Here’s my favorite photo of the month for July.
A very unique petroglyph in a very unique setting in the San Rafael Swell.
Here here are the runners up…
Black Dragon Creature
Here we have my photo of the month for June. There were a couple of good ones this month, but in the end I just had to go with the photo that I worked the hardest for this year.
I’d been anticipating the Solstice this year so that I could visit the Solstice Snake (aka Solar Snake or Hyper Viper) and watch the arrowhead appear on the snakes head. For about 2 minutes on the solstice a dagger of light shaped like an arrowhead appears on the head of this very large and well executed petroglyph of a snake. It was an amazing experience!
Here here are the runners up…
Turkey Over Chaco
Late again this month, but I just finished going through all my photos from May. Another tough decision this month, but here’s my pick for May.
Over Memorial Day Weekend I managed to find the Big Crane petroglyph and it was pretty amazing. I really like this photo I took of it, too.
Here here are the runners up…
Butler Sunset
I know that it’s late again, but this time I have a good excuse….I didn’t actually finish going through all of my photos from April until last night! There were a bunch of photos I really like in April, so I had a hard time narrowing it down to just one….but here we have my selection for my April photo of the month.
Star trails with the Mule Canyon Tower in the foreground. I had hoped to get some star trails through the window, but some clouds blew into the sky (as you can see) as I was taking the photos. The moon was behind me and helped illuminate the tower so that I didn’t have to add any light. If you look closely at the tower you can even see old fingerprints in the mortar from the original builders.
Here here are the runners up…
The Queens Alcove
Here we have my selection for my March photo of the month.
Face to face with the Solstice Snake. I took many photos of petroglyphs and pictographs this month and had a hard time choosing the winner. In the end I just had to go with a photo of the Solstice Snake because I had been searching for this one for a while and it was a great adventure finally finding it. I like the perspective of this photo, putting you right in the face of the serpent, even though it’s hard to get a scale of just how large this petroglyph really is.
Here here are the runners up…
The Couple
