Kane County
USA 2011 - Paria
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Started off the year with a road trip to the desert south west. 4 shot vertical panorama.
Calm water reflects the buttes on the south side of Padre Bay, including (l to r) Tse Binjoobaahi, Padres, Dominguez, Dinosaur, and Boundary Buttes,...
Grosvenor Arch, a double arch near the northern end of the Cottonwood Canyon road. It's an impressive double arch but unfortunately photos don't do...
Sunset Arch, Great Stairs of the Escalante, southern Utah, USA. There is no marked trail there, and the road to the trailhead is half the fun. If...
Chimney Rock
Rosy fingered Eos, goddess of dawn (Aurora in Latin), and Haashchʼééłtiʼí, Diné (Navajo) god of the dawn, bringing in the new day above Navajo...
This first shot taken during my recent trip to Utah and Arizona looks so not typical of a scene from the Southwest, especially when looking at the...
It’s a little bit crazy to think how much I’ve learned about a small area around Page, Arizona in the last 3 years. My first visit was in 2011 and I...
USA 2011 - Paria
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- 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!!
- Georges Braque
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I have visited the stunning Zion National Park about four times since we have moved to the west coast. After our second visit, it dawned on me that we often stick to the northern and western parts of the park and rarely visit the eastern entrance of the park. When I asked around, the park rangers confirmed that they get very few visitors to the east side. So, if you are in Zion and want a few hours away from the crowds, you know where to head.
I am not sure of the name of the mesa in this image, but I took it near the checkerboard mesa. I remember seeing this rock formation from the road and hunting around for an excellent vantage point. This little spot of blue was the only bit of blue sky we saw during the trip, and I wanted to contrast it against the brilliant reds of the rocks. I finally found this lovely tree that I could use to frame the mesa. I used a polarizing filter for this image but no ND grads. This photo is a combination of three images which were exposed for highlights as well as mid, and dark tones.
Haven't been active at all here in a while, so here's a desert shot from last winter — The Toadstools area of the Grand Staircase Escalante National...
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...
A frontal boundary crosses Padre Bay in Lake Powell, demarcated by the high winds ripping the water surface, and the band of clouds and rain. Our...
Sunset Arch, Great Stairs of the Escalante, southern Utah, USA. Tonemapped view from the opposite side. There is no marked trail there, and the...
Oh flickr, You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round You spin me right round, baby Right round like a...
Paria Rimrocks. Colorful strata hoodoos and strangely shaped rocks at the edge of a plateau near the Paria River, part of Grand Staircase-Escalante...
- 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.
Thanks for visiting hope you all like it.
Strange formation on the way to Sunset Arch.
View of a hidden canyon of Lake Powell, Utah, USA. I was feeling a bit incoherent due to dehydration and heat exhaustion when I took this photo,...
A toadstool is formed over millions of years when the softer rock under a boulder erodes away, leaving only the rock pedestal supporting the...
Rimrocks hoodoos, Paria Plateau, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
I like the face underneath the cap- took me by surprise when I walked up
Four shot panorama of the Buttes surrounding Padre Bay in Lake Powell; left to right, Adeyi Taah Hoot, Tse Binjoobaahi, Padres, Dominguez, Dinosaur, ...
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