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 06/27/2010 09:00:31 PM · #1
Has anyone here ever heard of a landscape photography site called "Adobe Town"? It is in Wyoming.

Better yet... does anyone here have any experience taking pictures at "Adobe Town"?

I will be going there for a short first photo safari there early next month and would like advice and guidance from those who have been there.

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 06/27/2010 09:17:16 PM · #2
It's a beautiful, high desert location. Not a lot of color, great shapes. Wild horse herd, very large. But it's been what, 30 years since I was there? Maybe someone fresher will crop up.

R.
 06/27/2010 09:58:26 PM · #3
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
It's a beautiful, high desert location. Not a lot of color, great shapes. Wild horse herd, very large. But it's been what, 30 years since I was there? Maybe someone fresher will crop up.

So far, Robert, you are the first person I know who has ever seen it. There are only two photographers I found who have ever photographed near or in it and their published works are sketchy. And both of them were since 2007.

As far as I know the only changes in the last 30 years is a HUGE amount of encroaching oil and gas exploration. About half of it is in a BLM wilderness protection area but that is it.

It is still exceptionally difficult to access... there are no roads, only jeep trails which are generally impassable. :(

I will be able to share pictures of whatever I find upon my return.
 06/27/2010 10:23:33 PM · #4
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUfpUwbtuQ
More info on Adobe Town
Rocky Mountain School of Photography shots

If you have time...the Badlands in South Dakota are further east and quite spectacular as well.

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 06/27/2010 10:46:43 PM · #5
Originally posted by Artifacts:

It is still exceptionally difficult to access... there are no roads, only jeep trails which are generally impassable. :(

I will be able to share pictures of whatever I find upon my return.


We went in to photograph it for BLM. This would have been maybe 1984? They drove us in, we camped in there. It was really, really desolate country. The horses were cool.

R.
 06/28/2010 12:14:17 AM · #6
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Artifacts:

It is still exceptionally difficult to access... there are no roads, only jeep trails which are generally impassable. :(

I will be able to share pictures of whatever I find upon my return.


We went in to photograph it for BLM. This would have been maybe 1984? They drove us in, we camped in there. It was really, really desolate country. The horses were cool.

I envy you, that must have been one heck of a trip! Even today with I-80 running just 40 miles north it is still very, very hard to get to.

There was a public hearing a few months back soliciting public feedback about rounding up some of the 800 or so wild horses residing in "Adobe Town". The horse population is above subsistence levels according to the BLM so they want to cull the herd.

I'd guess the horses are down in the flats. I suspect I will spend most of my time along the rims where "Adobe Town" is more accessible. For a first trip it allows me to more easily find photo ops from an elevated position; then I can hike and climb down to interesting geologic features like I do in The Grand Staircase.
06/28/2010 12:32:17 AM · #7
Originally posted by bergiekat:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUfpUwbtuQ
More info on Adobe Town
Rocky Mountain School of Photography shots

There are several excellent videos about the Red Desert on You-Tube. Most are by Nature Photojournalist Morgan Heim who also has a blog about the area with the great title, "Notes from the Big Empty".

The video you found is put out by the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance which is a non-profit dedicated to preserving wild lands in Wyoming. I emailed them earlier today asking for their help. I will also stop in at the BLM office in Rock Springs and maybe the one in Rawlins to before I go in.

Scout around the Net and you will find that the same pictures keep cropping up over and over again at different web sites and in various print publications as well. That just goes to show how few pictures there are of the place to be found. To my knowledge only one photographer has done fine art prints for there.

For the most part I think the place is a vast unknown to the fine art photography world and that there are many world class photography treasures yet to be found there. I plan to start mining them.

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 06/28/2010 08:23:04 PM · #8
I anticipate the yet to be seen fine art photos of this amazing place.
You may become famous!! :P Have fun!
 06/29/2010 05:59:53 AM · #9
have a great trip! and take a gps locator with you, just in case ;-)
 06/29/2010 01:24:21 PM · #10
If you are fortunate enough to see the wild horse herd...photograph the heck out of them. The BLM is trying to "manage" them to a much smaller herd for ease. (Iritates the snot outta me...)
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