The Three Patriarchs of Zion
Court of the Patriarchs, Zion National Park, Utah
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Oct. 20, 2024. We had been in the Zion area for three days and overcast skies and rain had made any serious photography out of the question. This was going to be our last day at Zion and I had been hoping for some clearer skies and sunshine anticipating doing some shooting in the morning. We woke up to mostly cloudy skies but with a hopeful weather forecast we got up and walked to the bus station at the park entrance. I had decided in the days previous that my number one subject to capture a morning shot of was The Three Patriarchs. When we got off of the bus at Stop 4 called the Court of the Patriarchs we had nearly clear skies to the west with some intermittent clouds in the east. We took the short 50 yard hike up the hill on the east side of the park road to the overlook.
The four peaks from left to right are The Sentinel at 7157 ft. (2181 m), Abraham Peak at 6840 ft. (2101 m), Isaac Peak at 6825 ft. (2081 m) and Jacob Peak at 6831 ft. (2083 m).
I shot this at 300mm focal length. The short distances to the nearest objects from the overlook required me to shoot all but the top two rows of the images using focus bracketing There are 3261 individual, mostly focus bracketed images yielding 301 images, 7 rows x 43 columns, used to stitch together this shot. My settings were f/11, ISO 400 with the camera set to Aperture Priority mode to accommodate the wide variation of light on the peaks verse the shadows in the valley.
The original image is:
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