Photography, Nature, Birds, the Environment, and . . .
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Utah Landscape on May 29th, 2010
Temple of the Moon – Capitol Reef National Park (click image to view larger) Cathedral Valley lies at the northern end of Capitol Reef National Park and is accessed via roads that aren’t necessarily for the faint of heart. Cathedral Valley actually has two sections, upper and lower, and Temple of the Sun, Temple of [...]
Posted in Bryce Canyon, Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, Utah Landscape on Apr 24th, 2010
Sunrise at Inspiration Point – Bryce Canyon National Park (click image to view larger) National Park Week wraps up this weekend and, to close out my week of national park images, this shot from Inspiration Point as the Sun first appears over the eastern horizon.
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Trees, Utah Landscape on Apr 17th, 2010
Logan Canyon – Cache National Forest (click image to view larger) In northern Utah U.S. Highway 89, which you can drive from the U.S./Canada border near Glacier National Park almost all the way to Phoenix, AZ, passes through scenic Logan Canyon and the Cache National Forest. This image was made near the headwaters of the [...]
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Utah Landscape on Feb 13th, 2010
Devil’s Garden – Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (click image to view larger)One can never see to much of Utah, right? These are some of the goblins (or hoodoos) to be found at Devil’s Garden. The hardest part, as with the rest of Grand Staircase-Escalante, is getting there. Much of the year the roads can be [...]
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Utah Landscape on Feb 6th, 2010
Rainbow Point – Bryce Canyon National Park (click image to view larger) Thursday I drove to the south end of Bryce Canyon, first to see how much snow there was, since it is 1000 feet higher in elevation that where I live, but also to see if there were any photo ops to be had. [...]
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Utah Landscape on Nov 21st, 2009
Fruita Schoolhouse Capitol Reef National Park (click image to view larger) Capitol Reef National Park is, without doubt, the “undiscovered” gem of Utah’s national parks. Sedimentary rocks are what make the geology in the region so spectacular, and Capitol Reef has just about all the rock types you’ll find in those parks except the Claron [...]
Posted in Fall Color, Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Utah Landscape on Nov 14th, 2009
Fall Color in East Zion, Zion National Park (click image to view larger) Photographing Fall color in southern Utah is a matter of timing. Because of the differences in elevation “peak” color is actually separated by about a month. The Pausaugant Plateau, home of Bryce Canyon, and the nearby Table Cliff, are greater than 8,000 [...]
Posted in Nature Photography, Serendipity Saturday, This Beautiful Earth, Utah Landscape on Oct 10th, 2009
Grosvenor Arch – Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (click image to view larger) One thing that can be said about Bryce Canyon, for all it’s beauty, is, because of it’s location on the eastern escarpment of the Paunsaugant Plateau, it is not a great place for sunsets. But there are some places not terribly far away [...]
Posted in Birds, Nature Photography, Utah Landscape on Jan 14th, 2009
With a few high clouds lingering a little before sunset on Monday, I made a snap decision to drive out to Red Canyon. About 15 miles west of the park on Utah Highway 12, Red Canyon is the same Claron Formation sediments as Bryce Canyon. It is actually better at sunset since it is on [...]
Posted in Nature Photography, Utah Landscape on Jan 3rd, 2009
Clouds preceding the front that started coming in Friday evening made for a pretty spectacular sunset. Having a cool rock formation in the foreground would probably have been better, but I had just come home from work and didn’t have time to do much but grab the camera, set up a tripod at the back [...]
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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