Climbing with kids in Maple Corridor
Friday I went to Maple Canyon with Rhett and Steve Boynton and his family. In the afternoon we climbed in the Maple Corridor, and I took a panorama of Maple Corridor in Maple Canyon is pretty cool because of it’s rather unique geology. The entire thing is hundreds of vertical feet of conglomerate – which is more easily described as “big cobblestone cliffs”. Climbing on it feels like you are climbing on a never-ending antique chimney. It’s also unique because it has areas where an extremely easy climb will be only a few hundred feet away from an extremely difficult climb.
The kids had fun, in particular because the most fascinating stick in the known universe was apparently found there. Both Rhett and Porter (the other boy in the picture) were infatuated with this one stick, and no other stick would satisfy them. Eventually Porter relented and let play with it for most of the time there, but in exchange Porter got permanent custody rights when we left.
This is an HDR panorama, but to get the kids faces not so blurry I took them from a single exposure and merged them in with the 32-bit merged exposure. I think in the future this might be how I approach moving subjects in hdr photos that don’t themselves have a large dynamic range (i.e. people or other things that are moving) – it worked well but still keeps the aspects of HDR that are good (such as the brighter rocks towards the top not being blown out or the shadows in the dark areas not having any detail)
Tags: climbing, maple canyon, panorama, photos
