1989 | Near Caineville, Utah
Just a few miles beyond the eastern boundary of Capitol Reef National Park (one of the newest in the grand landscape of Utah, just six miles wide, but sixty miles north to south), there are good chances to stop and enjoy the geological gestures in the quiet of the high plateau, even in the unprotected places.
I am still taken in by the admirable land in this picture, which details enjoyment of an entirely different order by previous visitors, whose marks were hacked with smoke and noise.
Photographs like this give me a way to embrace persistent value after recent tragedy – to find what remains, what we still have.