Balanced Rock is one of the most popular features of Arches National Park, situated in Grand County, Utah, United States.

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Here's Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, Utah. This is one of the first locations that I wanted to shoot on the 5th night of my tour of the southwest. Wayne and I arrived here at around 11:00 but didn't start shooting until around 1:00 due to cloud cover but that gave wayne and I some time to share some tips in lightroom and photoshop. I've seen thousands of photos of this location and was really in a quandary about how to compose this shot. I've always been a fan of filling the frame and due to the location of the MW this is the composition I ended up with.

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I didn't set this up - just found it that way. I took this photo, and moved on. I wonder how long these rocks remained stacked?

Macro Mondays 03/12/18 theme Balance

As you probably realise balancing ball bearings is near on impossible but as they are steel they are also magnetic.I placed a strong magnet under a metal plate and then stacked the bearings.It still took a little time to get them balanced but it was a better result than trying to stick them together.

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Balanced Rock - Arches National Park

Nature is balanced on its own. How about human being ? 😉

Balanced life: Photographing, workout, housework, work... Hope all mixed and balanced 😉

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This shot has been taken at Masaya Kami (private location).

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Good old stuff from Arches National Park.

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Balanced Rock just before the heavens opened.

Three miniature stools made for a dolls house, but great for macro shooting!

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For the Macro Monday challenge "odd" (June 19th 2023)

My 2023 set: Here

previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:

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Car headlights adding some light on the red Utah rock formation known at Balanced Rock.

Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah

Lights from the parking area light up the scene under the Milky Way.

Taken @ Orust

Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, USA

Headlights from a car lit up the iconic formation there in Arches nicely as I took this capture of the Milky Way.

Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) juvenile

One of the chicks enjoying a mouse for lunch.

Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca)

Another from a wande along the Werribee River Park in March last year.

Balanced Rock and a beautiful night sky at Arches National Park, Utah. The Balanced Rock formation is 128 feet tall.

A photo for today's Macro Mondays' theme "Single use", an Old Mout cider bottle top (highly recommend the kiwi & lime and pineapple & raspberry flavours; yum!).

When I decided to photograph this cap, I imagined a high-key, minimalist feel, but it seemed to fit a more grungy low-key-white feel.

I wonder if anyone photographs this type of shot in the same disorganized manner as I tend to do, with the set-up evolving in the most disorganized and amusing manner, and a huge mess of random 'props' to put away at the end of the shoot! This shot ended up involving a small piece of kitchen roll rolled up behind the bottle cap to balance it inside the white plastic toothbrush holder, which was precariously balanced on top of a random jar, lit by a head torch fastened to a tall bottle of olive oil, and I 'stabilized' my camera on a tin of biscuits!

Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | Nymphalidae

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

Wide Open | Manual Focus | Available Light | Handheld

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Arches National Park, Utah

Arches Nt. Park, Utah USA

Located in the Arches NP, Utah

Credits: www.dresscodesl.com/288-balanced%e2%9a%96%ef%b8%8f/

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM

Aperture: f/22

Focal Length: 90 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/80

ISO: 250

Here is a little more original take of this iconic location there in Utah with the sunburst and my younger daughter and her boyfriend there next to the rocky structure. They give a real sense of scale of Balanced Rock.