As you can probably tell from the photos on my profile, I recently had a life changing trip to America. Travelling for five and a half weeks with my best friend from East to West across the States, we saw so many amazing things. In particular, it was the national parks that we visited that were the most amazing places. On a week long trip in the East, we traveled through California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Its a life goal of mine to visit all 50 of the American States, and to reach four in a single week was pretty amazing. On the trip in total we visited ten states making a nice dent into the 50. It was also a goal of mine to see the amazing natural beauty that America has to offer, and I think some of these photos I took show that.
We went to Lake Powell, Antelope Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Park and of course the Grand Canyon. Each place was spectacular, but if I had to choose a favourite it would be Antelope Canyon. This is my number one place to recommend if you wish to see something completely out of this world and utterly beautiful. The sand stone canyon has been carved by nature over many years to create beautiful undulating, smooth walls and different views at every turn. Descending ridiculously deep steps you enter the canyon, into a world below ground but with almost perfect views of the sky above. Its easy to pick out shapes and turn them into objects or creatures as you walk through the tunnel like natural structure. I've only posted one photo from this aspect of the trip so far, but trust me, more will be coming! I think in the time I spent in the canyon (around 90 minutes) I took nearly 500 photos. But I challenge anyone to not do so!
The one I have posted was taken at an angle pointed out to me by one of the guides. Leaning backwards against one of the side walls and looking directly up revealed the wave like structure as shown in the photo. Its amazing to think of the power of nature to create such a perfect wave out of the stone - particularly the fact its not coming off the ground but instead protruding out of the walls. The orange of the walls as well reacts perfectly with shadow - not only turning the rock darker orange, but also introducing a lovely purple hue to the view.