Category: Space
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Bryce Canyon Astronomy Festival | Photography of Bryce Canyon at Dawn, Dusk, and Beyond
Despite a bit of a delay, this is the third installment of photos from our trip out west! Following up on prior posts: (1) The American West, and (2) How to Light an Arch, here are some shots from Bryce Canyon National Park. Bryce is a relatively small park, you can drive down and back in an afternoon, and most of the big sight-seeing destinations are a short walk from the parking lot. What Bryce (at more than 8000 feet altitude) offers though, is a respite from the heat of Arches and the desert, and (because of the altitude and remote location) some of the most beautiful night skies around. So awesome, in fact, that they have a yearly astronomy festival and our visit coincided with this year’s event! I’d highly recommend visiting during the festival if you get the chance!
For starters, here’s a mug shot 🙂
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How to Light an Arch | Arches National Park Night Photography
Arches are cool. Millions of years of wind erosion, soft rock, and what seems like a good bit of luck combine to create these famous geological landmarks that are literally one of a kind. Some of the most famous sandstone arches in the world are contained within Arches National Park, and I recently got the chance to travel out west to explore that area with two of my good friends, Mike and David (see this post for background).
For a post about Arches NP, I thought I’d change it up with a step-by-step look at how some of the night photos (or wide-field astrophotography) happened.
At times this post will devolve into photo-nerd-speak, so if your eyes glaze over when that happens, try less reading and more looking at pictures 🙂
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The American West – A Photo Tour
The American West is an outdoor enthusiast and photographer’s playground. I recently got the chance to travel out to southern Utah and northern Arizona with two good friends from college (Mike and David, they’ll be featured in many of these pictures), for nearly two weeks of camping and photography. Rather than bombard folks with hundreds of images (out of thousands :)), I thought I’d break it up into a few smaller posts, focusing on the different areas we explored. I must post something for starters though, so here is a hodgepodge sample – in no particular order, and with MANY more still to come! I’ll update this post with additional links as they come up. Hope you enjoy these photos of the old (but still great) American frontier!
(Hit the jump below, and don’t forget to hover over images for location info)
