Friday's Focus - 2019/06/28 - National Park Icons

This Friday our Focus is on Icons, National Park Icons to be specific.

Please reply to this Thread and add your Iconic National Park photos to it.

I will start with a couple from my favorite National Park, Yosemite.

Jim

Arches NP, 2015

One of my hiking/photo buddies doesn't ever visit national parks because of the crowds and feels that all our photos of the iconic views are derivative. I agree with him for the most part, but they're iconic for a reason, and I enjoy getting my own take on these places. I do feel lucky to have visited many BITD before they became ungodly crowded (many nights in half empty Zion campgrounds!).


Most of the photographers gathered for sunset that evening were pissed at this young woman for taking too long on her yoga poses right at sunset. I quite enjoyed it, with the crowds at this iconic spot I expected it, plus she was attractive and very good!


I'll bet we could have a whole thread on just this iconic tree.


We were lucky to have this campsite to ourselves.


First morning on a Denali climb.


Canadian Rockies


Typical view of Mt. Rainier from Paradise.


Longs Pk. sunrise.

I am of the opinion that I don't care what anyone else says...I will shoot the icons, I love them, I want to experience them, and the moment I am there shooting them is what makes my image unique when compared to the 10K other pictures of that icon...

Mt. Rainier National Park...guess how many other people got this image...none...because no one else was there! Even my friend that was with me...was doing something else and didn't get this condition...


Great Smoky Mountain National Park...my favorite park...it is the closest to me, and the one I have been to more times than I can count...again, very unique conditions...normally this rock is iconic...but I got to see it in a very different way, almost no water flow.


Death Valley National Park...my most recent addition to NP I have been to...one I will go back to again...I loved it there.

My Icons

Mesa Arch

Factory Butte

The Watchman


Schwabacher Landing

Stunning images as usual Ben.

Bryce Canyon:

Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park
Mt. Rainier from Reflection Lake:
Grand Tetons:

Edit: I deleted some images for the sake of resource preservation.

AlanLichty said:

Bryce Canyon:

Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park

Ruby Beach Sunset Panorama

• AlanLichty
• Sep 10, 2017

Sunset panorama at Ruby Beach. Olympic National Park, Washington

Mt. Rainier from Reflection Lake:

Rainier Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• Sep 14, 2017
• 1

A quiet sunrise at Reflection Lakes, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington.

Mt. Baker:

Click to expand...

Really nice...those are both places on my list for August...I am considering a day out at Olympic and a day down at Rainier...

Beautiful images, everyone!
Here are my contributions.

Racetrack


Mesa Arch (P&S days)


Monument Valley

Here are a few...

1) Yosemite Tunnel View


2) Death Valley Zabriskie


3) Zion Subway


4) Yellowstone Grand Prismatic Spring


5) Arches Delicate Arch


6) And since you didn't specify US National Parks... Banff Moraine Lake

Lots of great mages here. Here are a few of mine.

Grand Tetons from Pilgrim Meadow


The Great White Throne


The Castle at Capitol Reef


Hayden Peak at the North Rim of Grand Canyon


Rainbow Point, Bryce Canyon National Park.

My icons, forgive me if some of the locations have already been featured in someone else's post:

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands


Balanced Rock, Arches


False Kiva Cave, Canyonlands


Grand Canyon:


And Death Valley:








Thanks for viewing, best regards

Vieri

Jim, do we have enough bandwidth to support all these icons we're going to see? Dunno.

But, I'll follow the trail of tears to Mesa Arch for starts..

A couple from a nearby park.











Now how’d that gratuitous cute cat picture get in there?

rfkiii said:

Arches NP, 2015

Click to expand...

rfkiii said:

Arches NP, 2015

Click to expand...

Really nice icons Rick!

I'll stick to the fringes of Zion: Two sunsets of the East Entrance





And one from Kolob (Taylor Creek) area:





Bart

Jeffrey said:

Jim, do we have enough bandwidth to support all these icons we're going to see? Dunno.

But, I'll follow the trail of tears to Mesa Arch for starts..

View attachment 19365

Click to expand...

Evidently, not.

JimFox said:

Really nice icons Rick!

Click to expand...

Thank you.

Bart Carrig said:

I'll stick to the fringes of Zion: Two sunsets of the East Entrance

View attachment 19375

View attachment 19378

And one from Kolob (Taylor Creek) area:


View attachment 19383


Bart

Click to expand...

I wish these were showing up, Bart.