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Caption: Lake Powell A canyon voyage
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Caption: This is Lake Powell. Here are my impressions. First, if you're planning a trip to this area of Utah/Arizona, there are many hundreds of places you could visit and photograph, and visiting Lake Powell is TOTALLY worth it, but you'll need access to a boat. You can get to some of these places over land, but you'll need lots of water, food, and fuel, emergency supplies, high clearance 4WD, etc.
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Caption: Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer. -- John Wesley Powell
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Caption: I read Beyond the Hundredth Meridian recently, and one of the key ideas in Stegner's representation of John Wesley Powell, for whom the lake is named, is water conservation. He posits that settling and using this land would require much thought, planning, and caution with the land and resources. Powell's and Stegner's ideas are more prescient than ever. I'm not yet sure how to navigate the conservation, preservation, and reclamation ideas, but I will say that this region is a still a place no words, and no single photograph can describe. Like Walt Whitman once wrote, it contains multitudes.
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Lake Powell
Caption: A parting note: if you choose to come here to make photographs, you'll see light and color you can't imagine are real. I did very little editing and color toning to my images. Happy shooting.
-- Jordan Ison
