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The Dragonfly Panel

The Dragonfly Panel

I’ve wanted to visit this outstanding and seldom-seen pictograph panel for a while, and at the end of last month I was finally able to make it happen. This Barrier Canyon Style panel is not very big, but there are many unique figures found here, including the dragonflies that this panel is known for. The figures may be small, but they are also very detailed. Besides the dragonflies found in this scene, there is also an elongated dog-like figure and a small rabbit-like zoomorph next to the larger anthropomorphs. When I first arrived at this panel, I was disappointed to find it half in the shade and half in the sun, which wouldn’t work well for photography. I stuck around for a while and examined the panel closely as the sun moved across the sky until the panel was fully in the shade. I spent an awesome day hiking to this panel and a few others nearby in a pretty remote area…it was great!

Click on the image above to view it larger on Flicker so you can see all the exquisite details.

>> Dragonfly Panel & Blue-Eyed Moqui Queen

Great Gallery Scene

Great Gallery Scene

I revisited the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon again last month and took plenty of new photos. Here’s the first photo from that trip showing some of the many awesome figures found at the Great Gallery.

>> Return to the Great Gallery

Intestine Man Panel

Intestine Man Panel

Since today is Veteran’s Day I’m going to post a photo of a panel near Moab that I visited last year on the same holiday. The Intestine Man Panel is a tough one to get a good photograph of, but it’s also a very unique and amazing panel that contains a lot of fine detail. If you look very closely you can find many small birds that are painted at this site, besides all of the intricate details found within the Intestine Man figure.

Yes, I purposely posted this photo at 11:11am on 11/11/11

>> Veterans Day on the Island in the Sky

Rochester Creek Petroglyphs

Rochester Creek Petroglyphs

There are many petroglyphs located above the confluence of Rochester Creek and Muddy Creek. This is a closer look of the main and most famous panel at the site. It contains Barrier Canyon Style elements, Fremont petroglyphs and probably some later Ute figures, too. There are also some very unusual creatures found in this panel that no one can seem to agree on who carved them! I have visited this panel a couple of times and I always notice something new on each visit.

>> Swell Rock Art & Arches

Face Down Panel

Face Down Panel

This is a very faded Barrier Canyon Style pictograph panel that I stumbled across this spring while searching for rock art near Moab. The most unique part of this panel is where it’s actually located. This panel is painted underneath a large overhang facing straight down towards the ground. There is not much room to slide underneath and get a view, which makes it tough to take a good photo of. The location of this panel makes me wonder if the sandy ground underneath it might have been much deeper at the time it was painted? If you would like to see the orientation of this pictograph panel under the large overhang, check out this photo my friend Jackson took of me while I was taking photos of it. This was a really cool find for me that I did not expect to come across. It’s amazing what you can find if you just keep searching!

>> The Secret Grotto & More…