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Landscape Arch with
Sunstar
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Landscape Arch is both the longest known
natural stone span in the world, stretching 306 feet from base to base, and one of the most delicate. At first glance,
it seems impossible that it is still standing. In 1991 a major rockfall weakened the arch still further. The continuing
threat to public safety, as well as erosion of the hillside under the arch, led the Park Service to close the trail that used
to lead to the base of the arch itself. To emphasize Landscape Arch's fragility, I decided to photograph it at the exact
moment when the afternoon sun would drop behind the very thinnest portion of the arch. I knew that the viewer's eye
would be drawn inevitably to the brightest part of the frame, the sun, and then to the arch's weakest section. Using
a Brunton pocket transit, a highly accurate, tripod-mounted compass and inclinometer, I measured the azimuth and angular elevation
of the thinnest part of the span, then used Heavenly Opportunity, a computer program that gives me sun positions, to calculate the best days of the year to make the image I envisioned.
Armed with that information, I returned several months later and made the image you see here.
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To order an 11x14 loose, matted-only or framed print of Landscape
Arch with Sunstar please visit my product catalog by clicking the link beneath the appropriate thumbnail.
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Glenn Randall Photography
At
home on the web at GlennRandall.com and AGPix.com
Specializing in Colorado landscape photography and Colorado scenic photography since 1993
Now offering a select
group of Utah landscape photographs from Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park
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and Colorado photographic prints available
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