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Spring is Coming
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Arches National Park. Dead tree. Cold skies in December. Stark and beautiful. Goal met: no sentence longer than three words in this excerpt except this one.
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Chalk Stories
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An almost abstract image of a large red rock covered with a lot of chalk from humans trying to conquer said rock.
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Balanced Rock at Sunset
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Balanced Rock at sunset.
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Turret Arch
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I get wanky over manual focus lenses (again). What? You’ve never gotten wanky? Be honest. You’ve gotten wanky.
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Grip 2
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The symbolism is rich in this simple bouldering image.
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Winter Rocks
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One of the most popular formation ranges in Arches National Park including Balanced Rock, Elephant Butte and one of the Windows. Don’t ask me, I didn’t name this stuff.
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More Moab
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Shots by Scott Jarvie from our recent trip to Moab. Fantastic portraits.
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The Organ
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Very large rocks, suggestively named. But the reveal? I don’t know whose crack pipe was smoked when they named this formation.
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Needles
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A macro shot of cactus needles taken outside of Moab, Utah. Manual focus.
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Scale
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A grand formation in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah basks in the winter morning sun. Yes, I said basks.
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Double Arch
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Technically, it’s two arches. Double. Arch. Double arches? Either way, gorgeous red rocks and a couple of good reasons to visit Utah.
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Half of Zero
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What’s left of a zero from a gas station sign, just, you know, hanging from barbed wire.
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Life at the Edges
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A tree grows in the desert. Mostly. Arches National Park is straight up fantastic.
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Weathered and Winded
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You could add “worn” to the title if it made you feel better. This was taken near Double Arch in …
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Last Stop
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High desert vintage signage against a sky that’s about to turn dark with storm clouds. Dig on that red arrow.
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