Three Rivers National Monument, New Mexico October 2002
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- pitchertaker
- Central Massachusetts, United States
- I have been photographing for more than 50 years first working as supervisor for yearbook and college newspaper. Later I headed the photography department for the News Service at UTAustin. In 1979, I became a Dobie-Paisano Fellow and began to follow a career in freelance and doing my own personal work. My wife's career pulled us out of Texas for the east coast finally winding up in central Massachusetts. Now in my 79th year, I teach both digital and wet darkroom at a small liberal arts university in Worcester, MA. I shoot these cameras and formats: ----Note: -- I have given up on film. I now have only digital cameras -- the Canon 6D, and a Pentax 645D medium format digital.
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Lot of space out there, I don't know much about it but are there any old drawings along the way or are they the modern day graffiti?
Those are petroglyphs carved (hammered) into the desert varnish face of the rocks by the people who pre-date the Hopi and Navaho peoples. It is estimated that the carvings here at Three Rivers were done around around 1000 AD. Read about it here: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/las_cruces/three_rivers.html
Totally cool place because of the concentration of the drawings -- around 21,000 of them is a relative small accessible very remote area. Just over the hill, about 30 miles further north, is the Trinity Cite: http://www.atomictourist.com/trinity.htm
I'm glad nobody seems to have defaced them. It looks to be a very desolate location. Thanks for the ongoing tour!
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