Photo Caption: The goal of this weekends adventure was to access Reflection Canyon from the water of Lake Powell in spite of the lake being too high for my ideal comp; we just wanted to go on an adventure.. the famed original photo of RC by Michael Melford was accessed by boat & not by hiking in..
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I did my research &came across an access point to climb out of the lake.. I grabbed my friend @Shane1000rr & his boat, along w/ photogs, @saolybensonphoto & @nick_wrz, @pennidog & a crew of friends on a mission to explore some canyons of Lake Powell. The day was a bit cold on the lake but in the canyons we explored the weather was perfect. We hit an amazing slot canyon before gassing up at Dangling Rope marina &continuing on to Reflection Canyon. We wanted to check the place we were docking we b4 dark.
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We found it easily, but the level of the lake ruined our plans! We could see the beach below the water about 5-7 ft; we couldn’t land now because of it being all rocks. I did a quick search on google maps to hopefully find another option. We headed into Hidden Canyon, one canyon prior to Reflection, landed on a sandy beach & hiked about 1.5 miles looking for any possible way to the top. We had a lot of fun exploring but w/ no success.
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We decided to take the boat through RC (which I learned from last summers trip is an amazingly beautiful journey to take) &found a great area to camp in. We set up & as we were doing so I kept hearing splashing noise on the water as if someone were paddling up. Turns out the carp were spawning in the shallow beach areas of the canyon &they made noise & flopped in the shallow water ALL NIGHT LONG. I hiked down the beach a ways to try & find a comp using the interesting trees I had seen coming in.
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So while this is not the expected or typical ‘Reflection Canyon’ image, it is a reflection image taken within Reflection Canyon. lit from the side by a single Lumecube.com/160.html (use TRACYLEE at that link at check out for FREE US Shipping!) on the 3rd power setting manually on the cube itself.
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ISO 6400
F2.8
15 Seconds
10 images stacked in SLS for NR
Processed in LR & PS
@tokinausa 11-20 2.8
@slikusa 634-cfl
@canonusa 60d
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Photo taken at: Reflection Canyon Utah