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Twisted Zion National Park, Utah 2012

The rocks don’t have it any better than the tree roots in Zion’s canyons–it’s a hard life either way.]]>

Good to the Last Drop Zion National Park, Utah 2012

I’ve never lived anywhere where it rained so much I got tired of it. I could see it happening though because I have lived in places where it was cloudy so much I got tired of it. But not in the desert where it’s such a unique experience to get caught out in the rain that it’s actually quite pleasurable.]]>

Zion Rockscape #3 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

Like the previous two images, this rock scene seems to be overlaid with a wood-grain pattern.]]>

Zion Rockscape #2 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

I don’t know about you, but I see the sun rising over some foggy mountains in this one, sort of a sandstone version of one of J.M.W. Turner’s more abstract storm paintings, for example this one:

The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth J.M.W. Turner 1844

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Zion Rockscape #1 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

The rain, sleet and snow in Zion really soaked the sandstone, bringing out the details and colors in the patterns in the rocks.]]>

Storm Over Zion #4 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

Oops, I said yesterday that was the last of the pictorial images for a while, then I realized I still had this one from the same series. So now it’s the last–until perhaps I come up with yet another one.]]>

Storm Over Zion #3 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

One final (for now) pictorial excursion.

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Storm Over Zion #2 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

Still doing the Bierstadt thing here, i.e., take some wild and craggy peaks and make them look even more so.

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Storm Over Zion #1 Zion National Park, Utah 2012

The first day in Zion we were in t-shirts and shorts and fought hoards of people trying to walk the narrow trails in Zion Canyon. Yesterday we hiked off trail in slot canyons, saw no one and got hit by rain, then sleet, then snow (and my rain gear is safely stashed at home in Montana). Guess which day we liked better? (Hint: too much sun makes for a dull day.) With the moody weather, I finally got some color images that I really like–this time by channeling Albert Bierstadt and exercising some liberal artistic license with the images in Photoshop.]]>