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Having found my feet in a sleepy red rock canyon known as Bluff, Utah- The Colorado Plateau became a place of home and personal growth. Travels to the back country were never imagined with a camera, my calling a sense of awe & wonderment. Five years later a body of work is making its way out of my world and in to yours. -Joaquin Salazar Check out Joaquin's work online and view his upcoming exhibits in Durango, Colorado here: Joaquin Salazar Photography |
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 Captured: An Exploration in Photography with Joaquin Salazar
Location: San Juan River, Bluff to Mexican Hat, 26 miles 
 OverviewMerriam Webster defines “captured” as a transitive verb, taking at least one object. To take captive. To emphasize, represent or preserve in a more or less permanent form. To captivate and hold the interest of.We’re still contemplating how many objects it really takes to make this verb transitive. But we’re sure that each of us is one of those involved and that is what this trip is about. Each of us, and each of those definitions. We’re interested in gathering a group of people together to boat, and hike, and think together about the idea of creative work. We want to explore the San Juan, with camera in hand in this case, attempting to be taken captive, to have our interests held, and to represent or preserve those moments in photographs. As guides we always find ourselves taken by the feeling of being captured by this river that we love. We often watch our passengers get excited about the feeling of being captivated, and every so often someone captures something essential about it whether it be with words, paint, a camera, or just a smile that we can see the underpinnings of. We want to know more about that. We want to understand what happens in our brains, and in our lives as a result of those moments of movement or alteration in our view of the world. We hope that some of you might like to join us for a trip to explore, those ideas, and this beautiful landscape, on the river, where everything always comes down to flowing water in a desert. ItineraryWe'll make a lot of different stops in the upper canyon as we have plenty of time to find great areas to photograph. Dwellings abound, rock art awaits, reflections glimmer and the fall light delights! 5 days of photography! Capturing an experience in the both in the frame of camera and in the frame of heart.Suggested ReadingHUMAN PREHISTORYLegacy On Stone: Rock Art of the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners Region Sally Cole Ice Age Peoples Of North America: Environments, Origins, and Adaptations Robson Bonnickson, ed. Humans at the End of the Ice Age : The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Lawrence Strauss Ed. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization Brian Fagan Those Who Came Before Robert and Florence Lister Enemy Ancestors Gary Matlock Ancient Ruins of the Southwest David Noble Indian Rock Art of the Southwest Polly Schaafsma Richard Witherill: Anasazi Frank McNitt The Book of Navajo Raymond Locke The Book of Hopi Frank Waters Collapse Jared Diamond HISTORY Traders of the Navajo Frances Gillmore and Louise Wetherill Explorations of the Colorado River and its Canyons John Wesley Powell Hole in the Rock Expedition David Miller San Juan County, Utah Allan Kent Powel Anchored Lariats on the San Juan Frontier Norma Perkins Young Encounters With the Archdruid John McPhee River Runners of the Grand Canyon David Lavender Crossing the Next Meridian Charles Wilkinson Fire on the Plateau Charles Wilkinson Mormon Country Wallace Stegner The Gathering of Zion Wallace Stegner Conversations on History and Literature Wallace Stegner Reopening the Western Frontier People's History of Wilderness Water in the West High Country News Books (various authors and editors, see: www.hcn.org) Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope Robert Keiter New Genesis : M ormon Reader on Land and Community Terry Tempest Williams, Ed. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water Mark Reisner Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell Eleanor Inskip GEOLOGY The Colorado Plateau Don Baars Geology of the Canyons of the San Juan Don Baars San Juan Canyons (River Guide) Don Baars and Gene Stevenson Life in Stone: Fossils of the Colorado Plateau Christa Saddler NATURAL HISTORY The Ice-Age History of Southwestern National Parks Scott A. Elias Packrat middens: The last 40,000 years of biotic change Julio Betancourt & Tom Van Devender A Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country David Williams Eating Stone Ellen Meloy Wind in the Rock Ann Zwinger Run River Run Ann Zwinger Desert Plants of Utah Berniece A. Andersen Grasses of the Southwestern United States Frank W. Gould Sibley Field Guide to North American Birds David Allan Sibley Singing Stone Thomas Lowe Fleischner A Field Guide to Mammals A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians A First Guide to Insects of North America A First Guide to Butterflies and Moths These are all Peterson Guide Books OTHER FICTION AND NON-FICTION Desert Solitaire Abbey The Monkey Wrench Gang Abbey The Sound of Mountain Water Wallace Stegner A Thief of Time Tony Hillerman Listening Woman Tony Hillerman The Dark Wind Tony Hillerman Coyote Waits Tony Hillerman Coyote's Canyon Terry Tempest Williams Pieces of White Shell Terry Tempest Williams Red Terry Tempest Williams Refuge Terry Tempest Williams Ceremony Leslie Mormon Silko Waterlines Ann Weiler Walka TestimonialsSubmit a Testimonial »No testimonials have been submitted for this trip yet. Click here to submit a testimonial. |
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