Formations in Bryce Canyon National Park, as seen from Sunset Point.
A repost from our memorable trip west in 2018.
Just seven years ago, in September, 2018, we hooked our old Chevy pickup to our little travel trailer and headed west, traveling more than 7,000 miles and visiting many sites during our month on the road. One of our must-see sites was Bryce Canyon National Park.
Nothing much can be said that hasn’t already been said countless times about the remarkable rock formations in the park; likewise countless photographs have been made that are more or less identical. Mine are by no means exceptional, but I enjoyed making them anyway.
The rock formations, by the way, are called hoodoos, like those in the Valley of the Goblins. (See them here.) They have been created by erosion over many years. Ice freezing and expanding in the cracks of the rocks is largely responsible for their distinctive shapes.
We were fortunate to arrive when we did, as the morning sun provided a three-quarters backlight that brought out the shapes of the hoodoos in sharp relief.
As I said, these photos are by no means exceptional, but I enjoyed making them. They are all from out-of-the-camera jpegs, made with Fuji X-T1 and X-T20 cameras, Fujinon XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 and XC 50-230mm f4.8-6.3 lenses.
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