• Francis Bacon.

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The checkerboard Mesa is located close to the Eastern entrance to the Zion National Park by Zion Canyon Highway 9. This rock formation is really interesting due to the unusually bright colors and the pattern across the sandstone closely resembling that of a checkerboard.

Even if the rock formation is visually interesting it is a rather difficult structure to photograph and the conditions we met with while we were there didn’t make it any easier. I tried three four different compositions but the problem I was encountering was that dues to a complete cloud cover we had that weekend as soon as we move little father from the mesa the colors become rather dull and the picture looks rather bland. Finally I decided to do a workaround and found this nice location which looked like a dried out stream. It had a nice big rock in front as a foreground interest and minimal tree lines but I had to get so close even with a wide angle lens I couldn’t get the entire Mesa in the frame. I really like how nice and bright I got the frame to be and also the vivid colors of the mesa which came through in spite of the dull sky.

Hope all of you like the shot, Enjoy!!

• Alfred Eisenstaedt.

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One shot from our older trip to Zion National Park. This one is of the checkerboard mesa which is towards the eastern entrance of the park. This is a really tough location to photograph well and that day was cloudy making the shot incredibly tricky. I had to walk almost 30 mins around to finally found this location to get a nice angle with some blue sky in it.

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