Friday, May 8, 2015

The Zion Watchman... Redux

The Zion Watchman

Sorry, no pithy comment this morning. A friend of my wife is seriously ill and my thoughts are with her and her family. Since I'm in Albuquerque there aren't any new images to throw your way so I thought I'd return to an image I captured a while back but just processed this morning. The watchman is an impressive rock formation at the entrance of Zion National Park. Because of the canyon's north to south orientation, not many of the beautiful formations get light during the golden hours. It's frustrating to say the least. But the watchman makes up for this by putting on a marvelous display every evening. It's such a beautiful structure and is the most photographed location in the park. Every night people congregate at the Canyon Junction bridge to snap photos as the sun baths it in warm light. This image isn't from that location but was taken further south near the history museum. The sky was so blue and the fluffy, white clouds framed the rock so well I had to take this picture. It's a 3 frame bracketed image, worked through Photomatix with minimal adjustments and then finished in Lightroom. I'll refrain from the technical details (which I think you can surmise pretty well) and just let you enjoy the result.

The Watchman - 35mm(1.6 crop),f/18,1/160 sec,ISO 100, license CC BY-NC 4.0

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