This photograph was taken during the “Utah’s Golden Circle” workshop/field seminar with Rick Knepp during October 2010. After shooting around sunrise at the Surise and Sunset viewpoints at Bryce Canyon, we drove all the way to the farthest vista point – Rainbow Point and started making our way back to the park entrance, while stopping at the vista points in between. This photograph was made at the Natural Bridges viewpoint. From the national Park website: “Though the name tends to be misleading, Natural Bridge is one of several natural arches in Bryce Canyon and creates a beautiful scene at this viewpoint. This arch, sculpted from some of the reddest rock of the Claron Formation (rich in iron oxide minerals), poses a stark contrast to the dark green of the Ponderosa forest that peeks through the arch from the canyon below.”

This photograph was taken during the “Utah’s Golden Circle” workshop/field seminar with Rick Knepp during October 2010. We reached Bryce Canyon on Oct 17, stayed the night at Fosters Motel and headed out to shoot the sunrise at Bryce. Again, it didn’t look very promising – the sky was filled with heavy clouds. We parked at Sunset point parking and headed out to the vista point walkway. At this point I want to clarify something – the Sunrise Point and the Sunset Point views at Bryce canyon are a very short distance away from each other and I almost found myself walking from one viewpoint to the other as I was shooting.

This photograph was taken during the “Utah’s Golden Circle” workshop/field seminar with Rick Knepp during October 2010. Starting at Cedar City in the morning on October 17th, we reached Bryce Canyon around late afternoon and checked in at Fosters Motel . For people visiting Bryce on a budget, I would certainly recommend Fosters – cheap and clean – but not a 5 start hotel for sure. Just perfect for photographers who like a warm bed at night and who’d rather use their money to travel to more places or o buy that awfully nice Carbon Fiber tripod!

Our plan was to head to Bryce Canyon for the sunset – which at this point looked like a non-starter. It had been raining pretty heavily as we drove through Panguitch. However the rain had let up by the time we were heading out for our

How frustrating photography is! Photography is agony. You see that beautiful scene in front of you. Hands itch to click the shutter. Brain goes about looking at compositions, adjusting focus, adjusting exposure. Click.

Mentally I know how beautiful this photograph will look. And that is where things start going wrong. There is the scene and there is the final photograph – universes apart. Like this photograph for instance. It is rubbish compared to the Zion valley draped in fall colors adorned by storm clouds, some snow, some hail some rain.