If these geological formations weren't so far off any beaten path they would be world known. Well, you don't have to backpack in to view them, but they are reasonably obscure to the world. When we drove around a bend in the road and saw this my jaw fell open. As pictured here you're seeing them from some distance. Approached on foot you feel like you're discovering a lost site of great significance lost to history. In some ways an extremely large panorama diminishes the sense of scale. It crowds too much into a viewable rectangle, which is not at all how my eye saw it. It was too large for that. I have other photos from other angles closer up that I will post later.
Of course these infrared photos enhance that sense of mystery, but natural light isn't much less impressive.
Canon Rebel XT (converted to Infra-red by LifePixel 830nm Filter) | Tamron SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD Lens
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Hey, this is not a cellphone photo and should not be viewed on a cell phone. You want to get a sense of the SCALE of the scene. View as large as you can view it. If you are observant you’ll notice some letters scratched into the dirt in the foreground. I couldn't read them, but I suspect they are marking left behind by aliens. They are rather frequent in those parts, and they do like their graffiti.
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The Milky Way rose over the edge of the Painted Hills in Oregon and after some experimentation I captured this images using
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I've lived in Oregon since 1985, but I've never spent any time exploring or photographing the easter side of the state. I decided to remedy this by spending the last four days with Flickr photographer Chris Taylor photographing a small fraction of the areas that are rarely recorded on a camera.
This first image is one taken near sunset in the Painted Hills. I've seen a few photos taken from there, but the ones I've seen miss much of the mystery and scale.
Canon Rebel XT (converted to Infra-red by LifePixel 830nm Filter) | Tamron SP 45mm F/1.8 Di VC USD Lens
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Sony ILCE-7M2 | Helios 44-2 58mm
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