Blue Basin
There days and then there are days. This one was the latter. What a great variety of photographic locations today. We left Prineville and stopped by the Mascall Overlook, took the Drive up Picture Gorge and continued on to Blue Basin. The Blue Basin required a short hike to a geologic formation identical to the Hell’s Half Acre in Wyoming we photographed some twelve years ago. The Blue Basin is much, much smaller and staying on the paths is required. We met the same situation at the Foree Fossil Beds; stay on the paths and the paths are not that close to the rock formations. In both places we all pretty much get the same photographs from the same vantage points.
I think it’s worth noting we photograph along the way. Our tradition is to call out for a photo stop if we see something worth photographing. We do this frequently. It makes the trips a little bit longer because photo speed is not the same as highway driving speed. I think this is how we make photographs that don’t look like touristy photographs. We stop at the places most people drive by.
Goose Mountain
I had not been to the Painted Hills in decades. I don’t remember too much about my last trip there, but this one was memorable because I didn’t see rocks. I saw some huge pre-historic mega-beast emerging from the earth with lots of tentacles pulling itself out of the magma.
My thoughts on the photographs from this safari remind me of a quote from Tom Landry (Dallas Cowboys football coach). When asked about the game, he replied “I won’t know a thing until I see the game film.” That’s the way I feel about this week’s images. I can’t tell from the camera’s EVF and the WiFi connections have been very slow this week so I can’t upload pictures to lightroom. The pictures I am uploading to the blog have been processed through my chromebook’s native photo editor. My workflow is to click on the “fix it” tool and then resize the picture for the blog. Not exactly a rigorous process. So, I guess I’ll know more when I get home and “see the game film.”
Tomorrow we photograph in the Maury Mountains.
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