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As I was driving on the main road nearing the end, I pulled over and loved this view looking back towards the Delicate Arch area. You can also see the La Sal Mountains in the background covered in snow. There are quite a few trails leading to arches in this area. I continued up the road and took a couple of short hikes to see a couple of them.
The Arch in Port Campbell NP, Victoria.
The Apostles can be seen in the background, barely discernible from the cliffs.
An unidentified Class 156 unit trundles across the Tyne towards Gateshead. The Tyne Bridge in the foreground is undergoing a much needed refurbishment, which will hopefully be completed in time for the 100th anniversary of it's opening in 2028.
16th November 2025.
Arches National Park is a US National Park in eastern Utah. The park is located on the Colorado River 4 miles (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. It is known for containing over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.
The park is located just outside Moab, Utah.
A sunny day at The Wishing Arch in Co Antrim.
These unique limestone cliffs of the White Rocks stretch from Curran Strand to Dunluce Castle. These soft sedimentary rocks have been carved through centuries. Under these rocks there is a labyrinth of caves and arches. The caves are one of Northern Irelands coast roads hidden treasures.
Under the Wisteria Arch at Walkden Gardens, Sale looking along a corridor of Copper Beech hedging to the Willow sculpture
Mesa Arch, in Canyonlands National Park (UT), glowing orange with the first sunlight. With the Leica M-P (Typ 240) and the Leica Tri-Elmar WATE.
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Sunrise, Canyonlands National Park, Island in the Sky District, Utah
Note: the rock beneath this arch drops off abruptly, providing a rock face that reflects the early sun light onto the bottom of the arch for half an hour or more. So, with patience, one can get a photograph of it without the sunrise throng of people under it.
Part of the Devil's Garden trail near Landscape Arch.
Landscape Arch is the longest natural rock arch in Arches National Park in Utah. It was named by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933–1934, and can be reached by a walk of 0.8 mi (1.3 km).
The Natural Arch and Bridge Society (NABS) now considers the Landscape Arch to be the fifth longest natural arch in the world having measured the span in 2004 at 290.1 feet (88.4 m) ±0.8 feet (0.24 m). Due to the rockfalls, the trail beneath the arch was closed. (From Wikipedia).
Architectural beauty of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
It has approximately 1,000 columns which are clad with more than 20,000 marble panels.
Sunrise at Mesa Arch...You gotta be there!
Sunrise brings up beautiful colors in this arch, like a fire lit below. I was staying in the hotel located at Moab near Canyonland national parks. I woke up an hour before sunset and drove to the arch, but in my rear-view mirror I could almost see sun rising up to horizon, and I still had to do a short hike from the parking lot to the actual arch. I park my car and almost run to the spot cursing myself and thinking I might have missed the shot, but since I was there in late spring, the sun rose over the northern mountains instead of horizon at the arch. So I got my shot :)
Lessons learned: 1. Always wake up earlier than you think you would need to.. 2. Use photographer's ephemeris or similar apps to know location of the sun or moon beforehands
Lathe Arch, Alabama Hills, California
Lathe Arch frames Lone Pine Peak and the Eastern Sierra in this pre-dawn image from the Alabama Hills. Mount Whitney is tucked into the right-most corner of the arch and the setting moon puts in a cameo appearance.
This arch and the rest of Alabama Hills is granitic rock, formed at the same time as the rest of the Sierra Nevada range. However the warmer temperatures at this elevation have weathered these rocks into brown, rounded shapes. At higher, colder elevations with freeze/thaw cycles, weathering has produced rocks with gray, angular shapes.
Explored May 11, 2015
This is one of the iconic arches in the Arches/Canyonlands area.
I decided to try something different from the traditional shots taken here by using a fisheye lens and setting the tripod low to the ground to avoid the sun getting into the image.
This was a five image HDR.
This is probably my favorite shot from my trip.
Back in the Florida heat and humidity now. Big change.....
And words of wisdom to the traveler who may be headed out to the Moab area: Grand Junction Airport is the closest airport to the Moab Area. The Moab airport is very small and chances of getting a flight there are small. It's about 114 miles from Moab to Grand Junction. And as I learned last Saturday during my drive, there is only one restroom between Arches NP and I-70 Eastbound if you're taking US 191. That's at the freeway entrance at Crescent Junction. If you don't stop there, be warned.
From I-70 East at Crescent Junction until Exit 19 near Fruita Colorado, about 70 miles, there's not one single restroom to be found. Not even an outhouse.
So if nature calls, and you're opposed to using one of the lovely Juniper Trees which borders I-70 East in Western Colorado, you're screwed.
You've been warned. Have a great week and see you out in the field.
Here is another comp of the rainbow ... the double showing up here at this time with the setting sun in Arches National Park.
The lower arch of Zion's Double Arch feature at the end of Taylor Creek Trail in the Kolob Canyons section. On the approach to this double arch, the intense saturated colors on the shaded red walls of the sheer cliffs was absolutely stunning.
We must have been there at just the right time of day when the reflected light from the red rocks on the other side of the canyon intensified the colors. By the time we were heading back, this effect was already beginning to fade.
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I posted this shot from my last trip to the Canyonlands and Arches NP. The picture may look isolated but by 6:00 am I was surrounded on each side by a large group of photographers from around the world. More keep coming out of the darkness as the premium time was approaching. I kept making room for others until our tripods were tangled together.
I don't usually shoot in these conditions but occasionally it is kind of fun to get around a lot of people to share in the adventure of landscape photography.
We were all fortunate to get the right lighting with just the right amount of clouds to allow for a nice sunrise with plenty of sun getting through to light this beautiful arch up which it is famous for.
Update - I posted a short video to give you an idea of the controlled madness while not a word is uttered with the silence only broken by the dozens of shutters clicking along with the photographers quickly repositioning for the next shot...
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The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. Dedicated in 315, it is the largest Roman triumphal arch. The arch spans the Via triumphalis, the way taken by the emperors when they entered the city in triumph. (2/22/2019)
Former tuna fishery building on the island of Favignana, one of the Egadi islands off the west coast of Sicily. It is now a museum.
An interior shot of the magnificent York Minster, arches, arches, as far as eye can see.
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Standing at 105 feet high and 140 feet wide, a natural wonder of the world by the name of the Corona Arch is the perfect representation of the beauty of Utah and the great American west. Framed through the arch is Union Pacific's Potash local entering Bootlegger Canyon with a monster 70 car unit train with a pair of GE's on both ends. The sound of the locomotives working through the canyon sounded spectacular.
This is the Stone Arch Bridge here in town. It spans Curtis Creek on South 8th Street just south of the entrance to South Park. It was built in 1889 at a cost of $5600.
Sandstone fins in the Windows section of Arches National Park in Utah make a dramatic foreground to the view of the distant LaSal Mountains rising to the east. I took this on May 24, 1981 during a backcountry photo workshop in southeast Utah.
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