More Aerial Images.

[Douglas Sherman]

I didn't realize that aerial images were attractive to those on this site until I posted one of Monument Valley.
I am a retired professor of geology and took all kinds of images for illustrative purposes in my classes and aerial photos were always great for this. Drone images would have been great but I retired before that became possible. Here are a few from the southwest.

The first one is Upheavel Dome in Canyonlands. The debate about the origin of this feature is that it is either a result of a salt dome rising or a meteorite hit. No one has ever found any meteoritic material so that hypothesis seems unlikely.

This one is the backside view of the Colorado River at Dead Horse Point. Dead Horse Point Overlook is to the upper right hand corner.

This one is of Chesler Park from the Needles District in Canyonlands National Park.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Loving this series and hope to see more. I go to these places and always wonder about the geology and what the big picture is for the terrain.

 

[AlanLichty]

Stunning. Very nice visual for Upheaval Dome and I love the Chesler Park shot.

Some newer studies of Upheaval Dome have turned up shocked quartz which supports the impact crater origin notion.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Thanks for the views! I like em all having been to all these locations on the ground it's very cool seeing from above. The Chestler Park shot really grabs me. Were these shot on film BITD? They all look like they could be Fuji Velvia or Provia.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Thanks for the views! I like em all having been to all these locations on the ground it's very cool seeing from above. The Chestler Park shot really grabs me. Were these shot on film BITD? They all look like they could be Fuji Velvia or Provia.

Yes they were, Jim. I was using Fujichrome Velvia 50 at that time.

Stunning. Very nice visual for Upheaval Dome and I love the Chesler Park shot.

Some newer studies of Upheaval Dome have turned up shocked quartz which supports the impact crater origin notion.

Thanks for the heads-up, Alan. I'll try to find the paper and see what they have to say. I posted it just below.

 

[MonikaC]

I particularly like the Chesler Park one - can see why it's called a "park". I've only hiked there one time (Druid Arch) & was more concerned with navigating so I didn't get lost. Keep posting these!

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Here is the article about its origin, Alan. http://offices.colgate.edu/bselleck/Geology120/Upheaval Dome.pdf

 

[AlanLichty]

Yes they were, Jim. I was using Fujichrome Velvia 50 at that time.
Thanks for the heads-up, Alan. I'll try to find the paper and see what they have to say.

The references at the end have some source info on recent research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upheaval_Dome

You slide collection makes perfect sense to me - my original career path would have led me down a lecture path for archaeology and I have a shelf of three ring binders with pages of slides of archaeological sites as the subject. I did unload them from Kodak projector carousels (I had quite a few) years ago.

 

[AlanLichty]

Here is the article about its origin, Alan. http://offices.colgate.edu/bselleck/Geology120/Upheaval Dome.pdf

Thanks - that had some nice detailed info on the research that the wiki flew over at about 50,000'.

 

[Mike Mancil]

Striking topography and well presented.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I particularly like the Chesler Park one - can see why it's called a "park". I've only hiked there one time (Druid Arch) & was more concerned with navigating so I didn't get lost. Keep posting these!

Thanks for the kind comments, Monica. I have always wanted to hike to Druid Arch but have never made it there. I would love to see your image.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Striking topography and well presented.

Thank you, Mike.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I have been re

Thanks - that had some nice detailed info on the research that the wiki flew over at about 50,000'.

I retired 17 years ago and haven't kept up with the research. Thanks again for the heads-up.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Doug,

Wow! These just keep getting better and better!

I keep picking each succeeding image as my next favorite. Simply great work on your part here.

If I had a way to chose more then 1 Daily Featured Post this would be chosen also! We have had several really awesome photos posted today.

Please keep posting in this series. I guess it must just be a mental issue with me or some of us older photographers when it comes to embracing Drones. I am warming up to the idea, but there mentally is a disconnect since the camera is remote controlled vs a photographer actually holding and shooting photos while flying in an airplane. It’s something I will have to work with getting over better, but in the mean time these aerial photos definitely strike a positive chord!

 

[MonikaC]

Thanks for the kind comments, Monica. I have always wanted to hike to Druid Arch but have never made it there. I would love to see your image.

I'll really have to dig to find it: pre-DSLR days......

 

[Jeffrey]

Doug, thanks again for taking me on one of your fabulous trips. Spectacular imaging, eye candy for redrock lovers.

 

[lionking]

Beautiful work Douglas!
Thank you for sharing.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Hey Doug,

Wow! These just keep getting better and better!

I keep picking each succeeding image as my next favorite. Simply great work on your part here.

If I had a way to chose more then 1 Daily Featured Post this would be chosen also! We have had several really awesome photos posted today.

Please keep posting in this series. I guess it must just be a mental issue with me or some of us older photographers when it comes to embracing Drones. I am warming up to the idea, but there mentally is a disconnect since the camera is remote controlled vs a photographer actually holding and shooting photos while flying in an airplane. It’s something I will have to work with getting over better, but in the mean time these aerial photos definitely strike a positive chord!

Thanks so much, Jim. I don't care f I get a featured post. That's not my goal. I am just happy if people like what I am doing. When I started in photography I learned in a camera club. There were people there who wore ribbons from their competitions pinned to their shirts. I thought, wow, I have to get beyond this stuff in a hurry.

 

[Martín el Escocés]

Superb, Douglas! Apart from any (and there is a great deal of!) artistic merit, these shots also give a wonderful sense of the area and the place of each iconic detail in the overall scheme of things. I really love the curve of the Colorado in the Dead Horse Point shot - one of my favourite places.

 

[ckcarr]

Well, you can't use drones in those locations anyway so these are nice views that most will never see.