
At Park Avenue in Arches National Park, everyone was shooting the canyon walls. The photo I kept was behind me: a thin sliver of moon, converted to black and white.

Long exposure at Arches National Park as the park empties out at sunset — car light trails, stars coming in, and the canyon going quiet.

Corona Arch sits just outside Moab's national parks — a mile-and-a-half hike through slickrock, a ladder bolted to the canyon wall, and a smoky evening that turned into a better shot than planned.

Factory Butte from the opposite side — a strenuous hike to a vantage point nobody uses, red sandstone foreground, and the last pink light of the evening.

Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah, framed through a tiny natural rock window at sunrise — a composition most people walk right past.

A sunrise that didn't deliver much sky color led to 30 minutes of wandering the Moonscape Overlook near Hanksville, Utah — and a photo I keep coming back to.
Factory Butte near Hanksville Utah framed by a hole in a rock.
Here's a photo taken at the Grafton Utah ghost town, just outside of Zion National Park. We couldn't get close to the buildings on the day we went but got
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