November 21, 2015
<a href="/images/craft/stone-concretions-large.jpg"></a> Somewhere in Zion. Eight stone concretions. Natural forms born of ancient dunes. A magic blend of iron oxide and quartz sand grains forged by water, compression, and time. Harder in c...
November 14, 2015
Last week featured the <a href="https://zionpark.org/about/zion-national-park-plein-air-art-invitational/">Plein Air Invitational</a> here at Zion National Park. In past years, I've largely ignored the proceedings choosing to focus, instead...
November 2, 2015
<a href="/images/craft/flow-zion-virgin-river-large.jpg"></a> I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. - John O’Donohue...
October 12, 2015
<a href="/images/craft/streaked-clouds-and-bat-large.jpg"></a> Lovely distant cloud streaks capturing the last light of a sun beyond the horizon are magnified with a 400mm lens. A swooping bat, appearing relatively quite large, photobombed ...
September 30, 2015
<a href="/images/craft/keyhole-canyon-large.jpg"></a> This is Keyhole Canyon, the photo taken from a sandstone ledge about 30 feet above the pine trees. The dark abyss is the slot canyon, a relatively short beginners-level slot popular with...
December 18, 2014
Two weeks ago. 4:00 a.m. wake up. Final items packed in the truck. A deep bow to <a href="http://www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/antiquities/profileMukuntuweap.htm">Mukuntuweap</a>, my home and muse for the last two months.On the road. I-215 s...
November 23, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/last-light-on-east-temple-large.jpg"></a>Not to be outdone by the reflected morning light of my previous post, East Temple let her "true colors" be known yesterday in the last night of a brisk late fall afternoon. The...
November 22, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/pine-creek-reflections-large.jpg"></a>Recent hard freezes and wind have encouraged the leaves to drop off trees like rocks, abruptly concluding the fall color season here. And, as with all transitions, new opportuniti...
November 20, 2014
Dear photographer, the mountains are too big for the flash of your camera....
November 19, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/swirls-zion-national-park-large.jpg"></a>Silence. Such a rarity. I found it late yesterday afternoon in a half bowl of swirling sandstone high atop a ridge in the <a href="http://www.douglasvincent.com/craft/the-beaut...
November 16, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/stone-patterns-zion-large.jpg"></a>24,323 steps. That's the total my Health App registered after a long meandering 11-mile trek through the back country of the upper east side of <a href="http://www.nps.gov/zion">Zion...
November 13, 2014
I'm not one for dipping into the Internet meme toolbox to make a point. But, occasionally, you read something that begs for it. The romance and nostalgia associated with film doesn't justify its continued use, even for the black and white p...
November 7, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/leaves-compare-zion-large.jpg"></a>Over the years, I've become rather spoiled when scouting images here in Zion. Often, even with fall color scenes, I'll come upon a very promising composition under less than ideal li...
October 21, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/water-ripples-zion-large.jpg"></a> I love the interplay of light and water. I've made "classic" long exposure film images like <a href="http://www.douglasvincent.com/film/velvet-reflections/">Velvet Reflections</a> an...
October 13, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/water-reflects-stone-large.jpg"></a>Water reflects stone.Stone reflects water. I spent a good 20 minutes musing on a zen-like statement for this image. Once I came up with it, it seemed obvious. Despite its official d...
October 10, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/zion-garbage-large.jpg"></a>This morning, after a particularly productive photography session, I spent 20 minutes picking up trash strewn aside a pull out on the upper east side of Zion National Park. I assembled the ...
October 6, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/star-trails-zion-canyon-large.jpg"></a>3 hours. 363 photos. They are the ingredients of this photograph, tracking the stars last night over Zion National Park, my home for the next two months. In celebration of this t...
September 29, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/zion-flooding-radar-large.jpg"></a>Over the weekend I screen grabbed this image of intense precipitation over <a href="http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm">Zion National Park</a>. The line of thunderstorms and accompany...
September 22, 2014
<a href="/images/craft/beautiful-chaos-ilfochrome-large.jpg"></a>Over the years I've familiarized myself photographically with the geography of <a href="w.nps.gov/zion/index.htm">Zion National Park</a>, particularly its elevations. At highe...
Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.