#Red Rock Canyon National Park

[shannoneichorn]

I put together an intro slide about me for a work presentation yesterday where I mentioned I like to do landscape photography but didn't include any examples.

So, I'm gonna subject you all because internet.

[the-storyist]

moonrise at red rock canyon

[speedyz3]

It is hard to believe it had been almost 4 years since my first visit to Bryce Canyon National Park. The red rocks lightly dusted in snow was exactly the shot I was hoping to capture.

[jev-urisk]

A Musing Mondays 🎐

I gonna start doing a Monday post based on what in the past week has amused me or been my muse. Could be a quote, could be a new perspective I gained, could be a neat rock that I found.

I think as creators it can be easy to forget that the things we experience in the now fuel our work too- not just our pasts. If you're feeling uninspired and unmotivated, if your 'muse' seems to have left you, that's when you probably need to step away and live a little.

This weeks a-muse-ment is in the neat rock category for sure 🤘

This weekend I visited Bryce National Park and went on a challenging but very rewarding hike where I took all these photos. It really got me thinking about environments ✨️ The Outlands in my WIP 7 Circles is largely desertscape, but there are soooo many geologic features you can find in a desert. Slot canyons! Hoodoos! Petrified dunes! Carved-in sandstone dwellings! I'm buzzing with thoughts of how to twine these in later in my story. Do any of yall have cool geological features in your stories?

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[kaitographer]

Bryce Canyon NP, October 2023

[rabbitcruiser]

Buck Canyon Overlook, Canyonlands National Park (No. 4)

Canyonlands National Park contains a wide variety of plant life, including 11 cactus species, 20 moss species, liverworts, grasses and wildflowers. Varieties of trees include netleaf hackberry, Russian olive, Utah juniper, pinyon pine, tamarisk and Fremont's cottonwood. Shrubs include Mormon tea, blackbrush, four-wing saltbush and cliffrose.

Cryptobiotic soil is the foundation of life in Canyonlands, providing nitrogen fixation and moisture for plant seeds. One footprint can destroy decades of growth.

​Source: Wikipedia

[kas-e]

Twisted Rock X Bryce Canyon

[vvrong]

10.15

[ironwilledf-up]

Doing a road trip from Vegas to all the Utah national parks and multiple state parks and national monuments next month. Anyone got any tips or any places I should check out? I probably have most of the open spaces saved but lesser known places are good to know and even more so I'll take some food recommendations or just general tips :)

We are renting a jeep so dirt roads are fine ❤️

Just a photo of my cat watching travel videos with me in preparation, for visibility's sake.

[bleedgreenblood]

Canyonlands National Park (Moab, UT)

[shannoneichorn]

I put together an intro slide about me for a work presentation yesterday where I mentioned I like to do landscape photography but didn't include any examples.

So, I'm gonna subject you all because internet.

[dakotajensenart]

New Technique?

I doubt I invented this, but I only seem to be the only artist that does this technique. Basically what I do is Watercolor on oil canvas. What I do is marker and ballpoint pen first then I give it a wash with watercolor and wipe it away with wet or dry rags. The sealant I use will make the ball point pen purplish adding another level of contrast.

I will also edit them digitally as well to change colors or give a piece an upgrade.

[thomaswaynewolf]

[junoniadoesart]

Photos I took of Arizona last year! I may not live there, but I find deserts beautiful!

The bird in the fifth one is a California condor, there are only two hundred of them in the wild!

bonus Utah as well.

“oh, I live in a desert and-”

“wow that must be so terrible” “deserts are so ugly” “I would never want to live in a wasteland like that” “it’s just empty nothingness”

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[thorsenmark]

A Breathtaking Setting in Coconino National Forest by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across eroded formations, cliff walls and peaks present along the Fay Canyon Trail in Coconino National Forest.

[hikercarl]

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