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Jan 27

Ancient History

If you haven’t been to Spur Cross Ranch in Cave Creek, be sure to check out their hike schedule for the next hike to see these petroglyphs. The history of the area (our whole area!) is fascinating. Can’t get enough of it 🙂

Captured in 2007 with an infrared converted Canon S3 IS.

Jun 24

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Rochester Creek Panel

The Rochester Panel is the most exciting panel I’ve visited. It is more remote than most sites but if you love rock art, it is well worth the trip. It’s said to be a combination of Barrier Canyon, Freemont and Ute styles. Besides the many really interesting figures (some very alien-like), there is also a rainbow about 4 feet tall. The very light colored area half way up is a result of people trying to remove the Petroglyphs 🙁

Photographing this panel straight on is tough because you can only get about 3 feet away from it. My camera and lens at the time (2003) was the Canon 10D and Canon 24-70mm lens. The 24-70 is a very sharp lens but I knew the only way to get the kind of resolution I wanted was to take the photo in sections so I shot two rows of 7 images (handheld) and then used the panorama tool in Photoshop to put them together. I regret not including the sky at top and more of the sides but I’ll go back one of these days.