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It gets in your eye.

It gets in your eye.

The big scenes of UT just keep coming…and a few smaller scenes too. These are from my most recent trip to UT, in May of this year. It’s quite a nice, pleasant time to visit the state. My other trips were filled with adventure and drama, so I could have actually been [...]

Last Grasp

Last Grasp

The last reaches of light in a steep canyon find their way past this tree. From my last day of my last trip…but not the last UT image that I’ll post. I foresee another week of digging through the archives.

Hardscrabble Pano

Hardscrabble Pano

One of the great traverses in Canyonlands NP is called Hardscrabble. There are some comforting little campsites at its base, where you experience either an evening of over-assuredness the night before or relief the night after…depending on which direction you’re heading. This is the approach to Hardscrabble from the northeast, across a long bottom. You’re [...]

Windy Dance

Windy Dance

This bush was a beautiful thing to see, dancing in the breeze. Wherever there’s water in the desert there’s happiness, shade and a photo to be had.

ABC’s in Color

ABC’s in Color

I belong to the topic-based photography site Vazaar.com. One of my recent posts received a nice reply from someone asking why the image below was not in color. As I had posted the same image in black and white here on my blog, I decided to re-post it in color so those interested could see [...]

Spring Desert

Spring Desert

My latest trip to UT came in May of 2007. Though these images don’t really show it, the landscape was alive with color. Flowers I’d never seen the likes of lay spread across the land, as far as one could see at times. It was rather different from my previous experiences, as they’d been filled [...]

Potash Pano

Potash Pano

This image was taken near the Potash mining facility, which is the ‘back entrance’ into Canyonlands NP. You can see smoke from the site rising in the upper-left corner in front of the rock face.