Awards
1999 Benjamin Franklin Award, Travel category
Synopses & Reviews
The Colorado Plateau is a land rich in red sands, chocolate crags, eternally translucent skies, and stunning canyons. The region inscribes the deserts, mountains, rivers, and high mesas of the four corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. David Muench has walked this land---the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Canyon de Chelly, Bryce Canyon National Park, Mesa Verde, Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Grand Staircase / Escalanate National Monument --- and has retruend wit the unforgetable images that are presented in this book. PLATEAU LIGHT focuses on the heart and soul of America's Redrock Country, expressing the beauty and wilderness of areas ranging from the Grand Canyon to Paria. These landscapes once inspired the Anasazi, Fremont and Archaic peoples and serve as the perfect background for the petroglyphs and ruins they left behind. For the first time in softbound edition, these spectacular photos will inspire, delight and amaze, both readers and photographers alike.
Each plate has a thumbnail image with David Muench's photo notes in the back of the book. Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award, Travel Category, 1999
Synopsis
Plateau Light focuses on the heart and soul of America's Redrock Country, expressing the beauty and wilderness of areas ranging from the Grand Canyon to Paria. Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, Arches, the San Rafael Swell, Dirty Devil River, Capitol Reef and the Henry Mountains all captured David Muench's attention. His images also include vistas of the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness and the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument. These landscapes one inspired the Anasazi, Fremont and Archaic peoples and serve as the perfect background for the petroglyphs and ruins they left behind. For the first time in softbound edition, these spectacular photos will inspire, delight and amaze, both readers and photographers alike.
Synopsis
Showcases America's Redrock country from the Grand Canyon to Zion to Arches. First time in paperback.
Synopsis
The Colorado Plateau is a land rich in red sands, chocolate crags, eternally translucent skies, and stunning canyons. The region inscribes the deserts, mountains, rivers, and high mesas of the four corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. David Muench has walked this land---the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Canyon de Chelly, Bryce Canyon National Park, Mesa Verde, Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Grand Staircase / Escalanate National Monument --- and has retruend wit the unforgetable images that are presented in this book.
About the Author
David Muench is a master professional photographer whose work has become a benchmark in American landscape photography. David’s photographs have appeared in with more than fifty books and countless exhibits, magazine articles, and calendars. The Colorado Plateau is one of David’s favorite places to photograph the American landscape. David lives near Albuquerque, NM.