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Double Arch in the Windows Section of Arches National Park is a popular place. A short while after I took this shot, there were at least 50 people in this arch.
At the Windows Section at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah.
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Always impressive to see there in Arches National Park is the pretty Double Arch. Here under cloudy conditions.
Built on a former rail bed dating back to the 1850s, the Stone Bridge Trail provides a pathway through the gently rolling hills, wooded areas and farmland of the Winnebago County countryside. The trail runs along the former Chicago & Northwestern Railway bed between Rockton and Roscoe, north of the City of Rockford.
This view shows the trail as it passes over the old Chicago & Northwestern Railway Stone Arch Bridge. Built in 1882, the double-arch bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
Double Arch is a natural sandstone formation in one of the best (in my opinion) parks in all of America, Arches National Park. This particular set of arches were formed differently from most of the arches in the park. It is what is known as a pothole arch, formed by water erosion from above rather the standard erosion for arches, which is normally from the side. The larger opening has a span of 148 feet (45 m) and a height of 104 feet (32 m). These dimensions give the arch the tallest opening and second-longest span in the park. For scale, the lower right of this shot contains a group of people sitting in shadow.
The arches are open for exploration, but you have to be pretty nimble to get up to the top of the “window”. This open permission to climb can make photographers have to wait quite a while to get a clear shot like this one as the area can be crawling with tourists. Normally I avoid crowds by going very early for sunrise or late for sunset, but this tactic doesn’t work with Double Arch as it lies in shadow and mostly along an East-West axis, so the light for sunrise and sunset is not optimum to catch that natural amphitheater effect you see here.
Arches National Park contains the highest density of arches in the world, more than 2000 natural sandstone arches. It also features a variety of unique geological formations such as Balanced Rock, The Three Gossips and The Tower of Babel. It borders the Colorado River on the Colorado Plateau and is 4 miles north of Moab, Utah. It’s truly high desert, receiving an average of less than 10 inches (250 mm) of rain annually. In spite of it’s relatively remote location the park received more than 1.6 million visitors in 2018 and the lines to get in can be long…so get there early!
The shot: Admittedly I have glaring vertical polarization here from the CPL. At the time there was a lot of stray light flooding into my viewfinder and I didn't catch the mistake. A 90 degree turn of the filter could have fixed it. I have since started using a large oval eyecup to prevent light pollution into the viewfinder, and I highly recommend this useful addition to your camera.
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Grosvenor Arch is a two arch sandstone formation that towers 150 feet above the surrounding slopes of sagebrush, piñon and juniper. In addition, a window through this formation cand be seen from a different perspective. This formation is at the northern edge of Cottonwood Canyon in the Grand Staircase of the Escalante National Monument in Utah.
The arch was named by National Geographic explorers and photographers who found the arch in 1949 and noted that it was not marked or named on any map. They named it to honor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society and the first full time editor of National Geographic Magazine.
A family tried unsuccessfully to corral their toddlers into a family portrait in front of Double Arch at Arches National Park.
Here's a view a little wider of Double Arch in Arches National Monument. This was lit up by a number of small lanterns placed behind rocks throughout the formation.
Moved to get the bush / tree into the scene to block all the people climbing there inside the arch. There were about 16 people there at this time ... but I was able to make them vanish.
Coming back here at 3:30 in the morning worked well ... no one else was there climbing at that time :)
Double Arch in the Windows section of Arches National Park at sunrise. Utah
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I took a trip to Utah with a grandson over Easter break. We saw lots of my old favorite places and some new ones also.
This shot was taken looking up at Double Arch (at Arches National Park), a twin arch formation that is 112 feet tall, with a 144-foot span. The larger of the arches is the tallest in the park and the third widest. The smaller of the two is 67 feet wide and 87 feet tall. I combined about 4 or 5 images taken at 14.0 mm to get this shot.
... Maybe not the smartest thing to do ... then again, I was out here taking photos as well in the pending storm with lightning all around.
Seen at Arches National Park, Utah
Double Arch takes its name because of it consists of two arches that share the same stone as a foundation for both of their outer legs. Double Arch was formed by downward water erosion from atop the sandstone, rather than from side-to-side water erosion.
I know many photographers shun midday lighting as being bleak and boring, I often challenge myself to create interesting images when I travel daytime and it is impractical to wait for better conditions. It was my first time exploring desert photography while visiting Utah’s National Parks. I started my trip at the breathtaking Arches National Park. But unfortunately, I left it with some disappointing pictures and a heavy heart. I afterward had been observing and experimenting till I figured out some ways to avoid the pitfalls of monotony and work with whatever light I encountered, whether it be midday sun or a deep canyon. I was lucky that the road trip allowed me to loop back at the end of the trip to where I started and offered me a second learning opportunity to capture the incredible beauty of Arches National Park.
One of the many things I've read to keep in mind while composing images is to add a sense of perspective to images captured. Here I kept the people to my front scrambling about over the large rocks and boulders as they explored sights under the Double Arch. With these ant people, anyone seeing this image could now appreciate use how big these creations of nature and the arches were.
I wish you a wonderful weekend, my friends!
We had good luck that we could be there for sunrise...because of road constructions it was only possible on weekends to enter the park before 7 am...at this morning we were so early that we first watched the moonset and afterward the sunrise...you can see the Double Arch right from the center of the image...I have stitched 2 high res 20mm photographs for this panorama...
Wir hatten Glück, dass wir dort sein konnten zum Sonnenaufgang. Wegen Straßenbauarbeiten durfte man zu der Zeit nur am Wochenende vor 7 Uhr in den Park hinein...an diesem Tag waren wir so früh, dass wir dort noch den Monduntergang und dann den Sonnenaufgang beobachten konnten...
Den Double Arch seht Ihr rechts von der der Mitte des Bildes...
Ich habe 2 hochauflösende 20mm Fotos für dieses Panorama zusammengesetzt...
We were preparing to shoot stars in front of Double Arch when a couple of people descended from within the arch. They were moving which caused their image to be blurry, so I got a little help from AI to clarify them.
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This double arch is along a 4 wheel drive road in the southern portion of Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.