Utah's West Desert
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Northern Utah is not well known for landscape photography, I hope I can help to change that image just a little.
Sunset on the Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the photo.
Utah turns green in the spring, but the color doesn't last long, and soon this area will be brown and Currant Creek; a small trickle. This is part of Goshen Canyon and the Wasatch Range in the background.
This has a profound effect on migratory birds. The island seen in the background is Antelope Island, Utah
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Fantastic display of clouds and far away storm. The raw power of nature's glory.
Thank you for your comments,
Gemma
Copyright ©Maria Gemma June, 2015
Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for crimson-colored hoodoos, which are spire-shaped rock formations. The park’s main road leads past the expansive Bryce Amphitheater, a hoodoo-filled depression lying below the Rim Trail hiking path. It has overlooks at Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, Inspiration Point and Bryce Point. Prime viewing times are around sunup and sundown.
PS: with the people on the left
Happy New Year!
I was able to see an amazing sunset over the Colorado River in SE Utah from Dewey Bridge in September. Its really hard to draw the line of where my imagination of how colorful the scene was compared to the photo I captured but I remember it being this vivid. I am going to post two photos one in landscape and one in portrait. let me know which you prefer.
In geomorphology, a butte (/bjuːt/) is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller land-forms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word "butte" comes from a French word meaning "small hill"; its use is prevalent in the Western United States, including the southwest where "mesa" is used for the larger land-form. Because of their distinctive shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas. In differentiating mesas and buttes, geographers use the rule of thumb that a mesa has a top that is wider than its height, while a butte has a top that is narrower than its height.(Wikipedia)