During the past week, I had the enjoyment of visiting three magnificent parks: Zion and Bryce Canyon in Utah and Valley of Fire in Nevada. Of course, there were a number of photos taken during this trip and I will continue to process more of them in between work.
Among the three parks visited, Valley of Fire is the only one that I visited before and spent quite a bit of time exploring. As a result, our photo tour leader, John Slonina, offered me the opportunity to lead part of the group into Fire Wave area of the park, which was a lot of fun. The only gotcha was that during this Friday afternoon, the area was quite ‘peoply’, as many folks had to take their selfies in whatever ‘flattering’ poses they could think of.
So what does one do? Play on the wonderful abstract forms that are presented in the Fire Wave area and create some rather different shots that don’t have distractors of any kind, such as…
By shooting down into the descent of the hill, the waveform presents itself as a natural phenomenon that one might expect on a red planet, such as Mars (Heru-deshet to ancient Egyptians); the footprints are clear evidence of visitation by some bipedal life form.
Enjoy this moment of surreality!