Scott Holcomb's photos with the keyword: Kodachrome Basin State Park

The high canyonland environment of the southwest. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Adox CHS 100 ART film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

A box canyon is adorned with a colorful orange rock wall at one end of the state park. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 45mm lens with a Asahi Pentax 6X7 67ø L39(UV) SMC filter using Fuji Provia 100F film, the transparency scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop

No, this is not the wall on the US-Mexican border . . . This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Adox CHS 100 ART film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

The elements have carved a gallery of sandstone sculptures here in Kodachrome Basin State Park. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Adox CHS 100 ART film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Fencing such beauty is just not right! This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 45mm lens with a Asahi Pentax 6X7 67ø L39(UV) SMC filter using Fuji Provia 100F film, the transparency scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop

And so castles made of sand Slips into the sea, eventually Jimi Hendrix This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Adox CHS 100 II film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized using Photoshop.

Within Kodachrome Basin State Park there are over 60 of these monoliths (sedimentary pipes) rising up from the ground. Geologists speculate that some violent force injected material into cracks and fissures that then solidified. Eventually, over a long period of time erosion ate away the softer material encasing the structures. This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/150mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SO456•2C(Y3) filter using Adox CHS 100 II film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized using Photoshop.

Kodachrome film may be gone but the moment is still alive and well here at Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 45mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 82mm L 1A filter using CineStill 50D film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Deep in the canyon-country of southern Utah is a beautiful state park called Kodachrome Basin where there are 67 sandstone pillars from a few feet to 52 feet across, which stand vertically as high as 172 feet above the basin floor. Composition of the pillars consists of rounded pebbles, cobbles, carbonized wood, and wildly tilted meter-sized blocks of sedimentary rock, all floating in a matrix of well-cemented sandstone. The sandstone matrix matches in composition with a layer known to be buried 300 feet below the basin floor suggesting that these pillars were somehow suddenly injected upward. Eventually the sediment de-watered and turned to stone, but for whatever reason, the injected sand bodies or injectites hardened to a greater degree than their surrounding host-rock. Erosion later preferentially removed the softer host-rock, exposing as stony pillars or “pipes” what had once been conduits for the explosively injected sand slurries. Just how this process occurred is a mystery. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Bergger Pancro400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Most people are familiar with icebergs. They are a hazard to maritime traffic and have caused dramatic catastrophes such as the sinking of the Titanic. Little notice has been paid to the terrestrial form, the rockberg. Generally, they are found in remote areas and when they calve off of a major canyon, they are not a great threat to towns and cities. This big rockberg may be an exception, however. It is enormous and is drifting across the plain at an astonishing speed, threatening any townships and villages in it’s path. I have alerted the USGS (United States Geological Survey) of it’s existence, course and speed. So far I have not heard back from them. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Takumar/6X7 1:2.4/105mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Bergger Pancro 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

In the September 1949 National Geographic magazine, writer/photographer Jack Breed chronicled the “First Motor Sortie into Escalante Land.” Breed’s expedition, which included 15 people, three jeeps, two trucks, and 35 horses, headed off into a rugged territory that is visible from Inspiration Point at at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. On the first day of their trip they stumbled upon “A Color Photographer’s Paradise.”It was a beautiful and fantastic country. A mile to the left near the base of the cliff I could see red pinnacles thrust up from the valley floor. The few natives who had been here called this area “Thorny Pasture,” But we renamed it “Kodachrome Flat” because of the astonishing variety of contrasting colors in the formations. Fearing repercussions from the Kodak film company for using the name Kodachrome, the name was changed to Chimney Rock State Park; however, within a few years Kodak gave permission to rename the park Kodachrome Basin State Park. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 45mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 82mm L 1A filter using CineStill 50D film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

I have arrived at the site of an impressive sand castle made by an unknown gigantic race. Judging by the erosion and age of the rock, it was sculpted over a period of many millions of years. This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1)) filter using Adox CHS 100 II film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized using Photoshop.

Somehow, a layer of buried sandy sediment was injected upwards into the rock crevasses above, later hardening into rock millennia ago. The softer rock eroded away, leaving the towering sandstone pillars standing hundreds of feet above the plain. Just how this process occurred is an unsolved problem. Geologists and theologians have competing theories involving hot geysers and the Genesis flood. As far as I am concerned, some of nature’s puzzles should be left to the imaginations of mystery fiction writers. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 45mm lens with a HOYA HMC 82mm O[G] filter using Bergger Pancro400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

The colorful geology of Kodachrome Basin State Park seems to glow in the last light of the day This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 82mm L 1A filter using CineStill 50D film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.