Photograph Bryce Canyon's iconic hoodoos glowing orange in the first light of dawn, with sweeping amphitheater views and the alien silence of the Utah high desert.
Bryce Canyon is a landscape that rewards being up before dawn. The moment the first light hits the hoodoos from the east, they ignite, a forest of orange and red spires carved by millennia of frost. I shoot from the rim at Sunrise and Sunset Points, then head down into the amphitheater on the Queens Garden and Navajo Loop trails to get inside the formations.
Working at ground level among the hoodoos is completely different from the rim views, you're surrounded by towers and arches, using wide angles to push the foreground and compress the layers of color behind. At altitude with minimal light pollution, Bryce also delivers some of the best astrophotography conditions I've found in the American West. The hoodoos under a Milky Way arch are a shot worth planning your whole trip around.
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