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Desert Southwest Landscape Photography Fine Art Prints and Wall Art

Pictures of the Desert Southwest Red Rock in Arizona and Utah

A Desert Southwest landscape photography gallery by Joseph C. Filer of captivating pictures of desert landscapes from Utah and Arizona including Factory Butte, Gold Canyon, Paria Canyon, Vermillion Cliffs, White Pocket, Horseshoe Bend and more.

Desert Southwest landscape photographs are for sale as Limited Edition Luxury Fine Art Paper Prints, Chromaluxe ® Metal Prints, and non-glare TruLife ® Acrylic Prints. Frames and large-scale prints 8 feet or more in size are available.

Experienced In Desert Photography

I have returned to photograph the deserts in the Southwest many times. It may be an un-named desert in Arizona, California or Utah. It may be Death Valley or White Sands National Parks. From the first time I experienced them, I was fascinated with their photographic potential.

Deserts may be simple and minimalistic like White Sands. They may be a place of many colors and formations like Death Valley, White Pocket, Factory Butte or Paria Canyon. Mountains are wonderful, but there is a whole other world out there with the deserts.

Photographing American Southwest Desert Landscape – Facts and Reflections

Deserts are defined by a lack of water and receive less than 10 inches of rain per year. Deserts in the United States cover around 500,000 miles. There are 4 deserts in the United States: Great Basin (the largest and covers 190,000 square miles), Mojave (25,000 square miles), Chihuahuan, and Sonoran (120,000 square miles).

The desert landscape photos often include cacti. The saguaro cactus, Carnegiea gigantea, is the largest cactus in the U.S., commonly reaching 40 feet in height. The desert landscape photos in this gallery capture the drama and majesty where desert landscapes meet rocky buttes and the photographs are enhanced by the colors seen at sunrise or sunset.

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Sunset over the desert and mountains at Gold Canyon, Arizona — Golden Sunset

Remote rock formation at sunrise near Canyonlands National Park, Utah — Middle Of Nowhere

a tall rock spire in the middle of a canyon in Utah at sunset — Sunset At The Spire

A purple cloud in a storm over a canyon at sunrise in Utah — Purple Storm

view of red desert formations from above in Arizona — From Above

Warm light of the setting sun on a red rock formation in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada — Valley Of Fire

Warm sunrise light on a red rock butte in New Mexico — Northern Butte

Red and green color in the sand formations in Paria Canyon in Utah — Cascading Colors

Early light on the rock formations in a canyon in Utah — Butte Colors

deep ridges in the rock fornation in early blue light in Utah — Desert Shadows

Sunset sky over Factory Butte in a remote desert in Utah — Factory Butte Sunrise

bright colors and shapes on the desert floor in a remote arizona desert — Desert Colors

Storm clouds lit up by the setting sun at Shiprock, New Mexico — Shiprock Drama

closeup of the rock ridges leading up to Factory Butte in Utah — Ridges

A single cloud at sunrise over Factory Butte in the desert in Utah — Factory Fresh

Sunrise storm clouds over a remote canyon in Utah — Desert Buttes

colorful red and green sand and rock sloping down in Paria Canyon, Utah — Desert Flow

Sloping rock and sand of many colors in a remote canyon in Utah — Color Slope

Storm clouds over the desert of the Eastern Sierra, California — Sierra Storm

The red rock formation known as the X-Factor due to its shape in Red Rock Country, Arizona — The X-Factor

Swirling red rock country formations in the area of White Pocket, Arizona — Red Swirl

a view of the Colorado River winding around Horseshoe Bend in the Red Rock Country of Arizona — Horseshoe Bend Morning

A panoramic view of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada after a heavy snowfall — Red Rock Canyon Snowfall

panoramic view of a dramatic rock spire in a remote desert in Utah — The Spire

many layers of red and pink in the desert formations in a remote Arizona desert — Layers Of Red

deep red colors in the desert floor formations in a remote Arizona desert — Deep Reds

A panoramic view of Red Rock Canyon after an unexpected snowfall in the red rock country of Nevada — Red Rock Canyon

A panoramic view of Factory Butte at sunrise in the desert of southern Utah — Factory Butte Sunrise

Swirling shapes and colors in the red rock country formations in the area of White Pocket, Arizona — Bursting

Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly with snow on the red rock in Arizona — Cold Spider

A vertical view of Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona — The Spider

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Fine Art From the Desert Southwest

We all like the mountains, coastlines, lakes, and rivers for the scenery they offer. The desert areas of the American Southwest offer scenery that is completely different. There may not be trees and water, but the rock formations and desert skies can be an unforgettable combination. It can all be preserved in a Fine Art Print.

Visiting and Photographing Desert Landscapes

This gallery represents areas that are comprised of arid deserts with just a few trees to absolutely barren deserts with only sand dunes. The most famous sand dunes are shown in our separate Death Valley Gallery.

Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, South Dakota, and California contain some beautiful deserts. The impression that deserts are bland and colorless is simply not the case as evidenced by our photographs in Utah. Many of the desert areas are comprised of Red Rock as shown in our Red Rock Country gallery.

The American Deserts in Arizona have their rock formations and cactus. New Mexico has its white gypsum sand at White Sands National Park. Utah has amazing colors in Paria Canyon. There is Red Rock in Monument Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Zion National Park, Arches National Park, and Canyonlands National Park.

South Dakota has it’s incredible Badlands. There are more areas of Deserts to explore for landscape and nature photographs than one can do in a lifetime. That doesn’t mean I can’t try.