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Montana landscape and wildlife photographer. No, I am not using Ai to make these photos. https://dylandybdal.myportfolio.com

Every photo I post is taken by me, with my camera, in person, in a place you can actually visit.

31/10/2026

Grand Canyon National Park

In the vast wilderness of the American Southwest, this chasm seems to tear open the very fabric of Earth itself. The Grand Canyon, sculpted by floods, rains, winds and the relentless Colorado River stands as one of nature's most magnificent creations.
An abyss more than a mile deep and stretching some 277 miles through the arid plateaus of Arizona. Rim to from, the eye struggles to grasp the true scale of this monstrosity. The distant walls, painted in bands of red, gold and purple seem to recede into hazy infinity. This place is a location of wonder and mystery. Most of it's caves are blocked off by the US government, officially for safety, supposedly as a cover up.

This place is a vast mystery, each stone telling a chapter of history. It's a living library of geology, where forces that shape the world are laid bare for all to see. This is no barren monument however. Within it's shadowed depths, and along its sun-drenched rims thrives a remarkable diversity of life. From the ponderosa pines in the high elevations, to the desert scrub and riparian oases that line the river corridor. Plants and animals have adapted to these extreme conditions and to this vertical world.

In the Grand Canyon, nature has created both a cathedral of stone and a sanctuary of life, an enduring reminder of the power, patience and beauty of the this world.

Enjoy!

29/10/2026

Bryce Canyon National Park.

At the edge of a high plateau, the land falls away into a series of natural amphitheaters unlike any other on planet earth. Here thousands of slender rock spires, Hoodoos, rise in ranks of orange, pink and cream. Their shapes both delicate and monumental. They are the work of frost and rain, of water freezing and thawing in the cracks of the Claron Formation, splitting the soft limestone and sandstone into these improbable towers. At sunrise amphitheaters fill with light and the hoodoos seem to catch fire.
The air is thin and clear and the nights here are among the darkest in the United States.

This is a very unique place unlike any other I've ever been.

Please enjoy a few photos from our trip into this national park!

25/10/2026

Zion National Park, a towering canyon of beautiful Navajo sandstone which glow in shades of cream, rose and vermillion. High in the cliffs, the hanging gardens throughout the canyons cling to the rock. Trails climb through slot canyons and along cliff faces that would seem impossible for the normal person to climb. Zion is a place of grandeur and intimacy, of vast open places and of showed corridors where the rock presses in close.

Angels Landing for many is a once in a lifetime hike, or a bucket list item. I was excited to hike the trail, but not excited about the huge crowds I knew would be inevitable here. The hike itself is not technical or difficult, just really steep. Often touted as one of the most dangerous hikes in the country, I was astounded by how safe it felt. Many other hikers were clearly not psychologically prepared for this hike as was evident by their clinging to trees and rocks as they slowly climbed up. The parks service provides a chain to hold onto in many of the areas to help keep people from falling I'd assume and many people were clinging to that like it was the only thing keeping them from floating off the trail. In any case, the hike was good and we enjoyed it. Kolob Canyons is the other side of Zion that very few people visit. The views from the road were great and the canyon is impressive. Anyway, enough babbling, here are a few photos from our trip into Zion this fall.

Please enjoy!

23/10/2026

Capitol Reef National Park

Capitol Reef is quieter than it's neighboring parks, less crowded and all the more revealing for it. Ancient deserts and rivers are seemingly frozen in time here, painted in bands of red, white and brown. Here one can walk among folds of Earth, patient forces that continue to lift and sculpt this remarkable area of Utah.

Here are a handful of photos from our trip.

Please enjoy!

24/08/2026

Here are a handful of photos from our most recent trip into Washington. We were chasing waterfalls on this trip and we certainly found quite a few of them. We hiked to around 10 or 12 waterfalls on this long weekend.

Sadly, I lost my tripod on this trip to one of the rivers, so I will be investing in a new one.

Please enjoy these images!

07/07/2026

Toward the end of our trip into the Canadian Rockies we spent a few days in Jasper National Park. Although a large portion of the park is in tatters from the fire in 2024, it was still beautiful in many ways, especially in terms of wildlife.

That being said, this forest fire in Jasper should serve as a cautionary tale for every national park in the Rocky Mountains. As trees grow thicker and thicker each year, creating an increasingly unhealthy forest, the danger of a wildfire increases as well. Jasper lost over half the town, half of the residences, to this fire as well as tens of thousands of acres of forest. That's not to mention the fire in 2015 that took many tens of thousands of acres of forest in it’s wake as well.
Proper forest management would have prevent or at least mitigated so much of the disaster and probably would have saved the homes of the people of Jasper. Our national parks need to manage their forests otherwise just such disasters will continue to happen.

A place very close to my heart that is also in danger of this happening, as it did in 2015, is Glacier National Park. The Park Service's refusal to allow loggers to clean up the forests, make them healthier and remove the dead wood is a disappointment and unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before other such wildfires take place again. It'll take many decades, for such areas to recover and it makes me sad that we refuse to do anything to mitigate or even prevent such disasters.

Anyway, I'll get off my soap box now...

Please enjoy!

06/07/2026

These photos are from our trip into the Canadian Rockies, that being said, these are not from any one particular National Park, but rather from the Icefields Parkway.

The Icefields Parkway is easily one of the most scenic drives I've ever taken.

Please enjoy!

04/07/2026

In keeping with my release schedule of photos from our trip into the Canadian Rockies, here are a handful more photos I was able to capture on this amazing trip.
These are from Yoho National Park, which I like to dub "Banff's small brother".

These were some of the photos I've had to work the hardest to capture. We hiked over 17 miles the day we were in Yoho to get these views. Needless to say, we were hurting pretty good for a couple days after this.

In any case, please enjoy!

03/07/2026

In continuation of my release of photos from our Canadian Rockies trip, here are a handful of photos from our trip into Banff.

Please enjoy!

02/07/2026

Over the next few days/week I hope to post the photos from our most recent trip into the Canadian Rockies.

Waterton is truly amazing, it has been 14 years since I had last been in the park and it was as incredible as I remember. We arrived in the park in the late afternoon in the park, did a drive and found four black bears which as properly incredible.
The next day we hiked the Crypt Lake Trail. This trail is properly amazing and has everything one could ask for on a hike. Waterfalls, mountains, glaciers and vistas. National Geographic calls this one of the top 20 hikes in the world and one could see the argument they are making for sure.

Anyway, pardon my rambling, here are a handful of the photos I was fortunate enough to capture while in Waterton!

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