Happy Sunday! I love finding unknown canyons in rarely visited places. So many gems when you spend the time and effort to get out and look around. #Stunday #nature #utah #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands #backpacking #photobyraykenny #ShotsInSlots #wildplaces #offtrail

Happy Sunday! I love finding unknown canyons in rarely visited places. So many gems when you spend the time and effort to get out and look around.

#Stunday #nature #utah #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands #backpacking #photobyraykenny #ShotsInSlots #wildplaces #offtrail

Without shadows, you cannot see the light.- Haruki Murakami This #photobyraykenny was taken in the Mount Pennell WSA. The shadows in the front & back highlight the ridge between which glows with beautiful light. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadow #Wild #Hiking #nature #Utah #Landscape #photography

Without shadows, you cannot see the light.- Haruki Murakami

This #photobyraykenny was taken in the Mount Pennell WSA. The shadows in the front & back highlight the ridge between which glows with beautiful light.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadow #Wild #Hiking #nature #Utah #Landscape #photography

Happy Sunday! Hiking through this gorgeous area on our 17-day #backpacking trip, my mind & soul were calmed. It felt holy. I reflected who I am, and who I want to become.

#Stunday #GlenCanyon #nature #utah #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands #photobyraykenny #ShotsInSlots

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see -Taoist Proverb This saying is appropriate in these times. A calm mind provides us with clarity & introspection. Anger will not move us forward #photobyraykenny #WaterWednesday #nature #SierraNevada #hiking

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see -Taoist Proverb

This saying is appropriate in these times. A calm mind provides us with clarity & introspection. Anger will not move us forward

#photobyraykenny #WaterWednesday #nature #SierraNevada #hiking

Happy Friday everyone! I hope the day treats you kindly and remember: “Peace isn’t about avoiding the storm - it’s dancing in it with grace” - unknown #ForestFriday #nature #reflection #SensoryArt #Weather #scape #landscape #PhotographersofBluesky #photobyraykenny

Happy Friday everyone! I hope the day treats you kindly and remember:

“Peace isn’t about avoiding the storm - it’s dancing in it with grace” - unknown

#ForestFriday #nature #reflection #SensoryArt #Weather #scape #landscape #PhotographersofBluesky #photobyraykenny

Hiking along the Esplanade Sandstone in western Grand Canyon is sublime. #scape #landscape #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #landscapephotography #nature #backpacking #photobyraykenny #hiking

Hiking along the Esplanade Sandstone in western Grand Canyon is sublime.

#scape #landscape #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #landscapephotography #nature #backpacking #photobyraykenny #hiking

Enjoying some flat water on the Colorado River on a Grand Canyon packrafting trip. #WeekKforKaraoke: “Take me to the River” - Talking Heads #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #ColoraDay #RedWed #packrafting #backpacking #photobyraykenny #landscapephotography

Enjoying some flat water on the Colorado River on a Grand Canyon packrafting trip.

#WeekKforKaraoke:
“Take me to the River” - Talking Heads
#GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #ColoraDay #RedWed
#packrafting #backpacking #photobyraykenny #landscapephotography

Beehive Rock in Horseshoe Canyon Wilderness Study Area. The butte is mostly made of Jurassic-Triassic Wingate Sandstone topped by the whiter Jurassic Navajo Sandstone. #RockinTuesday #SaveOurPublicLands #geology #nature #landscape #photography #photobyraykenny

Beehive Rock in Horseshoe Canyon Wilderness Study Area. The butte is mostly made of Jurassic-Triassic Wingate Sandstone topped by the whiter Jurassic Navajo Sandstone.

#RockinTuesday #SaveOurPublicLands #geology #nature #landscape #photography #photobyraykenny

Happy #RockinTuesday! Being a geologist who loves the Grand Canyon, I can never share enough photos of it. Here is #photobyraykenny in a remote canyon of the Grand Canyon. I love how the layers of water and deposits in the drainage contrast with the colors and layers of the Vishnu Schist.

Happy #RockinTuesday! Being a geologist who loves the Grand Canyon, I can never share enough photos of it. Here is #photobyraykenny in a remote canyon of the Grand Canyon. I love how the layers of water and deposits in the drainage contrast with the colors and layers of the Vishnu Schist.

