It was a week ago today that I arrived home from a week of shooting in Southern Utah. As wonderful as California is with its beaches, mountains and deserts, Utah has to be one of the most exciting places on earth. The air is clear and the vistas, breathtaking. I remember the first experience with the Grand Staircase part of Utah when I was much younger thinking this was the real West, the likes of which you saw in early Westerns. And for good reason as a lot of early Westerns were shot in Utah.
So the week of shooting in Utah started with the sixth annual Digital Summit conducted by Alain Briot and Uwe Steinmueller. The guest photographer this year was Tony Sweet. It ran from Friday evening to Monday evening and was held in Bryce Canyon National Park. The remaining days were with Alain and Natilie in which we toured and photographed Escalante Grand Staircase all the way from Bryce to Capital Reef and ending up in Hanksville.
The weather was all a photographer could ask for with some inspirational sunrises and sunsets. The sunrises at Bryce were really cold. One morning ice formed on my camera. Yep. That was a first. Fortunately my 1Ds Mark III is weather sealed and didn’t miss a shot.
Now I have a good number of ‘keepers’ that will keep me busy for the rest of this year and probably into next year. Add to that the keepers from Death Valley two weeks prior and I’ve got a lot of PhotoShopping ahead of me – not a bad prospect at all.
So stay tuned. The photographs are on the way.
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