The Landscape Of The American West

Panoramas of the American West

The full moon rises above Monument Valley shortly after sunset. The band of blue arcing through the eastern sky is Earth Shadow...
Moonrise Over Monument Valley
East and West Beckwith mountains rise high above the golden aspen forest of Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado. Photo ©...
Paradise View over Kebler Pass
The full moon is low on the horizon and close to setting as the early dawn light washes across the Grand Canyon and Colorado...
Luna Dawn
A winter scene of snow and hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. © Adam Schallau, All Rights Reserved.
Winter Panorama at Bryce Canyon Panoramic
The sky erupts in a beautiful display of color rivaled only by the colors of the aspen trees in their autumn glory. San Juan...
Autumn Panorama from Silver Jack
Cardiac Canyon, a slot canyon on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona.
The Fluidity of Stone
A panoramic view of fall color along Kebler Pass in Colorado. Photo © Adam Schallau, All Rights Reserved.
Endless Splendor
The erosion sculpted badlands of the Caineville badlands in southern Utah. It's remarkable to think of the time that it takes...
Witness of Time
A panoramic view of fall color, courtest of aspen trees and scrub oaks, below the towering cliffs of Cimarron Ridge along the...
Cimarron Ridge Panoramic
The erosion-sculpted forms of the Mummy Cliffs in Capitol Reef National Park.
Mummy Cliffs
A touch of fall color in the cypress tress found along a stream in the Hill Country of central Texas. © Adam Schallau, All Rights...
Cypress in the Hill Country Panoramic
Granite Rapid at mile 93.9 on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park. © Adam Schallau, All Rights Reserved.
Pink Rush in Granite
Cottonwood trees in a brilliant display of fall color with their trunks and branches overlapping and tangled amongst each other...
Cottonwood Chaos
An autumn sunrise over Ruby Peak and the aspen forest of Kebler Pass from the Horse Ranch Park overlook near Crested Butte, Colorado...
Ruby & Gold Panoramic
Fall color in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Photo © Adam Schallau, All Rights Reserved.
High Country Majesty Panoramic
Sunset over Marble Canyon and the Colorado River. From Saddle Camp in Grand Canyon National Park. © Adam Schallau, All Rights...
A Grand Sunset over Marble Canyon Panoramic
Morning light spills across the cliffs of the Grand Canyon as the Colorado River winds its way downstream, carving a luminous...
Morning Passage at Nankoweap
Afternoon light streams into Marble Canyon causing a chimney rock to glow in the warm reflected light bouncing off the canyon...
Late Afternoon from Eminence
The sky over the San Juan Mountains and Mount Sneffels is awash in soft golds and pinks. An Autumn sunset in southwestern Colorado...
Purple Mountain Majesties
A panoramic view of fall color near Crested Butte with Avery Peak in the distance. © Adam Schallau, all rights reserved.
Autumn Sunrise on Avery Panoramic
The Gunnison River makes its way towards the setting sun. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado. © Adam Schallau...
Painted Wall Panoramic
From the Nankoweap Granaries, the Colorado River stretches into the distance, its waters catching the soft glow of evening light...
Downstream of Nankoweap
Earth shadow rises above Marble Canyon. From Marble View on the Kaibab Plateau near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Earth Shadow from Marble View
The green grasses are in abundance surrounding Deer Lake on the Kaibab Plateau near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
Summer at Deer Lake
A panoramic view of fall color in the aspen trees with Gothic Mountain towering in the distance. © Adam Schallau, all rights...
Morning Light on Gothic Mountain Panoramic
Cottonwood trees glow in morning light along the Colorado River. From the confluence of Monument Creek and Granite Rapid in Grand...
New Light on Granite
A panoramic sunset over the Grand Canyon. From Hopi Point on the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park. © Adam Schallau, All...
The Grandest of Canyons
Comanche Point and the Palisades of the Desert tower above the Colorado River. From Hilltop Ruin in Grand Canyon National Park...
Twilight on the Palisades
Storm clouds move across Vishnu Temple and the North Rim as the first rays of light of a new day paint the cliffs in fiery hues...
Storm Clouds over the North Rim
Church Rock rises above the surrounding terrain of northern Arizona near Monument Valley. In the distance on the horizon is Agathla...
Ancient Volcanoes
I love to photograph the desert landscape after sunset, especially on the Colorado Plateau in the American Southwest. The light...
Dusk Across the Waterpocket Fold
Snow falls across a winter scene of Ponderosa pine trees and a red barn near Flagstaff, Arizona. © Adam Schallau, All Rights...
Winter in the High Country Panoramic
As a summer monsoon storm clears, the many temples, peaks, and buttes of the Grand Canyon emerge from the clouds, including Mount...
Mount Hayden in the Clouds
A panoramic view of the moon rising in the sky over the towering buttes and mesas of Castle Valley near Moab, Utah. On the left...
Moon over Castle Valley