Forward Into the Past! by wysiwig

Photography • Landscape • posted on May 04, 2015

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Construction of the Glen Canyon Dam created Lake Powell. The lake was named for John Wesley Powell, soldier, professor, explorer and early conservationist. He is best known for his 1869 and 1871 expeditions into the American Southwest and for being the first European to see the Grand Canyon. The expedition's route traveled through the Utah canyons of the Colorado River, which Powell described in his published diary as having ". . . wonderful features—carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon." A photographer named John K. Hillers accompanied Powell on his 1871 trip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Geographic_Expedition_of_1869#/media/File:John_powell_camp.jpg Imagine what Hillers would have done with Antelope Canyon. Playing with a new toy I have recently acquired I present to you my attempt at what such an image might have looked like.

Comments (9)

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durleybeachbum

2:40PM | Mon, 04 May 2015

Wow, Mark! "Spiffing dreams about ponies". Very sensuous indeed, a fabulous piece of work.

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bodo_56

3:16PM | Mon, 04 May 2015

Very interesting, this really looks like an image from the early days of photography!

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SunriseGirl

3:33PM | Mon, 04 May 2015

Well done

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Chipka

8:37PM | Mon, 04 May 2015

Isn't playing with new toys fun? I love the way this image turned out: it has such a wonderfully-aged quality to it and on a level it makes me think of some other species of photography--some kind of heliotype, daguerreotype (I think I might have spelled that nearly-right,) or some other kind of "type" that speaks of the 1800s, when the New World was no longer so new, but still open and filled with the awe inspiring natural qualities that remain even now, just encrusted with a growth of shopping malls, "urban" developments, and other forms of rash-like growth. I really love the abstract quality this has; it's dreamy and concrete all at once. I think the term would be "plastic" at least in a geological sense, in that the image seems shaped both by natural processes but also by human perception. I love that kind of flexibility, and your aging of this image really adds to that; it is--indeed--looking forward into the past, and I love the "circularity" of that! There's a particular kind of magic involved in this. I love it! This is a brilliant piece of work.

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