There’s a reason National Geographic named this place after Kodak's most famous slide film back in the 40s. The colors out here are just different. You’ve got white-cream sandstone, deep chocolate layers, and red rock peaks that look like they were saturated manually.

The big draw here are the sedimentary pipes—these giant, vertical stone spires that shoot straight up from the valley floor like ancient chimneys. It’s a completely different landscape than the big national parks nearby, much quieter, and a hell of a lot of fun to shoot.

Kodachrome Basin is the kind of place that reminds you why you carry a camera into the desert. It’s a relatively small basin, but it’s packed with over sixty of these bizarre sedimentary pipes reaching up into the blue sky.

For a photographer, it’s a giant playground of lines and texture. The multi-colored cliffs wrap around the basin, and as the sun moves, the shadows from those giant stone pillars stretch across the valley floor like a sundial.