of the park. I especially like ‘Against The Wall’.
Thanks, Denise. There will be a few more post from this area, before I run out of photos from that trip. I will be in your neighborhood in a few days.
I post a very small percentage of what I shoot and often choose the best between similar images. For ME … editing is key! Where exactly will you be visiting?
Same here, except my screening and editing is probably much more lax than yours, since I’m not trying to sell anything and I frequently use less than my very best photos to maintain a somewhat regular blog posting. One of my friends, who writes for the National Parks Traveler, told me I should do that with my blog; but I doubt that it makes any difference in my case. I’ve noted that many of the professional photographers that I follow post infrequently and not on a regular schedule. I’ll send an e-mail regarding our schedule for your neighborhood.