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My interest in photography came after seeing amazing photos of the Milky way by various photographers from around the world. I started learning how to take pictures at night ever so slowly starting with just a black photo of what I thought would be an amazing picture of the celestial bodies above. I soon realized it was more than just pointing the camera in a direction and shooting. Eventually I learned that things like exposure length and aperture are your friends and can help capturing a photo of the milky way. I went to Zion Nation park with the intention of fumbling around in the dark and capturing the Milky way. I was in luck and the first night I took hundreds of shots and ended up with a couple decent ones. One of my favorites was the above capture of the Milky way between two mountains in Zion park.
I was pretty happy and decided to see how things looked during the day and was able to capture quite a few nice shots of the beauty and activities around the National park.
What a great view you get as you enter the visitors center along with quite a few fellow national park enthusiasts planning their course.
Nothing like playing in a stream and quite a few visitors took the time to get their feet wet and experience the water first hand.
A few people actually found some deeper water to swim in, or at least sit down and let the water flow over their body.
Plenty of shade and places to get out of the sun and enjoy the view from the protection of a large tree.
No post would be complete without one of the friendly squirrels that inhabit so many of our National Parks. This squirrel seems to be friendlier than normal and appeared to enjoy having his photo taken.