Utah Photo Adventure 2020 — 4

The fourth day of the tour was a rest day. It was nice to sleep in and get some needed extra sleep. There was an optional shoot scheduled for the late afternoon that everyone elected to attend. After getting some lunch at Tamarisk (where we ate virtually all of our meals in Green River on this tour), we headed for the Onion Creek area near Moab. It took some serious offroading past the lower campground to get to our starting point. It was enough of an impediment that we had the area all to ourselves. The view of the surrounding landscape is amazing, and you can see the Professor Valley area to one side, the Fisher Towers, and the Locomotive Rock on the Hauer Ranch. Climbing up on the rocks from our parking area provided many nice shooting spots. Most of the other photographers seemed to get hung up at the bottom, but as I’d been there before I went up a ways to get some variety. I wasn’t feeling great so I wasn’t loving climbing up and back down to try and get people, but I still managed to get some nice images. I had forgotten that this was the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, so when sunset came I was lucky enough to get Melia to shoot in the golden hour light that seemed to last forever. I got some beautiful images there. As I was still feeling a little queasy, I did most of my shooting sitting down, but it still worked. It was another amazing sunset shoot. When we finally wrapped (as everyone else had already called it a day), we had a nice picnic looking out over the beautiful landscape with an amazing post-sunset sky. Driving home the sky stayed striking till nearly 10 pm.
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