Out in the Desert

November 3, 20213 Comments

I’ve just gotten back from two weeks hiking in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. I have a thousand photos to go through and pick the best, but while I process all the pictures here are a few choice pictures which I shared on instagram while on the road.

Fire wave at Valley of Fire State Park, NV

Snow Canyon State Park, UT

Hoodoos at Bryce National Park, UT

Zion National Park, UT

Angel’s Landing’s chain at Zion

Zion Valley from the top of Angel’s Landing, Zion National Park UT

For these pictures I was experimenting with a newer faster photo editing workflow; still taking the pictures in RAW on my mirrorless camera, then transferring them to my phone to be processed with Lightroom mobile for posting to Instagram. The process worked pretty well, letting me post pictures from my camera almost immediately after the hike, and with almost the same level of post processing as if I were editing on my computer. The major missing feature was lack of support for HDR bracketing which I used a lot in the shadowed canyons of Arizona, so those pictures still need to be processed.

A day with Bryce

November 28, 20161 Comment

The fifth day of the trip consisted mostly of driving in the car, going from Moab in the east of Utah to Zion in the west. We broke up the long drive by stopping in Bryce Canyon National Park for a bit of hiking.

Departing early from Moab

Those mountains contain retired Uranium mines

Ohh look, some cows

This fellow is very close to the road

Oh my there is a heard of them

These are clearly British cows

This is actually average rush hour traffic in Utah (bonus: real cowboys!)

A little rural village

We arrive at Bryce Canyon

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Unlike most hikes we will be starting at the top and going down

These columns of rock are called “hoodoos”

Our destination is down there somewhere

Glamour shot

Getting in among the hoodoos

A little tiny arch

Sunscreen is important

A part in the rock reveals the canyon below

This tree is holding on for dear life

We’re hitting the switchbacks

Getting further into the canyon

Lazy people, I mean horse riders

The TUNNEL!

This hoodoo is called Queen Victoria

Rangers will remind you not feed the animals, no matter how cute

Five planes flying overhead

Some rock bridges

The texture created by water running down the rocks is fascinating

The only way out is up

That is a lot of switchbacks

Justin for scale

Back at the top

Looking down at the Queens Garden

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The last look out over the canyon

Made it to Zion as the sun is setting

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Its amazing how much greener the terrain is here

Looking out into Zion as the sun sets

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Google’s attempt at a wide angle shot (with several stitching errors)

To get to our motel we have to go under the mountains

One last picture of the valley

Driving through Zion

Wow