very interesting john az. i see the skull. have you done any work with a i.r. lens? i want to do some more work with differant lens and such. iam very interested in doing some things also with black and white, also i want to try some time frame stuff,both high speed and low speed. very interesting. super cool. man your giving me the push i need to get on with that type of work. as paris hilton would say, thats hot! lol.
I was using a small 8 meg camera that I can jam into my pocket, I don't want to be luggin a big camera around. I put the image in photoshop, and dropped the width to .03 and boosted the dpi up to 1 million, I color corrected the image and sharpened it a little... because I can do some seriously close zooming in that way to see the treasure signs, faces, etc on the ground.
I have found countless skulls, but that was east of the south entrance to the Peralta Trailhead and east of the Quarter Circle U Ranch & Reavis Ranch.
There are some Old Ruins back in there from the Hohokams and did find that the Tonto Natl Park Service has a camera hidden on a hill looking down at the ruins... why you might ask... I found a Gold Sword, Chalices, a Wagon Wheel, and countless Skulls. I also think I found an Aztec/Hohokam/Pima Pyramid there
http://library.thinkquest.org/12641/archaic/archaic1.html http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/society/pima.html ... and some other stuff that made me wonder
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/kino-eusebio-francisco.html
So then, the Park Service knows that is there... but really no one else does. Probably to keep it quiet and they don't want a lot of people going out there... but since now it's been exposed by me opening my mouth LOL!!
I have a photo of that and some other interesting things I have found as well. I use to hike and photograph the Supes all around where the LDM (Bluff Spring), Weavers & Miners Needle are and all the Glyphs found on Black Mesa. There are things back in those Canyons that would really blow your mind, but I got bored with that area and started fanning out to the east and north east from there.
When I did that, I began finding a lot more and large amounts of signs, symbols, letters and old diggings. I did find a few foundations to stone structures below Miners Needle and west of Reavis Ranch. I have rented a Horse from the Spur U Ranch that is south of the Quarter Circle U Ranch and ridden all over the place also.
So since I live here, I have scoured that damned area quite well. My Dad was a big Gold Miner and he had a mine out near Salome, AZ. I still own that mine today... I don't work it, but I will get out there one day and mess around. I'm more into the Spanish Mines and old symbols etc. So I know there are a lot of people on this site that are experts in the symbols, meaning etc. I hope they can help me and I can expose to the world my finds as well. I will post more photo's in the time to come.