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Lower Calf Creek Falls drops 126 feet down a wall of Navajo sandstone in Grand Staircase–Escalante, Utah, reached by a six-mile round trip along the creek bed through sand and slickrock.
The wall itself is the reason to make the picture. Those vertical black and umber streaks are desert varnish: manganese and iron oxides deposited over thousands of years by water and microbial action, running down the rock like ink. By late morning the sun has climbed high enough to reach into the canyon, lighting the sandstone gold behind them, and where the spray carries, moss holds on in vivid green. A long exposure smooths the falling water into a single white column against all that texture — motion against permanence, in a frame built almost entirely of verticals.
Fine Art Paper — Canson Platine Fibre Rag holds the deep blacks of the varnish while keeping detail in the water — the closest of the three to a traditional large-format print. Canson Arches BFK Rives White gives a softer, more painterly reading; Moab Silver Metallic heightens contrast and lends the falls and sunlit rock a pearlescent shimmer. Prints are trimmed borderless at the stated size. 8x12 inches and smaller ship flat; larger sizes ship rolled, and are supplied unframed.
Every fine art paper print carries a 1-inch white border for handling and framing, added outside the image dimensions shown. The exception is the largest size in each aspect ratio, where the paper is already at its maximum width: those are printed borderless, edge to edge at the size shown.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · TruLife Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version
Made to order · Allow 1–2 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.
Lower Calf Creek Falls drops 126 feet down a wall of Navajo sandstone in Grand Staircase–Escalante, Utah, reached by a six-mile round trip along the creek bed through sand and slickrock.
The wall itself is the reason to make the picture. Those vertical black and umber streaks are desert varnish: manganese and iron oxides deposited over thousands of years by water and microbial action, running down the rock like ink. By late morning the sun has climbed high enough to reach into the canyon, lighting the sandstone gold behind them, and where the spray carries, moss holds on in vivid green. A long exposure smooths the falling water into a single white column against all that texture — motion against permanence, in a frame built almost entirely of verticals.
Fine Art Paper — Canson Platine Fibre Rag holds the deep blacks of the varnish while keeping detail in the water — the closest of the three to a traditional large-format print. Canson Arches BFK Rives White gives a softer, more painterly reading; Moab Silver Metallic heightens contrast and lends the falls and sunlit rock a pearlescent shimmer. Prints are trimmed borderless at the stated size. 8x12 inches and smaller ship flat; larger sizes ship rolled, and are supplied unframed.
Every fine art paper print carries a 1-inch white border for handling and framing, added outside the image dimensions shown. The exception is the largest size in each aspect ratio, where the paper is already at its maximum width: those are printed borderless, edge to edge at the size shown.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · TruLife Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version
Made to order · Allow 1–2 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.