Today we end the “Summit” and start the “Workshop”
There is a strange sense of déjà vu about this. It is run as a continuation of the Summit by the same people with most of the participants from the Summit also attending.
The major differences I see are that now we travel from place to place, we still take photographs under “self direction”, now stay in a different place each night and have no educational sessions at all.
Hhmmm .... not sure about value for money ...
Never the less we set off early in the morning and despite our best intentions we end up taking “the Zion Photo”. There is a bridge at the entry to the National Park from which everyone tries to take a photo at sunset. You need really sharp elbows to get a space.
Well at least we took ours at sunrise, and there was nobody else there.
Our first stop is at Red Canyon where we have an hour to wander around and see if we can find interesting images by ourselves. The location is quite spectacular, as is a lot of Utah,
but we are up real close to a series of canyons and mountains, in fact in the canyons and you need to break your neck looking up to see anything.
I have the bright idea that it might be better to get on a more even level and start the climb up a likely looking steep canyon wall; what am I doing I hate heights and this slope is steep and slippery. I manage to take a few shots but am not happy with any of them.
On the way out there is an old log which has weathered to a grey colour and is an interesting texture in the mid-morning light which is the most interesting thing to me in this location.
We travel onto Ruby’s Inn in Bryce Canyon in time to book into the hotel and have lunch.
We are then free to go to Sunset Point for an afternoon and evening of “self-directed” photography before dinner and an evening of “self-directed” self amusement.
This area is very similar to Cedar Breaks which we visited a week ago and it would be difficult to tell the difference between panoramas from each place so I decide to concentrate on some details.
Unfortunately for reasons which escape me I did not zip up my camera bag last time I wanted something out of it and when I get it out this time my brand new very expensive lens falls on the ground.
I AM NOT HAPPY !!
There is nothing I can do but put it on the camera and see if it still works.
There are some areas where as the light is fading it is being reflected onto the back of the rocks and towers giving them a glowing effect.
Fortunately the lens still seems to be focusing correctly and I can breathe a sigh of relief, albeit it’s a shallow one at this altitude.
There are some lovely pastel shades here which show off the highlights scattered around the rocky pinnacles.
I can’t wait until I can get on my home computer to see these images at full size.
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