Sunset over the Badlands
A sunstar breaks through shifting clouds over the Badlands, lighting the white sand basin and ridges below. A four‑shot blend captures this rare sunset moment.
The Mistaken Hoodoo: A Misidentified Formation in the Valley of Dreams
Discovering a Hoodoo Often Mistaken for the Alien Throne The Valley of Dreams in Ah‑Shi‑Sle‑Pah is a landscape that pulls photographers in with its surreal badlands, delicate hoodoos, and iconic formations like the Alien Throne. Sites like Photographers Trail Notes have helped many of us navigate the maze of ridges and washes to reach these […]
Fifty Mile Point Golden Hour
Morning light spills across the desert floor, brushing the sage and sandstone with warmth before the day’s climb begins. Fifty Mile Point rises in quiet grandeur to the right, and beyond it, Navajo Mountain gleams under its crown of snow — a distant guide for the trail ahead.
An Alien Throne Golden Hour
Experience the surreal beauty of the Cracked Eggs formation in New Mexico’s Bisti Badlands. Follow my journey capturing golden hour light, scouting compositions, and blending exposures to reveal a once-in-a-lifetime landscape moment.
Sunset at the Cracked Eggs: Chasing Light in the Bisti Badlands
Experience the surreal beauty of the Cracked Eggs formation in New Mexico’s Bisti Badlands. Follow my journey capturing golden hour light, scouting compositions, and blending exposures to reveal a once-in-a-lifetime landscape moment.
Long Dong Silver in the Morning
The Angel of Death spire, which is often overlooked by travelers that walk further North to the Long Don Sliver (Lone Spire) for their popularity seeking Instagram image. This spire has always been a desired shot. On my third visit to this site while I was in the area shooting other pictures, I found nice clouds passing overhead as the sun rising in the East.
The Wave Plan
After years of entering the wave lottery, I finally won a trip in November 2021. Excitedly I made the journey to Kanab in Southern Utah. The plan for the 2022 trip to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona area centered on locations nearby to my upcoming hike to the Wave. Looking at the well documented website […]
Edmaier’s Secret
This was the first hike into the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area. It was a location that I really wanted to explore. Web articles write of different types of sandstone formations. Some of lattice type formations of crisscrossing thin sheets of sandstone, there are these irregular layering that is visible on slops, and then these […]
Discovering Edmaier’s Secret
The plan for the 2022 trip to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona area centered on locations nearby to my upcoming hike to the Wave. Looking at the well documented website TheWave.info for adjacent locations of interest I found some intriguing information about this area known as Edamier’s Secret, which is East off the Buckskin Gulch […]