With all the chaos taking place since the term of Donald Trump as American President began, it will be quite some time before I am willing to consider visiting the United States. The mindless tariff war that he has commenced will hurt citizens on both sides of the border, not to mention all the other countries that he has targeted. I suspect that he doesn't really give a rats ass about the common man, and this is all about stroking his ego, and making all his friends rich.
I made three road trips down to the United States over a decade ago. All three times I stayed at the same rental home in Kanab, Utah and explored southern Utah and northern Arizona with my camera. In October of 2013 I travelled with my friends Rob and Brad. Then in the spring of 2014 I took Margarit and the girls down with me. And in October of 2015 I made a return visit with Rob and Brad.
I decided to put together a photo book of all of the best images that I shot while on those three trips. These are all Black and White film images taken with my 4"x5" view camera. This is not really so much a book as it is a photo album. I guess you could say it is a self published book, but I only plan on printing one copy. If someone that was with me on those trips sees the book and likes it and wants a copy, then I may have an additional one(s) printed. But that seems highly unlikely.
Over the coming days and weeks I will share some of those images here on my blog, beginning with this one. This is the first image I shot on that first trip in 2013.
This Rock Fall is along the Cottonwood Canyon Road in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah. The road generally parellels the Paria River, at least at the southern end. I shot this on Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, rated at 64iso and given normal development in Rodinal 1:50. I used my Ebony view camera and a Fujinon 125mm lens, fitted with a #25 Red Filter. It was taken on October 14th 2013, at about 10:30 in the morning.
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