My wife and I spent about 3 days wandering around the Bisti Badlands last November so I thought I would share one of my photos from there. I know this particular area has been photographed plenty but I wanted to see those weird eggs for myself. I really did more scouting than I did shooting while we explored here. I wrote down a ton of notes with directions back to the areas we found in hopes that I can visit here again one day. It looks like a drunk pirate scribbled on a piece of paper but it will do
I shot this with the 24mm ts-e II. 3 frames in portrait orientation stitched and cropped to 8x10.
Wow... really awesome shot here! Bisti Badlands is on my list to shoot, I have almost stopped by there twice now, but got distracted by fall colors or had bad weather. But hopefully this year I can swing by there.
Your take on this is really well done, I like that down low in your face view. I was thinking that there was only one area where these eggs were at, so there is more scattered around there?
I had to laugh at your "drunk pirate map" comment, this place can be difficult to navigate, esp. after the sun goes down. A nice rendering of the eggs and perfect execution with the TS-E.
Wow... really awesome shot here! Bisti Badlands is on my list to shoot, I have almost stopped by there twice now, but got distracted by fall colors or had bad weather. But hopefully this year I can swing by there.
Your take on this is really well done, I like that down low in your face view. I was thinking that there was only one area where these eggs were at, so there is more scattered around there?
Jim
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate the comments. Hey Jim, I think the egg shaped formations are only unique to this specific little area. There are quite a few there though. If I remember correctly they lay in a long row that's about 75 feet long. The further away from the main section you get, the less formed they become. We even ended up stumbling upon an area filled with a ton of petrified wood. It looked like whole trees had fallen on the ground and some of them were still solid and unbroken (some close to 15 feet long). Another section about 1/4 mile from the eggs looked like huge dinosaur bones laying everywhere which I ended up just referring to as "The Boneyard".
J Atencio wrote:
I had to laugh at your "drunk pirate map" comment, this place can be difficult to navigate, esp. after the sun goes down. A nice rendering of the eggs and perfect execution with the TS-E.
Yes, navigating back in the dark was an experience indeed. Our longest hike back after dark was about 5 miles and it seemed to take forever! Headlamps really didn't do much and we had to rely on visual checkpoints we made along the way. A GPS would have come in handy but I just haven't had the cash to invest in one yet. We tried to use our Garmin, it didn't really work out too well.
Also, as far as camping goes, stay in the parking area. The campground in Farmington is a roach infested crap hole. We had a free night stay which we didn't bother taking and just camped out in the lot.
