Zion National Park

7844, Virgin River and Guardsman at Sunset
Zion National Park

7848, Court of the Patriarchs at Dawn
Zion National Park

7867, Dry Wash and Red Maple
Zion National Park

7870, The Three Patriarchs
Zion National Park, UT

7852, Court of the Patriarchs at Dawn
Zion National Park

7858, Pulpit and Alter
Zion National Park

7859, Pulpit and Alter, Wide Angle
Zion National Park

7865, Virgin River and Guardsman, Afternoon
Zion National Park

7868, Virgin River Valley near Great White Throne, Zion National Park

9060, Evening Meadow near the Guardian, Zion National Park, Utah

9062, Virgin River, Green Spring Leaves and Canyon Walls, Zion National Park, Utah

9110, Slickrock Paintbrush and Green Leaves,
Zion National Park, Utah

9057, Wildflowers near the Emerald Pools, Zion National Park, Utah

9057A, Virgin River Valley from the Emerald Pools, Zion National Park, Utah

9058, Upper Emerand Pool, Zion National Park, Utah

9059, Arizona Mules Ears and Boulder, Near Emerald Pools, Zion National Park, Utah

9063, Slick Rock Paintbrush on Purple Slab near Checker Board Mesa, Zion National Park, Utah

9099, Waterfall near the Three Patriarchs, Vertical, Zion National Park, Utah

9109, Slickrock Paintbrush with background, Near Checkerboard Mesa, Zion National Park, Utah

9110, Slickrock Paintbrush and Green Leaves,
Zion National Park, Utah

9111,Slickrock Paintbrush and Checkerboard Mesa, Zion National Park, Utah

9061A, Arizona Mules Ears, Cactus and Rocks, Zion National Park, Utah

9084, Green Trees, Canyon Wall and Blue Sky, Zion National Park in Utah

9109, Slickrock Paintbrush with background, Near Checkerboard Mesa, Zion National Park, Utah

9064, Utah Red and Tan Butte East of Zion National Park in Utah, Very long narrow image. This will print to huge sizes.

9102, Zion Shooting Stars Up Close, Zion National Park, Utah

9066, Towers of the Virgin, Dawn, Zion National Park, Utah

9108, Slickrock Paintbrush, High Slabs, Zion National Park, Utah

9067, Towers of the Virgin II, Dawn, Zion National Park

9097, Spring Storm, Towers of the Virgin, Zion National Park, Utah

9107, Towers of the Virgin, Upclose, Dawn, Zion National Park, Utah

9098, Waterfall near the Three Patriarchs, Zion National Park, Utah

Rocky Mountain Photography is Fred and Joan Hanselmann

Rocky Mountain Phototograpy is myself and my wife, Fred and Joan Hanselmann. We have been seriously photographing the Rockies and the Southwest since 1990. We currently live and work in our home in the Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Albuquerque, NM. I am the guy on the left with the large format camera, taking pictures in Colorado. Joan is on the right, photographing with her medium format camera at McDonald Lake in Glacier National Park.

Both Joan and I have a great love for the mountains and rivers and deserts of the American west. I suppose this came from our childhoods. We both grew up in Wyoming and learned at an early age to love the wild places around us. Joan grew up camping and fishing and hiking with her family in the Wind River Mountains in the North-western part of the state.

I had similar experiences. When I was between ten and fourteen or so, my parents would often take my brother and I on a series of wonderful summer vacation trips to the great National Parks of the West.

Since we lived in Wyoming, one of the places we often visited was Grand Teton National Park. I can still remember one magic morning when we got up very early to go on a hike. We were walking around Jenny Lake shortly after dawn. The lake was absolutely still and mirrored the majestic Cathedral Group of the Tetons. Mists swirled above the lake and in the high peaks. The air was filled with the scent of pine and clean mountain water. I was absolutely enthralled. I vowed to come back. And I have. I've been back to the Tetons every year of my life since, except for a couple of years that I spent in the army. The Tetons have become a central and enduring part of my life.

Another formative experience happened on one of our visits to the Grand Canyon. We were on the North Rim at the beautiful old lodge there. I remember we were on some sort of overlook near the lodge, right on the the rim of the canyon. Someone was playing classical music on an organ. How the organ got to the overlook, I'm not sure. I guess the lodge did things more grandly in those days. I remember standing at the iron railing, overlooking the Canyon, watching the sun set into purples and mauves and golds and reds and being completely swept away. My mother tells me that I couldn't be budged from the place until the sun had completely set and it was dark.

And then there were countless fishing and camping trips in Wyoming that filled my mind with happy memories. The smell of sage, the sound of running water, the sight of white cumulus clouds floating high over blue peaks had a large influence on my developing mind.

I'm sure that all of these experiences played a large part in my decision to become a landscape photographer. These images of the beauty of the natural world, seen at an early age, have remained with me all my life. Perhaps by being a landscape photographer, I'm trying, over and over, to recreate the perfection of these early images.