The landscape of Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument near Flagstaff, is striking different and beautiful from the surrounding red rock country in Arizona. The vast black lava rock floor dotted with some isolated green pine trees and/or white-trunk aspen trees produces images with nice contrast and […]
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Horseshoe Bend in Page, Arizona
Colorado River makes a spectacular (Horseshoe) bend just outside the City of Page. We visited there twice in one day, one bright early in the morning and the other in late afternoon. I used Tokina 16-28 mm wide angle lens to capture the entire bend […]
Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona
Photographing in Antelope Canyon is both fun and challenging. We took the 2-hour Photo Tour to Lower Antelope Canyon last week. With a great tour guide and not a big crowd we were able to use our tripod to shoot some scenes we liked. Hope […]
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona (12 Images)
Petrified Forest National Park was established in 1906 to preserve and protect the petrified woods for scientific research – see the link http://www.nps.gov/pefo/learn/nature/petrified-wood.htm for the information of how petrified woods come to being. It is not just about petrified woods but the spectacular landscape especially […]
Painted Desert in Arizona
We visited Painted Desert of Petrified Forest National Monument in Arizona last week and were very fortunate to catch the late afternoon sunlight before the Park closing. We toured the same place three years ago around noon time when we stopped by on the way […]
Cesky Krumlov, A Picturesque Medieval City
While visiting Prague, Czech Republic a couple of years ago, we took a day trip to see this magnificent medieval city, designated as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. I only wished we could have stayed overnight to walk around the old town at night, […]
Winter Reflection
The image was the reflection of trees on a small open water of the ice-covered pond along the C&O Canal of the Great Falls of Potomac River, Maryland
Ha-Long Bay, Vietnam
We visited this incredibly beautiful place just before Christmas 2012. It is on the list of World Heritage sites for its unique geological formation.




