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The Monterey Bay coast near the Monterey Bay Aquarium just north of Ocean View Blvd.
Monterey Bay Coast
The forest in which Hodgdon Meadow Campground resides.
Hodgdon Meadow Campground
Monongahela Forest, Stuart Recreation Park, Shavers Fork River, Elkins, West Virginia
Shavers Fork River

The Ruins of Daniel Barringer’s Mining Operation
Meteor Crater
Steel Bridge, used from 1901 until 1969. The tallest cantilever bridge at the time.
White Pass & Yukon Route
Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii
Waimea Canyon
The Bremerton Shipyards
Bremerton Shipyards
Lens shift, 2-second exposure, time-lapse imaging, SpinJam, Honolulu, Hawaii
SpinJam
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July 4, 2006

Bryce and Zion National Parks

Utah > United States

Eons of Geological Forces

Driving into Bryce National Park through a hole in the rock
Bryce Nat’l Park

Sheer rock faces, hoodoos and fins looking like sand dribblings, windows in the rocks, vast curiously intriguing landscapes... Bryce and Zion have been defined by slow geological forces from upheavals and grinding tectonic plates, to slow sedimentation and erosion. Build it up with savage forces, then wear it down slowly one grain at a time.

Hole in the Rock, or window, Bryce National Park
Famous hole in the rock

“Camping” Out

As kids my sisters and I would often visit grandma and grandpa out in the Southwest, wherever they happened to be parked at the time. Often they would meet us in San Diego and drive up to Zion and Bryce in their 40-foot 5th wheel. We'd "camp" for a week or two and hike around the parks. It's like a big playground with strange rock formations.

Trees and Rock Formations, Bryce National Park
Trees and Rock Formations

Bryce and Zion both have a tremendous amount of scenic natural beauty that I haven't even begun to capture here. On this photo trip I was just passing through. Most of these scenes are captured near roadways. It is also painfully obvious that these were also taken with a cheap, instant, digital camera, unlike most of the photos of this website which were taken with more sophisticated equipment. You can see more images from this same camera in Elkins and Canaan Valley. Thankfully those three days are the only ones.

The Majestic Southwest

Still, you get a glimpse of the tremendous raw beauty of the Southwest encapsulated in Bryce and Zion National Parks. The worn monuments are reminiscent of Sedona and the Grand Canyon which are just around the corner!

Tags  Driving, Valleys, Mountains, Parks

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Driving into Zion National Park, Roadway
Entering Zion
Cliffs and rock faces, Zion National Park
Sheer rock faces
Bryce and Zion National Parks
Overlooking Rock Formations of Bryce National Park
From a lookout point

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Hoodoos, fins and plateaus of Bryce National Park
Hoodoos, fins and plateaus
Pond and barn outside Panguitch, Utah
Pond and barn outside Panguitch, Utah

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