Seconds before sunrise at Dead Horse Point Overlook
A brilliant morning at the Dead Horse Point Overlook, with Gunsight Butte, the Potash Ponds and the La Sal mountains in the distance
Canyonlands
With the gooseneck of the Colorado River and its many buttes and pinnacles, the Dead Horse Point State Park offers some of the most spectacular panoramas in the American Southwest
Erosion
This telephoto shot enhances the extraordinary textures of the Canyonlands landscape, shaped by water and wind, and not for nothing dubbed a showcase of geology
Utah juniper
A true survivor of the Southwest canyonlands
Last light on Green River
The setting sun creates a ghostly ambiance in this already otherworldly Canyonlands landscape. The serene looking Green River has been cutting ceaselessly through the rock layers deposited here some 300 million years ago
Invaders from Mars
Archaic rock art can be found on many places along the Colorado River and its tributaries. Dating rock panels like these in Canyonlands remains tricky, although recent studies suggest they are at most 2.000 years old
The bear
A bear hunt as depicted in this petroglyph on Utah Highway 279
Shades
The bizarre shapes of the rock formations in Arches National Park enhanced by early morning light
Arches
Arches are what you get in Arches National Park: Turret Arch seen through the North Window
Turret Arch sunset
The Garden of Eden
The extroardinary shapes and compositions of the rock formations in Arches have led people to name them. This is part of the so-called "Garden of Eden". And it even has a tree...
Landscape Arch
The beautifully elegant Landscape Arch reminded us with its successive rockfalls, as recent as the 1990s, how ephemeral these natural arches are
Mesa Arch
The most photographed arch in the Moab area is not located in Arches, but in Canyonlands National Park - Mesa Arch glows red-hot in the rising sun
Skyline Arch
Balanced Rock
One of the must-see spots in Arches (and there are quite a few) is actually not an arch but these bizarre looking rock formations, topped by the Balanced Rock - 39 meters of geological whim. The La Sal mountain range forms a beautiful backdrop
Welcome on Planet Mars
A staggering vista of the otherworldly Canyonlands landscape touched by the first sunrays.
