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[AlanLichty]

An photographic icon in southern Utah is a small Ancestral Puebloid structure in a rock shelter with the nickname House on Fire. I made it one of my targets for a month long photo pilgrimage I made into southern Utah a week after I retired. The available light is everything for this place with an overcast day likely yielding the most dramatic results. I didn't have the perfect light to experience nirvana but still captured a bit of the color show that gave this ruin it's nickname. I used a 24mm TS-E lens with a bit of shift adjustment to minimize distortion.

House On Fire

• AlanLichty
• Sep 8, 2018

House on Fire ruins in southern Utah.

C&C always welcome.

Edit: darkened the foreground layers as per suggested edits.

House On Fire

• AlanLichty
• Sep 8, 2018
• 2

House on Fire ruins in southern Utah.

 

[lionking]

I always get fascinated by captures of this place, love this.
I would be tempted to darken the FG a bit, but its only MHO.

 

[Jim Dockery]

I like it as is, but would also experiment as Andrey suggests to put more emphasis on the fire.

 

[JimFox]

Very cool Alan. Yeah, House on Fire is really sweet, but I also enjoyed discovering other ruins on the hike in and out to it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is an amazing place, one I have never visited.

 

[AlanLichty]

I darkened the ground layers a bit as per Andrey and Jim's suggestions. I am trying to be careful and not go overboard on the enhancements for this scene. I have seen a lot of images from here that are almost cartoons from how far folks have gone to tart up the color palette. The lower strata in this rock shelter is actually close to a magenta tint compared to the more yellow/orange/reds above the ruins. On a cloudy day this is accentuated and can be quite distracting from the scene above. This image was not shot on a cloudy day.

 

[Tom Narwid]

An photographic icon in southern Utah is a small Ancestral Puebloid structure in a rock shelter with the nickname House on Fire. I made it one of my targets for a month long photo pilgrimage I made into southern Utah a week after I retired. The available light is everything for this place with an overcast day likely yielding the most dramatic results. I didn't have the perfect light to experience nirvana but did still captured a bit of the color show that gave this ruin it's nickname. I used a 24mm TS-E lens with a bit of shift adjustment to minimize distortion.

House On Fire

• AlanLichty
• Sep 8, 2018

House on Fire ruins in southern Utah.

C&C always welcome
Edit: darkened the foreground layers as per suggested edits.

House On Fire

• AlanLichty
• Sep 8, 2018
• 2

House on Fire ruins in southern Utah.

Well done...great and perfect composition...it does look on fire!

 

[Jameel Hyder]

The edit does look better Alan. A place I’d like to visit some day.

 

[lionking]

Love the edit Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

Love the edit Alan.

Thanks for suggesting it