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To purchase this image as an exclusive limited edition print please visit my website @ WWW.NATEZEMAN.COMThis is the False Kiva Ruin. Located in an undisclosed location in a remote section of Canyonlands National Park. You won't find this spot on any map, or in any books. Chances are anyone who's been there won't tell you where it is. The location is kept quiet because of its remote and rugged location. There is no practical way to protect these fragile cultural resources. It's sad to say, but there are always those who don't respect these irreplaceable locations, and have to ruin the fun for everyone else.
This site is called "False Kiva" because many people falsely believe the main round structure to be a ceremonial kiva room. These were actually common shelters for ancestral Puebloan people living in this area around A.D. 1200. A partial excavation in 1986 proved it was only used for daily activities like cooking and sleeping.
This is truly an amazing place to experience. It's the quietest place I've ever been. Standing in this alcove high up in a sheer canyon wall, it's not hard to imagine the people that inhabited this place long ago.
This was a really tricky image to make. I used a circ. polarizer and two stacked grad nd filters to try to even out the exposure.
False Kiva Ruin - Utah
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They sure can be! both of those things. I'm lucky to have them only a 4 hour drive from me. I just got back from there. short trip, but i needed to get out of the mountains and the snow for a bit!
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your lucky a 4 hour drive can have you out of the snow! no escape under 8 hours for me!
I am headed up for the day to Jackson on Monday hoping to have some good luck up there, its really hit or miss for me this time of year. I have some new equipment i want to try out up there
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you bastard..........
haha well good luck that should be a good time. i cant wait for spring. i need to do some wildlife shooting. its killing me
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wait until you find out what it is
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i dont even want to know haha
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Beautiful!
Isn't this near St. George? I kinda recognized some things in the distance. I used to live there but have yet had the chance to go exploring.
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There are many sights to see in Canyonlands, I went there once, but without a 4wd or time to hike, we didn't get to see places such as this. Great work.
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This is SO beautiful.
The second i saw this, i was thinking "wow, i really wish i could be there."
so gorgeous.
you can just see how calm everything is.
amazing.
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What kind of exposure time did you have with the stacked filters?
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Thanks for working so hard and capturing the shot perfectly. The depth of focus is amazing.
As much as I'd love to go there and experience this myself I love that you've kept the location hidden.
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great shot nate. Here's my critique: change nothing
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that is awesome...amazing. you can take such good shots....it justr astounds me.
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It's simply beautiful. Thank you for the background about the place too.
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this is just the kind of place I will be looking for in 2012. I can def. see the tribes people living there. How did you happen to be there if no one is suppose to know about it? Great shot!
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Stunning. I feel as if I am at cliff's edge ready to soar through the land of the gods. The composition gives the viewer a feel of looking into something special, the clarity of both the ruin and the distant clouds are both excellent yet feel different and the image feels deep. Excellent!
M
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What a magnificent view!
Wish I can go there some day...
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Great capture, love the perspective and composition
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Wow! Love the view! One day I shall find this place and just sit there...thinking over what life was like.
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fantastic shot, lights, colors and composition - all great!
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composed perfectly Nate, two stacked ND filters, what? .9? or?
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This is a truly amazing place and a beautiful capture
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I don't think it's as big of a secret as you think it is.
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lol... Yeah I know you didn't say that. I am guessing it's still not easy to find even with that google map view, I read that it's a bit of a hike to get up to it.
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haha, i said its kept a secret by people who go there. i never said i was the first person to see it.
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I saw a picture taken from exactly the same spot in the newspaper a while ago. Was meant to be the most clear photo of space from earth or something, using special equipment... Something like that.
When did you take it? Because i'm having suspicions about them - not you 
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it was probably this that you saw [link]
which is actually a real photo. pretty amazing. the sky is so dark there that on starry nights its almost unreal
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Yeah that's it... It's actually that clear at night?
I've got to go there.. jesus.
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Tamron uses the same ph0to but, not with the same exposure, in his catologue for his 10-24mm objective. It really is an extraordinary ph0to. Awesome
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Nice image Nate and respect for keeping it hidden from the general public. One of my favorite secret little slot canyons was revealed in a travel magazine last month by some f*cking asshole that sent an image and directions to the magazine. I give it 6 months and all the 500 year old trees and rock walls will have graffiti on them 
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i know its really too bad. i mean this place isnt that hard to get the directions to if you try, but thats what keeps its safe. if they put this thing on a map and made stairs to it, every fucking tourist would be there trying to stack rocks on the kiva and doing god knows what else
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Amazing shot! Let's hope it'll stay "hidden" for a long time...
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i would have guessed HDR but your excellent use of filters proved to be equal, if not better to HDR.
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yeah hdr isnt my thing, doesnt look natural enough for me
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i have always wanted to try it but i never have. you did a great job without it though!
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Oh My! This is a absolutely Beautiful photograph!
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