From Charles Torello Photography on Facebook…

Harpers Corner @ Dinosaur National Monument. Northwest Colorado. June 2021.

Dinosaur NM straddles the Utah-Colorado state line. More of it’s in Colorado. However, its famous wall of fossils is in Utah, east of Vernal.

This was taken with a Samsung 10, in panoramic mode, and, of course, modified with Light Room.

This moment was at the end of a “big drive” from Sedona to Pipe Spring NM to Zion’s Kolob Canyons to Great Basin NP to the Bonneville Salt Flats to Utah’s Wasatch Mountains to southwest Wyoming where I could see the Green River in the Flaming Gorge as much as possible… then Dinosaur.

Of course, this was done over several days. I camped and stayed in cheap motels. The overall cost was quite low.

Not every moment of travels like this is fun. There is that southwest heat. There is the monotony of many hours of driving. There are other things I won’t broach.

However, regardless of how little this photo captures the emotions of this enormous vista eastward into Colorado, with the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers below, it was fun to be there. It was worth the hassle of travel.

The sudden and massive change in your emotional state for coming upon beautiful vistas you didn’t anticipate seeing are precisely why I love travel and photography. They create highs like nothing else.