Welcome to my photography portfolio site. My name is Jacob Rosenfeld and I am an architectural photographer located in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I specialize on interiors, exteriors and drone/aerial photography. This site will enable you to learn a little bit more about me and the image capture that I’m passionate about. I am currently accepting shooting engagements. If you are interested in speaking to me about a project that you would like me to photograph, you may contact me easily via email or by telephone at 847 282 0059.

Includes Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Arches, Canyonland, Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon, and Zion. Also includes Antelope Island and Dead Horse Point. With the camera in hand, venture into world-famous slot canyons, including the awe-inspiring Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe Bend. Explore the superb wild west scenery in iconic Monument Valley. San Luis Obispo Engagement Photography. San Luis Obispo Engagement Photography. Jacob'+Jenna's Proposal Niner Winery. Allie+Kyle Engaged!

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×Gravel is the longest White Canyon tributary, cutting through the cream colored Cedar Mesa sandstone for over 15 miles, and like all major drainages in this region has long stretches that are sheer sided and quite deep but rather wide, with a flat rocky floor, and interrupted by short very narrow sections containing pools and drop offs that may require rappelling, wading and/or swimming to pass through. Above the canyon is a great expanse of level white slickrock framed by low, crumbling red mesas, and the gorge has plenty of entry/exit points so for those without ropes most can be seen relatively easily by climbing the cliffs to bypass occasional obstacles. A hike along the canyon is still rather strenuous though, especially through the upper sections.

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Location

The quickest way to explore some of the canyon is to park near UT 95 and walk up the lower end, at least as far as the first blocking dryfall; this is the hike described below. The parking area is on a plateau overlooking White Canyon, a short distance along an unsignposted side track that leaves the highway at mile 64.8 (15 miles south of Hite at the north end of Lake Powell), which is a good place to camp as well as park. From the plateau, the track zig zags down into the canyon, crosses the streambed then continues a few miles northeast to the base of a mesa known as Jacob's Chair.
Reaching the upper end of Gravel Canyon, where most of the best narrows are found, requires one or more days backpacking or an approach on dirt tracks through the western edge of the Abajo Mountains. The full length of the canyon should be explored in the downstream direction starting at the top, and this hike is sometimes done as a loop, combined with a trip up nearby Long Canyon. This takes about 4 days.

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7 views of Gravel Canyon.

Route Description

The White-Gravel junction is reached after 10 minutes walking upstream from the parking area close to highway 95. At this point both canyons are rather shallow, just 50 feet deep, though the walls are still mostly sheer, formed of the multilayered white sandstone typical of this region, which forms cliffs of thick strata between thinner ones, often stained black by iron deposits from rainwater. The lower end of Gravel Canyon has plenty of trees and boulders at first, plus occasional pools, but is quite open, with a flat floor of sand or pebbles that makes for easy walking. After a while the cliffs become closer, the bushes fade away and the canyon enters a nice stretch of medium width narrows that lasts for about half a mile. The rocks here are light grey with a pinkish tint, crossed by many fine light colored bands and eroded into smooth curves.

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