Beautiful narrows in Capitol Reef National Park #Stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #NationalParks #Parkchat #ShotsInSlots #canyons #nature #hiking #backpacking #photobyraykenny

Beautiful narrows in Capitol Reef National Park

#Stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #NationalParks #Parkchat #ShotsInSlots #canyons #nature #hiking #backpacking #photobyraykenny

Lighting and the time of day can change everything. Normally, this is a non-descriptive butte in Canyonlands National Park. But it is “FIRE” with the morning light. #Stunday #NationalParks #Parkchat #Canyonlands #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #backpacking #photobyraykenny #landscapephotography

Lighting and the time of day can change everything. Normally, this is a non-descriptive butte in Canyonlands National Park. But it is “FIRE” with the morning light.

#Stunday #NationalParks #Parkchat #Canyonlands #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #backpacking #photobyraykenny #landscapephotography

A beautiful Anise Swallowtail seen in Bears Ears National Monument. #InsectThursday #Butterflies #ColoraDay #YellowThu #photobyraykenny #thelittlethings

A beautiful Anise Swallowtail seen in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah.

#InsectThursday #Butterflies #ColoraDay #YellowThu #photobyraykenny #thelittlethings

Happy Thursday! Here is a long-nosed leopard lizard to brighten your morning. Fun fact: Leopard Lizards are fierce predators and have been found choked to death attempting to consume prey that is too large for them to swallow. #herps #wildlife #nature #lizards #photobyraykenny

Happy Thursday! Here is a long-nosed leopard lizard to brighten your morning. Fun fact: Leopard Lizards are fierce predators and have been found choked to death attempting to consume prey that is too large for them to swallow. Canyonlands, 5/26/25.

#herps #wildlife #nature #lizards #photobyraykenny

This beautiful lake is in the San Juan Mountains of southwest CO. The cyan color is from fine glacial flour that interacts with sunlight scattering the blue & green wavelengths of light #ColoraDay #BlueTue #CyanTue #smArtist #warm #RockinTuesday #geology #nature #photography #photobyraykenny

This beautiful lake is in the San Juan Mountains of southwest CO. The cyan color is from fine glacial flour that interacts with sunlight scattering the blue & green wavelengths of light

#ColoraDay #BlueTue #CyanTue
#smArtist #warm
#RockinTuesday #geology
#nature #photography
#photobyraykenny

This rock, in Yosemite National Park, has been polished & ground from the last glacial event, around 20,000 years ago. The striations, or lines, show the direction the glacier advanced or retreated. #RockinTuesday #NationalParks #Parkchat #Geology #nature #hiking #backpacking #JMT #photobyraykenny

This rock, in Yosemite National Park, has been polished & ground from the last glacial event, around 20,000 years ago. The striations, or lines, show the direction the glacier advanced or retreated.

#RockinTuesday #NationalParks #Parkchat #Geology #nature #hiking #backpacking #JMT #photobyraykenny

Good morning Blueskyers! Happy #BlueSkyMonday and #MountainMonday #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #photobyRayKenny #nature #hiking #backpacking #ProtectOurPublicLands

Good morning Blueskyers! Happy #BlueSkyMonday and #MountainMonday

#GrandCanyon #NationalParks #Parkchat #photobyRayKenny #nature #hiking #backpacking #ProtectOurPublicLands

North of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah #Stunday #ShotsInSlots #PhotobyRayKenny

North of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah

#Stunday #ShotsInSlots #PhotobyRayKenny #SlotCanyons #ProtectOurPublicLands

Good morning! It’s #WaterfallWednesday. This beautiful cascade is located on the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, CA.

#WaterfallWednesday #AnselAdamsWilderness #photography #EastCoastKin #Waterfall #nature #landscapephotography #PhotographersofBlueSky #photobyraykenny

I love this #photobyraykenny of Ice Lake. Rosie the dog is in it for scale. #ColoraDay #CyanTue #DogsofBlueSky

I love this #photobyraykenny of Ice Lake. Rosie the dog is in it for scale.

#ColoraDay #CyanTue #DogsofBlueSky #SanJuanMountains #Hiking #nature #photography #Colorado

The lighting in Buckskin Canyon glowed a brilliant orange.

#Stunday #ShotsInSlots #SlotCanyons #Wilderness #ProtectOurPublicLands #Paria #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #photobyraykenny #nature #hiking #backpacking

Zoroaster Temple, Grand Canyon before sunset.

