More from the American Southwest: Utah

I’ve finally finished processing all my photos from my two-week Christmas-New Year’s road trip through the national and state parks of Southern Utah.  You might notice I’ve also been playing around with textures in some of the photos.  Fun!!!  My next fine art exhibits will be in April (Art League of Germantown’s “Shades of Spring” show) [...]

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Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 13: Arches National Park, End-of-the-Road

Alas, this is our last morning in Utah before heading home to Washington, DC, so we definitely had to get up for the sunrise.  Of all the places we’ve seen around Moab, I must say that Turret Arch by the North and South Windows is my hands down favorite.  It’s where we started on Day [...]

Playing around in Photoshop: Day for Night

I was playing around with OnOne Plug-In Suite 5 on my Utah Parks Road Trip Day 12 photo of Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.  Check out this look.  It’s called “Day for Night.”  I like it… 

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Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 12: Arches National Park and Behind-The-Rocks, Moab, aka Day of the Fruitless Search for Mystical Tukuhnikivats

We’re exshausted, having spent the afternoon on a wild goose – or should I say wild arch – chase through the Moab wilderness.  We were searching for that most mystical of arches, Tukuhnikivats, the unpronouncable.  No one we asked had ever heard of it, not the park rangers at Arches National Park nor the woman who [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died

OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic.  But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget.  The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss.  The day I was stuck way out in the funnel.  The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. 

Like always, it all started out in an [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 10: Capitol Reef, Goblin Valley State Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park

Today was a hell of a day – we hit two national parks and two state parks.  First, we got up for the sunrise at Capitol Reef National Park.  We were told that Notom Road, which runs north-south on the other side of the rocks of Capitol Reef, is a good place to catch the [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 9: Capitol Reef National Park

Photo of a tree at the top of Capitol Gorge, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

So, if you were wondering why I dropped off the face of my blog in the middle of my Utah Parks Road Trip, to tell you the truth, I didn’t realize how tired I would be at the end of [...]

Utah Road Trips, Day 8: Zion National Park and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument

 

Virgin River, snow-covered mountains in the background, Zion National Park, Utah

With yesterday’s AWESOME fiery Zion sunset, we were totally motivated to get up early this morning, hopeful for an incredible sunrise.  Alas, it was not to be.  It was already snowing when the alarm sounded at 6 AM.  We still rushed  to get ready and [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 7: Zion National Park

This has got to be my best photography day yet on this trip.  Remember I said a few days ago that I couldn’t imagine Zion being more spectacular than Bryce?  Well, today was absolutely incredible.  We went up the Weeping Rock trail, which was pretty icy.  At one point there was an ice landslide covering [...]