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One of Mother Nature’s geological showcases is on full display at Arches National Park. With more than 2,000 natural stone arches throughout the 119-square-mile park, as well as hundreds of pinnacles, fins and balanced rocks, where does an artist start? Arches National Park not only a destination for geologists, but for anyone who admires natural beauty.

As everyone knows the best light occurs early in the morning and late in the afternoon, as the lower angle of light gives your subject depth and a greater sense of reality. This is especially true with red sandstone. The warmth of the light, during the "Golden Hour", deepens the redness of the rock into amazing hues, the very reason this land is often called "color country."

Recommended for early morning shots: The Three Gossips, Sheep Rock, the Great Wall, Turret Arch, the Spectacles, Double Arch, Cache Valley, Wolfe Ranch, Landscape Arch, and Double O Arch.

In the late afternoon or early evening, stop by Park Avenue, Courthouse Towers, Petrified Dunes, Balanced Rock, the Garden of Eden, North and South Window Arches, Delicate Arch, Fiery Furnace, Skyline Arch, Devils Garden, and Tower Arch.

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