Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

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Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, near Moab, Utah.

Green River Overlook, Canyonlands National Park, near Moab, Utah.

Between flying and driving, it seemed to take a long time to get here – but now we are in Moab, Utah .

This was about an hour ago, it has been storming and raining hard all day, but it is still great to be back out and immersed in nature and photography in such a beautiful part of the world!

Take a look at more of our Canyonlands National Park pictures.

Off to Utah!

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Dead Horse State Park, Utah
Dead Horse State Park, Utah

This is an older photo, but I wanted to do a quick post for a couple of reasons. First, just to say I may not post anything for a few days because we will be traveling. But more importantly, I just did a long over due update to my blog software. Last time I updated the software, I had a lot of problems, so I wanted to so a quick test before leaving the office. All seems well!

Sunset Magazine

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Sunset Magazine Cover

Sunset Magazine cover, October, 2008.

 This just arrived in the mail a few minutes ago, and I gotta admit, it is a really cool to have the cover of a magazine like Sunset! 

We had two Zion images being considered as finalist for this cover, the other one was this image of Temple of Sinawava in Zion.  That photo ended up being used as a full page in this months issue of Via Magazine – so now both photos are happy!

Here are more Zion National Park photos.

Travel Plans

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Denali Grizzly Bear

Another Grizzly Bear from last week in Denali National Park, Alaska.

We have taken a few short, 3 to 4 day trips over the last 5 months, but by in large, we have been home working in the office.  After two years with a pretty heavy travel schedule in which we spent at least 200 nights away from home, this office time was very needed!  We have been able to get caught up, and work on a number of proactive marketing opportunities that we never seem to have time to pursue.

Now I’m looking forward to taking a trip and completely engrossing myself into photography.  October is a perfect time to travel – it is wet and dark here in Alaska, fall colors will be gone, but snow has yet to arrive.  On the other hand, it is a perfect time in the Southwest – warm days and cool nights, fall colors and few people.  The best thing going for Alaska in October is the aurora borealis, but we are still at the bottom of the activity cycle, so like last year, good lights are not nearly as likely.

So where are we going?  Good question – we aren’t even sure!  We will fly to Palm Springs and go from there.  We have some things scheduled in Las Vegas near the end of the month, but before then, I think we will head to Southern Utah – you can’t go wrong there.  It is really tempting to return to Zion, as we had such a fun time there last year, but we need new coverage.  We are leaning towards Moab – I have spent a couple of days there in the past, but really haven’t scratched the surface of that red rock area.  Two weeks there could be really fun and productive.  Wherever we go –  I should have plenty of new blog material! 

Fall Reflections

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Fall Reflections

Fall tundra colors reflecting in a pond, Denali National Park, Alaska.

I don’t know if this really “works”, but I kinda like it.  At first, I focused on the surface of the lake, but I didn’t care for the results.  I then tried focusing on the reflected image and not the surface – this created more of a colorful, abstract image.

Red Fox

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Red Fox

Red Fox, Denali National Park, Alaska.

Janine says fox are “my animal” because I always seem to see them.  I do have unusually good success with spotting these cool guys.  If you are going to play favorites, fox seem like as good of an animal as any because they really are beautiful animals that are fun to watch. 

This guy was working the road, I assume, looking for road kill hares.  Just as he began to pass me, he stoppped ever so briefly and looked my way, just long enough to capture this image.