Jansen Gunderson Landscape Photography

I’m all settled in here in Wilson, Wyoming. The snow is starting to melt and there is an abundance of mud. The weather has been hit or miss but I’ve managed to get out and take a few pictures. I made the Receding Snow picture up on Togwotee pass. I was hoping for something much more grandiose like a sunset photo of the Pinnacle Buttes but the clouds had something else in mind. I’m rather pleased with how this photo turned out as it alludes to the changing seasons which is similar to the events in my life at this time.

Maggie and I took a short camping trip with some friends last weekend to the San Rafael Swell. The Swell is probably Utah’s last stretch of desert to be exploited for both tourism and oil/gas. We took our friends to a remote boulder-strewn wash to show them some Native American petroglyphs and were astonished to see some exploratory mining occuring nearby. With any luck, they won’t find what they’re looking for and will spare such a beautiful and pristine place from being destroyed and turned into another coal mine.

I made this photo during sunset; looking north toward the Price mountains. Taken with a Shen-Hao 4×5 field camera, Rodenstock 210mm f/5.6 lens, on Fujichrome Velvia 50, 1 stop graduated neutral density filter. Larger image here.