Show n The Photo Spotlight lly y StEER U there are a lot of things that the really need doing Among them from your viewpoint and mine one of the really Important ones oneil Is la to find rind out a little bit more about the places pisses In which we live lI Vacation time Is le here again an and here we go We that Is and the tourIst tour tour- late Probably well we'll all end up In the same sama old places laces Maybe well we'll do It t be be- ie cau once long ago we had a fine time somewhere maybe well we'll do It because someone has said That That's HI Ri But Dut you know and this upon upon a midnight midnight mid mid- I night I wonder i I Where do all ali those wonderful road roads I Igo I go The little ones onel I mean that leave I Ithe the highway and wander Into the hills hills hills' 1 over there th Or the ones which disappear Into the sagebrush or become vague I tracks In a river bed I I II I dont don't really wonder any more In In spite of the tone They go into some very wonderful places pieces I remember one one I that I shall never forget torget I Onion Creek You that live down down Moab way will know The little road rood that goes to Onion Creek has no sign It simply takes off oft to the right from from 1 the Colorado River highway down Just Juet way a from Fishers Fisher's Towers I I Quite suddenly it Isn't a road any any anymore I more Its It's Its a stream bed then Its It's the bed of ot a canyon and on each side the j I rock walls are limitless They are straight up they're smooth and they I Iare are two thousand feet from top to bottom bottom bot tom and the tho road and the stream I which are the same BO ItO between the walls There Is room room for for the car you I are driving but not for a sheet of Us- Us tissue sue lue paper besides The light is dim the light is eerie and the photographic potential Is terrific More than that the sense of j I ture the lure the sense of ot being alone for tor Just once Is absolute But Dut once in a while you get scared and you ask Jo who Is the person who Inhabits your pictures to go have a look and the look leads to excitement about what lies ahead After Atter a while the I light Is no longer dim the dim the walls are no longer there there and and the valley youre you're in I might well be on another platen The valley Is two or three thousand I tee fee t higher than your starting point The view Is almost In the opposite direction dl- dl I dl-I I j from that of ot the start with start with one exception Its It's also down upside I This country of ot ours I This gorgeous Immense Jumble of ot desert and mountains moun moun- and valleys and of ot lakes and streams stream Is here for the exploring Lets Let's start exploring I Of Ot course truly there Isn't very much that tha hasn't been seen but there are I hundreds of ot lovely beautiful places which haven't been seen lICen by very many I people There Is the sense of adventure which we all love to be had for tor the takIng tak- tak takI I I Ing right out th there there ten ten re-ten ten miles from the back door Or from the front one one If It you l I Insist on being conventional There There- are pictures there too Lots Lotsof of ot t them They're there for tor the making I and theres there's gold In those particular hills If It you'll really go exploring and you'll really make some pictures of ot the things you find the pot of ot gold will be sitting I at the end of ot your private rainbow Gold in picture making will be a fea tea ture Lure of ot this years year's Utah State Fair FaJr Whether Its It's a picture from the the- foregoing foregoing fore tore going type of ot adventure or whether its it's a picture of ot Aunt Nellie and the cat picture prizes at this years year's FaIr Pair which takes place September 12 through 20 in Salt Lake City total almost a thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars Dont Don't worry about the fact tact that your picture might have been made with a box camera If It you like it submit 1 it I and see what the Judges say Drop a apost apost apost post card to J J. A A. A Theobald Manager Managers Utah State Fair Association P P. P O O. Box 2130 2136 Salt Lake City Utah You'll get application blanks and complete details quick Wick This years year's fair will feature photo photo- graphy In fact tact one ane of ot the high spots Of ot the show will be UTAH 1953 PHY PHY 1953 featuring actually not only Utah the whole Mountain West wt If I. I you own a II box camera this is your show if It youve you've been a top professional for tor tit 1 ty years its it's your show too Jump it Make a splash and th the I towel is free I I |