This week we hosted two visitors, Rolande’s niece, Marie-Josee and a friend, Marie-Claire. As first time visitors to Arizona, they were of course interested in seeing the Grand Canyon. On Tuesday, we traveled north and after stops at Jerome and Sedona we arrived at our destination, Tusayan just outside the park gates. The next morning,…
Category: Desert Scenes
Trip Favourite
The “Grand Photo Tour” was a great trip and it certainly produced some memorable images. In the course of our travels, Howie and I visited four U.S. National Parks, a National Monument and a Navajo Tribal Park, all in four days. I’ve shared a number of my photos from the trip in the last eight…
Canyonlands NP
The other venue we visited while in Moab, Utah was the Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands is located within a geologic region called the Colorado Plateau. It is a great section of continental crust that has endured millions of years of rock building and erosion. The park is divided into 3 principal sections, Island in the…
Delicate Arch
We traveled on from Monument Valley to Moab UT, home to two National Parks, Canyonlands NP and Arches NP. I have visited Arches before and I have a good collection of photos from there. I have never had the opportunity, however to photograph its best known arch, Delicate Arch. So this time I made it…
Monument Valley
Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of the American West. The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years for movies, adverts and holiday brochures. Because of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit,…