Each day on VERO,  Snap Kingdom moderators across dozens of photographic categories choose photos to be featured on that day.  The photos they feature are often stunning, representing the best of what is out there on social media today.  I recommend visiting the Snap Kingdom page at https://vero.co/snap_kingdom to learn more about the community and view the featured categories.

Over the last several weeks, I've had 3 photos selected on 3 Snap Community categories.  These represent my 22nd overall featured photos in 13 different categories.  I'm very excited to be a member of the Snap Community and to have my photos featured.  It's like entering a photo contest with hundreds hundreds of entries every day.  The category moderators do a tremendous job viewing and selecting submissions, many thanks to them for all their hard work!

The minimalist photo below of a petrified sand dune at Snow Canyon State Park in Utah was taken on my June trip to Utah.  It was one of my favorite images from the trip, and I was intially disappointed that it didn't seem to get much attention when posted on my social media feeds.  It was selected by the @snap_landscape moderators for feature in August, along with 2 other minimalist landscape photos.  It was very exciting to recieve this recognition and validation of my initial thoughts about the photo!

Another photo from my Utah trip,  also taken at Snow Canyon State Park, was featured in July on @snap_usa.  I was really struck by the way this tree angled across the frame toward the light in the mouth of a slot canyon at the park.

I don't often take photos specifically with black and white in mind,  but have been focusing more lately on choosing photos for black and white conversion during the editing process. Some of the black and white photos from my recent Utah and Wyoming trips have been especially popular on Vero lately.  This photo of granite rock formations in the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming was featured last week on @snap_community_member, which is a page reserved for all photographers who have achieved community member status after 5 features on the community sites.  There was great light falling on this morning scene, leading to many different levels on tonality in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at these recent features and reading my blog post!

Scott