What could be more awesome than spending our couple weeks in the southwest in Utah's Zion National Park? Our campsite was next to the Virgin River, with the walls of Zion Canyon lit up by the setting sun.

First hike: The Narrows - a unique experience wading in the Virgin River 6 km up the Narrows Gorge to "Wall Street", where the canyon is at its narrowest and highest.

It's hard to image a more beautiful cycling experience than a ride down Zion Canyon, which we did next. Along the way, we parked our bikes to hike up to the Upper Emerald Pool, nested below towering cliffs. Later, as we approached our campsite below the "Watchman", the late afternoon sun made the mountain glow.

Just when you think that Zion has presented as much beauty as it can, it offers up more. One day, it was a climb of 700 m (higher than the CN Tower) over 6.5 km to Observation Point. The point is accessed through Echo Canyon, a slot canyon entered high above the Zion Canyon floor. It was magical, underscoring the maxim "Its about the journey, not the destination". The highlight was not the view of Zion Canyon from the top, but the changing light on the canyon walls as the day progressed.

On another day, Jennifer and I drove up a switchback road and through a tunnel to the eastern section of Zion. The most known feature there is Checkerboard Mesa, but a small area of colourful sandstone formations left us breathless.

Zion just kept offering up delights. Another highlight was Keyhole Canyon, a slot canyon, near the Park's eastern boundary. It was in this narrow canyon that seven canyoneers died in a 2015 flash flood.

On our last day in Zion, we hiked up to Hidden Canyon, then returned to Echo Canyon. Hidden Canyon offered up a trail along a cliff edge, a "sandfall" created by a bighorn sheep, and a small but pretty arch. At Echo Canyon, we found our way down into a section of the slot canyon. It was stunning.

I've processed some images in black + white, and some in both colour and monochrome.