It rained and rained some more at Northern Arizona’s Kaibab National Forest.
Foggy And Wet Kaibab
Tag: Wet
Mud Is Beautiful
Recent rains swept water through the many washes in Southern Utah and yielded some interesting abstract patterns in nature.
The Bad, the Good, The Ugly at Zion Today
Tremendous monsoonal thunderstorms ravaged Zion National Park today, closing the main road thru the park due to rock slides. But as with any storm, the aftermath can be delightful.
THE BAD
Photo courtesy of The St. George News, all others captured by Dawn2Dawn Photography
THE GOOD
THE UGLY
The streets of nearby Springdale were covered with mud.
Menacing clouds approached later in the night.
It’s Alive!
So said Dr. Frankenstein about the monster. And that’s what I said yesterday to my Canon DSLR Camera. Back in the end of October while photographing the fall colors in the Eastern Sierras, my camera fell off from the tripod it was suppose to be mounted to. It not only fell off into some soft grass but preceded to bounce into Lee Vining Creek. I immediately jumped into the ice cold creek and retrieved the camera within 10 seconds but the damage had been done. I dried it off, took out the battery and lens and tried to dry the camera body against my car heater. Ian Plant(famous photographer) once blogged that he dropped his into the Virgin River and dried his camera out in an oven. I believe it worked for him. He probably gets his gear for free.
I didn’t want to put the camera in an oven, so I sent the camera with lens to Canon. They said they couldn’t fix either(or the cost was too high) and sent it back to me. When I got the lens back, I tried it and it worked just fine. The water inside the lens did dry. The camera wouldn’t work but I decided to store it in rice, the rice absorbs any moisture. After a month, I tried it again and the camera IS ALIVE! It takes beautiful images and video!
Moral of Story- Do Not Listen to the factory repair people at Canon and use rice to absorb moisture from any device that was submerged in water. They wanted me to buy new equipment. Patience paid off here. I plan to write Canon a scathing letter saying that the camera you said was dead is alive!
Splash!
My friend Eric and I did some off-roading yesterday and part of it involved fording the East Fork of The Virgin River near Zion National Park. After I went through the water in my vehicle( I was the Guinea Pig), I photographed Eric at various stretches of the river.
