February 20, 2012 Toadstool in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
Toadstool
Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
Canon EOS 1Ds Mk III, 24 TS II, 1/60 sec, f11, ISO 100
Image taken on February 18, 2012.
Two days ago, Jan and I explored the Toadstool Trail off US-89 in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. The toadstool and hoodoos are easily accessible which mean that they're very popular. Too popular if you ask me because there were footprints all over the place from visitors when the ground was muddy. It was a real challenge to make an image where the footprints weren't an issue. Even in this image, with very little ground included, I had to clone out some footprints. I used the shift motion of my Canon TS-E 24mm f3.5 L II tilt/shift lens to look up while keeping the camera back vertical so that the toadstool wouldn't look like it was falling over.
