Aside from knowing people in the region, I love the Southwest USA's deserts, so it takes little enticing to get me to visit the area. The specific area covered in the next few posts' photos is the area around Moab, Utah, with emphasis on an iconic National Park just north of Moab: Arches.
If you have a bright sunny day, the first thing that strikes you (aside from the heat in the summer) is the sky. There seems to be so much of it. Then you notice the colours in the soils and rocks. The desert is anything but dull, Whether the colours are subtle as in the first photo (eastern Utah, north from Interstate 70) or more dramatic as the the next images has very much to do with weather and time of day.
The pink mesa lies on the road from the ghost town of Cisco to Moab (#128) near Fisher Towers. As we looked out towards the mesa, a storm suddenly moved in, darkening the skies and letting the setting sun cut below the clouds to illuminate another mesa remnant in the same area.
In Arches National Park, the varied terrain lends itself to the receding planes image during the day. As the sun sets, the pink glow lights up the desert.
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