Hotlinking the Vegetable

Arches National Park is a truly wonderful place, and the hike to to Dark Angel is a beauty. It's also very crowded, for the park is Freeway Close and has many excellent easy and easily accessed trails. Getting off the trail is difficult, in that the ground is covered with cryptogamic soil that you really don't want to walk on. It's better to go somewhere else if you're looking for the true backcountry experience.

This shot is from some rolls of ASA 1600 Kodacolor. The camera was all shut down and I was getting shutter speeds of 1/1000th and the ilk. I've never been able to get this cool grainy look again; it may be that like so many other rolls of film whose chemistry evolved after they sat for months in inclement conditions.

I like this picture because Dark Angel is indeed dark. In most the other pictures of dark Angel I see Dark Angel is all lit up.

THE V has posted it in a thread at Planet Think Tanks commenting on Dark Angel (SA)'s name.


Thanks THE V!