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Grand Canyon 1
Delving into the many facets of enchanting side canyons in Grand Canyon
National Park slowly reveals, under ever-changing reflected light, a visual
and historic perspective of the earth's crust while providing a history,
written in stone; the geology of the Colorado Plateau dating back 1.8
billion years. With abundant room for the imagination to roam
free - form, and color are superb here.
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Grand Canyon 2
Grand Canyon is mostly about rock carved by water. A geologic column extending
over 6,000 feet from river to rim contains the written history of that rock.
John Wesley Powell was determined to read and study that history as his
expedition made the first journey through the canyon by boat in 1869.
Uplifting of the Colorado Plateau area, combined with the cutting action
of the Colorado River and its subsequent tributaries created this vast maze of
canyons and buttes. The rich diversity of desert life that occupies the canyon,
both along the river and in the dry portions of the park, offer contrasts in form,
color, texture and pattern to those of the over twenty five geologic formations
found here.
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Grand Canyon 3
Deep canyon photography is often illuminated with contrasting tones from
reflected sunlight and open sky light. Picking up color from reflected
sunlight and the various geologic formations, the light often builds to a
marvelous warm glow that baths visitor and subject alike. When reflected
sunlight is missing, the scene is transformed to the cool cyan end of the
spectrum.
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Grand Canyon 4
Spanning 277 Colorado River miles, the Grand Canyon offers more than
a lifetime of exploration opportunities. The quiet elegance of terrain can,
at times, be expressed most eloquently in monotone. When I wish to accent
image form, I like to print in sepia tone. The images show the skeletal
structure of the composition clearly and the warm feel of sepia has a
historic quality that I find appealing.
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Grand Teton
Encompassing one of the youngest and most spectacular mountain ranges in the
U.S., Grand Teton National Park's highest peaks are composed of some of the
oldest metamorphic rock in western U.S. The core of these mountains was part
of the ancestral continental U.S. for nearly one billion years before the
oldest rock of Grand Canyon was formed. Among and around the high peaks
and alpine valleys, subtle details of the alpine world are revealed within
this exquisite landscape.
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Jackson Hole
The ranchlands of Jackson Hole have created rural landscapes that we might
associate with Zane Grey, or certainly the movie SHANE, which was filmed here.
These images are close to heart as they are very near my house. I see these
places each day. The first subjects I photographed with 4x5 are here.
I knew that pressure to develop these ranches would someday change the
landscape and I wanted to have a record, but I also have a deep
appreciation for the care and art (intended or not) of living on the
land.
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Yellowstone
As the first national park, established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park
is a vast and sublime landscape populated by free roaming herbivores and
carnivores on a scale unmatched in the U.S. lower forty eight, in modern times.
The uniqueness of this landscape was born of the "hot spot" and dormant
"super volcano" that underlies it. With some of the thinnest crust
anywhere on the globe, Yellowstone offers contrasting visual opportunities
and places to contemplate the pre-Columbian western U.S.
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