Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Salt Lake City, Utah. 05/13/2011



 Looking southwest from the shoreline trail.






Looking west over the University at the Wasatch Range. 



The Great Salt Lake.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Moab, Utah. 01/2010



Along the Colorado River, that's frozen fog on the plants. 

 


 Looking the other direction in the same location. 



 
Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, the fog is still very thick and the plants still frozen giving them a blue tint.




A closer view of what the plants looked like through the morning. 




One of the most iconic images of the west, Delicate Arch stands as a testament to the erosional processes of water.




Looking south/southwest from the trail-head leading to Delicate Arch at sunset.




A well defined fin near Landscape Arch.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Antelope Island State Park, Utah. 05/05/2011





Provo Level Shoreline?



Trickster McGee




Looking at the Weber River Delta.




Looking North into Idaho (Snow Capped Mountains). Heavy on the Blue.




I was playing with Lightroom, making things look as obnoxious as possible when I saw those horizontal lines cutting through the foreground. I believe that what you are seeing are ancient shorelines from the Provo level of Lake Bonneville.

Fischer Towers, Utah. 01/2011




One of the first towers hiking into the area. Left behind when the salt that once filled this salt valley anticline retreated to the pacific via the Colorado River.






Looking at the spine in the middle, tectonics were obviously in play when forming that, but what was on the edges, salt?



Here is a better look.



Looking to the North wall confining the area.





Sand tinting the icicles.



A nicely eroded window.

Dog Lake, Big Cotton Wood Canyon, Utah. 12/2010




A couple minuets up from the trail head.





At the base of the Dog Lake.