Another visit to the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Trump plans to reduce this monument in size by 90%.
Why?
Some More Amazing Clay Beds
Tag: Clay Beds
Cool Clay Beds
At the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah. This is an area that the Trump administration is reducing to half its original size. You can’t mess with this area and I believe this area is not being affected.
Another Trip To The Clay Beds
Had to bring another photography friend to the clay beds at Coyote Buttes. Lian had never seen anything quite like this place.
Colorful Clay Beds
Made another trip last week to one of my favorite places. Clay beds in the Coyote Buttes area of Northern Arizona. Colors are a product of minerals leeching through the Chinle Layer, mostly made of clay.
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
The monument is in good health as we caught this landscape at sundown and moonrise.
Utah’s Colorful Caineville Mesa
Hidden Zion
There’s a place in Zion National Park that few people venture. It is accessed along the Chinle Trail that is not well-known. Over the years that I’ve hiked the trail, I’ve noticed some clay beds a few hundred yards off the beaten path but didn’t think they presented much of a photo op. I finally decided to check it out and I’m glad I did!
Some More Surreal Clay Bed Images
The location for these clay beds is very close to my formerly somewhat secret spot of colorful clay beds.
My Somewhat Secret Spot
My friend and fellow WP blogger Kelly Guymon and I visited the Coyote Buttes area Sunday along the Arizona/Utah border, home of The Wave and other geological anomalies. One spot we checked out were some colorful clay beds that not many people know about. They are hidden. But when we got to the secluded trail head, their was a family camping there and I felt like I needed to let them in on my secret place because we had to park next to their campsite. They followed us and I know they were thrilled with this place as it is quite a place to photograph. These clay beds are very colorful and have some great definition. It is unspoiled and hopefully will stay that way. Don’t ask me for directions. It is in the Vermilion Cliffs National Recreation Area where you can really get lost.
These images are available as prints or for personal use as a downloadable file at What’s New At Dawn2Dawn Photography
Kelly
Rainbows in the ground or Where does this color come from?
The following images were shot last week(March 2014) in Southern Utah in an area of fabulous geologic features. Since this area was under a sea of water over 200 million years ago, sediments were deposited into the landscape that formed various layers called sedimentary rock and soils. The formation I photographed is referred to as the Chinle Formation and is seen throughout Southern Utah into Northern Arizona. The soil is made up of clay and shale. The colors that you see are deposits of minerals and chemicals left from the receding waters, rivers and lakes from a specific geologic time. Erosion has revealed these layers just for me to photograph. The Chinle Formation is only about 100 feet thick in most areas as compared to other layers such as the Navajo Sandstone layer which is 100s of feet thick.The colors really pop in the morning or early evening or when the light is diffused through cloud layers. I used a polarizing filter to eliminate any glare from the sun. None of these images were processed as HDR. These images are available as prints or downloadable files at http://dawn2dawnphotography.com/ along with information regarding my Southwest Workshops that will get you to these hard-to-find locations.
