Utah

If I had to work in just one state forever, this would be it.

Winter Grass and Trees
Bare winter trees and field of dry grass captured under a formation known as The Pipe Organ, right next to Angel's Landing in Zion Canyon.
Winter Grass and Trees
Bryce Dawn
Dawn light on the densely textured hoodoos of Inspiration Point at Bryce Canyon, Utah.
Bryce Dawn Bryce Canyon Utah Canyons
Mushrooms of Stone
These unusual "stone mushrooms" are found in the Rim Rock area of south central Utah.
Utah Hoodoos Rimrocks
Kanarra Creek Falls
A dark, cool cavern reveals the first and biggest waterfall on Kanarra Creek, just after you enter the slot canyon section of the stream.
Utah Kanarra Creek Waterfall Slot Canyon
From Lakes-Streams-Falls
Hoodoo Evening
Late afternoon sunlight sweeping across the swirling textures and odd shaped hoodoos of eastern Zion.
Hoodoo Evening
Evening Glow
Alpen Glow-magic light occuring just at or after after sunset- on the red rock peaks in Zion National Park, seen through the bare winter branches of some cottonwood trees on a January evening.
Evening Glow
Winter Canyon
Bare trees glow in the early morning sun against the sheer, colorful walls of Zion Canyon as the Virgin River trickles by.
Winter Canyon
Into the Slot
Hikers venture into one of southern Utah's many fascinating red-rock slot canyons at Willis Creek.
Into the Slot Utah Canyon Slot Canyon Grand Staircase
Dawn, Court of the Patriarchs
Dawn light on the The Court of the Patriarchs in Zion Canyon.
Utah Zion Dawn
Early Snow, Cedar Breaks
I was shooting foliage in the Cedar Mountain area when an October storm turned to snow at the highest elevations, covering Cedar Breaks in an unexpected blanket of fresh white powder.
Early Snow Cedar Breaks Utah Cedar Breaks Winter
Arch #2
A side-angle angle of Metate Arch from directly inside the arch, with other interesting rock formations of the Devil's Garden standing by in the background.
Arch
Greeting the Dawn
A colorful sunrise at Bryce Canyon, framed by the remains of some wonderfully gnarly looking trees.
Greeting the Dawn
Bristlecone Ghost
I found the remnants of these Bristlecone Pines on a stormy day at Bryce Canyon. They reside in the highest part of Bryce, near Rainbow Point at the south end of the Canyon.
Bristlecone Ghost Bryce Canyon Utah Bristlecone Pines
Fan Dance
Besides the purely beautiful colors, this scene caught my eye because of the way the shape of this tree is echoed by the curving formations of the canyon wall in the background.
Fan Dance
Winter Walls
Bare trees, evergreens and snow punctuate the complex textures and deep red red of this canyon wall in Utah.
Winter Walls
Water Works
Thousands of years of rushing water has carved sections of these canyons into wildly painted tunnel-like shapes, while the sheer walls rise to dizzying heights above.
Water Works
Rain Showers and Red Rocks
Virga and rain from thunder clouds over the red rocks of Bryce Canyon, looking east from Rainbow Point.
Rain Showers and Red Rocks
Through the Tunnel
A slight beam of sunlight creeps into this tunnel shaped section of the Zion Narrows as the Virgin River flows by.
Through the Tunnel
Deep, Dark and Narrow
A rather ominous looking section of the Narrows, where you are always wondering what is around that next bend in the river, and you're never disappointed.
Deep Dark and Narrow
Drifting Downstream
This view gives some impression of the height and complex textures of the canyon walls on a hike down the Virgin River Narrows of Zion.
Drifting Downstream
Delicate Trees
Somehow these cottonwood saplings manage to cling to some foundation between the rushing water and the sheer walls her in the Zion Narrows.
Delicate Trees
Hoodoo Horizon
The textured rocks in eastern Zion are unique to that area and very fun to photograph, because you can easily climb around undisturbed and at will to find lots of interesting compositions, just a few minutes from the main road.
Hoodoo Horizon
Hoodoo View
The light and colors at Bryce Canyon have their own special quality, especially the play of light and shadow in the afternoon as storm clouds develop.
Hoodoo View
Hoodoos and Tree
An evening climbing around the rocks on Checkerboard Mesa in the eastern section of Zion produced this example of shapes and textures working together to result in a harmonious whole.
Hoodoos and Tree
Kolob Canyon Dawn
Early sun and a cold winter sky above the red canyon walls of Kolob Canyons, a much less visited area in the northwest section of Zion.
Kolob Canyon Dawn
Devil's Garden
A very wide angle lens got me this view from right under Metate Arch, south of Escalante, Utah.
Devil's Garden
Bryce Inspiration
An early morning view of Inspiration Point at Bryce Canyon, Utah.
Bryce Inspiration
Trees and Pawns
Chess piece-like hoodoos stand next to some tough little trees inside Bryce Canyon.
Trees and Pawns
A Magical World
Seen from inside, Bryce Canyon is a fantasy world of colors and shapes.
Magical World
Out in the Garden
The smooth red and white soils of the Queen's Garden section in Bryce Canyon make for a different appearance than the rest of the canyon area.
Out the Garden
Snow on the Breaks
An early fall snow at 10,000ft. accents the steep red rock walls and hoodoos of Cedar Breaks, Utah.
Snow the Breaks
Morning inspiration
Morning rays n the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon as the horizon changes color with the rising sun.
Morning Inspiration
Fiery Dawn
A fiery sunrise seen from Bryce Canyon. Wildfires to the south, in Zion, added smoke and particulates to the air and I believe the probably enhanced the variety of colors in the sky on this day.
Fiery Dawn
Checkerboard Mesa
Some oddly eroded formations in the evening light at Checkerboard Mesa in eastern Zion N.P.
Checkerboard Mesa
Queens Garden
This section of Bryce Canyon looks quite different than the norm and very much like some other planet.
Queens Garden
Taking Aim
A tight space in the eroded red rocks of the Grand Staircase National Monument provided this view to the outside.
Taking Aim
Rim Rock Hoodoos #2
These capped hoodoos are often found with white bases and dark caps in this area, but these are all a striated red rock composition.
Rim Rock Hoodoos
Hoodoo Morning
Soft, morning light filtered by high thin clouds provided the dreamy effect in this view, which also demonstrates how the different colors and composition of rock erode into such interesting formations.
Hoodoo Morning
Rim Rock Hoodoo
Different rock stratas eroding at different rates create this type of dual colored mushroom-like hoodoo in southern Utah, between Kanab and lake Powell.
Rim Rock Hoodoo
Metate Arch
This view is through Metate Arch in the Devils' Garden south of Escalante, Utah.
Metate Arch
Red Canyon Evening
Red Canyon, just west of Bryce, is often passed by on the way to the "big" canyon, but it's one of my favorite places to stop and wander around.
Red Canyon Evening
Salmon Walls and Deadwood
Tall, sheer canyon walls of red rock in the eastern section of Zion provide the back drop for this gnarly deadwood with fall foliage for accent.
Salmon Walls and Deadwood
Stone Chessmen
These odd formations are some of the many found south of Escalante, Utah at Devil's Garden on the Hole in the Wall Road.
Stone Chessmen
Virgin River Autumn
The small trees that manage to survive in the unpredictable conditions of the Narrows just starting to change into their fall colors against the tall sheer walls of the slot canyon.
Virgin River Autumn
Valley of the Gods
Early evening light and clearing clouds after a storm in the remote Valley of the Gods, just north of the Arizona-Utan border.
Utah Valley of the Gods Evening