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PARK AVENUE CANYON

THE ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, UTAH

Image Number 209

Arches National Park is a red, arid desert with contrasting colours, landforms and textures.  The park is part of the Colorado Plateau, a “high desert” region with elevations ranging from 4,085 to 5,653 feet.

Note the tiny figures in the foreground giving scale to the image.

TECHNICAL NOTES

Captured from the Park Avenue viewing point on a Zeiss Contax 645 medium format camera with Zeiss 55mm lens at F8 with an exposure of 1/180th of a second.    File size 260 meg, 8 bit.   The colours correspond with transparencies exposed at the time on the same camera for reference purposes.

The image was registered on a Phase One IQ180 80 megapixel digital back.  The combination of sensor size and megapixels from this back captures approximately five times more detail than the highest resolution 35mm SLR camera currently available – and explains the high resolution of the image.

Signed and numbered by the photographer in a limited edition.