Zion Canyon, across from Angels Landing

Looking into the Narrows (Zion Canyon)

Morning Breaking over Zion Canyon

Morning breaks over Zion National Park, looking north into Zion Canyon.It's been a while since I have posted any new images; February in Salt Lake City tends to be dreary and unbecoming for taking photos. We did get the chance to take a long weekend trip to Zion National Park, still a little early in the year for anything to be blooming, but a very pleasant trip nonetheless.

Northeastern Utah Website

A new website for the Northeastern Utah Travel Region, designed by myself at The Go Travel Sites. To see the full site, visit www.dinoland.com.

Tilt-Shift Park City Downtown Panorama

A detail from a massive tilt-shift panorama of downtown Park City. The photo was taken in 2007 as part of a collection of aerial photography over Salt Lake City, the Wasatch mountains, and Park City. It works well for tilt-shift photography (created in Photoshop, as I have no tilt-shift lens). In tilt-shift photography, depth of field is kept in a very shallow slice through the scene. Additionally, the lens (and plane of focus) can be tilted away from parallel with the film plane. This effectively creates the illusion of miniature photography, as your brain has no real-life correlation with such distortion of depth of field over a large expanse (such as a city) but accepts it fully at the smaller scale. Real (non-photoshop) tilt-shift images also have additional shifts in perspective from tilting the lens away from the film plane, and is often used to shoot tall parallel things, like buildings, from the ground and still maintain the sense of the parallel. Below is the full image, zoom in and explore. Or download the image as jpeg here (2.85 MB).