9/28/2023 0 Comments Mountain landscape![]() But, the Canadian Rockies differ substantially from their U.S. How They CompareĮach range has a distinctive appearance. There are three major mountain ranges in the western United States: the Rocky Mountains which run from New Mexico through Colorado and Wyoming and into Canada the Sierra Nevada Range along the eastern boundary of northern California and the Cascades that extend from just inside California through Oregon and Washington to the Canadian border. During the past six months, I spent time photographing the Canadian Rockies, which I last saw forty years ago the Wasatch Range in Utah which I visited frequently, but didn’t photograph and the Eastern Sierras which I last photographed in 1999. The results are instructive as they demonstrate that my earlier efforts were not limited by the scenery, but instead by my own limited perspectives, planning and work ethic, and by technology as well. Only after a half dozen such trips have, I realized that this has been a sub-conscious but a consistent drive to cover old ground armed with improved skill, better technology, and deeper insights. Lately, I began revisiting specific mountain areas with more purpose and deliberation seeking reconnection and a new inspiration. But, I did photograph mountains in Colorado and Wyoming as a change of pace. I am not yet tired of this palette, and never will be. The inspiring array of uncommon shapes, bright warm tones and endless texture that characterize Sedona and the adjacent Colorado Plateau, has provided inspiration and impetus. Sedona, in the heart of Red Rock Country, was my solution. Eventually, I tired of a steady palette of blues, greens, and browns, and sought a different one of brighter, warmer tones. One of them is re-visiting and photographing beautiful scenery decades later.īefore moving to Sedona in 2002, most of my landscapes were of mountain environments which I have loved since early childhood in Colorado Springs. Share on Twitter A Photo-Essay by Harvey Stearn Western Mountain Landscape Photography There are few things in life that you get to do over.
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