Tag: Desert

Coyote Buttes- A Whimsical Product Of The Forces Of Nature.

Arizona, Desert Southwest, Utah

Coyote Buttes, on the Arizona/Utah border, is a landscape that defies description. Freud would have trouble developing a diagnosis for this patient.

One look at it will put a smile on your face along with a frown. It’s situated at The Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and is well protected. At North Coyote Buttes, a trip to The Wave is only accessible for 20 daily fortunates who were victorious in the dreaded lottery put on by The Bureau of Land Management.

It’s a riot of abstractness, details, hues, textures, patterns and dizzying sandstone  shapes. The Navajo Sandstone calcified dunes evolved into its current look due to erosion from winds and rains.

This is a repost from 2014..

Coyote Buttes The Wave

Coyote Buttes The Wave

Coyote Buttes The Wave

Coyote Buttes The Wave

The Second Wave

Coyote Buttes North

The Wave

Coyote Buttes North

Coyote Buttes North

Coyote Buttes Sand Cove

Sand Cove

Coyote Buttes Sand Cove

Coyote Buttes The Wave

At South Coyote Buttes, the unusual is the usual at this landscape.  Grotesque shapes of rock cast by millions of years of weathering have produced a carnival of  oddities that Barnum & Bailey would be proud of.   I half expected a woman with a beard to come  walking around the corner.

South Coyote Buttes

Coyotte Buttes

It seems as if someone put one of those curvy carnival mirrors out there to give Coyote Buttes it’s distorted look. But it is real. I think.

South Coyote Buttes

South Coyote Buttes

South Coyote Buttes

South Coyote Buttes

It’s highly believable that it took millions of years for the gods to create Coyote Buttes.

You just don’t put this together in a week.

Michael Andrew Just

Dawn2Dawn Photography

The Unusual Is The Usual In Utah

Abstract, Aerial Photography, Desert Southwest, Drone Produced, Photography, Utah

From Yesterday.

An unusual sandstone rock formation called Long Dong Silver near Hanksville, Utah

 

 

 

It Was Electric At The Grand Canyon

Arizona, Desert Southwest, Grand Canyon, National Parks, Seasons, video, Weather

Monsoonal thunder and lightning storms have been making regular appearances in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah this summer. More to come. Watch video at HiDef and Full Screen.

Angry Clouds Invade Southern Utah

Desert Southwest, In The Country, Seasons, Utah

And some prolific sunbeams appeared as well.

A passing monsoon storm produces menacing clouds near Zion National Park, Utah

 

The Amazing Flowering Dying Utah Agave

Arizona, Desert Southwest, Flowers, Grand Canyon, National Parks

This succulent grows in the wild here at Grand Canyon National Park and what is unusual is that this agave is near its demise. This Utahensis Agave  flowers once, and then it dies. At around 10 or 20 years old, it will produce a single and fast-growing 10-foot flower stalk just before it dies. All images produced by author.

 

 

Utah Agave before flowering.

 

What happens after flowering. Death.

Me And My Shadow

California, Death Valley, Desert Southwest, Humor, National Parks

Hazy Pics From Northern Arizona

Arizona, Desert Southwest

From my trip last week to Kaibab National Forest. There was a wildfire near Flagstaff that gave these images a somewhat ethereal look.

A full moon rises above a thick bank of smoke from a nearby wildfire and Marble canyon
Smoke from a nearby wildfire in Northern Arizona, obscures the desert landscape during midday.

Marble Canyon at sunset in Northern Arizona

A full moon rises over a hazy sky near a wildfire in Northern Arizona

The many curves and lines become apparent during sunset in the desert landscape of Northern Arizona

Northern Arizona Sunset

Arizona, Desert Southwest, Weather

The sun doesn’t necessarily have to be in the shot for a good sunset image. Look away from the setting sun and you’ll see impressive color and light.

 

Light from a setting sun casts its colors on clouds from a passing rainstorm in Northern Arizona

 

 

 

 

Gold Butte National Monument

Desert Southwest, Flowers, National Parks, Seasons

Never heard of it? It is an area northeast of Las Vegas that President Obama set aside in 2016. Trump wants to shrink it. It comprises some 300,000 acres of pure and unadulterated desert landscape and is home to Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Lions.  I loved the remoteness. We camped about 20 miles from the nearest human. Little Finland is an area within the monument that showcases grotesque forms of weathered sandstone. I plan to return soon….

Sandstone rock formations and desert flora make up Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada.

 

 

 

Clare Cup flower on Prickly Pear Cactus.

 

 

Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree

 

Cholla

 

At Little Finland.

 

 

 

Spring Desert Flora.

 

 

 

 

 

Photography Workshops For America’s Desert Southwest

Desert Southwest, Instruction, Photo Workshops

 

I will be once again offering photography workshops for individuals and small groups. Beginners are more than welcome. We will get you to those hard to find places that you have seen me doing shoots. We offer hands-on training, image critique and software editing training. And since I have been an interpretive guide at national parks, you’ll also learn about the natural world we encounter out in the field.

Here’s a link to my website for more information – dawn2dawn Photography

Word Press members receive  a 25% discount by applying discount code WP2019. This coupon also applies to photo prints.  Contact me with the photography experience you want to have!