I couldn’t upload the photographs from September 5 that night, because my keyboard would not work. I had this problem last year. First thing this morning after the nighttime cool down, the keyboard worked. I was able to upload the photographs from September 5. When I did so, I found out that my auto-focus was turned off for the first 140 photographs yesterday. Everything I did in the morning at the Durffey Mesa was useless. (That’s why there were no photographs from yesterday morning in the blog.)
This one's in focus.
One of the advantages of destination location photography is if you discover a gross technical error, you have the ability to recover by re-photographing. Brooks dropped me off farther down the road where we thought we started yesterday and I worked my way back down the wash. I followed my day old footprints and photographed what I saw yesterday and a bit more. It wasn’t near as much fun as yesterday, but it was accomplished in a workmanlike manner. Now, if someone asks me “Whose photographic footsteps do you follow?” I can truthfully answer, “My own.”
After finishing that photographic chore, we continued the drive down Scenic Route 12 to Escalante for groceries. We photographed along the way and in particular revisited Forest Road 153 that follows the Pine Creek. We met an Australian couple in Escalante and chatted them up a bit while we ate. They said they could see why Americans were so religious, because after looking at the landscape of Utah you have to believe in God. It’s true.
Along Forest Road 153
We made some more nice “grand landscape” photographs on the way back to Boulder Town (to document the handiwork of the Almighty, of course) and photographed Durffey Mesa in the evening light again before calling it a day. (It’s the same place we photographed in the morning.) But is it really the same place if the light is different?
View from Scenic Route 12
Near Durffey Mesa, evening
We have finished this year’s photo safari. Tomorrow morning we break camp and begin the trek home.
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Posted by: contact | January 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM