Arches and Canyonlands

I always try to hit A&C at least once a Winter, and i had a four day weekend that i couldn't pass up--meant i had to miss the shindig but i did have a good trip to UT. Highlights below, i was hoping for a bit of snow yesterday morning, and there was about half an inch the preceding night, but most of it blew off the rocks. I did get a lot of B&W stuff in though, like this one from Arches. Rest here:

http://www.stanroseimages.com/gallery/arches/

Cool stuff, Stan! Now I know why we missed you at the shindig. The last one of the frozen bubbles is cool, and I love the shot from that overlook you hiked out to. Several remind me of Steve Weaver's eye, which is high praise indeed.

Wow, those are some great shots! Like Todd, I love that last one with the bubble but I would be hard pressed to pick a fav since they are all great!

Thanks Stan!

Of the bunch, the old tree overlooks are my favorites. Good to see there is snow on the La Sals.

I'll be out there next Monday-Tuesday on my way back from the D&SNGRR shoot; so if you want to come back out and show me around the Green River side of Canyonlands..... :)

Beautiful collection!!!

Ilike 'Bubbles & Crystals' quite a bit, with the off trail viewpoint from Island in the Sky a close second.

Stan, I would never have guessed that iron would oxidize to a green color. My first guess would've been oxidized copper.

Yeah, these are all worth an, "Oh, Mommy!" Outstanding collection, Stan!
A highly productive trip. My faves are "Layers at Fiery Furnace", "Old Tree on edge", "Islands in the sky viewpoint", and "Broken Arch."

Wow Stan,
They are all just beautiful. Excellent work.

Some very nice work, Stan. I'm thinking of heading there this weekend.

Beautiful shooting Stan. I love them all and especially like the B&W shots. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

Beautiful and interesting work Stan. My fav is the Islands in the sky viewpoint.
What were the day/night temps while there?

That's where you were! Great series!!

I was hoping to catch up with you at the Shindig to ask you some weather questions...

Looks like you had a good trip. Fiery Furnace and the offtrail overlook are the two that caught my attention most. I like Broken Arch also, although the rock looks like it could be a little brighter and maybe with a little more contrast. Bubbles is a great find and turned out well.

Stan, your images show very clean. Whatever web sharpening technique you're using is perfect. Wow, so clean on my NEC2690wuxi2. Whatever you're doing I'm not, so I'm going to bug you for your workflow someday!

This trip seems like an incredibly productive recon trip for future Epic shots. You're a persistant man so I have no doubt in time that all of us will see the perfect beauty Canyonlands hides from all of us brief visitors.

"Seeing Forever" and "February Morning" catch my eye. A lot of serious comp here. A lot of potential. Washer Women and Monster Tower reside at the end of that leading line ridge. Your conditions are beautiful.

Beautiful Stan - very nice set !

What a fantastic collection, Stan! Taylor Canyon is a sweet place to explore, camp and photograph. I know exactly where that off-trail location Canyonlands is and your photo is much better than anything I've gotten out there. Mine sucked so bad I went right ahead and deleted them. Frozen bubbles is awesome as is your pano of Green River Overlook. All really good stuff!

One correction: the green dirt is oxidized copper, not iron. Copper is found all over this region and in fact, just south of Moab, is a copper mine producing extremely high quality ore.

Thanks guys!
Brett--i thought it was copper too--but the ranger insisted it was iron...copper makes more sense!
You guys are way ahead of me--i had never even heard of these formations until i 'stumbled' upon them in Google Earth...

"the ranger insisted it was iron ..."

Well, I guess very basic chemistry and very basic geology isn't included in ranger training anymore. I wonder what their training does include.

Wow Stan,
They are all just beautiful. Excellent work.

Stan
As an academic geologist I need to tell you that the green material you are seeing in shot is in mudstones/shales of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison formation and the green minerals are actually clay minerals, not oxidized copper minerals. There are several mixed layered greenish clay minerals in the illite and montmorillonite groups that are prevalent in the Morrison formation. The green color actually come from impurities of mixed valence Fe in the structure( both Fe+2 and Fe +3) so actually the ranger was correct! Clay minerals are extremely complex and variable in their structures and characteristics.
Nice images!!

Thanks, Steve--now i don't feel like such an idiot asking the ranger, lol! I thought it looked like clay, which is why i was puzzled because i don't ordinarily associate clay with minerals like that...

Nice stuff, as always.

Wonderful, diverse set of images Stan. My favorites were the La Sal Mountains shot and the Colorful Layers image.

Broken Arch is my fav! I said "Wow" out loud when I opened the l post and saw it. Nice, clear and crisp and the B&W on my new NEC is fantastic!!!!!! Great job Stan!

Thanks for the kind remarks, folks!