Within the space of single week in the winter of 2006, I brought my cameras to bear on two strikingly different American environments. For three days, I photographed in Utah's Zion National Park, a feast of visually stunning scenery found nowhere else on earth. I then traveled southwest to the Mohave Desert of California to visit the historic remnants of US Route 66, known as the Mother of American Roads. On my way between these contrasting landscapes, I briefly explored Nevadas Valley of Fire State Park and the massive Hoover ... (more)