Purple Alpenglow Across the Mysterious Zion ~ Altar of Sacrifice

This is the Mystical Zion National Park In mid winter, I lensed this mysterious looking image of Zion National Park while flying over Mount Shunberg in February. The scale of this image is vast, each little dot on the mountains in the lower foreground is a large conifer tree.  

I love the colors of this image. Taken in the late afternoon after the sun has set, the alpenglow effect glows with a bluish hue that mixes with the auburn, umber and magenta-vermilion colors of Zion. 

You are looking a distance of 60 miles across the mountains. It was exceedingly cold the day I took this image, and windy as evidenced by the curling clouds above the majestic formations. Because I fly with the window open all the way so I can swivel and shoot through the open air, the cold is tremendously biting. However, I am geared up for it with the proper clothing, my fur hat and very good gloves, but when I am in contact with the slipstream from the propeller wash it exasperates the intensity of the cold and permeates every pore of your body.

This image is from my ongoing project in which I am trying to raise awareness of the 47% of the USA and 90% of Canada that remain unpopulated wilderness.  

Where Eagles Fly - The American Wilderness Expedition is my personal mission to introduce people to these amazing locations that surround us.  

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