Landscape photography: Canyonland Grotto, Utah

A vaulted grotto with a skylight shelters the ruins of cliff dwellings. The Anasazi, or Ancient Ones, tilled corn in the valley below and retreated to the heights at night. Whether fleeing enemies or a prolonged and widespread drought, they disappeared from Utah by about 1300. This canyon, near Salt Creek in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, also shows evidence of disastrous flash floods at that time. Visitors today know the huge alcove as Paul Bunyan’s Potty.

Source: National Geographic

Landscape Photography: A Sand Dunes Sunset in Peru by Canada’s Adventure Couple

Source: A Sand Dunes Sunset in Peru

Landscape Photography: Desert Rivers, Mexico

Rivers forming treelike figures on the desert of Baja California, Mexico

Source: National Geographic Photo of the Day

Landscape Photography: Vermilion Cliffs, Arizona

Source: National Geographic

Against the soaring backdrop of Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs, the 1929 Navajo Bridge, now used for foot traffic, crosses the Colorado River beside its 1995 counterpart.

Landscape Photography: Delicate Arch at Dusk by Grant Collier. Arches National Park, Utah

Source: Grant Collier Photography