Photo-Swap-Thursday - #3

Hoodoo Heaven” at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (USA)

Heather:   A couple of years ago, I took my three kids to southern Utah for a week of hiking and adventure.  Our biggest luxuries lay in the challenges, the stunning views and the freshwater we carried on our backs.  Below, I’ve posted a photo from Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah where a sudden hail storm turned a simple hike amongst the hoodoos into quite an adventure!  To read more about our experience, click the link below.

…One’s imagination can run a little wild amongst hoodoos, and each visitor’s unique vision seems to personalize the Bryce experience. My vivid childhood memories of spired castles rising above pink, red and orange people brought me back -with my own children this time. Intermittent rumbling soon lent a deeper hue to the sky as we hiked the Queen’s Garden and Navajo Trails. Eventually, I shoved the camera into our dry bag, and we raced for cover from a pelting storm!  

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Heather Dugan is a writer/photographer and voice-over/on-camera talent based in Central Ohio with clients worldwide.  A frequent traveler and lover of the outdoors, she is never without her camera and running shoes.
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It's like out of a fairy book!

On the way up to the Bryce Canyon

First we had to pass trough the "Red Canyon"

And this was the picture I have seen there: The majestic Bryce Canyon!

The elevation was more than 8000 feet - and I could feel it very well, the air was thin and I had a hard time to breath.
No wonder people say: The Bryce Canyon is breathtaking :)

Tourists from all over the world came to see this wonder work of Mother Nature, I heard also Swiss people discussion the amazing view :)

I can only say: Enjoy these view!

Speechless about so much beauty

The "magic" entrance - to another world maybe ? :)

The full view (with my wide angle lens)

Close up shot (300mm lens)

It looks almost like the temples of Bali :)

I couldn't get enough to photograph these "Hoodoos" :)

I can not say which one of the two Canyons are more beautiful - they are bot majestic and so different from each other. I liked them both and I'm so lucky and happy that I had the chance to visit both of them.

Hi my friends,

Grand Canyon - Bryce Canyon and all the other pretty places we went trough.... I have seen now so many beautiful and amazing landscape in our pretty soon 4 moths of traveling and every state here in the U.S. has his own beauty to share with us. I'm often totally overwhelmed about the beauty of America - and about the size too...LOL...

We are just now almost in Salt Lake City in Utah. I like this green state with its still snow covered mountains and with all the green valleys. It's very special!

Dave is still recovering from his bronchitis, but he is getting better every day, so we have to move on a little bit slower as usual, heading probably up to Montana - slowly, one day we will be there.... :)

Thanks for all your kind comments and visits, I appreciate every single one!

Stay tuned with me... :)
Susanne and David