Good morning everyone from Moab, in Utah. We got here yesterday
it was a long drive from Santa Fe
Almost 7 hours. I had some time to
spare before sunset, so I thought about driving up to Arches National Park
for sunset, but I was very, very tired after that long drive
and also there was an action car show in town that we were not expecting at all and
We went just for a walk in town to stretch our legs and whatnot and we saw some cool cars
So it was nice, and then a big storm came so we had to leave. But anyway, I had to make some
decisions this morning because we are leaving this place today in just 3 hours or so
for Salt Lake City, that's our next destination. Moab was just, you know, a little stop on the trip
It was not one of the main destinations of this trip. This is a place I will have to come back to
I had never been here before and there are quite a few parks and interesting spots around here
So, yeah, it's a place that we have to visit in the future, but not now
I have to make a decision, choose one place for this morning and go there
Of course, there was Arches there was the Canyonlands National Park
But I found this other arch just out of Moab that is not part of any
national park or anything like that, so I thought that there would be
fewer people here. The town, believe me, it's packed and crowded
So I expect a lot of people in Arches and Canyonlands National Park this morning
But here, there is only one car in the parking lot. So that's very nice
this place is called, or the arch that I'm gonna be
hiking to this morning is called Corona Arch
It's at 3-mile round trip hike
So it's not too bad and you can see now that we already got our first interesting spot on the hike, this railroad
through the
through that Canyon or rocks or whatever. Sun is rising and
it's gonna be a very, very nice morning, a very nice sweet and short hike and hopefully I can make a
few images of the arch and spots like this on the way there. So let's do it
All right, this place is incredible, I think I made the right decision this morning well, I'm not sure about the park
Maybe there is no one at the park either but I I don't believe so, but I have this location all for myself
I mean, it's still early, I think it's 7:30 or so, but still, it's a beautiful location
And yeah
I've been walking around because I can't really find a way to
make an image of this arch that is not taking the whole thing.
I think I'm gonna go under the arch and looking up maybe that could be cool, too
But yeah, at least with black and white
I can't really find another way to do it maybe with color you could contrast some of those
bushes against the arch or something like that
but yeah, I've been using the wide-angle lens from here, from the other side of the arch
This is the cool thing about arches like this
I came that way and it was backlit because the sunrise is happening just behind me, or it happened behind me
So that arch was completely backlit
But you know
You can just go under, come to the other side, and you have a perfect light
from this side. The clouds kind of went away in the last few minutes
And that's too bad for the long exposure.
I would've loved to have a cloudy day to contrast the white from the clouds and the
dark arch
But it is what it is
They are not moving too fast either so I might have to go much longer than the 3 minutes that I'm doing now
But yeah, this is what I'm gonna be doing for the next
half an hour, one hour, I will move to the next arch later and then just
head back down and go back to town and have some breakfast or something