Cliff Palace
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
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Oct. 6, 2023. 4:30pm. — For several years I had wanted to photograph wall murals of the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. Cliff Palace was constructed between about 1190 and 1260 CE, although the major portion of the building was done within a 20-year time span. Known as Anasazi, the ancestors of the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest, who constructed this cliff dwelling and the others like it at Mesa Verde were driven to these defensible positions by “increasing competition amidst changing climatic conditions”. Cliff Palace was abandoned by 1300, though debate is ongoing as to the cause. Some contend that a series of megadroughts interrupting food production systems was the main cause.
This is an focus stacked & stitched image shot with a Canon R5, 500mm lens at f/11, 1/640th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 1128 images with many of the images being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 147 individual Focus Stacked images, 7 rows x 21 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation.
The original image is:
- 2.77 Giga-pixels
- 32,229 x 85,974 pixels
- 107″ x 286″ 300 PPI (15 ft. X 23 ft., 10in.) un-cropped image size
- Available in 1:2.5 ratio (slightly cropped) from 10″ x 25″ to 38.4″ x 96 ” as Print, Standard Plaque, AlumiPress or PlexiPlaq.
- Can be cropped to other ratios per customer’s requirements.
- Wall Murals as large as 15 ft. x 23 ft., 10in. (300PPI). Call for price quote.
- Wall Murals as large as 30 ft. x 47 (150PPI). Call for price quote
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Duraplaq Mounting Options
Our DuraPlaq mounting options offer a higher quality, wider range of sizes and materials. Especially for the HD Metal AlumiPress products. Consult Price List for 1:3 ratio size options and cost details. Contact us for a quote on your specific size and mounting options needs.
- Standard Plaque prints are available in four Finish Choices. Finishes are acid-free and ultra violet (UV) light protected, shielding it against fading and deterioration and can be wiped down with water or any ammonia-free cleaners.
- We highly recommend the Metalized Paper for prints, plaques and PlexiPlaq products. This special paper does an excellent job of bringing out the detail of the photos.
- All of our plaques are produced by Duraplaq on photo quality High Density boards. Numerous Mounting Styles are available along with many Edge Treatments.
- Approximate lead time for shipping of Prints is 1 week. Plaque mounts and other options 2 weeks.
The above sizes and mounting options are a small subset of the overall mounting options we have. We offer all of our photos on a variety of mounting options from just prints, framed, plaque mounting, Aluminum Prints, or Plexiplaq. We also offer Tri-Panel, Quad-Panel or Wall Clusters & Splits. Most of our Gigaramas are available as wall murals. We also license our photos for various commercial applications.