#Stunday #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #sunset #NationalParks #Parkchat #hiking #nature #ProtectOurPublicLands #naturephotography #photobyraykenny

At the #campfire I had one of those “once in a lifetime” moments last week. My husband & I were #backpacking in #SEKI in CA & saw 8 Sierra bighorns!! They are endangered & there are only ~350 of them left. My heart is full. #photobyraykenny #EastCoastKin #wildlife #nature #NationalParks #parkchat

At the #campfire

I had one of those “once in a lifetime” moments last week. My husband & I were #backpacking in #SEKI in CA & saw 8 Sierra bighorns!! They are endangered & there are only ~350 of them left. My heart is full.

#photobyraykenny #EastCoastKin #wildlife #nature #NationalParks #parkchat

Good morning! Here is a #ShotsInSlots photo in the Parunuweap Wilderness Study Area. Join me with posting your own #ShotsInSlots, broadly interpreted. #Stunday #photobyraykenny #ArtYear #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #wildplaces #hiking #Wilderness #slotcanyons #nature #HaydukeTrail

Good morning! Here is a #ShotsInSlots photo in the Parunuweap Wilderness Study Area. Join me with posting your own #ShotsInSlots, broadly interpreted.

#Stunday #photobyraykenny #ArtYear #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #wildplaces #hiking #Wilderness #slotcanyons #nature #HaydukeTrail

A headdress in bold light Pulls me forward To skip through shadows I will climb to the light Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park #scape #landscape #ColoraDay #BWFri #ClassicMono #poetry #NationalParks #Parkchat #AnselAdamswannabe #Sierra #photobyraykenny

A headdress in bold vibrancy
Pulls me forward
To skip through shadows
I climb to light

Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park

#scape #landscape #ColoraDay #BWFri #ClassicMono #poetry #NationalParks #Parkchat #AnselAdamswannabe #Sierra #photobyraykenny

Reminiscing about great campsites. Here is a fantastic site right on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. What great campsites have you stayed at? For #Stunday & #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #NationalParks #GrandCanyon #hiking #backpacking #naturephotography #photobyraykenny #Parkchat #ProtectOurParks

Reminiscing about great campsites. Here is a fantastic site right on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. What great campsites have you stayed at?

For #Stunday & #ColoraDay #OrangeSun
#NationalParks #GrandCanyon #hiking #backpacking #naturephotography #photobyraykenny #Parkchat #ProtectOurParks

For #Stunday I often come back to my favorite place on the planet: Grand Canyon. I seek out the remote places where people don’t go. I feel at peace there.

#ColoraDay #OrangeSun #SelfPortraitSunday #Canyons #GrandCanyon #Nationalparks #Parkchat #backpacking #nature #peace #photobyraykenny #hiking

Lighting on alternating layers of sandstone contrast in colors. #BlueSkyArtShow #Alternating #EastCoastKin #slotcanyons #shotsinslots

Lighting on alternating layers of sandstone contrast in colors.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Alternating #EastCoastKin #slotcanyons #shotsinslots #photobyraykenny #smArtist #change

Happy #Stunday everyone! Some days all you have to do is look outside and appreciate what is there. #sunset #nature #eastcoastkin #photobyraykenny #photographersofbluesky

Happy #Stunday everyone! Some days all you have to do is look outside and appreciate what is there.

#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin #photobyraykenny #photographersofbluesky #wildplaces

#BlueSkyArtShow. The reflection in Iceberg Lake was as #smooth as silk. #photobyraykenny taken September 5, 2018 in Ansel Adams Wilderness in CA. #wildplaces #wilderness #nature #backpacking #thruhiking #Sierra #hiking #naturephotography

#BlueSkyArtShow. The reflection in Iceberg Lake was as #smooth as silk. #photobyraykenny taken September 5, 2018 in Ansel Adams Wilderness in CA.

#wildplaces #wilderness #nature #backpacking #thruhiking #Sierra #hiking #naturephotography

#BlueSkyArtShow. A #smooth as glass reflection in a pothole. #photobyraykenny taken April 26,2024 in western #GrandCanyon #NatitonalParks #Parkchat #Nature #ProtectOurPublicLands

#BlueSkyArtShow. A #smooth as glass reflection in a pothole.

#photobyraykenny taken April 26,2024 in western #GrandCanyon

#NatitonalParks #Parkchat #Nature #ProtectOurPublicLands