Hiding Horseshoe Bend T-Shirt

Horseshoe Bend is a point on the Colorado River in which it makes a wide sweep around a sandstone escarpment. Typical to any river, it sought the path of least resistance to the sea, but around 5 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau had a tectonic shift that uplifted area. Over time, the meandering rivers condensed into one river as they were became trapped in the changed landscape into what is now known as the Colorado River. Over time, the river cut through the uplifted layers of sandstone into the shape that we see it today. Horseshoe Bend is approximately 1,000 ft deep with an arch of 270º.

I am a San Diego based landscape and wildlife photographer, born and raised in Stockton, Illinois ( the 'S' is - not - pronounced ). I am one of the many that came to San Diego for a visit and just kept delaying my plans to go home. Although my heart is still pulled to the rural and slower lifestyle of growing up in farm country, my life is in and around San Diego. Over the years, I've grown to appreciate the big city lifestyle, but I always crave getting outside, discovering new places, reaching for those places that remind me of my youth, and to find connections with folks that are also from Northwest Illinois. My love for photography was born out my creative instincts. During my professional training in advertising design, a course in...