Lost in the Desert

I took this photo from the platform where my night ramblings on the way back from the Wave ended because I realized I was lost (here’s the back story).

As I tried to keep warm through the night I paced ever smaller circles and drained my batteries in couple of last thirty minute exposures (this one is the penultimate photo).

Had I been able to see the landscape as well as my digital camera captures it, I would have realized I was standing on the Sandstone Ridge (marked on my map), and that my direction out was across the low rise in the middle right of this photo. I might also have noted the depth of the chasm right below me.

[This photo: 18mm in 35mm terms, about thirty minutes at f/4 and ISO 100, tripod mounted.]

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2 Responses to “Lost in the Desert”

  1. expatraveler Says:

    Great colors! I’m very curious to know what you did in the time the camera was ticking away, walked away and then came back? Very inspirational shot.

  2. Harold Davis Says:

    Hi Expatraveler: I was pacing around in small circles to keep warm!

    Best wishes - Harold

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