Photo of a tree at the top of Capitol Gorge, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
So, if you were wondering why I dropped off the face of my blog in the middle of my Utah Parks Road Trip, to tell you the truth, I didn’t realize how tired I would be at the end of each day after all that hiking and shooting, and how much time it would take to import, backup, process, sort through, select, and post my photo-a-day. I decided that I better take advantage of my time in Utah and concentrate on the photography and not the processing and blogging! Now I’m back home, and I’ll gradually be getting my photos-a-day up for the rest of my trip!
On Day 9, we spent the day in Capitol Reef National Park. Capitol Reef is the smallest park we’d visit this trip. Surprisingly, no park fee required, and it was very quiet. We barely saw any visitors all day. In fact, Torrey (the town) usually shuts down between Christmas and New Years – we were lucky even to get a hotel room as the trusty Best Western was only open for a school field trip, otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to spend the night at all. And there was only one restaurant to even eat at – The Rim Rock Patio Spaghetti Western Cafe – so it was a good thing that the food was awesome! Really nice, small, friendly joint with the best Baked Spaghetti with Meatballs I’ve ever tasted! I was hooked from the first night, so I didn’t try the pizzas, though they looked terrific too. And help us wash it all down, a refrigerator full of our favorite Naked 100% juices!
But let me get on to the photography. I wanted to show something a little different from my previous posts, and I liked the way this little curved tree poked out of the top of the rock inside Capitol Gorge. I like the multifaceted rock faces and the lines that are going every which way, but with order brought to the jumble by the neighboring rockface in the lower left, which slants down to the right, perpendicular from the tree.
Nothing particularly special about my camera settings – ISO 400, f/11, and 1/160 second shutter speed with my Canon EOS 5D Mark II and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens. After bringing the RAW file into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, though, I used one of the creative presets to give it an “aged photo” look. To download a pdf on buying fine art photography, click here.
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