Posts Tagged ‘southwest’
Mesa Meanderings
A few of my favorite photo spots are on top of mesas, including the one I live on … but this post is about other nearby places. Mesas are flat top mountains … often with great land for living, ranching, sight-seeing or photography! The mesa roads are slow and quiet and except for a passerby […]
Filed under: Colorado, Landscape Photography | 57 Comments
Tags: clouds, Colorado, landscape, lightning, mesa, photography, San Juan Mountains, southwest, storm
Iconic & Remote
A recent trip to canyon country with my husband, Brent and dog, Augie included a visit to iconic Monument Valley in addition to exploring less traveled remote areas. I have always wondered what Monument Valley was like so while in the area we paid the $20 fee to drive the Navajo Tribal Park loop. It […]
Filed under: Photography, Utah | 53 Comments
Tags: buttes, canyonlands, desert, landscape, Monument Valley, prints, rock formations, southwest, sunrise, sunset
Moab Marathon – Part Three
This will be a very spare post … it seems I goofed! Some images from the last part of my trip are M.I.A. While I have a system in place to safeguard against losing images this has been a wake up call that my system only works if I adhere to it. I either lost […]
Filed under: Landscape Photography, Utah | 19 Comments
Tags: butte, canyon, Dead Horse Point Sate Park, landscpe, Moab, photography, southwest, sunrise, tree, Utah
Greetings From Moab!
Just three hours away, a trip to Moab, Utah was a nice change of scenery from the snow-covered alpine scenes around home. When traveling with my husband I need to restrain my usual enthusiasm and limit my photo stops (somewhat). He is a good sport, carries my tripod, points out interesting subjects and on this […]
Filed under: Landscape, Landscape Photography | 55 Comments
Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse Point, landscape, Mesa Arch, Moab, photograph, southwest, Utah
Exploring Abandoned Colorado
Remnants from the old mining days can be found throughout the San Juan Mountains in places like Telluride, Ouray and Silverton. On a recent trip to nearby Ouray I explored a ghost town that was made up of several falling down cabin structures, an old church, what looked like a schoolhouse and another building that […]
Filed under: Abandoned, Landscape Photography | 43 Comments
Tags: abandoned, Colorado, ghost town, mining, Ouray, photograph, San Juan Mountains, southwest
