Zion Riverscape
Day's end brings soft light to the Virgin River and the red rocks...
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The colors of Zion Canyon
The huge cliff known as the "Temple of Sinawava" marks the end...
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River of copper
The Virgin River reflects the early morning copper color of the...
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Coppery Cottonwoods
The Cottonwood trees that cover the Valley of Zion Canyon show the...
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Cascade
A backlighted waterfall plunges over a cliff into Zion's Lower Emerald Pool.
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Under the waterfall
By standing behind this waterfall at Zion's Lower Emerald Pool, I...
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Evolution, Lower Emerald Pool
The waterfall in the preceding images is seen here striking the ancient rocks...
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Zion Sunset
I used the flow of Zion's red Kolob Terrace Road to pull us over...
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Tree on a field of stone
Entering Zion along the hairpin turns of the Zion-Mount Carmel...
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Hikers at rest
A trio of hikers take a breather on the banks of Zion's Virgin River.
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Rockbound Virgin River, Zion
Early morning sun shows gold on the churning waters of the Virgin River as it...
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Rhythms of Nature, Zion National Park
A mound of wildflowers echoes the rhythmic flow of the rocks behind and the...
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Isolated Cottonwood, Zion Canyon
The lone tree gives a sense of scale to the huge cliffs that line the...
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Riverside walk, Zion Canyon
A lone figure passes under the deeply etched, richly colored sandstone walls...
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Fading contrails soar over Zion
The marks of man and the forces of nature exist side by side in the...
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Ghost town at Grafton
Grafton, Utah, lies along the Virgin River just outside of Zion...
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Utah's Black Hawk War ravages Grafton
The ghost town of Grafton is haunted by the memory of townspeople...
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Tombstone, Silver Reef, Utah
Silver Reef boomed from 1878 to 1882. In 1881 the world silver market dropped...
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Unknowns, Silver Reef, Utah
The ghost town of Silver Reef has two cemeteries. In its Catholic...
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Pioneer Monument, Valley of Fire Park
Leaving Utah behind, I used the richly saturated evening light to good...
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Heaven and Earth, Valley of Fire Park
A wideangle view of the red sandstone formations that give Valley of Fire its...
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Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Nevada
During the Great Depression, five thousand men and their families came...
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Hoover Dam Memorial
About 100 men died while constructing the Hoover Dam. They are...
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Security, Hoover Dam
There is a heavy security presence at Hoover Dam these days. This...
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Dedication Monument, Hoover Dam
Two 30 foot high winged bronze figures flank a 142 foot high flagpole...
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Valve House, Hoover Dam
The deep blue waters of Lake Mead flow beneath one of two valve house...
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"The Mother Road" Museum -- US Route 66
The final leg of our journey took us down into California's Mohave Desert...
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Barstow, crossroads of the Mohave
This town of 21,000 stands at the crossroads of Interstate 15 and 40, a...
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Tom: Barstow's great collector
Our three day photo workshop in and around Barstow featured a visit to...
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Marathon Oil sign
This sign, photographed in the late afternoon shadows at Tom's...
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Gas station sign
The collection of automotive antiquities at Tom's Welding and...
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Rusting wheel hub
This vehicle wheel hub has long since come to a stop at Tom's Welding and...
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The old blue truck
With rust covering much of its blue finish, this truck has made its last...
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Tire sign
This sign is still another relic that may well have once announced its...
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Relics of the American West
The hodgepodge of nostalgic signage that blankets the sheds and yards around...
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Rail hub at Barstow
Barstow is still a major hub for freight trains. I caught this freight in a...
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Freight Train, Barstow
The powerlines provide the stage, the setting sun the backdrop, and...
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Permanent parking, Route 66 Motel
The yard surrounding Barstow's vintage Route 66 Motel is strewn with the...
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Hood ornament
The dynamic thrust of this hood ornament belies the fact that this car will...
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Bagdad Cafe
"The Bagdad Cafe," was a movie made in 1988 in Newberry Spring,...
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Breakfast at the Bagdad
Twenty photographers arrived simultaneously for breakfast at the...
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Abandoned gas station, Route 66
This abandoned building on Route 66 in Newberry Springs, was one of...
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Street sign, Route 66
A long discarded street sign is among the relics on view in an...
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Abandoned objects near Route 66
A few objects left alongside of an abandoned building on Route 66. The...
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Nature takes its toll
Vegetation lays siege to a group of abandoned buildings lining Route 66 in...
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Restaurant window
Someone has placed old bottles and a dreamcatcher in the window of an...
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The Mohave from Pisgah Crater, Ludlow
Pisgah Crater is a lava flow in the Mohave Desert, the residue of a...
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Salt in the Mohave, near Amboy
The Mohave Desert, once the bed of a shallow sea, is a source of salt....
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Getting a grip on some salt
I found this young boy harvesting his own piece of salt in the Mohave Desert...
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Boneyard: end of an era
We stopped at sunset to shoot at a place known in the Mohave Desert as the...
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Crushed boiler at the Boneyard
I created this image of a sun-kissed, crushed and rusting boiler as a...
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Mohave mood
I spent a few memorable moments with this old Ford truck in the Boneyard -- a...
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To the last mile
Roads often die. Route 66 did. And so do the cars that once drove upon them....
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Windmill at Oro Grande
Windpower may still be at work on this farm near Route 66. Aeromotor...
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Elmer Long, Bottleman of Oro Grande
I spent an hour visiting with Elmer and viewing his unique art -- a forest of...
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Elmer Long's forest of bottles
Surely one of the most bizarre sights along Route 66 is Elmer...
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Monument to end of the Industrial Age
A giant crane poised over a Barstow junk yard is wreathed in contrails from...
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Moon over Amboy
Amboy is a ghost town, a reminder of what Route 66 used to be....
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