Zion National Park

The "Narrows" are upstream from the main Zion Canyon, where the walls squeeze to slot canyon dimensions: 1,500 feet tall and as narrow as 30 feet wide in places. In these spots, the water flows from wall to wall so hiking it involves a lot of wading through the Virgin River

Zion National Park, Utah United States September 2016

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• Samuel Daniel

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Another shot from the same night, this one is of the classic watchman scene. My friends were actually freezing at this pointed and wanted to go back to the hotel, so my wife gave me couple of minutes more to take another one shot before we had to pack up and leave. So I didn’t get my own sweet time to frame the shot plus the clouds were streaming into the canyon. There was quite a bit of light pollution coming from Springdale, UT which was to the right side of the mountains.

But I really liked how many stars were on display and when I switched off the cars headlights, they just came alive. Hopefully I would be able to add more star and night sky shots from now on. Hope you all enjoyed this one.

• Salvador Dali.

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On our last day at Zion, I promised my friends a good view at sunrise and convinced them to hike the Canyon overlook point trail before we started our long drive back home. And it was well worth it, just before we reached the end point of the hike we saw two elusive big horns from about 15 feet away. They casually wandered near us before quickly disappearing. I quickly tried to change the lens on my camera to get a good shot but by the time I was ready they disappeared. Kind of stressing the importance of a second body for a landscape photographer, hopefully someday soon.

This is a panorama shot I made at the Zion Canyon overlook. Sunlight was pretty strong from the east and I had a hard time balancing the light for this shot, had to fish out my 0.9 Lee ND grad filter which seldom comes out of my bag. Also each shot had to be very carefully recomposed with the filter so as not further darken, the areas in shade. I also used a longer focal length to better convey the enormity of this view. Hope you all like this image, I had a lot of fun making it.

USA 2011 - Zion Park

USA 2011 - Zion Park

• 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!!

• Lao Tzu.

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Taken just after reaching the enormously strenuous Angels Landing hike. I composed a panorama stitch shot looking north from the base before the final scramble. We learned from park rangers that the weekend we chose to visit the was the busiest weekend in the parks usual history. So there was a queue of impatient hikers to scramble up the top of the angels landing and since it was raining during the entire hike we decided to forego the final scramble to the top of the angel's landing itself. Now I have got an excuse to come back again .

Thanks for visiting, hope you all like the image.

• Henry David Thoreau.

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The most imitated shot of Zion Canyon national park. The two times I have been to this location, it's been raining and I get dirty muddy water rather than the pristine clear water the virgin river is famous for. I think I need to comeback in winter to get some clean nice weather and clear water.

Thanks for visiting, have a great weekend.

• 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.

• Edward F. Halifax.

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So here is another shot from the Canyon Overlook hike we did at sunrise. This was one of the easiest hikes in the Zion National Park but the view is said to be much less spectacular than the other two high viewpoints the park has. Due to the way the canyon is located it is not easy to capture the sun’s rays from this location during sunrise if it’s really cloudy. But the glowing clouds more than make up that. Hiking here at night with just a couple of torches is really nerve wracking though as you can’t see what’s lurking in the darkness.

So far it was my fave location and gave me the most number of interesting shots and here is the final and the best one. Thanks for visiting and your encouraging words. Have a nice Weekend.

Panoramic view from the end of the "Canyon Overlook Trail" near the entrance of Zion National Park... you can't walk any further as the trail ends at the edge of a steep cliff....

Seven shot, hand held, vertical panorama of the view from the end of the Canyon Overlook Trail in Zion National Park, Utah....

USA 2011 - Zion Park

Started off the year with a road trip to the desert south west. 4 shot vertical panorama.

USA 2011 - Zion Park

Eudaimonía es un término griego comúnmente traducido como felicidad, bienestar o buena vida.

Término sacado de la serie "Merlí: Sapere aude".

Creo que es de los últimos capítulos, donde la profesora 'Maria Bolaño' le pregunta a 'Pol Rubio': _ 'Hay gente que solo existe y gente que vive. ¿Tú que prefieres? ¿Existir o vivir?_

Pues eso, que preferís: vivir o existir?

Foto tomada en 'The Narrows', Zion National Park, Utah Estados Unidos Septiembre 2016

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John Dryden.

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I took the above shot while I was returning from the Canyon Overlook hike. While the Canyon overlooks provides a bird’s eye view of the canyon, this shot was taken right inside it with the massive sandstone towers standing guard on each side. As we were going back to the Canyon junction to Park our car we came upon this view on one of the hairpin bends of the Canyon.

