3-Rivers

 
Three Rivers
Petroglyph Site
The photograph below is of interest because it utilized reflectors in a daylight landscape setting.
How this was done will be featured in a near-future issue of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. 
Rock of Ages
Less than a one hour drive north of Alamogordo New Mexico is the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site. Regular readers will know that I am fascinated by petroglyphs and pictographs, and whenever I visit the American Southwest I take what opportunities I can to view and photograph them.
This site is one of the richest in the country, with more than 21,000 such stone carvings to be found on the long and steep, but not all that difficult 1 mile round-trip hike up a basaltic ridge.
Three Rivers Petroglyph , New Mexico, 2001 Photographed with a Pentax 67II and 55~100mm f/4.5 zoom on Provia 100F
 
One of the most striking petroglyph settings is at the very far end of the ridge, beyond where most people venture. We did the hike mid-day and discovered it...