Prepping for My Next Next Exhibit: Of Fairytale Kingdoms
Last weekend, I was prepping for my next next exhibit, picking out the 10 images, figuring out what sizes I’ll print them in, and drawing out the schematic of their placement. My next next exhibit will be at the Arlington Public Library, Central Library Branch in Virginia, and I’m calling it, “Of Fairytale Kingdoms.” Since I just [...]
More from the American Southwest…Utah
I’ve finally finished processing all my photos from my two-week Christmas-New Year’s road trip through the national and state parks of Southern Utah. You might notice I’ve also been playing around with textures in some of the photos. Fun!!! My next fine art exhibits will be in April (Art League of Germantown’s “Shades of Spring” show) [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 13: Arches National Park, End-of-the-Road
Alas, this is our last morning in Utah before heading home to Washington, DC, so we definitely had to get up for the sunrise. Of all the places we’ve seen around Moab, I must say that Turret Arch by the North and South Windows is my hands down favorite. It’s where we started on Day [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 12: Arches National Park and Behind-The-Rocks, Moab, aka, Day of the Fruitless Search for Mystical Tukuhnikivats
We’re exshausted, having spent the afternoon on a wild goose – or should I say wild arch – chase through the Moab wilderness. We were searching for that most mystical of arches, Tukuhnikivats, the unpronouncable. No one we asked had ever heard of it, not the park rangers at Arches National Park nor the woman who [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died
OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic. But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget. The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss. The day I was stuck way out in the funnel. The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. Like always, it all started out in [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 10: Capitol Reef, Goblin Valley State Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park
Today was a hell of a day – we hit two national parks and two state parks. First, we got up for the sunrise at Capitol Reef National Park. We were told that Notom Road, which runs north-south on the other side of the rocks of Capitol Reef, is a good place to catch the [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 9: Capitol Reef National Park
So, if you were wondering why I dropped off the face of my blog in the middle of my Utah Parks Road Trip, to tell you the truth, I didn’t realize how tired I would be at the end of each day after all that hiking and shooting, and how much time it would take [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 7: Zion National Park
This has got to be my best photography day yet on this trip. Remember I said a few days ago that I couldn’t imagine Zion being more spectacular than Bryce? Well, today was absolutely incredible. We went up the Weeping Rock trail, which was pretty icy. At one point there was an ice landslide covering [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 4: Bryce Canyon
Boy, we were seriously exhausted at the end of the day. That’s why I’m getting this post up a day late. Plus, it’s a lot of work to be out shooting all day and then come back and process photos at night! Anyway, we got up for the sunrise…and it was BITTER cold. Went back [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 3: Bryce Canyon
Today, we visited Inspiration Point, Bryce Point, and Sunset Point. In the afternoon, we hiked the 2.2 mile, 1.5 hour Navajo loop from Sunset Point down into the canyon. The snow is deep, but just a few icy points on the path. Not bad if you go down on the left side of the loop and [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip: Day 2, Scenic Byway 12
Merry Christmas everyone! I want to wish you and your families and friends a holiday season and coming year filled with joy and good cheer! To download a pdf on buying fine art photography, click here. As for us, today we drove from Moab to Bryce Canyon City (which is really more like a village [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip: Day 1, Arches National Park
It’s finally time for our Christmas-New Years Southern Parks of Utah Road Trip! You never would have thought it would take 4 days to get from DC to Utah, but it’s already worth it! In case you didn’t hear, the DC area’s biggest snowstorm in years and years and years dumped more than 2 feet [...]