Critique Style Requested: Standard
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Description
This tree was the only thing in view to try to give a sense of the scale of the cliff above it. My best guess is the tree is about 25 feet high. This was taken in Dinosaur National Monument, on the Utah side, not far from Split Mountain campground. Just imagine dinosaurs wandering around under this cliff! The cliff isn’t actually part of Split Mountain, but is similar in geology, and is honestly quite short by the standards of the Monument. I was on a high point at the road turnoff and Cub Creek was between me and the base of the cliff. The sage and mesquite were taller than me in most places. The history of this area is amazing – the Fremont people called it home for a few centuries, and then, in the late 1800’s, it was a part-time home for the Wild Bunch, and people would come out here from Vernal and as far away as Salt Lake City to spend a weekend or a week with Josie Bassett (she was married 5 times and was a one-time girlfriend of a Wild Bunch member, Elzy Lay) from the 1910’s through the 1940’s. (She also claimed that Butch Cassidy visited her in the 1930’s.) The heat and rugged country and difficult roads would probably have deterred me back then!
Specific Feedback
Not taken at a great time of day – we’d driven around the Colorado side of the Monument that morning, and got here in the afternoon.
Technical Details
Canon EOS 7D Mark II, ISO 320, 175mm, f 11, 1/200. (I’d forgotten to put the ISO down after the early shots in the morning)
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