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I am a painter and I also love to capture my own images for painting, as well to enjoy my photos from trips. For the love of photography, I feel all that I capture in my photography.

Thousands of delicately carved spires rise in brilliant color from the amphitheaters of Bryce Canyon National Park. Millions of years of wind, water and geologic mayhem have shaped and etched the pink cliffs at Bryce, which isn't actually a canyon but the eastern slope of the Paunsaguant Plateau.

Shown here in the sunny season, Bryce Canyon's colorful hoodoos are sculpted by snow over thousands of years. Freezing meltwater enlarges cracks to slowly createand eventually destroythe towering limestone pinnacles.

Location: Utah
Established: September 15, 1928
Size: 35,835 acres
Perhaps nowhere are the forces of natural erosion more tangible than at Bryce Canyon. Its wilderness of phantom-like rock spires, or hoodoos, attracts more than one million visitors a year. Many descend on...

Marti was born to her passion for nature and painting. It has always seemed natural for her to express the diversity that nature has to offer through her paintings. She has an innate ability to express nature's ever-changing moods through her use of color and simplicity of style. Her vitality for life and the emotions she feels are all expressed through her paintings, most of which are from places she has visited and sketched on site. She has attended both Olympic College and Evergreen State College with an emphasis on business, advertising and commercial art. She continues to study at every opportunity to ensure that she masters the techniques that best convey the atmosphere she hopes to express. As a member of the Peninsula...