THE DESERT SHIP ……. Shipwrecked

From the wilderness that makes up the outback from Lake Powell to the Escalante Staircase.

A trip to the moon! Water in the Page area seeks the river. The river is the Colorado and now its main channel is buried under Lake Powell. The formations are varied and scattered and for me they take on some aspect of ‘hand of man.’ That is they seem to resemble structures or objects associated with people. In this image a ship in a stormy sea was accentuated by the use of my Canon tilt /shift lens to lift up the ‘gangplank’ and also set the direction of the streaking clouds. On this very bright afternoon a  Singh-Ray Warming Polarizer was employed to cut the severe blue reflected color cast from the sky and warm the foreground rock formation. A Singh-Ray 3-stop soft-step Graduated ND filter was used to give the shadowed side more exposure while still holding the detail of the clouds.