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Utah – March 2026 – Part 18 – Sunrise at Dead Horse Point, Utah

I try to keep my blogs in chronological order and use images in my blogs with links to my photos posted to Flickr, but sometimes I slip up. A few days ago, I realized that somehow I had skipped editing sunset photos made the first day we were at Dead Horse Point, Utah and I had begun to post photos to Flickr from the second evening at Dead Horse Point. So I’m going to violate my chronological order for at least portions of these two days of shooting, posting images from day 2 ahead of day 1.

We went out early on day 2 at Dead Horse Point for sunrise photography.

Dead Horse Point Pre-Sunrise
Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 1

I set up my camera and watched the sunrise light as it moved across the wonderful and rugged landscape at Dead Horse Point, making a number of images for a sunrise sequence.

Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 2
Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 4
Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 5
Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 6
Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 7
Dead Horse Point Sunrise Sequence 8

Note that I zoomed in a little for #8 to get a better view of the reflections in the Colorado River.

Thanks for following and stay tuned for more photos from this area of geological wonders.

Ken

 

Utah – March 2026 – Part 16

I’ve fallen behind in my normal blog post schedule, being preoccupied with other summer time activities. I’ll try to get back to a more regular schedule.

Sunrise Golden Hour 1

I used this geological feature as a foreground for star photography. As usual, I’m slow at processing those night images, so the star photos will have to be in a later post.

Sunrise Golden Hour 2
Sky Line
Sunrise Golden Hour 4
Early Morning Light

Most of the golden hour light was gone by the time I made ‘Early Morning Light’, but I really like the light and shadows on the undulating foreground.

After shooting sunrise from our campsite, we explored more of the local area, driving a number of side roads into the desert.

Crowns

These rock shapes remind me of crowns that might be worn by kings and queens.

Desert Panorama
Sand, Plants and Hills

‘Sand, Plants, and Hills’ is a paraphrase from the Eagles’ song ‘A Horse with No Name’.

Gap Light

As evening approached, we set up for more night sky photography.

Thanks for following,

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