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Show ZION NATIONAL Ml (Continued from last w;ck) The Temple of Siniwava I let down the top and motored leisurely up the canyon to the Temple Tem-ple of Sinawawa, looking all the while to miss nothing. Never have I seen The Great White Throne look so beautiful. Immense pile that it is, flanked on one side with a buttress but-tress that but leads the eye to a higher flight, and then the great mass itself, a monument in sheer gigantic magnitude, and tapered off on the other side with just the height exactly to balance the whole an artist's ar-tist's imagination could not have drawn a scene to better advantage. And the trees so green after the succeeding suc-ceeding storms of each day, and the mass of scrub oak so heavy with shadows, in which lurked the purple pur-ple of excessive moisture. The Great White Throne The Great White Throne has an appeal to me that possibly no other spot can displace, so well do I like it. In fact, before I quit the park I had taken seven views of it, some in morning light, and waded the river to catch the afternoon effect. The best picture I have seen of it is - by Sheeler (on the ctaft ot the National Na-tional Geographic I think) who has depicted, not the overdone view over "the saddle" flanked with the objectionable ob-jectionable red wall of rock on the right, but that part hidden by the pine tree winch he used to frame that side of his picture with. It brings out the beauty of the spot to best advantage, and balance the picture pic-ture most effectively. Ranger Harold Russell yelled at me from the top of Angel's Landing Where he had conducted a party; and later I saw Mr. Maude at the same spot, too for away and too far up lo be recognized, but he later told me, The Narrows and The Mountain of Mystery, Far up In The Narrows, where the trals takes to wafer, a good view may be had of The Mountain of Mystery, Mys-tery, where again a wide angle lens is required. I remember a very strikingly effective picture ot that mountain, in which a double printing print-ing had "faked in" the picture of two girls hauling a companion up on a rock, with that mountain in the background, a very fetching picture, posed for four miles down the con-yon con-yon and blended info the mountain scene, Weeping Hock The Weeping Rock is interesting; Continued on next column |