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21
Feb
2025
Utah Variations


I love the Utah desert and, specifically, the area around Hanksville and Factory Butte. The sheer variety of different terrain types found within a ten mile...



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20
Feb
2025
Night in Goblin Valley


Goblin Valley State Park in Utah is a fascinating place that I’ve visited a couple of times now. Not only is the landscape amazing, but you are also...



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18
Feb
2025
Erosion


This image was taken at the same location as yesterday’s but a year later in 2022. We don’t make a habit of visiting the same places on consecutive...



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17
Feb
2025
Tracks in the Dirt


We’ll stick with drone-based abstract landscapes today with this image taken near Factory Butte in Utah back during our 2021 NxNW expedition. The area...



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14
Dec
2024
Eroded Ridges


Here’s another take on Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah from our 2022 NxNW expedition. This image was taken during the same flight as the one I posted...



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11
Dec
2024
Sunset at Factory Butte


It’s time for another foray into the archives after I found and edited several pictures that I had somehow missed when initially processing their...



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14
Apr
2023
Intricate Runoff Patterns


I’m enjoying looking through my collection of unprocessed drone images for new abstracts so here’s another one from my 2021 trip to Utah. This...



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12
Apr
2023
Martian Landscape


I’m staying with aerial abstracts today. This image was taken, again from a drone, over the wonderful, stratified landscape by the Mars Society Research...



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22
Jan
2023
Strata on Mars


Colourful strata seen from a drone flying near the Mars Society Research Station just outside Hanksville, Utah.



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19
Jan
2023
Morning Moonscape


An early morning image of Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah, taken from a drone hovering over the eroded landscape below Moonscape Overlook.



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7
Jan
2023
Leading Lines, Utah


I don’t normally post images with odd aspect ratios but I’m making an exception today for this shot of Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah....



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18
Dec
2022
Moonlit Hoodoos


Back to Utah this week and the first image to pop up as I looked through my library was this one of a group of hoodoos taken after dark in Goblin Valley...



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11
Nov
2022
Factory Butte, Post-Dawn


What a difference 25 minutes can make! Light changes quickly around sunrise and sunset as can be seen in today’s picture of Factory Butte which was taken...



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9
Nov
2022
Radiating Ridges


Eroded ridges leading to the base of Factory Butte near Hanksville, Utah. This drone image was taken just after sunset on October 6th, 2022.



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7
Nov
2022
Factory Butte Pre-Dawn


Most of the area around Factory Butte is defined by sharp ridges radiating out from the elevated butte. On the southern side, however, this smoother area...



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10
Oct
2022
Rings of Mars


This abstract image was created by pointing my drone camera directly downwards while flying over the eroded terrain near the Mars Desert Research Center...



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8
Oct
2022
Black Spire


One of the more weird and wonderful locations we visited this past week was a black spire that can be found at the end of a mile’s hike over the desert...



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7
Oct
2022
White Ridge on Blue


An overhead image of an eroded ridge near Factory Butte in Utah, taken just before sunset as the light was just catching the top of the ridgeline.



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23
Jun
2022
Hoodoos


A couple of hoodoos seen in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah during last November’s NxNW expedition to Moab and Hanksville. This is another infra-red...



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22
Jun
2022
Goblin Valley IR


An infra-red view taken in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah during last November’s NxNW trip to the area. We enjoyed Goblin Valley so much that we visited...



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