Bryce Canyon 1
by Marti Green
Title
Bryce Canyon 1
Artist
Marti Green
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
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.
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 trails that give hikers and horseback riders a close look at the fluted walls and sculptured pinnacles.
The park follows the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. On the west are heavily forested tablelands more than 9,000 feet high; on the east are the intricately carved breaks that drop 2,000 feet to the Paria Valley. Many ephemeral streams have eaten into the plateau, forming horseshoe-shaped bowls. The largest and most striking is Bryce Amphitheater. Encompassing six square miles, it is the park's scenic heart.
For millions of years water has carved, as it continues to, Bryce's rugged landscape. Water may split rock as it freezes and expands in cracksa cyclic process that occurs some 200 times a year. In summer, runoff from cloudbursts etches into the softer limestones and
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October 27th, 2014
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