Painted Deserts

The 5-day Marc Adamus photography workshop was entitled "Painted Deserts" and was to focus on photographing the Southwest's colorful badlands using a drone. Andy and I had purchased DJI Air 2S drones and were excited to learn to use them. As for most of Marc's workshops, there was only a vague itinerary, with weather and landscape conditions dictating actual locations. We ended up visiting:

• Smoky Hollows badlands, Glen Canyon NRA
• Paria Mesa badlands, between Page and Kanab
• Arizona's Painted Desert near Winslow
• Two San Rafael Reef badland areas, near Factory Butte & Muddy Creek
• Three sandstone tower locations east of Moab

All the badlands (aka painted desert) images are below. The sandstone tower images have their own, separate gallery.

Panoramas – Tap/click on a pano's thumbnail to show an interactive, moving panorama; use the on-screen control bar or your finger/mouse to move around:

Smoky Mountain Sunrise:

Image Gallery – Tap to view an individual image, then swipe to advance; use the top-right controls for auto play & other options (e.g, tap the curved arrow to open sharing options):