Columns Glow, Bryce Canyon National Park

The columns below the Sunset Trail in Bryce Canyon take on a "morning glow" that is absolutely beautiful.  The camera is pointing roughly NE, and the sun has just come up from the east.  The stone of some columns is so white, and reflections bounce around within these cluster so much, that the backsides (shadow side) become well-lit, and the columns appear to be translucent.  I spent three mornings here -- it was just a fascinating place to be at sunrise.

Stephen, If someone else has photographed this scene, I've never seen it before.  I looked at your other two photos in this series and they are beautiful, but after seeing this one I can't even comment on them now...this one is just stunning!  

Landscape photography with a 300mm lens....great fun. Comments and

suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

very nice landscape image...you must have had fun...regards....David

A graphic example of how nature can be stranger than fiction.

Amazing phononema!

Re: your comments "landscape with a 300 mm lens"

Sometimes it is the landscape within the landscape that is more interesting than the overall wider view, but it takes a practised eye to recognise it.

Very well done!

Alf

Doug, David, and Alf, thanks for your comments.  I'll be posting more photos taken from this section of the trail.  I liked it so much that I wrote a blog article about these "glowing" rocks:  LINK  The article is at the top.

Alf, I have great fun scanning broad landscapes to find mini-landscapes that can be captured with a long telephoto lens.  It struck me one morning when about 30 photographers were gathered at Bryce Point for sunrise -- I was there too.  Within 15 minutes after sunrise, literally all of them were gone.  I stayed for at least another hour with the 300mm scanning the broad basin of spires for interesting compositions.  When I say that a camera helps me to experience the landscape, this is part of what I mean.

Best regards, Stephen!

PDE

Real nice Stephen!  Thanks for sharing your locations as well.  Heading that way in October.

Stephen,   The glow in this image is fantastic.  At first, one might see the image as overexposed, but I'm with you.  The exposure here is right on.  The columns and trees create a most appealing composition.  This image is another example of how less is more.  The lighter columns or hoodoos on top are set of so well by the darker background.  Nice eye and ncie image.  Larry

Pierre, Dominick, and Larry, thanks for visiting.  Dominick, the sun will be rising further to the south in October -- I'm not sure how that will affect these particular views.  I've been at Bryce in December-January, and the rising sun doesn't really fill the entire basin like it does during the summer months.  Still, there are great views to be had during every month of the year.

If it is as difficult to get all the varieties of light as it would seem, you have an outstanding result. Very beautiful.

Wow!  And I don't use that word very often!  The white columns almost look translucent!  What a way to start your mornings!  Thanks for the description of where you were.  I see that you took this in May.....I wonder if it's like this all times of the year.  Great work!

Fantastic work! Best regards/Sadegh