Waterfall Zion National Park - Utah and beyond

This has been a fun summer.  Spent three weeks going through eleven states and visiting parks, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, canyons and high Rocky peaks.  The first photo is of a composition of six photos of a very tall waterfall in Zion National Park in Utah.  Because of the narrow canyon I was in, it was impossible to capture this photo with a super-wide angle lens (unless you like distortion and some very strange optics) so I positioned myself at a point where I could capture the photos in sequence without loosing prospective, then when I got back to my computer, stitched the photos together into a panoramic image.  Thank goodness there are digital programs that make this process easier.  In the "old days" this would have taken a lot of work in the darkroom, today, well, about 20 minutes on the computer. 

This second photo is from Bryce Canyon Utah... 

Jumping a few states (which I'll be posting more on later) is a shot in New London, Minnesota.  It is a spillway on the Crow River.  It's a small town with lots of charm and things to do.  Clean and with a sense of community pride (you can tell by the shops, the parks, and just the way people treat each other)...The spillway forms a lake on the edge of town and the colors are what you get...   It's located in Minnesota's western lake country...

Now, heading west again from Minnesota we stopped to look at the Presidents at Mt. Rushmore (over the past 35 (plus years) my wife Jeanne and I (and many times our children) have visited this site.  Never seem to tire of it.  I've shot at Rushmore with film and digital, from far away to very upclose... early morning, in the rain, on hot summer days, and at night...  No, never get tired of this view. 

 

Well.... I'll be adding more over then next few weeks.  Please come back and take a look at some of the newer changes.  http://bmoore3photos.blogspot.com