(Tässä on enimmäkseen kuvia, en kehdannut alkaa kääntään. Siispä vain englanniksi tällä kertaa.)
So, we're back, have been for a couple of days and I went through the 600 pics we took to get you the best shots. We went to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, then north to Monument Valley, took UT-12 to Escalante, UT, and finally to Bryce Canyon in Utah. We drove some 2500 miles in 4 days, had a lot of fun and took a lot of pictures - mainly of rocks :) Click the pictures to enlarge.
The caverns were an eerie place. Absolutely gorgeous place, I loved the caverns! The caverns are some 750 feet below the surface, and naturally completely dark, but a Broadway professional lighting artist created the lighting in the caverns to show the best in the caverns.
(These formations are known as draperies. The other formations or speleothems are stalagmites, stalactites, popcorns and soda straws.)
We drove north to the border of Arizona and Utah and then to Monument Valley.
Some of the formations have names, such as The Mittens. I think this is the west mitten, I am not completely sure.
We continued north to the Moki Dugway, which took us through the little village of Mexican Hat. The village has got its name after a rock formation nearby.
The Moki Dugway was in poor condition but the scenery was absolutely breathtaking.
This valley is known as the Valley of Gods.
In Glen Canyon, I had the chance to play a little with my camera. This is the bridge crossing the Dirty Devil River (near Hite), and I took the first picture without zooming on a regular lense.
The second picture was taken using the same lense but with zooming. (I am not a pro so I have no idea of the settings of the camera. :D)
Last summer, we bought a zoom lens for our camera, and I used that to take this picture. Now you can see the bridge in detail.
Driving through Glen Canyon, we saw another rock formation, named Jacob's Chair.
We spent the night on the mountains, in Escalante, and saw the prettiest sunrise:
Finally, on the last morning, we arrived in Bryce Canyon, which is famous for the hoodoos formed by erosion by wind and water.
There are several famous hoodoos, such as Thor's Hammer (in the left).
We hiked a short trail into the canyon and it was very pretty down there, too.
On our trip we saw a fair amount of wildlife. In Bryce, we saw a chipmunk, a crow and deer, and they didn't seem to be afraid of people at all. Neither were the numerous cows and some sheep and horses we saw grazing free on the mountains.
So, we're back, have been for a couple of days and I went through the 600 pics we took to get you the best shots. We went to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, then north to Monument Valley, took UT-12 to Escalante, UT, and finally to Bryce Canyon in Utah. We drove some 2500 miles in 4 days, had a lot of fun and took a lot of pictures - mainly of rocks :) Click the pictures to enlarge.
The caverns were an eerie place. Absolutely gorgeous place, I loved the caverns! The caverns are some 750 feet below the surface, and naturally completely dark, but a Broadway professional lighting artist created the lighting in the caverns to show the best in the caverns.
(These formations are known as draperies. The other formations or speleothems are stalagmites, stalactites, popcorns and soda straws.)
We drove north to the border of Arizona and Utah and then to Monument Valley.
Some of the formations have names, such as The Mittens. I think this is the west mitten, I am not completely sure.
We continued north to the Moki Dugway, which took us through the little village of Mexican Hat. The village has got its name after a rock formation nearby.
The Moki Dugway was in poor condition but the scenery was absolutely breathtaking.
This valley is known as the Valley of Gods.
In Glen Canyon, I had the chance to play a little with my camera. This is the bridge crossing the Dirty Devil River (near Hite), and I took the first picture without zooming on a regular lense.
The second picture was taken using the same lense but with zooming. (I am not a pro so I have no idea of the settings of the camera. :D)
Last summer, we bought a zoom lens for our camera, and I used that to take this picture. Now you can see the bridge in detail.
Driving through Glen Canyon, we saw another rock formation, named Jacob's Chair.
We spent the night on the mountains, in Escalante, and saw the prettiest sunrise:
Finally, on the last morning, we arrived in Bryce Canyon, which is famous for the hoodoos formed by erosion by wind and water.
There are several famous hoodoos, such as Thor's Hammer (in the left).
We hiked a short trail into the canyon and it was very pretty down there, too.
On our trip we saw a fair amount of wildlife. In Bryce, we saw a chipmunk, a crow and deer, and they didn't seem to be afraid of people at all. Neither were the numerous cows and some sheep and horses we saw grazing free on the mountains.
13 comments:
Ihania kuvia! Bryce Canyon on mielestäni yksi kauneimmista paikoista SW Usassa. Ette sitten Zionissa poikenneet?
Vau! Hengästyttävän upeaa... Jonain kauniina päivänä, kunhan ensin voitan lotossa.
erikaw: me käytiin Zionissa viime talvena, ja ajettiin Brycestä pois Zionin kautta, muttei nyt tällä reissulla pysähdytty erikseen. :)
Wau!upeita kuvia!
Juuri blogissamme mietin, että miksi me muutettiin pois tuolta mantereelta. Ja näiden kuvien jälkeen on ihmetys taas vähän suurempi... :) S
Upeita kuvia ja upeita maisemia!
upeita maisemia sielläpäin!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
--SP
Loistokuvia!!!
Ällistyttävän upeaa!
Upeita kuvia. :o) Noista Bryce Canyonin hoodoista tulee mieleen semmoiset intialaiset ja thai-temppelit, joiden katot on täynnä veistettyjä ukkeleita. :D
Those are some amazing pictures! We haven't spent much time out west other than Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon & Brian Head, in Utah.
Your photographs are AMAZING! I lived near Carlsbad Caverns when I was a child, so I was happy to see so many of the caves again in your photos - truly beautiful!
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