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Photography In The National Parks: Abstracts In Nature

How many of you out there appreciate abstract art? Even if you don’t like it, how many of you have photographed something abstract because it caught your eye while visiting a unit of the National Park System? Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson discusses ways to photograph (or even create after the fact) abstracts framed within your national park compositions.

Photography In The National Parks: Always Be A National Parks Traveler

Contributing photographer and writer Rebecca Latson has spent the past 11 years with the National Parks Traveler, writing about tips and techniques for getting the best national park photos – no matter what camera you use. In her final article for the Traveler before it goes dark on December 31, 2023, Rebecca recaps some of those tips and techniques.

Visitors On A Ranger-Led Hike Of Red Basin, Petrified Forest National Park

A ranger-guided hike over the badlands of Red Basin at Petrified Forest National Park

Visitors can take a ranger-led 8.5-mile roundtrip hike over Red Basin, "a fossil-rich area part of the land within the 2004 boundary expansion of Petrified Forest National Park. Along this hike you will see petrified wood, petroglyphs, unique erosional formations such as hoodoos, vibrantly colored badlands deposited over 215 million years ago, and fossil clam beds."

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Painted Desert As Far As The Eye Can See, Petrified Forest National Park

A view of the orange, red, and beige dunes of Painted Desert above a blue sky with puffy clouds at Petrified Forest National Park.

Quite a few units of the National Park System have a "Painted" something-or-other. In Petrified Forest National Park, it's the Painted Desert, with saturated desert colors of orange, red, rust, pink and beige. This Painted Desert can be accessed just off of Interstate 40 through Arizona.

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