The Utah Cedar

Early settlers in the Southwest misnamed this common species of juniper as a cedar. By the time that botanists correctly identified the tree many "cedar" place names had already been put on the map. Perhaps if those settlers had been gin drinkers they would have recognized the familiar scent of the berry produce by the tree.

This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Mult-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75 lens with a Zenza Bronica 82mm L-1A filter using Fuji 160NS [220] film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.