Approaching Fantasy Canyon, near Vernal Utah, I looked to the left and slammed on the brakes. Standing there were a couple of beautiful antelopes -- as still as stuffed animals. My previous experience with those usually timid animals told me that they would spook if I opened the car door. Well, we got our camera equipment in hand, and quietly opened the doors, and nothing happened... They didn't blink an eye! They must have stood there for a full 5 minutes without moving an inch. We all managed to get multiple shots before the antelopes got bored and ambled off. Only then did we realize that there were four others in the brush waiting for them. This is one of the few times I've been able to actually set up and photograph a wild animal as beautiful as this...
Tags: Fantasy Canyon Vernal Utah wildlife Antelope Olympus E-5 ZD Zuiko 50-200mm
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Approaching Fantasy Canyon, near Vernal Utah, I looked to the left and slammed on the brakes. Standing there were a couple of beautiful antelopes -- as still as stuffed animals. My previous experience with those usually timid animals told me that they would spook if I opened the car door. Well, we got our camera equipment in hand, and quietly opened the doors, and nothing happened... They didn't blink an eye! They must have stood there for a full 5 minutes without moving an inch. We all managed to get multiple shots before the antelopes got bored and ambled off. Only then did we realize that there were four others in the brush waiting for them. This is one of the few times I've been able to actually set up and photograph a wild animal as beautiful as this...
Tags: Fantasy Canyon Vernal Utah wildlife Antelope Olympus E-5 ZD Zuiko 50-200mm
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Approaching Fantasy Canyon, near Vernal Utah, I looked to the left and slammed on the brakes. Standing there were a couple of beautiful antelopes -- as still as stuffed animals. My previous experience with those usually timid animals told me that they would spook if I opened the car door. Well, we got our camera equipment in hand, and quietly opened the doors, and nothing happened... They didn't blink an eye! They must have stood there for a full 5 minutes without moving an inch. We all managed to get multiple shots before the antelopes got bored and ambled off. Only then did we realize that there were four others in the brush waiting for them. This is one of the few times I've been able to actually set up and photograph a wild animal as beautiful as this...
Tags: Fantasy Canyon Vernal Utah wildlife Antelope Olympus E-5 ZD Zuiko 50-200mm
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Back to Fantasy Canyon. This place is just plain weird! The size of the site is not large (as most Southwestern locations go), but the number and density of these formations is amazing.
My hypothesis is that the formations were created and then covered with silt and sand over the eons. I say this, because all of these formations seem to be weathering out of a loose, silty strata. If one were to rig a hose out there and direct the stream of water to the base of these formations, many more would appear from within the mud. It's almost as if the original formations were replacement filling within cracks in much softer rock. Since the replacement fill was harder than the rock, they remained when the rock was eroded away... Just my $.02
Tags: Fantasy Canyon Vernal Utah rock formations Olympus E-5 ZD Zuiko 14-54mm
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Back to Fantasy Canyon. This place is just plain weird! The size of the site is not large (as most Southwestern locations go), but the number and density of these formations is amazing.
My hypothesis is that the formations were created and then covered with silt and sand over the eons. I say this, because all of these formations seem to be weathering out of a loose, silty strata. If one were to rig a hose out there and direct the stream of water to the base of these formations, many more would appear from within the mud. It's almost as if the original formations were replacement filling within cracks in much softer rock. Since the replacement fill was harder than the rock, they remained when the rock was eroded away... Just my $.02
Tags: Fantasy Canyon Vernal Utah rock formations Olympus E-5 ZD Zuiko 14-54mm
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