Folks,
We were back at Dead Horse Point yesterday - next to Yosemite one of the better photographic locations I have ever visited. The Point gives you a different look every 5 minutes as the angle of light changes. Couple that with deer on the high plain of the Point and you have a unique combination of photo ops.
I ran into an older gentlemen photographing old weathered wood because the light just wasn't right for landscape photography. Which just reinforces that when you have a camera in hand nothing is off limits for image capture.
We were watching a local program last night about the efforts to preserve the local petroglyphs - mostly from vandalism - people either adding their own personal statements - usually of the Dick loves Jane variety or the ravages of Mother Nature. They are using infrared photography to recover what the original underlying image looked like and then digitizing that to have a permanent record.
The fascinating part of all this is that they are finding that the petroglyph artists themselves in a lot of cases have 'written' over previous petroglyph art. In other words, later petroglyph artists vandalized previous petroglyph artist's work.
It's ironic that today we are trying to preserve history (which has been vandalized) by both preventing vandalization and restricting access.
Aren't today's vandals, tomorrow's petroglyph artists - won't that art be just as important 1000 years from now? Or to twist this slightly did the Freemont and Anasazi cultures have historical societies that tried to preserve more ancient petroglyphs that were being overwritten with 'then' modern graffiti by rebellious youth - the very same graffiti we now record as important history - hmmm.
... plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose ....
To quote from verse 119 of the Krome Koan, 'What if there were no hypothetical questions?'
Phil
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