Arizona

USA 2011 - Colorado River

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• Henry David Thoreau.

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Another shot of Yavapai Point at sunset. This time I used my wide angle lens for getting the shot. This was one location at the Grand Canyon where I reached before everybody else and had the location all to myself to set the camera up for the sunset. Of course it got filled up a soon as sunset was happening but I had all the time in the world to change lenses and take photos at my leisurely pace.

Hope you all enjoy the shots, thanks for visiting…

• Socrates.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you “The Tunnel” from lower antelope canyon. This is an impressive formation, especially when you get to shoot it without anyone walking through your frame. It felt like the canyon came to an abrupt end when we first came across it but after you pass through the tunnel the canyon opens up again and all was well.

Unlike the upper canyon which has a wider base the V shaped lower canyon is tough to negotiate especially with a camera bag and a tripod with you. I really love the way this one turned out. Thanks for visiting have a nice day.

• Zhuangzi

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Another shot from Antelope Canyon. I think this is about the last decent shot from my last trip and I just can’t wait to visit Page again. I am not sure if there is any town in America that gives you so much photography potential and such a sense of the west. For a person who grew up in a tropical climate, this is such a different world altogether.

On a different note I am so grateful that my pics are getting such exposure these days and so thankful for all the wonderful encouragement and visits.

USA 2011 - Route 66

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Grand Canyon, AZ

This is the view right off the Blue Mesa ring road -looking east over the expansion lands. I shot this on a Canon 5D mk2 with a super sharp Zeiss 50mm Makro Planar. 8 vertical shots stitched together to make a 1Gig file that I can print 24" by 60" at 300DPI and still retain great detail. This looks way better on Moab Somerset Museum Rag than it does on the Web. I spent a week in the park shooting at sunrise and sunset (working for the park). The park closes at those times of the day so I had the whole place to myself. I gave all my images to the Park Service to use to promote the park. It's an awesome place.

USA 2011 - Monument Valley

Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation.

• Elbert Hubbard.

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This shot was taken at Lower Antelope Canyon during our last trip to Page, Arizona. My guide pointed out this formation to me which he nicknamed “wave”. You basically has to take the shot pointing the camera straight up to the sky and the light range is so varied, the only way to get anywhere near a good exposure is to use HDR. I am glad I had enough time to make this shot.

Thanks for visiting, have a great day.

Monument Valley meaning valley of the rocks. It is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes. It is located on the Arizona–Utah border, near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.

This photograph is taken from a viewpoint which is located at the entrance of the park. It is a classic photograph of this fantastic place. The interesting moment of the photograph is that at sunset, the shadow of the tower on the left is projected on the tower in the middle; achieving the effect of a hand with a separate finger.

Of course, when you go to take this photograph it will not be an easy task. You will find thousands of tourists who want to take a selfie. In fact, if you look closely, you will see some shadows of some legs on the rock in the foreground on the right. These, I could no longer remove.

Monument Valley que significa valle de las rocas. Es una región de la meseta de Colorado caracterizada por un grupo de vastas colinas de arenisca. Está ubicado en la frontera entre Arizona y Utah, cerca del área de Four Corners. El valle se encuentra dentro del rango de la Reserva de la Nación Navajo y es accesible desde la U.S. Highway 163.

Esta fotografía está tomada desde un mirador que está situado a la entrada del parque. Es una fotografía clásica de este fantástico lugar. La gracia del momento de la fotografía, es que en el momento del ocaso, la sombra de la torre situada a la izquierda se proyecta sobre la torre del medio; consiguiendo el efecto de una mano con un dedo separado. Por supuesto, cuando vayáis a hacer esta fotografía no será tarea fácil. Os encontrareis miles de turistas que querrán hacerse un selfie. Si os fijais bien vereis unas sombras de unas piernas en la roca del primer plano situada a la derecha. Estas, ya no las podía quitar.

Monument Valley, Utah, United States September 2016

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USA 2011 - Monument Valley

• Kin Hubbard.

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While living in LA, we were spoiled by the abundance of stunning locations nearby. There were tons of national and state parks a short drive away and some location that could easily be national parks as well. So, when someone mentioned about a little town called Sedona near the Grand Canyon national park, it didn’t immediately climb to the top of the list. But it piqued our interest enough to be added into our next trip to the Grand Canyon’s south rim. I only did cursory research about the place, and most of it resulted in the image of cathedral rocks and the sliding rock state park which provides some stunning vistas of these beautiful rock formations. We only had an afternoon allocated for the park and had to leave immediately after sunset to get to our hotel near Grand Canyon NP.

