Bryce and Zion 2010

When things get so busy I sometimes step back and do the lest important things on my list. You know… just to take a break. Well that’s what I did today. I edited pictures from my trip last week.

On my way to WPPI in Las Vegas I spent the night at Bryce Canyon and woke up early to do sunrise picutres. Spent a couple of hours there doing all the stops and then drove through Zion’s and on towards Vegas by night fall.

Here’s a bit of what I did. See the gallery of some of my favorites here

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Having the snow on these formations really added a lot to the whole experience. I was suprised just how much snow there was there.
Way more than there was up in northern Utah. But the same snow storm that had hit provo the night before didn’t hit here so none of this was new snow which I was hoping for.

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I’ve been using the 8mm fisheye so much for the JarvieWindow that I thought i’d try it with some other stuff.
I must admit… I loved using it and now I’m glad I own it even more. It’s not just a one trick pony like I had supposed.

So I took a couple self portraits. When people travel with me they think I just take pictures of them. Well it’s anyone… Sorry to burst the ego.
And if it’s just me… well we see how that goes. I took a couple pictures of the only person available.

I must say I was surprised to see Bryce that deserted. I didn’t see anyone for the first 2-3hrs of the morning.
I also went to the furthest point of the park for sunrise… had I to do it again I would have chosen differently.
The areas named sunrise and sunset points seemed to be much better. But they seem to glow all day long so I didn’t miss too much.

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As for Zion’s – well I didn’t get there at the best time of the day like how I was at Bryce for sunrise.
But I still enjoyed it none-the-less, and made due with the light I had.

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I’m a believer that the watermark shouldn’t take away from the pictures… and I’m happy to note that in some cases my watermark even helps make these pictures look even better.
This really makes me very happy.

And I’m loving the extra options I can now do on the blog with layout. And the size of the pictures.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. I need to go out and do this more often!
Even if i do come back with 1000 pictures and a lot of extra work.

4 Comments

  1. Jeremy says

    Looks great Scott… We should plan a weekend trip down to Bryce sometime to really get the good sunsets and sunrises – if you aren’t shooting a wedding that is.

    ;-)

  2. ScottJarvie says

    Well then you’ll want to do April… because come May I won’t be around many weekends. Until fall hits.
    Actually sometimes in July I don’t have much going on… well except all the catch up from June and all the prep for August.
    But I certainly plan on being a little less over-worked this summer with help from assistants.

    I look forward to it!

  3. Suzanne says

    wow..crisp and colorful….amazing pictures!

  4. Kyla says

    Bryce Canyon is beautiful!
    I like the Birch canyon pic and the one next to it. So cool with the fish eye!

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