Bryce Canyon. 30.09.12

In photography there is a method of enhancing an image called HDR (Editor; High Dynamic Range) whereby several images of the same view are combined to saturate or exaggerate the tones and colours.

I have never seen an HDR image of Bryce Canyon, and now I know why.

 

 

The whole area is already in HDR, like some technicolour movie on a cocktail of steroids and speed.

It is visually rather challenging, as well as being simply outstanding. To be honest I think all amateur photographers should have their cameras confiscated on entering the park to prevent them wasting their time. Including me. Perhaps especially me.

The pillars, called hoodoo's, are up to 200' tall. Being able to walk down and through them is qute mesmerising.

Bryce should be the Navaho word for 'bizarre', or 'outrageous distorted alien forms of our scarlet ancestors', but it isn't. In fact, for such an extraordinary place it was named for a very ordinary reason. The first man who homesteaded near the canyon (Editor: made a home and cultivated the land) was called Ebenezer Bryce.

Therfore it simply became known as 'Bryce's canyon'. His often quoted description of the canyon is - "It's a helluva place to lose a cow".

Presumably homesteading was a rather pragmatic occupation.

And the two of us, courtesy of a passer-by.

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