After a bit of a break, I’m back with a few more photographs from my early April shoot in various parts of Utah. To recap, this was – believe it or not – the first time I had photographed in that state. It was tremendous to experience what was to me a brand new landscape, especially since I far more often continue to work the wonderful but familiar subjects of California. We began our visit at Zion National Park, spending several days mostly in Zion Canyon along the Virgin River but also getting up to the high country to the east.
I made this photograph on a morning when we visited Weeping Rock, one of the well-known features of Zion Canyon. We may well have been a bit too early in the season, but I ended up more or less stumped by trying to find a way to photograph that feature that pleased me. However, on the walk to and from Weeping Rock I made several photographs of other features in the area that I like a lot. (One was a photo I shared earlier that included a close-up of a branch with new spring leaves.) If I recall correctly, I may have seen this tree growing out of cracks in the massive sandstone walls while at or just below Weeping Rock.
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Chloe – The sandstone colors are wonderful, and they are so varied! The colors vary from layer to layer, place to place, and of course as a result of varied light.
Good point about Sierra granite. The whole time I was in Utah photographing formations like these I was think if the ways in which these rocks both do and do not remind me of the formations of Sierra granite. And, I have to admit, granite starts to look a bit dull after being around this sandstone!
Dan
Really beautiful colors in the sandstone.
And how different – yet remarkably familiar – to the trees growing in Sierra granite that you have previously posted.