There is lots of fun pictures of my friends and I having adventures on facebook. In my photography class I took last semester (that feels so good to say...) we talked a lot about how our culture has to take pictures of everything they do or else in a way they didn't actually do it. How many times have you had a great story to go tell roommates or family and they're like, "Cool, lets see the pictures" and you didn't have any? Its kind of a let down to them, as if it lessens the reality of your adventure... I'm not sure I like that, I do like pictures because they help me remember all the fun things I've done, but for the most part I thing I stand with Andre Kurtesz (a famous photographer) who said "my favorite pictures are the ones I never took. Some things are either too beautiful or too special to take pictures of and some things are just better left remembered. A little off topic, but its my blog so... whatever... :) point being, my blog about goblin valley will mostly be the pretty pictures I took because thats the kind of photography I like to do best... :)
This particular post will be about the plants I saw... its cool that so much life can be found in the desert where it seems like nothing should be able to grow, but some how there is actually a lot of trees, and they grow in the most unlikely places. Of course there is cactus, and paintbrush... theres actually a lot to photograph.
These last two pictures epitomize my view of life in the desert. I'm always a fan of silhouettes I kind of want to keep all of my pictures like the one above in a folder and turn it into a project of some kind.... but my view of the desert, the circle of life is much shorter here. I was the last person to photograph this tree, later that night we tor it apart for firewood... kind of ironic that I destroyed one of my favorite subjects, but that is what life in the desert is about to me, you live, you die, you are used again some other way...
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