Road Scholar Redux

The road to Monument Valley, where Forrest Gump ended his cross-country run in 1980.

In mid-September I went on a Road Scholar photography tour of national parks in southern Utah and Monument Valley in northern Arizona.  The trip was a repeat of the trip I took with them in May of 2014, but with a different twist:  this time I was the paid photography "coach" for other members of the tour.

We had a great group of 26:  husband and wife group leaders; our bus driver; me; and 22 interesting and congenial adults armed with everything from smartphones to the latest mirrorless digital cameras.  And we had a blast!

As the photography "coach" for the participants, I had limited opportunities for my own photography. Nevertheless, I managed to find a few moments to make some images along the way.  Some were standard shots of the iconic scenes:

Watchman and the Virgin River in Zion National Park . . .

Glowing hoodoos at sunset and sunrise in Bryce Canyon National Park . . .

Balanced Rock and the Window arches in Arches National Park . . .

Mesa Arch, Dead Horse Point, and Canyonlands . . .

and finally Monument Valley, the Navajo Tribal Park in northern Arizona . . .

Many of my images, however, were of details easily overlooked and overshadowed by the monumental vistas:

Water and colors in Zion . . .

Tree roots and plants in Bryce . . .

Sandstone patterns on the floor of Park Avenue valley in Arches National Park . . .

If you would like to view these and other images in a larger format, I have posted day-by-day galleries in my newly re-designed photography website, Todos Juntos Photography, which you can visit by clicking here.

Enjoy!