Favourites from the Past
I haven’t traveled very far afield and haven’t been very active with my camera recently as a consequence. I don’t have many new photographs so I’m choosing to share a few favourites from past excursions. Hoping to avoid duplication from past posts, I’m selecting images that offer a different perspective on destinations I’ve visited in the last few years. The next two scenes, for instance were photographed in April of 2018, in the course of a photo trip to northern Arizona and southern Utah.
My first selection features a view of Horseshoe Bend, located near the Town of Page, Arizona. The river you see in the bottom of the canyon is the Colorado River, which has cut a 1,000 foot deep chasm in the red, sedimentary rock of the Colorado Plateau at this location. The name of the bend in the river here arises from its horseshoe-shaped path. My purpose in taking this photograph was not to display the immense scale of the of this canyon. Rather, I selected it for the composition I was able to create from the multitude of shapes and textures and the variety of colours and tones, prevalent in the scene.
As we continued our journey north into Utah, we paused at the Hite Overlook, situated above the Colorado River en route to our destination, Capitol Reef National Park. This vantage point offered an expansive view of the river and its surrounding area.
I took this photograph looking southward from the overlook. My subject is an unnamed peak across an inlet off the Colorado River. The mountain displays the characteristic layering of sandstone and shale of the plateau, revealed by water and wind erosion over thousands of years. I included some shattered rock and shrubbery in the foreground, hopefully adding further interest in the photograph.
That’s it for today. Hasta Luego!