Hoodoos

Bryce Canyon National Park

• Malcolm Forbes.

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Bryce Canyon National Park is truly an otherworldly location, especially when you have it all to yourself. This past December we got the opportunity to visit the stunning park and as luck would have it, a large snowstorm hit the exact same time we were there. We literally reached the park with the storm and found the usually busy park empty except for some Asian tourists. Our first day at the park was pretty much shot due to the storm and the officials shut down most of the park drive.

But as the sunset time arrived, the sky cleared up a bit and the storm started retreating leaving some interesting clouds to add to sunset drama. So we waded through knee-deep snow to the stunning sunset point, which truly lived up to its name. Once we were at the sunset point viewpoint, I realized how overwhelming the spot actually is, when you take into account the number of photo opportunities. I decided to create a panorama shot as the sunset light started to color the sky just so that I could convey the vastness of this beautiful spot.

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• Walter Scott.

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One of my favorite shots from our last road trip to Utah, almost exactly a year ago. We took this shot on our last day at Bryce Canyon National Park at the famous Sunset point. A snowstorm which shut down most of the Nation park had just cleared the area, and we were the only people here during sunrise that day. Despite the extremely slick trail, we decided to brave the cold and venture into the hiking trail to get close to the stunning Hoodoos and Thor’s Hammer formations.

I didn’t get a good shot of the mighty Mjolnir that day but this one and another shot which I posted some time ago captured the sense of the scene and the grandeur of the park wonderfully. Hopefully, I'd get a chance to come back and get the beauty of this park under better weather conditions.

My favourite National Park in the US and at it's best with a dusting of snow.

• Henry David Thoreau

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Another shot from our bitter cold sunrise at Bryce Canyon national park. We were there during a snowstorm and most of the park was closed. This was taken at sunset point during sunset, or at least whatever passed for sunset that day. All we remember was a lot of gray and white along with brilliant red rocks. But it was truly an amazing sight to see much snow with the reds peeking out. Add to that I almost had the Sunset point all to myself which is truly a rarity.

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This was the fourth time I visited Bryce Canyon. The trails up to the viewpoints were covered in snow, so I was hoping to see a lot of snow in the amphitheater. So it was slightly disappointing to see it like this when I arrived just after sunrise. Nonetheless, I like the view of the red rocks with the white specks between them.

• Bob Dylan.

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This shot was taken at sunset point, a favorite spot at Bryce Canyon National Park. Unlike what the name implies this spot is a fantastic place to be both at sunrise and sunset. We originally planned to be here at sunset but unfortunately, due to the storm most of the colors were absent, and we came back with not much drama in the sky. Fortunately, I checked my photo pills app and noticed that the spot we were standing was going to a be perfectly lit up in the morning. So we returned in the morning and thankfully sunrise coincided with a beautiful post-storm sky and with the hoodoos covered in a fresh coat of snow.

Unfortunately, the storm and the night turned the hiking paths very icy, and we had a hard time walking down the extremely slippery trail. So we didn’t get to enjoy the trails as we originally planned but still got some excellent shots.

Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon is a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks.

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah United States September 2016

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• Samuel Butler.

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We spend the last days of 2016 enjoying a nice cold front that was moving into Bryce Canyon National Park. The whole park was shut down and other than some Asian tourists we had the whole park to ourselves. It was snowing pretty much the whole day for our first two days but on the third day as we got to sunset point in the morning we were greeted with crisp air and undisturbed layers and layers of snow over the beautiful geographic formations of the park. I made this shot of Thor’s hammer as the sun rose over the horizon, using one of the hoodoos to create a decent sun star.

The huge bright thing is Venus rising over the horizon just before sunrise, and you can very faintly see the Milky Way behind it. Oh, and that big...

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Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Canyon National Park

.... one of the many Hoodoos lining the Queen's Garden and Navajo Loop of Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah

Another early Winter photo from the American West. Here the morning sun is peeping through the pine and casting some nice light on the Hoodoos in the park.