Monument Valley – or how wide’s the sky?
To finish off this sequence of scanned and digitally curated images from the 1990s, I'm sharing with you a group of 6 images that I captured at perhaps the most famous "western" scenery…
Grand Canyon at dawn
The original prints I got from these shots were quite washed out. It was an interesting exercise to see just what I could extract from the images. [I've included the…
Goosenecks
I was, and I still am, a geographer and a geomorphologist at heart even after all the years away from my "practising" days. Before we left for Utah, I knew…
Mexican Hat
The journey from Hanksville to Mexican Hat on first State 95 and then State 261 was not without its moments. Just look up Moki Dugway to see what I mean. It was…
Painted rocks
Somewhere on the road from Hanksville to Hite on Route 96 in Utah (as I recall) I saw this jumble of colours of eroded brightly coloured sandstone rock and tussocky…
Mono Lake
In the lee of the Sierra Nevada after you've crossed the mountains from Yosemite, and before you descend down towards Death Valley and Las Vegas you come across these amazing…
Bryce Canyon
Continuing the series of old pre-digital images whose negatives I've scanned, the next few posts are from a "road trip" we did from San Francisco through Yosemite, Death Valley, Zion…