The other venue we visited while in Moab, Utah was the Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands is located within a geologic region called the Colorado Plateau. It is a great section of continental crust that has endured millions of years of rock building and erosion. The park is divided into 3 principal sections, Island in the…
Delicate Arch
We traveled on from Monument Valley to Moab UT, home to two National Parks, Canyonlands NP and Arches NP. I have visited Arches before and I have a good collection of photos from there. I have never had the opportunity, however to photograph its best known arch, Delicate Arch. So this time I made it…
Monument Valley
Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of the American West. The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years for movies, adverts and holiday brochures. Because of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit,…
Yellowstone Falls
Today, I’m jumping ahead to the last stop on our photographic odyssey, Yellowstone NP, Wyoming. One of the highlights of the park was the Yellowstone Falls, one of the few major attractions that was accessible this early in the season. The park as been open since April 15, but spring does not come early at…
Canyon de Chelly
The principal destination for the first day of our photo journey was the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, located in northeastern Arizona not far from the New Mexico Border. This comparatively little-known canyon is not as spectacular as others in Arizona or Utah but it does have sheer sandstone walls rising up to 1,000 feet, several…