Looking down on Hanksville

I wanted to throw some images in here for you guys that frequent this area. My wife and I did a really fun hike up an old sheep trail to get to the top of one of the mesas in the area. It's about a 1200ft elevation gain in a fairly short amount of time. It was quite brutal in some spots but I stopped for some photos occasionally to break up the hike. It was interesting in some areas to say the least ; )







This was about 3/4 of the way up. Some of the area had a pretty well trodden path but in other spots you're just scrambling and wayfinding.


From the top looking back, you can sort of get an idea of where the highway is along the distant tree line.

You captured some really nice views in these buttes with the first three images being really outstanding compositions. The light in the first two does a wonderful job of making the contours and shapes of the cliffs and talus slopes quite notable. The color contrasts in #3 are delightful. Nice job of framing that one. Did you have a drone with you for some of these images? Image #4 in particular seems to indicate you did.

No idea how many times I have driven UT24 through that area but most trips I did in that area were well before the era of digital photography.

Hey Alan, yeah I did bring the drone with me, though the first 3 images were just from my camera and telephoto lens. I didn't have much luck finding anything worth shooting that time of day with the drone. In the 5th photo I took with my phone, the third composition is actually off to the right and the first 2 images were off to the left.

It was really cool exploring out there though, we'll probably do the hike again next time we're out there, tons of cool compositions on the hike up.

Nice imaging Jordan. #3 is in a class of it's own.

All beautiful captures—I especially favor the third image. You did good!

Jeffrey said:

Nice imaging Jordan. #3 is in a class of it's own.

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John Holbrook said:

All beautiful captures—I especially favor the third image. You did good!

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Thanks you guys!