Slickrock and Shadow

Octopus Rock at Little Egypt The naming of rocks and locations is something in which I take part with my photos, social media, landscape forums and the public sphere.  As I see unique rocks, my imagination runs off with possible names or titles.  Such was my state as I walked around Little Egypt.  I came across the following large formation which sits near the Queen formation. Octopus Rock spreading its' tentacles Given its' size and central "head" with a spread of boulders in every direction, the shape of an octopus came to mind.   Near Octopus Rock is the Queen in the distance

The Queen in Little Egypt Geologic area Little Egypt landscape photography: Rain drizzled for 24 hours straight before my arrival at Little Egypt.  Clouds hung low.  I went here instead of searching for trickling waterfalls in Capitol Reef.  Laurent rates this place as less interesting than nearby Goblin Valley but the more colorful formations here appealed to me.  Many of the goblins here have a unique white stripe of rock running horizontal through them.  The most interesting formations were photographed from a distance using a telephoto lens.  With a focal length of 50-105mm, the plane of focus becomes small even with apertures of f/16.  Focus stacking is a technique to deal with this.  On site, I took 3 photographs of the foreground flowers, the midground bush, and the Queen rock formation.  These must have the same aperture and shutter speed.  They must align perfectly so a tripod is required.  They must be identical ex...