Akkana's Landscape Photography

The Trips page also contains a lot of landscape photography.

Sunsets are among my favorite views. This particular sunset, at Fremont Peak State Park, preceeded a star party

At sunset, we thought that our star party would be clouded out, so I made the best of a disappointing situation by capturing the beautiful sunset.

Fortunately, shortly after sunset, the clouds lifted and it was a beautiful, clear night. The best of both worlds!

My favorite shot from that evening is this close-up of a couple of clouds.

	Another surprising shot came from another star party, the 1996 PAS Yosemite trip. I got caught in a thunderstorm at Glacier Point, and made a heroic attempt to capture lightning using Velvia and several neutral density filters to lengthen the exposure time. I never did catch any lightning (the slowest I could manage was about a 2-second shutter speed), but the long exposures produced fantastic colors in the cloud images.
	This rock formation in Castle Valley, northeast of Moab, UT, is called "Priest and Nuns".
	Here's another scenic from the same area, along the Colorado northeast of Moab.
	Here's the view from the top of Moab Rim, looking southwest toward the Colorado. The spires on the horizon are Canyonlands National Park.
	The desert south of Sedona, AZ is also beautiful, full of red-rock cliffs.
	The Colorado river as it leaves Lake Powell, near Page, AZ.
	This ruined shack stands on the slickrock southwest of Page.
	We passed through Durango just in time to see the aspens turn.
	In the fall of '96, the tree outside my house surprised me with a beautiful array of colors.
	Ragged tree clinging to the granite at Sentinel Dome.
	Solitary pine at Yosemite.
	Vista from Grey Whale Trail above Montara.
	Vista south from Pt Reyes.