Zion National
Park, a Southwestern Adventure:
Springdale, Utah; November 7-13, 2009
with Nancy, Les, Don and Linda Torbert (assistant)
$1350 – Tuition, includes guide and entry fees. Lodging and meals not included.
$130 Discount for participants who attend both Southwest Workshops: November 7-13 and November 14-20.
Deposit: $200 due to secure spot
Limited to 20 participants.
Contact: kris@naturaltapestries.com
The redrock country of the Colorado Plateau holds some of the most spectacular scenery with which the North American continent has been blessed. The list of iconic places in this stark land rolls easily off the tongue, and while there are many who would assert that the Grand Canyon is the brightest jewel in the redrock crown, my thoughts run to Zion, tucked away on the northwest edge of the plateau. It is a land of mighty contrasts: soaring mesas and buttes of layered rock and striated sandstone that climb to a sky of deepest blue; deeply carved, narrow desert canyons that pierce the heart of the earth; the life-giving presence of the Virgin River which supports a diversity of floral and faunal communities. All of these elements conspire to create a range of photographic opportunities that keep your heart racing from before dawn until after dusk.
And then, of course, there’s the light. At sunrise, the deep warmth of the incipient glow is transferred to the very stones themselves and they, in turn, reflect it back magnified. Day proceeds from there, into a sky so azure that it seems to reach into eternity, and then back again so that land and sky are entwined in an enraptured dance of color and illumination. At the waning end of the day, the glow returns, softer at first, but with growing intensity until the falling dark withdraws it to withhold its return in the dawn.
It is in Zion, as in no other place we know, the rock and light are intimately involved with each other to produce an image experience that will not be forgotten.
Springdale, Utah; November 7-13, 2009
with Nancy, Les, Don and Linda Torbert (assistant)
$1350 – Tuition, includes guide and entry fees. Lodging and meals not included.
$130 Discount for participants who attend both Southwest Workshops: November 7-13 and November 14-20.
Deposit: $200 due to secure spot
Limited to 20 participants.
Contact: kris@naturaltapestries.com
The redrock country of the Colorado Plateau holds some of the most spectacular scenery with which the North American continent has been blessed. The list of iconic places in this stark land rolls easily off the tongue, and while there are many who would assert that the Grand Canyon is the brightest jewel in the redrock crown, my thoughts run to Zion, tucked away on the northwest edge of the plateau. It is a land of mighty contrasts: soaring mesas and buttes of layered rock and striated sandstone that climb to a sky of deepest blue; deeply carved, narrow desert canyons that pierce the heart of the earth; the life-giving presence of the Virgin River which supports a diversity of floral and faunal communities. All of these elements conspire to create a range of photographic opportunities that keep your heart racing from before dawn until after dusk.
And then, of course, there’s the light. At sunrise, the deep warmth of the incipient glow is transferred to the very stones themselves and they, in turn, reflect it back magnified. Day proceeds from there, into a sky so azure that it seems to reach into eternity, and then back again so that land and sky are entwined in an enraptured dance of color and illumination. At the waning end of the day, the glow returns, softer at first, but with growing intensity until the falling dark withdraws it to withhold its return in the dawn.
It is in Zion, as in no other place we know, the rock and light are intimately involved with each other to produce an image experience that will not be forgotten.
