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If you are a scenic byway nerd like I am, highway 12 in southern Utah should be on your list. The route is about 120 miles, and the sheer number of stunning locations accessible from this highway is staggering. We traveled on this road after getting caught up in a full-blown snowstorm at Bryce. We were one of the first people who left Bryce after the storm, and it was like driving through a winter wonderland. The snow looked untouched, and the contrast of white against the brilliant red of the landscape was nothing.

Red Canyon, Bryce Canyon NP, Kodachrome Basin SP, Grand Staircase-Escalante NM, Escalante Petrified Forest SP, Calf Creek Falls, Boulder Mountain, Capitol Reef NP, Blue Hills, and Hole in the wall road are some of the stunning locations accessible from scenic byway 12. I took this image at the Head of the rocks overlook, a scenic overlook with 360-degree views. I noticed this mountain in the distance and thought it would be the right candidate for a telephoto landscape image. I later learned that the mountain's name is Mt Pennell, an 11,413 ft peak, which the second tallest of the Henry Mountains, just behind Mt Ellen. The snowstorm cleared the view a lot, and the contrast between the red landscape of the foreground and the mountain in full snow glory was stunning. I cannot wait to get back to southern Utah and do a bit more exploring.

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Next day after shooting at Lost Lake we left for Palouse Falls State Park which was located in the state of Washington. This location has been on my mind for a long time and my wife didn’t have any idea where we were going, all I told her was that we were going to camp at the location. I was a little worried that we might be late to get a camp location but we were the only people at the park so I pretty much had the park all to myself. We left early and reached the location by noon and set up camp and the basically explored the nearby short hikes.

This a classic vista point of the falls and I took this shot during sunset with the golden light lighting up the massive cliffs of the canyon. This is one massive fall and just the sound it makes is amazing. If you have a chance, make time to visit this awesome waterfall and state park.

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A view of the loneliest part of Canyonlands- the Maze District, from Cleopatra's Chair sandwiched by the Henrys, across Turks Head with the Green...

I almost waited for 4 hours at this spot with a hope that the sun will break through the clouds during sunset. You can see that it paid off. Just the...

WESTWORLD es el nombre de una sensacional serie de HBO, catalogada como distópica: término opuesto a utopía.

Fuera de términos literarios, este escenario es del parque nacional de Canyonlands, en Utah, Estados Unidos. Este escenario ha sido el marco de diferentes películas, como Thelma y Louise.

El parque nacional de Canyonlands está representado por un relieve lleno de color que se ha erosionado en incontables cañones, mesas y buttes (cuellos volcánicos) por el río Colorado y sus afluentes, como el río Verde. Los ríos dividen el parque en cuatro zonas: 'the Island in the Sky', 'the Needles', 'the Maze' y los ríos. Los cuatro comparten una atmósfera desértica, pero cada uno tiene sus propias características.

Esta imagen está hecha desde 'the Island in the Sky' y lo que vemos son los meandros del Río Verde. El escenario en conjunto me recuerda mucho a la serie 'WestWorld' por eso la he titulado así.

WESTWORLD is the name of a sensational HBO series, cataloged as dystopian: a term opposite to utopia.

Outside of literary terms, this landscape is from Canyonlands National Park in Utah, United States. This place has been the setting for different films, such as Thelma and Louise.

The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into numerous canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries. The park is divided into four districts: the Island in the Sky, the Needles, the Maze, and the combined rivers.

This image is made from 'the Island in the Sky' and you can see the meanders of the Green River. The stage as a whole reminds me a lot of the series 'WestWorld' that's why I have titled it that way.

The Island in the Sky Canyonlands National Park, Moab, Utah, United States September 2016

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Here is another shot of Palouse a sunset. I am in love with the way golden our light colors these dusty hills and canyons. They are different from the red s of the southwest and the yellowish tint of the Californian deserts. This golden tinge is unique to Palouse and it’s amazing to watch at both sunset and sunrise. I hope to return to Washington again soon and truly see the evergreen state.

It was truly amazing to camp at this beautiful location and to have the entire state park to ourselves. I wish we could do that every location we visit. Hope everyone enjoys this shot.

Canyonlands National Park

It is scenes like this that keep us all coming back for more. It had been a few months since our last road trip and Kevin Benedict and I were...

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I first visited the gorgeous Palouse Falls State Park in the summer of 2014 on what became some sort of a tradition in our family since then, our annual summer road trip. We were young and ambitious, so we planned a trip that traveled north on the pacific coast highway until Portland, Oregon, cut across at the Columbia River Gorge and drove north to Palouse the drove south home via the towns of Bend, Klamath Falls, Reno, and Bishop. It took us ten days to complete the loop and was a bit hurried, but we fell in love with the landscape of the American West.

We were about halfway through our journey when we reached the beautiful Palouse State Park. The landscape of these areas, at least during summer, resembles the deserts of eastern Oregon and California. It had me wonder about the possible size of the falls, and I questioned my decision to drive this far to see a waterfall when there were plenty at the Columbia River Gorge and the Cascade Mountains. When I laid eyes upon the falls, even in the middle of summer when the water level is at its lowest, I was a believer. Palouse Falls is massive, and I later learned that it’s the state waterfall of the state of Washington. I can see why.

I was a relative newbie at photography then, and Palouse was the first place where I struggled with white balance. The place was so yellow that it messed with the camera’s auto white balance. Thankfully I had already started the habit of taking my images in raw, so I could adjust the white balance later on. I recently learned a new way to get a correct WB setting, and this image resulted from implementing the process. I think this was the closest I have gotten to recreating what I saw that day at Palouse Falls.