Beauty can be found in any place - even one of desolation. While this is a very harsh environment, there are fantastic rock formations that can entertain any persons imagination........
This is as close to visually feeling as though you are on the ocean withour actually being on it. The "waves" are certainly moving with great vigor........
A cottonwood tree could never grow this slender unless it was in a place protected from the wind such as this canyon. It must grow tall to capture as much sun as possible and this results in a great measuring stick for the scale of the scene.
This pool is sheer magic in a desert. The early spring colors are saturated and if you are wondering how there can be the blue colors in the image, read on........
Late afternoon sunlight brings out the fanciful features of Devil's Kitchen located near Escalante, Utah. A must see area near Escalante and Lake Powell.
I'm not sure which is more incredible, the rock bands that sweep your eye towards the center column of rock, or the clouds that drive your eye to the same place. I like to think of this as the "Center of the Universe".
This rock looks like some fancy cheescake dessert. God has an infinate amount of imagination. Who would ever think you could find solid rock shaped like the ruffled edge of some elaborate dessert in the midst of a desert?
This is a good example of how "lead in" lines draw you into a scene. Here the lines in the sandstone provide a visual rail road track to ride through the picture.
One may wonder how there could be enough light to record this at night but the math shows that this image is 1,537,500 times longer than the average 1/ 125 of a second daytime shot........