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

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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 t...

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...