The clouds which formed a thick layer were being cleared by some intense winds which were smashing clouds against the huge sandstone peaks and breaking the clouds apart. I created this shot using the 35 mm focal length and stitching 8 shots together as the ultra wide angle was distorting the perspective a little too much and diminishing the grandeur of the majestic cliffs.. I love the intense blue of the sky and the contrast they provide against the red rocks.

Hope you all enjoyed the shot, more to follow soon…

This place in Zion National Park is called The Narrows. Zion Canyon is a deep and narrow gorge in southwestern Utah, United States, carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River. This river cut a narrow slot canyon through the Navajo Sandstone Formation

Zion National Park, Utah United States September 2016

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• Samuel Butler.

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As usual for this memorial day we decided to make a vacation to the beautiful Zion National Park. Unfortunately the weather didn’t agree with us and we were greeted by three days of rain and clouds. But on the last day the clouds cleared up and the winds were moving them across canyon walls at speed.

This shot was taken behind the Zion human history museum which has an amazing view of the Towers of the Virgin. When we reached there , the wind was moving clouds around and I got this shot when a big cloud was barging against the West Temple formation. Even though I didn’t get the usual time shooting images at the park we still came back with some amazing shots from the park. I hope to share the pics in the coming days. Thanks for visiting..

• William Law

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Another shot from our Zion trip. Took this photo at the Canyon overlook location just as the sun was rising over the canyon. Unfortunately for me we had such a thick cloud cover that day and so the sunrise was pretty monochromatic. But the brilliant color of the rocks and the beautiful patterns and grooves on the stone more than made up for it. I am planning another trip to the area again around Thanksgiving holidays and hope to capture more of these brilliant landscapes.

Thanks for visiting my picture, Have a nice day..

• Malcolm Forbes.

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My first trip to Zion National park was the first time I genuinely spend time planning for a road trip. I painstakingly created an excel page with locations that I wanted to visit with GPS coordinates, notes, and sample images taken at the site. I was proud of the planning and was confident that this new planning method would help me with my pictures. It did not quite work out as I intended. The trouble was light. I underestimated how much of a role light plays in the success of the photography in a canyon.

At most locations, early morning and evening lights are perfect for making images but not when you are inside a canyon. The area depicted in this image is a rather popular pullout on the Zion-Carmel highway that provides a nice view of the Zion canyon, the switchbacks, and the canyon junction. The photo was taken at 7:45 am, and you can already see the massive shadow in the composition. I initially did not want to process the image because when I cropped the shadowy bit out, the picture did not look well balanced. I learned the valuable lesson of minding the direction of light after this trip. If you plan a trip for landscape photography, I think it is imperative to consider planning your photo locations based on light quality and direction.

• Aristotle.

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Zion National Park has been on my radar since I was twelve years old and got a brochure of the park from my dad’s luggage. As a boy from the foothills of a equatorial rainforest, sandstones and high desert were almost as alien as the moon surface. Once we were done with most of the National parks in California and had a long weekend I convinced my wife to take on a short trip to Zion and Utah.

The above shot was taken at the Canyon overlook viewpoint on the second day morning at the park. This location is about 1 mile roundtrip from the parking lot and its pretty easy to hike up here and watching the light slowly lit up the entire canyon and its spectacularly red colored walls. I had hoped for a better sky instead of the cloud cover we got and little bit of color but the view was so spectacular I think I can live with the results.

• Margaret Mead.

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Recently I got a survey request from National Parks Conservation Association regarding the importance of conserving our National parks and other natural resources. The survey mentioned that they are fast running out of money in protecting these amazing landmarks.

I recently had an opportunity to visit Zion National Park, on one of the busiest days in the history of the park, and it was wonderful to see so many people enjoy this wonderful place. In fact the Angel's Landing trek, considered by many as one of the top hikes in America was full of people. I hope they raise enough money through whatever means so that these amazing places will be protected and maintained for future generations to enjoy.

• Oscar Wilde.

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This shot was taken at the Zion National Park. I was actually trying to stitch a panorama shot which I posted earlier when I noticed this Peak far away getting assaulted by clouds. This was a quick shot I made after the Pano shot before getting back to the hotel. I wish I had the presence of mind to get the lee big stopper and get the motion of the clouds in this shot, may be next time.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend..