Delicate Arch

The hike out to Delicate arch is pretty easy, there is a little bit of an incline but not too bad. It is a very popular sunset spot and a lot of people head out there. While it was hard trying not to get people in the shot, I had to move around and try a capture the arch from different angles. Here I got a cool sun burst shinning from under the arch, which I thought made for a cool looking black and white photo.

Canon 30D, Canon 17-40mm, SanDisk digital film.

Shafer Canyon

Here is another pano that I have been working on. This spot is one of the coolest spots to take photos. It is a sweet 4x4 drive and you can sit there and watch the sun set all by yourself, which is not an easy thing to do at a national park.

Canon 30D. canon 17-40mm, Sandisk digital film.

Panos

On this last trip out to UT I wanted to work on making some nice panoramic photos. The Arches and Canyonlands area is just so big that it is hard to capture it in a regular sized photo. This photo of Dead Horse point state park was made up of 8 shots, and used photoshops photomerge to stitch them together. In order to get the different photos to stitch together nicely you need to find the lenses nodal point. This is the point inside the lens where the light paths cross before being focused onto a sensor. By finding the nodal point of the lens and rotating the camera around this point you prevent the lens from warping or distorting the corners and sides of the image. There is always something new to learn and I can't wait to learn more about panos.

Canon 30D, Canon 17-40mm, Nodal plate, Sandisk digital film.

Shafer Canyon

Saturday afternoon, I drove out to a less known spot over looking Shafer Canyon. It was a sweet 4X4 drive over huge rock covered, wash board, dirt roads. The clouds were looking really good, and the view was beautiful. I sat around taking in the views and waited for the sun to set. Once it started to set the sky broke out in spectacular colors. It was a great way to end a fantastic trip!

Canon 30D, canon 10-22mm, 17-40mm, sandisk digital film.

The North Window

Friday night I camped out at the Devils Garden campground in Arches. What an awesome place to camp! The milky way ran across the sky from end to end, and the sand on the ground made a soft bed. I got up at 5am tore down the tent and headed off for the Windows. Hiking through the dark, I scrambled over some boulders and and up a ledge that looked through the North Window to Turret Arch and waited for the sun to rise. What a sunrise it was! Once the sun broke through the light just glowed off the North Window. What a morning it was!

Canon 30D, canon 10-22mm, 17-40mm, Sandisk digital film.

Arches National Park

Last night I made the hike out to Delicate Arch. What a sight that was, the formations out here are just out of this word!

Canon 30D, canon 10-22 & 17-40mm, Sandisk digital film.

Dead Horse Point

Yesterday morning I went over to Dead Horse Point State Park to catch the sunrise, and what a sunrise it was. The views were spectacular to say the least.

Canon 30D, 10-22mm, Sandisk digital film.