One of my favorite photographers has long been Minor White, and when I learned of his extensive trips in the 1960’s to what is now Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, I knew I had to see it for myself. The first time I went was when my daughter was finishing the fourth grade; we drove from Kentucky to Utah, pausing in Moab on the way out and Estes Park, Colorado on the return trip—we visited four national park in all: Arches, Canyonlands, Rocky Mountain, and Capitol Reef. In 2020, I was awarded my first grant from the Great Meadows Foundation of Louisville, though the pandemic put all my travel plans on hold until the June of 2021. That time, I went alone to Capitol Reef and spent a week there. This allowed me maximum time to explore, and I could hike longer distances. This image, a rock face in the Grand Wash, was taken on my Sinar F2 4x5 using a 6x9 Linhof film back; the film is 120 Fujichrome Velvia 50. The colors that film produce never fail to astonish me.  The design on the rock has always struck me as cosmic.