Month: July 2026

Utah – March 2026 – Part 15

There is an arch on a bluff just off of Buckhorn Draw Road, which we stopped to check out on our way back from Little Grand Canyon.

Arch Along Buckhorn Draw Road

As we drove back along the route we had taken to get to Utah’s Little Grand Canyon, we stopped to check out a side road near a large campground, where we were considering staying; but as we explored the side road, we discovered more interesting scenery and plenty of open campsites at which to enjoy the scenery.

Our Campsite off of Mexican Mountain Road, Utah

Look closely and my Sportsmobile can be spotted near the center of this image. If just glancing at the image, the Sportsmobile might be mistaken for a natural feature.

Campsite, Mexican Mountain Road, Utah

This zoomed in image shows the campsite location a bit better.

Mexican Mountain Road, Utah, Landscape Pano 1

This pano, made from our campsite, is of geological features across the roadway.

Across the Roadway 2
Across the Roadway 3
Near Sunset

We will shoot star photographs at this location. These images were taken not only to show the local scenery, but to select compositions for night sky foregrounds.

More local images and exploration images to follow,

Ken

 

Utah – March 2026 – Part 14

We retrieved our cameras, after leaving them out at night, programmed to shoot the night sky, in the early morning and proceeded to shoot sunrise photos at Utah’s Little Grand Canyon.

Sunrise Golden Hour, Little Grand Canyon, Utah

It was a cloudless morning, so the sky was bland and the sunrise was not at a good angle to illuminate much of the geological features in and around the canyon. This limited the possible compositions. Perhaps another time of the year might work better for sunrise at this location.

Sunrise Golden Hour 1, Little Grand Canyon, Utah
Sunrise Golden Hour 2, Little Grand Canyon, Utah
Early Morning at The Wedge

After a brief and limited golden hour sunrise shoot along the canyon, we drove back to The Wedge and shot a few images there. The smoke from a distant wildfire lingers in the canyon, giving this image a “misty/foggy” appearance.

Early Morning Light, near The Wedge
Early Morning near The Wedge

It was the long, curvy root of this tiny tree on the edge of the canyon that motivated me to compose this image.

Smoky Morning at The Wedge
Smoky Morning 2 at The Wedge

These two Smoky Morning images were shot from the same spot, I just zoomed in a little more and shifted the camera more to my right, eliminating most of the glare from the sun, emphasizing the big round rock in the middle, creating leading line features with the sunlit rocks on the bottom right diagonal and keeping the smoky effect in the canyon.

This concludes my photography (except for the yet to be edited night time photographs) at Utah’s Little Grand Canyon. Now it is time to move on and find another location.

So stay tuned to see what we found,

Ken