Author: Chris Hughes

The rock walls of Yosemite, Zion and Monument Valley provide beautiful abstract images when photographed without the surrounding location. Look closely and you will find some rock climbers to give scale to the cliffs.

Cloud, thunder and lightning added to the atmosphere and the landscapes of the Grand Canyon, the highlight being the spectacular rainbow after the downpour.

The background landscape of so many Western films – and a few others – Monument Valley is spectacular and brilliant in its range of reds, oranges and browns.

A truly beautiful place, a vast canyon narrowing as you go further up into the depths and walking the Narrows can only be done by wading up to your waist in the stream. Green at the bottom, soaring red and orange rock walls and the clear blue sky above. Watch out for the tarantulas!

Brilliant, seedy, fantastic, greedy, spectacular, false….

103 degrees Fahrenheit!!! Dry, hot, windy a fantastic place in every sense of the word.

This photograph deserves a place on its own, the mighty Yosemite Valley.