Still Proud

by Rob Hemphill

Title

Still Proud

Artist

Rob Hemphill

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

On leaving the East Entrance of Zion National Park and driving towards Bryce Canyon National Park is the Checkerboard Mesa. This is a sandstone hill with unusual crack patterns in the rock which resemble a grid similar to those on a checkerboard.

Although, this image is not of the Checkerboard Mesa itself, it is taken in the immediate area. Dead trees can be seen all over both Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks as many have succumbed to lightning strikes. This dead tree still stands proud in its dry and desolate environment.

Zion National Park is an American national park located in southwestern Utah near the town of Springdale. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile (590 km2) park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles (24 km) long and up to 2,640 ft (800 m) deep. The canyon walls are reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone eroded by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest point in the park is 3,666 ft (1,117 m) at Coalpits Wash and the highest peak is 8,726 ft (2,660 m) at Horse Ranch Mountain.

Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park has a unique geography and a variety of life zones that allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals (including 19 species of bat), and 32 reptiles inhabit the park's four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches.

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Featured in the following FAA Groups:

"A Tree or Trees in Black and White" 08/25/2020
"Photography and Nature 101" 03/17/2020
"Creative Black and White Fine Art Photographs" 03/16/2020
"Black And White Photography" 02/13/2020
"Daily Promotion" 02/04/2020
"The Grayscale Outdoors" 01/29/2020
"The Road To Self Promotion" 01/27/2020
"Your Story of Art" 01/26/2020
"Land and Sea" 01/26/2020
"National Parks" 01/26/2020

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January 26th, 2020

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