Red Rock, Wet Rock

Ron NiebruggeMoab, Photos, Travel, Utah 6 Comments

Moab area waterfall

Moab area waterfall

While we were driving around scouting today, I saw what appeared to be waterfall in the desert, coming out of the hills way across the valley. I pulled over and got out the binoculars – sure enough, it was a waterfall! What a treat!

I understand this is somewhat man made thanks to the diversion of a portion of a creek higher in the mountains, but it is still a really cool sight. I’m not sure if it always flows like this, or if this is due to the rains from the weekend.

Here are more Moab pictures.

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

Ron NiebruggePhotos, Shameless Self Promotion, Travel, Utah, Zion National Park 22 Comments

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.

Luminosity Masks – HDR Revisited

Ron NiebruggeHow to, Photos, Travel, Utah, Zion National Park 4 Comments

Zion Road

The road through Zion National Park, Utah.

Our eyes have the amazing ability to see details in the shadows of a scene, and the details in the highlights at the same time.  Our cameras can’t begin to capture what our eyes can see.  Photographers have been trying to replicate what our eyes can see with a camera for years – these techniques are usually referred as High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography.  Fancy words for a simple concept – makes us sound smart. 🙂  Read More