Just came back from a 9-day southwest trip. Here is the first sunset taken at Zion National Park, Utah.

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Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, USA

This is one of the few night shoots I have been able to accomplish during my recent southwest trip, since most of times the sky was cloudy or overcast.

I arrived in the park around 1AM just before 1:20AM moonset, and realized the above clouds were covered most of park except some openings around Balanced Rock area. So I started the night shoot over there, and moved to the windows section while the clouds were moved. And I rushed to Double Arch area as soon as I saw the sky was clear at the top. There were two photogs were already there before me. We worked from different spots at different patterns to illuminate the rock, therefore most of my shots were not satisfactory with the distractions of light paint from others. We finally came to the agreement that each one took the turn to illuminate the rock, so everyone has his own time to do his own shoot. We tried on different ways of rock illumination, such as flash, light paint, reflection on the back. While we were busy coordinating each one for the shoots, the clouds gradually moved in, and ended our star exploration.

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Navajo Tribal Park, Utah

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Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona

Antelope Canyon has become such a popular place in the world that hundreds of tourists get into the small canyon at the same time and fight for the same spot and the same composition. As the photographer, you can pay a little extra to get the two-hour time in it and the tour guide will help more in getting the spot and prevent others run into your scene. Nevertheless I got tons of shots at light beams and shapes during the period, I also try to find a little something different. Here is the spot to shoot the heart shape, and I found the leading line to the sky was more interesting to me. What do you think?

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Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona

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