Images like those you just saw in Cathedral Canyon can no longer be taken, the sights no longer be seen.  The experience of exploration, like we experienced, is no longer.  The images are now all on film, film that is deteriorating.

A handful of people have collections of Glen Canyon images.  These should be saved for people of the future to see.  They cannot experience Glen Canyon, but if these images are not archived in more permanent form, such as digital archiving provides, they will soon not be able to see it, either.  The emulsions of chemical photography deteriorate, and chemical copying degrades images.

The preceding pictures of Cathedral Canyon are but a minuscule portion of the photography I have of Cathedral Canyon.  Then there's Driftwood Canyon, Mystery Canyon, Catfish Canyon, False Entrance Canyon,  Dove Canyon , Dungeon Canyon (wow!), Little Dungeon Canyon, Hidden Passage, Cornerstone Canyon, Labyrinth Canyon(sigh...), Soda Gulch (second largest natural bridge in the US), Davis Gulch, Clear Creek (and Cathedral in the Desert, where many people freeze in their tracks, speechless, when they round that corner for the first time),  Twilight Canyon,  Music Temple, Lake and Moqui Canyons (only run-of-the-mill Glen-Canyon-spectacular, but full of Anasazi architecture), Grotto Canyon, Dangling Rope Canyon . . .  Katie Lee's list is very much longer: those are just the names I pull off the top of my head without looking anything up.  (And I left out a lot that would be National Parks anywhere else: they weren't even run-of-the-mill Glen.  These are the upper parts of the side canyons; at elevations well above the river; well above the geological action that had created the staggeringly spectacular.  They are the beauty of Lake Powell.)

The World Wide Web is a natural place to store Glen Canyon images so that all can see as much as they might like.  Many holders of those images could post them as I have done here to make a gigantic, interlinked virtual tour of Glen.  The little I posted here is just a hint of what might be done.  I will continue to build up this part of this Web site.

A bit of organization would make a comprehensible digital tour possible.  And it would set up the experiments needed to eventually put that tour onto an interactive digital disk, a piece of software that would allow a person to pick and choose exploration routes somewhat reminiscent of our tours of decades past.  The seventeen-gigabyte disc is now a reality, the DVD (digital video disc).

Let's do it.