As soon we got near Sedona, we knew that we made a mistake, the place was just beautiful with stunning rock formations everywhere we looked. Fall had passed, but there were still some remnants of fall colors lingered on some of the more stubborn trees. We explored the small park on foot till the sunset. And as soon as the light started to warm up, we headed to our sunset spot. I picked this spot for the sunset shot due to the rather sill pool of water on the slick rock, but during sunset, the whole stream was rather calm providing a spectacular reflection of the rock formation with some nice trees on both sides completing the composition.

I arrived at Watson Lake to see a beautiful pink sunset. After the sun set, the rocks seemed to start to glow, giving another great view. I returned next morning for a beautiful sunrise and waited around for golden morning hour. So I ended up with 4 pictures which I will post here over the next few days, and wonder which one gets your preference.

Navajo Bridge crosses the Colorado River's Marble Canyon near Lee's Ferry in the US state of Arizona carrying U.S. Route 89A. Spanning Marble Canyon, the bridge carries northbound travelers to southern Utah and to the Arizona Strip, the otherwise inaccessible portion of Arizona north of the Colorado River, which includes the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.

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The second picture, which was taken not long after the first one, however, the colors in the sky and also the reflection had totally changed.

I arrived at Watson Lake to see a beautiful pink sunset. After the sun set, the rocks seemed to start to glow, giving another great view. I returned next morning for a beautiful sunrise and waited around for golden morning hour. So I ended up with 4 pictures which I will post here over the next few days, and wonder which one gets your preference.

.... sunset pano in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

• The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).[5]

The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park, the Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon–Parashant National Monument, the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.

Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists, several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.

For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.

• Franklin P. Jones.

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Another shot from lower antelope canyon at page, AZ. this is one of my favorite shot from the trip as it has a clear representation of all the texture on the canyon walls. This one was taken pointing straight up from where we were standing and there was no sky visible. One of the challenges of shooting in a V shaped canyon is shooting straight up as there is simply not enough to room for even to stretch your tripod out. Thanks for visiting and have a nice day.

• Edward Hopper.

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After our hike of antelope canyon we decided to try our luck and head back to monument valley, to get one more sunset shot. I had this location in mind for sunset but we slightly under estimated the distance and only reached here after sunset. When we reached at the famous 13 mile marker, it was almost completely dark with only a bit of light remaining in the far western sky.

It’s really hard to make sunset shots when it’s dark all around but you still have to use ND grad filters. This was the best shot of the bunch and it was a bit of work to get the foreground to brighten up. Thank you for visiting hope you enjoy the picture..

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The blue hour is the period of twilight when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon and residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue shade, which differs from the one visible during most of a clear day, which is caused by Rayleigh scattering.

The blue hour occurs when the Sun is far enough below the horizon so that the sunlight's blue wavelengths dominate due to the Chappuis absorption caused by ozone. Since the term is colloquial, it lacks an official definition similar to dawn, dusk, and the three stages of twilight. Rather, it refers to a state of natural lighting that usually occurs around the nautical stage of the twilight period (at dawn or dusk).

La hora azul es el período del crepúsculo en el que el Sol se encuentra a una profundidad significativa por debajo del horizonte y la luz solar indirecta residual adquiere un tono predominantemente azul, que difiere del que se ve durante la mayor parte de un día despejado, que es causado por la dispersión de Rayleigh.

La hora azul ocurre cuando el Sol está lo suficientemente por debajo del horizonte para que dominen las longitudes de onda azules de la luz solar debido a la absorción de Chappuis causada por el ozono. Dado que el término es coloquial, carece de una definición oficial similar a amanecer, anochecer y las tres etapas del crepúsculo. Más bien, se refiere a un estado de iluminación natural que generalmente ocurre alrededor de la etapa náutica del período crepuscular (al amanecer o al atardecer).

Monument Valley, Utah, United States September 2016

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Grand Canyon National Park

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Monument Valley

• Saint Augustine.

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Totem pole at monument valley is always an amazing sight. I was a bit limited that day regarding composition as they only allowed us to certain parts of the valley. I have seen some photographs of this beautiful location with sand dunes as foreground interest with the beautiful sandstone formations bathed in beautiful pink light from the setting sun and was hell bent on taking a similar shot. I made this shot using a short-tele focal length to compress perspective and stitched 4 images together to get wider view. Hope everyone likes it.

Now for the shameless plug, my images will be on display at the A-Frame Hollywood gallery and if you are in the location please do drop by and say hello.

One of the amazing places in the American Southwest! This is the vista from Oak Creek. Wading through the shallow water was required to capture this great view.