Monthly Archives: May 2010

Visiting Huntley Meadows

Dew clings to the edges of this blade from a Cattail plant growing in the wetlands of Huntley Meadows Park. The weather today was headed for hot and muggy so I arrived early at the park to beat the heat. Most of the marsh plants were covered in dew drops, including the Swamp Rose below....

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Marathon session

With the workshop finished the day before, I had the whole day on my own.  It was a marathon session starting back at the North Window at Arches National Park to see if a ‘sunrise through the arch’ would be a possibility.  The sun made a gallant effort to peak through the clouds on the...

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Dead Horse Point

The sunrise location on this day was Dead Horse Point State Park, near Canyonlands N.P.  The clouds, once again, had a part to play in hiding the sun from view this morning, but the clouds also offered a great backdrop to this Juniper tree with its graceful, sweeping curve. Dead Horse Point has fantastic, panoramic...

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Crowded morning

This morning, the workshop group traveled to Mesa Arch for a sunrise shoot. Since I had been here two days ago, I concentrated  on photographing the scenery around the arch like the rock formation above known as the Washer Woman. I think using black and white better defines the various layers in this image. Just...

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Arches National Park

The group set out this morning for Arches National Park to photograph sunrise through the arch known as the North Window. However, the early morning cloud cover prevented any chance of seeing the sun come up over the horizon. The cloud cover did start to break up soon after daylight and we were treated to...

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Mesa Arch

Since my workshop didn’t start until this afternoon, I rose early (3 AM) to drive to Canyonlands National Park, the location for one of the iconic landscape photographs, the sunrise at Mesa Arch.  It’s known for the incredible glow on the underside of the arch from the reflected light of the sunrise off the surrounding...

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Moab, UT

My drive into Moab, UT, for a photography workshop, passed by several of the well-known landmarks in the area, such as the rock formation above called Fisher Towers. In the background is part of the La Sal Mountains which dominate the landscape here.  The workshop is concentrating on the landscape of this area as well...

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