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Alex and I visited San Francisco on Feb 11 and witnessed a beautiful sunrise next to hte Ferry Building.
*** Explored #49 on 2/5/2019! *** Willie, David, and I spent a few days exploring Factory Butte in Southern Utah. It’s a neat area because it has the giant Factory Butte, beautiful badlands, stunning mesas and plateaus, and crazy desert landscape. There’s a lot to photograph in this area and I can see why we randomly ran into a few of our photographer friends. On our last morning here we woke up early and traveled up a dirt road in search of a view that would look on the wall of Factory Butte. We found a set of rocks that we could climb onto that would give us a little bit of an elevated view onto the Butte. I loved the lines that come down from the wall of Factory Butte. It makes you wonder how this crazy landscape formed. How does it not all fall down? How were those crazy shapes made, interlocking into each other? Nikon D800 w/Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary: 250mm, f/11, 1/3 sec, ISO 320 Viewed best nice and large Find me on My Website | Facebook
I first visited this little oasis a year prior with Willie, Rami, and Terence but didn't come away with any photos due to ... well, to be honest, it was Terence’s fault! Terence was so late in meeting us that by the time we arrived at this waterfall the sun started invading the photo. Willie managed to snap a photo but by the time we switched spots, the light was ruining the scene. Zack, Willie and I went back this year and we made sure to arrive with plenty of time (of course cloudy skies also helped). March and April had been very dry in the Portland area and a lot of the greenery, the moss and ferns, that we had hoped would be at peak bloom, simply weren’t there. The scene is still stunning and we all came away with some gorgeous photos. This place has been photographed a billion times and the most common spot was taken a little bit behind where I took this photo. I just loved the shape of the ferns in the lower right here and the way they framed the waterfall and creek. Nikon D800 w/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8: 14mm, f/13, 3 sec, ISO 100
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