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Thelma Louise Point
This Colorado River viewpoint, down river of Moab, was made famous at the end of the movie Thelma and Louise.
This is Janine and I playing sick Thelma and Louise movie games with out rental jeep at that viewpoint! 
I gotta admit, even with a big boulder as a tire stop, and Janine guiding me, my palms got very sweaty just driving the jeep in place!
Here are more Moab, Utah photos.
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Colorado River and Red Rock near Moab, Utah
We rented a jeep over night to help explore some of the back country. The last two posts were from the evening, this one is from the next morning, about a half hour before sunrise.
I have some tips that can save a photographer some time and money when it comes to renting a jeep in Moab – I hope to share those in the next day or two.
Here are more Moab, Utah photos.
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Desert Bighorn Sheep
This Bighorn Sheep was just outside of Canyonlands National Park, near Moab Utah.
I had pretty good luck finding these guys in Anza Borrego and Zion last year – but I was thrilled to find them in such a beautiful setting as this!
Check out more wildlife photos.
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Colorado River near Moab, Utah.
This was about a half hour after sunset. To give you an idea as to how dark it was, this exposure was for 20 seconds at f/8. I did others of this scene at 30 seconds.
I couldn’t believe the rich colors the digital camera was able to capture in such dark light. These images had richer colors, and a more even and pleasing illumination, then even the ones taken at last light. For this area, this just may be my new favorite time of day!
Take a look at more of our Utah photos.
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Turret Arch, Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah
Fortunately the road to the Widows Section was reopened yesterday, so we visited the area last night. I liked the graphical nature of this scene. This is looking at a portion of the South Window arch through Turret Arch.
Here are more of his Arches National Park photos.
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Courthouse Towers, Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah
We were on our way to the Windows Section of Arches National Park early this morning. Unfortunately, the area was closed for road work. I understand it opens this afternoon.
So we decided to head back towards the Courthouse Towers to look for opportunities. I hadn’t explored this area before, so trying to find an interesting foreground in the dark, with a little headlight was a challenge. I was very fortunate to stumbled upon this little pool. The pool saved the morning!
This was captured right at first light. I have a similar composition captured a half hour before first light that looks very different. Maybe I will post it one day.
Take a look at our Arches National Park pictures.
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Moab area waterfall
While we were driving around scouting today, I saw what appeared to be waterfall in the desert, coming out of the hills way across the valley. I pulled over and got out the binoculars – sure enough, it was a waterfall! What a treat!
I understand this is somewhat man made thanks to the diversion of a portion of a creek higher in the mountains, but it is still a really cool sight. I’m not sure if it always flows like this, or if this is due to the rains from the weekend.
Here are more Moab pictures.
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Dead Horse Point, Dead Horse State Park, near Moab, UtahIt was very cloudy and stormy this morning, but just a small bit of sun broke through the thick clouds and illuminated the tree I had in my foreground! It wasn’t the amazing sunrise I had envisioned in my head, but still pretty nice.
Here are more Dead Horse State Park Photos.
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Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, near Moab, Utah.
Between flying and driving, it seemed to take a long time to get here – but now we are in Moab, Utah .
This was about an hour ago, it has been storming and raining hard all day, but it is still great to be back out and immersed in nature and photography in such a beautiful part of the world!
Take a look at more of our Canyonlands National Park pictures.
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This is an older photo, but I wanted to do a quick post for a couple of reasons. First, just to say I may not post anything for a few days because we will be traveling. But more importantly, I just did a long over due update to my blog software. Last time I updated the software, I had a lot of problems, so I wanted to so a quick test before leaving the office. All seems well!
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Sunset Magazine cover, October, 2008.
This just arrived in the mail a few minutes ago, and I gotta admit, it is a really cool to have the cover of a magazine like Sunset!
We had two Zion images being considered as finalist for this cover, the other one was this image of Temple of Sinawava in Zion. That photo ended up being used as a full page in this months issue of Via Magazine – so now both photos are happy!
Here are more Zion National Park photos.
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Zion National Park, Utah.
Today we just published a huge update to our gallery of Zion National Park Photos. I think we went from 10 photos, to about 60 photos!
This is Janine holding still for about a 20 second exposure!
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The road through Zion National Park, Utah.
Our eyes have the amazing ability to see details in the shadows of a scene, and the details in the highlights at the same time. Our cameras can’t begin to capture what our eyes can see. Photographers have been trying to replicate what our eyes can see with a camera for years – these techniques are usually referred as High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. Fancy words for a simple concept – makes us sound smart. [click to continue…]
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Zion Canyon Overlook, Utah.
When I’m traveling, the photos I post here on the blog are ones that take little work. Now that I’m back in the office, I have the computer and time to spend on some of the more difficult photos. [click to continue…]
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This is a narrow side canyon to the main canyon in a place I posted about a few weeks ago. The three prior posts from the last week were from this canyon as well.
We are now caught up on all our print orders, it took a bit longer then expected, we had about 60 prints to prepare and send. Orders coming in now will be sent within a couple of days via Priority Mail.
The blog activity might slow a little during the next couple of months. I know, I have said that a few times before, but continued to post nearly daily. But this time not only do we need to get caught up on our recent travels, but we have tackled a little remodel project at home, and that is keeping us pretty busy. I probably won’t do much shooting, but I do have plenty to share from recent travels. In February we hit the road again for a couple of months, and then it will be spring, summer and fall in Alaska, so I should have plenty to share then!
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Janine bravely climbing a rickety make shift ladder.
While in Zion we totally got hooked on canyoneering. We hope to do much more next fall. We intended to take some training classes on the subject during this trip, but decided we would wait until next fall for the training since I would likely forget all I learned in the year in between.
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Well if you follow this blog, you know how excited I was to be back in Alaska for some great winter weather. Well unfortunately, highs in the upper 40′s and 6 inches of rain put an end to winter this week – we received 2 inches of rain on Thanksgiving day alone.
So we decided to take advantage of the bad weather and the holiday weekend to take our office down and paint it. Then we decided we didn’t like the new color, and painted it again. It helps having a mom who is an artist to bail us out with color selection! So now we are back in business.
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The Watchman, Zion National Park, Utah.
Now that I’m home and going back through our images – editing and key-wording, I thought I would share a few more from our recent travels.
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Two more photos from the Lower Emerald Pool, Zion National Park, Utah.
Here are more Zion photos.
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Lower Emerald Pool, Zion National Park, Utah.
Despite the name, there isn’t a beautiful emerald colored pool at the Lower Emerald Pool – maybe there was at one time. There are a couple of nice little waterfalls coming over the alcove and into the pools, along with some nice fall colors, so at least there was still some cool photo opportunities.
Here is a larger version of this photo of the Emerald Pools in Zion.
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Angel’s Landing, Zion National Park, Utah. To the top of this is where you end up when you hike the Angel’s Landing Trail.
Here is a larger version of this picture of Angel’s Landing.
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This is a little more of a traditional shot of the Narrows – and probably better shows what the experience is like!
The Fall colors are all but done in Zion – we are moving on to Palm Springs with a bit of a lay-over in Las Vegas, although I think I will post a few more Zion photos over the next few days.
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The Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah.
I liked this gap with fall colors – I shot a lot of variations of this scene.
Here is more about Zion on this photo blog, in addition, here is our collection of Zion National Park photos.
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