Badlands National Park, June 2025 – Part 4 – Dancing Around the Hoodoo

There is a hoodoo in Badlands National Park that is visible from the paved road through the park. Getting close to the hoodoo requires hiking down the steep slope from the roadway and a short hike.

I made numerous iPhone camera shots as I walked around the hoodoo to show how a hoodoo can look considerably different from different points of view.

Badlands Hoodoo 1
Badlands Hoodoo 2
Badlands Hoodoo 3
Badlands Hoodoo 4
Badlands Hoodoo 5
Badlands Hoodoo 6
Badlands Hoodoo 7

I think these make my point about “Dancing Around an Object” to photograph it.

Thanks for following and stay tuned for more Badlands scouting photos,

Ken

Badlands National Park, June 2025 – Part 3

At the very end of a visit to Badlands National Park several years ago, I thought I had found a really good place for sunset photography. So during this visit I found that location again and walked around during the day, scouting possible locations to return to at sunset. I used my iPhone camera to test a few compositions and capture a few micro-environmental images.

Big Sky over Badlands
Dry Planet

In ‘Dry Planet’ I wanted to show the similarity between the dry, white clay in the drainage patterns to the white clouds in the sky.

Anticipation

The dry drainage is waiting for more rain from those heavy clouds in the sky.

Dry Stream Bed

‘Dry Stream Bed’ features the same drainage as in ‘Anticipation’, from another view point.

The Missing Piece

The dry mud cracks into segments resembling a picture puzzle.

The Bigger Picture Puzzle

More scouting photos to come later,

Ken

Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, March 2022, Part 10 – Cathedral Valley

I will continue to test my readers patience with even more photos from Capitol Reef National Park’s Cathedral Valley.

The photographs in this post are all taken around the features called “Temple of the Sun” and “Temple of the Moon”.

Monoliths, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Monoliths, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Sun (in right background), Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Downcast
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Sun framed by smaller rocks, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Sun, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Sun, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Sun, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Sun, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

These photos were all taken late in the afternoon.  The high ridge to the west of these features blocked much of the golden hour light, so essentially all of the foreground objects were already in shadows by the time the best golden hour light illuminated the large monoliths.

Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temple of the Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
Temples of the Sun and Moon, Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

Until next time,

Ken