Sunday Jun 07, 2009 at 21:59
Shoot it while you still can
Here Colorado today, we’ve had tornados, double rainbows and a full moon rise.
I have not a photo of any of them. My fault. However, chances are that all of the these will recur at some point in the future (and the last of them had better recur, otherwise something would be badly wrong with the world).
However, not everything that deserves to be photographed lasts forever.
Three examples:
Aztec Butte
This is a location in Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky section. I’ve never been there. I was planning to go, but discovered on googling the location that the puebloan granary perched so perfectly under the rock shelf had been destroyed by careless visitors (most likely trying to crawl inside). It appears however, that the granary is only partly damaged and is still worth a visit.
The Teapot
The Teapot is, or rather was, a most remarkable sandstone feature located in what is known as Fantasy Canyon south of Vernal in eastern Utah. We were planning to go there as part of recent trip to Dinosaur National Monument. Three years too late, however. The feature collapsed in 2006. Likely at the hands of people.
SS Dicky
The wreck of the SS Dicky has lain on the eponymous Dicky Beach since 1893. We were there in early May to shoot it during a recent trip to Australia. Since we left, heavy storms and high tides have caused significant damage to the wreck (see the link above). Read more here.
We were lucky enough to visit the wreck before the most recent damage, and it still remains highly photogenic. But there’ll never be another shot like the one above of the SS Dicky – that foreground section is the piece that collapsed.
However, it has been somewhat surprising to me that three separate locations that I’ve planned to shoot have been damaged or destroyed. I’m sure, sadly, that they won’t be the last.
A very simple moral to the tale: if there’s somewhere in the world you really want to see, don’t delay. The second law of thermodynamics (and careless humans) are working against you…
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Stephen · Sunday, June 07, 2009, 21:59 · Permalink
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