Bryce National PArk is a rather small park but certainly offers up some spectacular sights. As with all National Parks I visit, I love the beauty of them but as a photographer I get frustrated with the clichéd feeling of pictures. Certainly it is great to be able to take a photo from the same location many famous landscape photographers have made their images. So, when I find myself shooting at the locations I do everything I can to get something different. Something that is from a new angle, with a different lens or different lighting. If I can walk away with a different but still recognizable image then I have accomplished part of my mission. This image was made at Bryce but done with a long lens and isolates a certain part of the Hoodoos. Light also played a factor in this image giving the hillside I was shooting a very special glow.
Kevin,
I have been to Bryce and agree a long lens is the way to go. It is not was to photograph in a way that conveys the impact.
Frankly, I have been disappointed with so many attempts to capture this park. Yours is the first that does it so well.
Congratulations.
As I have blown such pictures to huge sizes, which your file resolution allows, I have moved to doing triptychs and diptychs as a way of making people concentrate on what they are seeing, and to allow for easier framing and shipping.
http://www.macdonough.net/For-your-review/Triptych/i-Bkz8FfQ/A