At least once a year, I try to recharge my creative batteries by doing some landscape photography, usually by taking a trip somewhere. This year, I had the opportunity to attend a workshop given by Alain Briot in the Canyon Country of Page, Arizona, right on the border with Utah. It was a wonderful trip!
This image, titled “Verga Over Rock” is the result of an axiom in landscape photography: always look behind you. The workshop participants were situated at a location near Lake Powell to photograph the sunrise over some buttes near the lake. My primary camera was seated on my tripod and I was dutifully snapping away as the sun rose over the buttes.
Then I looked behind me and saw this amazing scene. Verga is rain that evaporates before it hits the ground and a beautiful cloud of it was positioned just behind this sandstone rock about 100 yards away. Leaving my primary camera on the tripod, I quickly grabbed my backup camera and a 16-35mm f/2.8 lens and began shooting this scene.
I’m really glad I turned around, because I like this image so much more than the sunrise pictures over the buttes!
Over the next few weeks, I’ll post more images from this amazing trip.