The Journey Into Art (Utah)

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I am a technical professional who wanted to become an artist in his middle years...

It has been more than a year from the last one in this series, so I thought I would carry on with a review of one from my most recent project "Walls in Motion".

This project will be the first exhibit after the COVID restrictions ease, probably late next summer or fall...

Hovenweep Pueblo was occupied from around 1200-1300 CE. All signs of occupation were really gone by 1280 CE. The site has not been fully excavated, so we only know some generalities about the area.

The architecture is similar to archeological ruins in Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico...

Sometimes one afternoon's and evening's experience lasts for months. So it was with this evening at Muley Point in southeastern Utah.

Everything came together to make a most remarkable several hours of capturing the breadth of a spring evening in the desert...

This is another from the Transformed Series where I began to depart from standard landscape photography and add a bit of happy dance to the print.

It was taken on a late spring afternoon on Muley Point in southeastern Utah and shows the wonderful combination of the land and my experience of and with it...

This is one of my early prints, exploring the blasphemous activity of altering the form and colors of my images to express something more than the few modifications most landscape photographers change in their images...

Driving around the Escalante area in Utah, one is met often with bland flatness or that same old red you see all over the Southwest. Yet a turn in the road or view around a corner can show a dramatically changed landscape...

This month's print is a creative divergence from previous prints.

I love the Southwest US for its openness, grandeur, solitude, history, and scenery. Sometimes when I am standing on an overlook, I get so enamored with the beauty and the moment that I want to jump up and down, run around in circles chasing my tail, dance, sing, and shout...