Delicate Arch and La Sal Mountains 02 Arches National Park Wood Print

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Delicate Arch from upper viewpoint with La Sal Mountains in background. Delicate Arch is 65-feet tall and unlike many natural arches is freestanding. It is located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah and is the most widely-recognized landmark in Arches National Park. You can see the arch from two places in the park. The lower viewpoint, which shows the arch from the other side and about half a mile in the distance, is only a 10-15 minute hike from a parking lot. This shot was is from the more popular upper view point. This it a 1.5 mile hike is up hill all the way with a 480ft elevation gain and takes 1.5 to 2 hours but the view is well worth it with wonderful golden late afternoon sun on it’s face.
At one time there this was a sandstone fin of Entrada Sandstone. A fin is a tall thin rock formation formed when parallel cracks in the rock allowed erosion producing water to penetrate down and erode away slot canyons. As they canyons became wider and wider through erosi...

Exploring human nature and the stories of our planet through photography. I began photographing in the early 1970's shooting mostly vacation and family. In the mid 1980's I started to approach photography as a creative art process rather than as simple documentation. As my interest in photography and skill level increased, I tend to shoot in easily accessible locations where thousands of other photographers have preceded me. My goal is to capture images that show a different take on well known subjects or to select subjects and perspectives in those locations not normally photographed in a way that tells a story about that place or the people who live there. During my development (no pun intended) as a photographer I have honed...