Lake Powell Landscape Photography

Sunrise near Face Canyon, Lake Powell

Lake Powell is a place for recreation but also incredible beauty.  It remains controversial of because of the Glen Canyon dam which is really beyond the scope of my power.  As a visitor to Lake Powell, I did enjoy the beautiful combination of water, sandstone cliffs, clear skies.  One challenging thing about Lake Powell is the changing water level.  What is present in one year is not necessarily going to be there the next year or even the next week because the water level will go up and down depending on the amount of rain in the Colorado mountains.  As a photographer, I found my best pictures by walking around, looking at the land very carefully and trying to find interesting aspects of each visit.

Sometimes I get lucky and a rainbow will appear right in front of me.  Other times I do a lot of walking.  This last year I found a wonderful curve in the cliffs that formed a perfect S.  The S-curve is considered a thing of beauty in visual arts and I took several pictures of this to hopefully capture the right idea.  I also spent some time walking along the sure and found a collection of broken sandstone tablets.  I have visited this area at sunrise to get the beautiful morning light in one of my favorite pictures from Lake Powell.  

Please enjoy

Rainbow over Gunsight Butte, Lake Powell

Puzzle pieces of sandstone at sunrise

Natural Curves of Lake Powell