
Agog at the Goosenecks - Goosenecks of the San Juan River in southern Utah

by Peter Herman
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Agog at the Goosenecks - Goosenecks of the San Juan River in southern Utah
Artist
Peter Herman
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
This is the jaw-dropping view of the goosenecks of San Juan river at Goosenecks State Park in southern Utah, near Mexican Hat. These meanders have cut through 1000 feet of sandstone layers that were deposited over a period estimated 300 million years.
Technical - this image was shot in 2009. Actually it is stitched together from about 7 images (camera held vertically, panned horizontally) since the view encompassed here is roughly 180 degrees horizontally, so the image is VERY high resolution and would look great printed very large, despite my much older equipment used at this time! We were there near sunset and the sky was dull and lifeless, so I found a spectacular superwide (similar angle of view and lighting condition/time) sunset-scape that I shot more recently and layered it it, as it "could have been" if I could return to the park daily for a few years and catch it this way! I rarely do this, except for cases like this where I probably cannot or will not return to a location to shoot again.
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November 29th, 2022
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Comments (2)

Harriet Feagin Photography
This is fantastic. I have never seen a photo of this place and now I want to go there. Your skill is very evident in the detail and resolution. Very will done!
Peter Herman replied:
Thanks so much Harriet! It is definitely a place you want to see you sometime if you’re within a couple hundred mile radius. It is kind of in “the middle of nowhere” though. Not a lot of hotels around…