(NOTE: This is the eighth (and last) in a series of posts about a photography trip I took in early November, 2022.)
On this seven-day trip to Utah, I made over 3,000 images. In the previous seven posts (and associated website galleries), I've shared only 135 of them, primarily because (a) most of the 3,000 aren't great and (b) many of the good ones didn't fit neatly into the narrative arc of the posts' subjects.
So this post consists of images that I like for various reasons but didn't find a home in any of my previous posts. I hope you enjoy them.
I'll start with some of the features/formations in the vicinity of Factory Butte. Here we go . . .
For our sunrise shoot on the first morning we were at Factory Butte, we stood on a raised area east of the butte. Here's a satellite view:
Here's what Factory Butte looked like from that location before sunrise that morning:
The images below are of two formations on that raised area, looking away from Factory Butte toward the southeast and northeast, respectively:
To give you a sense of the size of the features, here's Alan below the feature in the image above:
Here are two other views of the same feature from a distance. First one is looking east over the ocean of soft round foothills at the base of the easternmost "arm" of North Caineville Mesa. Factory Butte is out of the frame to the left.
This one (below) is looking south from the northeast side of Factory Butte, which is out of the frame to the right.
Next is an image of some of the Factory Butte foothills at sunset, with North Caineville Mesa in the background on the left (with classic "Blue Hour" light).
On a much smaller scale, my eye was frequently caught by some little detail amid the giant landscape features. Here are two from the Mars Desert area, both sculpted by water:
Here's an interesting detail from the interior of a large piece of sandstone caprock that had broken off and fallen from the top of North Caineville Mesa:
And in the dry, cracked, and mostly barren argillaceous soil of the plain surrounding Factory Butte, life still finds a way:
For a behind-the-scenes look at how my friend, Alan, and I set up shop in the Factory Butte wilderness, here are a few images of photographers at work:
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| At Factory Butte for sunrise |
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| At Moonscape Overlook |
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| At Moonscape Overlook Image courtesy of Alan Postelnek |
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| At Moonscape Overlook |
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| At Mars Desert |
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| At Carl's Critter Garden |
And for fun, a couple of beauty shots of my Subaru:
Maybe Subaru would like to use these for advertising?
Oops, it looks like GMC has beaten Subaru to the punch! Here are two screen shots from a GMC truck commercial that ran during the recent NCAA basketball tournament. Do the features in the backgrounds look familiar?
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| Factory Butte in the background |
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| Moonscape Overlook |
Finally, I'll close with two moonrise images. The first one looks out over the plateau that surrounds Factory Butte (which is out of the frame to the left).
This one is an homage to Ansel Adams' famous photograph, "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico":
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| Moonrise, South Caineville Mesa, Utah |
Thanks for coming along on my Utah Photo Adventure!
If you would like to see these images in a larger format, please visit my photography website, Todos Juntos Photography, by clicking here.
