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2006 - Mesa Verde, Arches, and more

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Information on the knife edge road.
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Information on the knife edge road.

Mesa Verde National Park

  • Information on the knife edge road.
  • The remnants of the road.
  • About 3/4th of the way into the part, a decent place to take same photos.
  • My attempt at artistic creativity
  • We opted for the one self-guided tour, and the driving tour of the place.
  • All the others required traveling with a group and a guide . . .
  • Not the kind of thing I am known to tolerate well.
  • These are impressive structures, but people tend to over-romanticize both the people and the society they lived in.
  • It's been five years since I read about the Anasazi, and I have forgotten much, but I do know their population eventually exceeded their capacity to feed themselves.
  • Religious leaders sucking up resources, droughts, and pressures from both outside and within resulted in the collapse of a civilization.
  • Sound familiar?
  • I decided on a different kind of processing for these photos.
  • These particular shots are all from the canyon rim road, using a long telephoto lens.
  • Look at this picture . . .
  • . . . and then look at this one and see if you can spot the area above. <br /> <br /> Not a trick question . . . just showing the distance.
  • This was on the way out, after we decided to leave a more detailed tour of the place for another time.
  • This bell-shaped red rock is reminiscent of the one near Sedona (AZ), only I think this looks better.
  • It was late afternoon, and the light was pretty good for these kind of pictures. The rock is along US-191.
  • Like I said, I tried a few different processing settings.
  • These next two are pretty close to the actual light that hit the rock.
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