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Newspaper Rock

Posted by
Don Smith (California, United States) on 27 April 2009 in Landscape & Rural.

Newspaper Rock is a petroglyph panel etched in sandstone that records approximately 2,000 years of early man's activities. I located the rock with the help of some guide books and the internet. It is located along southeastern Utah's State Route 211, 52 miles southwest of Moab.

When I first arrived snow was falling and I thought it made an interesting capture. As I started to drive away, I realized the flakes would probably be streaking in my frame (though I could not see that on my LCD), so I turned the car around and went back, then waited for a break in the storm. This was one of the images I captured upon my return.

In Photoshop CS4, I actually used the "auto" button on a Curves layers adjustment to "pop" the contrast as the light was rather flat that day. I'm not much of an auto-anything kind of guy, but for some reason, I have had some luck (and disasters) with the "Auto Curves" button in CS4, you can always trash the layer if you don't like the result. Other than that, this is how the scene recorded.

According to a sign posted near the site, Utah and Navajo tribesman, as well as Anglos, left their contributions on this rock. The rock is located about 22 miles east of the south entrance to Canyonlands National Park's Needles District.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III 1/20 second F/16.0 ISO 200 35 mm

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