This week's Phun Phriday! post is about the Phun we had getting the photo I posted yesterday photo of Delicate Arch.
I wanted to show you the "bowl game" as everyone sits around the bowl next to the arch to photograph, or at least view, the arch at sunset. This photo shows about 50 people and there may have been that many again behind and below me out of view of my lens.
Delicate Arch is reportedly the most famous arch in the world and certainly one of the most photographed. Which is somewhat surprising since it is a little over 1 1/2 mile (2.4 km) hike, and also a 500 foot ascent. (If you take the route Chad and I did it's about 2 1/2 miles.) It takes a little over an hour to make the hike if you don't stop and rest, and it can be somewhat strenuous if you're not used to hiking very much. I didn't speak to a single person who had come back from the hike that didn't say that it was worth it.
The Arch sits up on a ridge and as you can see in the photo below there is a great big bowl with very steep sides on one side of it and though you can't see it, there is also a very radical drop off on the other side. Between the photo above and the one below you can kind of get a feel for how steep the sides of that bowl are, (notice the people way up on the far left) but neither photo really does them justice. Believe me when I say that when you are walking around that edge you are treading very carefully.
OBTW, sorry for the difference in color balance between the two photos. As I look back in the EXIF data I see that for the top photo the white balance was somehow set to shade. See what a difference a little setting can make if you don't pay attention?
As you know by now photography should be Phun and that's why I have my Phun Phriday! posts. Have you done something Phun, weird and/or creative lately? If so, leave a link to it in your comment or just tell us it's there so we can go find it. If not, I'd really love to hear from you anyway.
OBTW, if you do post something for Phun Phriday! it would put a big smile on my face if you added a link to my blog. Thanks!
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14 comments:
that is a lot of people having phun while you were having phun watching them having phun. looks dangerous to me, like you cold tumble down that bowl and fall off somewhere.
I would never have imagined Delcate Arch being in the enviroment it is. It is very delecate.Love the photos.
I didn't realize there was such a pronounced bowl around the arch. I enjoyed seeing all the people waiting for that perfect photo moment.
Beautiful as usual. I can't compete with this. Not having Phun today. Just recovering from eating too much. It was a cooking phrenzy yesterday. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.
It's like the shoulder to shoulder fishing on the PM for salmon!
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I had no idea people lined up like that for photo opportunities (and just view the sunset)! It looks like an amazing site to witness.
How fun is that?!?!!!
There is a place in Seattle where a bunch of photographers gather to photograph a scene. I'm going to have to find it and go there... what a blast!
Wow - and here I imagined that you and Chad were out there enjoying the solitude as you captured those beautiful scenes for us. I never would have guessed. But it looks like they were all having phun too !
Thanks for letting us see the 'big' picture Scott.
Wow, this is amazing that so many gather together to take photos in one spot. It would be interesting to put all the photos together and view them all. Wonderful shots as usual Scott, thanks for sharing.
Ohhhh noooooo with not a million horses you'd get me among those people....how i hate crowds...I'm allergic to them...
Love your shot but I don't think I'd even go there....
Thanks for sharing though now I can have a peek without being in that crowd.
Hugs D.
ps thanks for your latest comments the mend the world to me.
I love your US photos. Very different than my part of Ontario.
Cheers from Cottage Country!
wow! i have seen photos of the arch before but had no idea about the precarious bowl! looks rather scary......but soooo worth it. gorgeous.
It is always so phun to see the scene around and behind the photographer's image, and sometimes it does make for a great story. I remember seeing this spectacular shot of a solitary grizzly bear standing above the falls in a rushing river with a salmon jumping into his mouth. Behind him was the rugged beauty of primitive Alaska. (I think this was in Nat Geo.) It was a spectacular shot. To tell the whole story, however, the photog then took pictures next to, and behind him and there were hundred of photogs shoulder to shoulder with humongous telephotos all trying to get that shot! So funny!
Very interesting the top of photo.
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