San Rafael Swell
October 28th, 2006Maggie 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.
