Canyon Starved Rock State Park
by Roger Passman
Title
Canyon Starved Rock State Park
Artist
Roger Passman
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Prints
Description
Image shot at Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle, Illinois on a late summer afternoon.
There are various local legends about how Starved Rock got its name. The most popular is a tale of revenge for the assassination of Ottawa leader Pontiac, who was killed in Cahokia on April 20, 1769, by an Illinois Confederation warrior. According to the legend, the Ottawa, along with their allies the Potawatomi, avenged Pontiac's death by attacking a band of Illini along the Illinois River. The Illini climbed to the butte to seek refuge, but their pursuers besieged the rock until the tribe starved to death, thereby giving the place the name "Starved Rock". The legend sometimes maintains that this resulted in the complete extermination of the Illini. There is no historical evidence that this siege ever happened. An early written report of the legend was related by Henry Schoolcraft in 1825 (Wikipedia)
I processed a single raw file using Photomatix Pro 5 and Detail 3 from Topaz Labs in Photoshop CC to create this HDR image.
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September 30th, 2014
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