Gallery

To learn more about the photographs included in David Muench: The Allure of Light, select an image of interest below or a category from the list above.

This image shows rock formations including Turret Arch in the Windows Section of Arches National Park in Utah, with the La Sal Mountains visible in the background.
Windows and Pillars
This image shows various cacti - saguaros, prickly pear, cholla - and other plants in the Harquahala Mountains range in Maricopa County, Arizona, with dramatic shadows and fading sun.
Fading Light
This image shows storm clouds above dwellings in Hovenweep National Monument
Hovenweep Storm
This image shows a sandstone rock in the foreground, with the Three Sisters rock formation in Monument Valley, Arizona in the background. Snow is visible on the ground.
Three Sisters Winterscape
Image depicts the San Francisco Peaks in distance through large stacked sandstone rocks in the foreground. The sky is clear and lighting direction is from above right.
Sandstone Vantage Point
This image shows sandstone rock fins in the foreground with Yeibichai Rocks formation visible in the background in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona.
Sandstone Light
Image depicts a spiral petroglyph, carved onto one of many boulders, in front of a forest of saguaros. The background shows the Tuscon Mountains and large clouds in the sky
Hohokam Spiral Petroglyph
This image shows bristlecone pines in the Patriarch Grove in Inyo National Forest, White Mountains, California.
Moonset Bristlecone Pines
This image depicts the Goosenecks along the San Juan River. A large platform takes up a majority of the image
The Goosenecks
Image depicts the Subway or Left Fork slot canyon in Zion National Park with pools of water
The Subway – North Creek
This image shows the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Grand Canyon Labyrinth
Image depicts a slot canyon in Page, Arizona (from website) with a rainpool on the bottom half of the image
Rainpool – Waterholes Canyon
This image shows rock formations in the distance through Tear Drop Arch (alternately Teardrop Arch) in Monument Valley, Utah.
Sandstone Window – Teardrop Arch
This image shows White House Ruin (Kinii’ ni gai in Navajo or Dine), an Ancestral Puebloan dwelling, in Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona.
White House Ruin
This image shows bristlecone pines in the Shulman Grove, near the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest Visitor Center outside Bishop, California.
Prometheus – Ancient Bristlecone
This image shows Wilson Arch near Moab, Utah. Snow is visible on the ground.
Wilson Arch Winterscape
This image shows rock formations in the Grand Canyon through a hole in a limestone rock at the South Rim.
Limestone Window