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I love deep deep canyons and Canyon de Chelly is one of the most beautiful I've seen. It is also full of native American history which makes it even more appealing. It is another of those places in the heart that I want to go back to over and over. I can hear the echoes of the ages beckoning to me to come back!
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Early morning light enhances the valley where the Spider Rock reaches up 800 ft into the air. There is a wonderful Navajo legend regarding this tower. I long to go back and be able to photograph it from the floor of the valley as opposed to atop the valley looking down on it.
Canyon de Chelly is filled with many many delights. You do have to get permission and perhaps a guide to go into the valley. There are ruins and sights of wonder to behold. A true Southwest treasure.
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Bryce Canyon is one of my favorite places. When I stand at dawn and look down into the canyon as the sun filters through and hits the white spires I feel as if I have found the center of the universe! It's beautiful anytime ... but the most special is dawn. I like the wide expanse shots however my favorite are the more closed in shots such as above where you can focus on the light's fantastic effect on the white spires.
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View of Glen Canyon and the Colorado River. This image was taken looking north from the Glen Canyon Dam.
Navajo sandstone forms the canyon walls throughout most of the reservoir basin. The sandstone is remarkably uniform and homogeneous over wide areas and nearly identical samples can be obtained from areas separated by many miles. The Navajo sandstone is buff to reddish, medium to fine-grained, and moderately hard to soft.
Five separate rivers, of varying sizes, feed into and form Lake Powell. These include the Colorado River from Colorado, the Green River from Wyoming, the San Juan River from New Mexico, the Escalante River and Dirty Devil River from Utah.
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument was established on April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service. It is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, it preserves ruins of the early indigenous tribes that lived in the area, including the Ancient Pueblo Peoples (also called Anasazi) and Navajo.
Canyon de Chelly can be traveled by car following both North Rim Drive and South Rim Drive.
Canyon del Muerto located at the North Rim Drive is where a prehistoric Indian burial ground was found in 1882. The name translates to Canyon of the Dead.
Here is a picture taken from the North Rim near Massacre Cave overlook which got its name after an 1805 Spanish military expedition killed more than 115 Navajos at this site. The Navajo at the time had been raiding Spanish settlements that were encroaching on their territory. Accounts of the battle at Massacre Cave differ. One version claims there were only women, children, and old men taking shelter in the cave, but the official Spanish records claim 90 warriors and 25 women and children were killed. Also visible from this overlook is Yucca Cave, which was occupied about 1,000 years ago.
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One more from the lost files recently found. View in FULL size. The Grand Canyon shot back in September 2006 with my Canon 20D. Because of the lower quality of the 20D I had to do some Photoshop magic to make the image worthwhile. I'm so glad I found these files.
Not far from Queenstown is this magnificent view of Skipper's Canyon. The road was built so gold miners could get in here and is not for the faint hearted! Also the car rental companies won't allow you to use the road. The worst problem is mini buses full of rafters and other thrill seekers which travel at speed.
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Also named "Fjaðárgljúfur", with one "r" removed.
The most photographed canyon on Iceland, west of Kirkjubæjarklaustur.
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona in the United States, near the town of Page. The dam was built to provide hydroelectricity and flow regulation from the upper Colorado River Basin to the lower. Its reservoir is called Lake Powell, and is the second largest artificial lake in the country, extending upriver well into Utah. The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a colorful series of gorges, most of which now lies under the reservoir.
Construction of Glen Canyon Dam started in 1956 and was not finished until 1966. When the reservoir filled, the dam began to deliver a regulated flow of water downstream and a supply of electricity to the region. In 1983, major floods nearly led to the dam's collapse, but disaster was averted by a close margin. By suppressing floods and other factors that once characterized the Colorado, the dam has led to major physical and ecological changes in the lower river. Controversy continues over the effects both positive and negative of the dam, which has also been antagonized in many literary works.
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And here we are with another of the majestic Grand Canyon. You can see just a smidgeon of the Colorado river curving 'round the bend, there.
The first rays of summer light hit the banded formations as the fog evaporates from the canyon floor.
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Sunrise, Plateau Point, Grand Canyon NP, November 2007. Taken at f/22, 3/5 sec. exposure, with stacked 2-step and 3-step Singh-Ray Graduated ND filters. A few people have asked - no HDR in any of my shots. Plateau Point is a splendid viewpoint about 1.5 miles off of the Bright Angel Trail and is 3,000 feet or so below the South Rim.
An amazing view to behold there in the canyon. Well worth the mile hike to get to this location. For this sunset, I was the only one there.
The fog had lifted revealing the depths of color and height that make the Grand Canyon one of the most inspring sights.
As with so many shots it seems so ordinary to me unless you can view it large and see the beauty that lies in the depths of the canyon as well as the miles of vista in the background. If you have time here it is in 3000 pixels which is 1/2 of the orginal size.
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I'm sure there are flaws in the photo but for some who might never get to wander through the haunting canyon it might be a nice experience.
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USA
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The Zion NP Narrows Hike is one of the best experiences I have ever had, The light was just magical. Here you see the sun light up the walls of this amazing slot canon to give an amazing glow.
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A Canadian National unit sulphur train crosses the Thompson River in rugged Black Canyon west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on June 26, 2006. The Canadian Pacific’s parallel main line can be seen on the other side of the river directly above CN’s truss bridge.
South Rim of 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).
Spectacular view of Wadi Nakhr (sometimes referred to as Wadi Ghul, to which it is joined), popularly known as the "Grand Canyon" of Oman.
South Rim of 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).
One from the amazing Bryce Canyon about an hour before sunset. Walking among the hoodoos is a great experience and seeing them from a high vantage point is breathtaking.
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Here's a desert shot, posted in anticipation of my upcoming Death Valley trip, taken in Snow Canyon State Park, UT, just outside of St. George. This state park is an interesting place, and worthwhile for a stop over on the way to the bigger name parks like Zion and Bryce. If you explore some in the state park, you'll find a lot of cool rock formations like this one, that aren't nearly as heavily photographed as others in the state.
I'll be in Death Valley all of next week, with plans to go to Badwater Basin (of course), the Racetrack (of course), and also several of the dune formations in the park (Eureka, Mesquite Flats, Panamint). Anyone been to the park for photography before and willign to share any advice? Thanks!
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Here's a 'close' shot of Bryce Canyon's famous hoodoo formations glowing in the early morning light. Certain types of sandstone in the canyon really take well to sharply inclined light, giving the rock high amounts of contrast and bringing out the best in color. Being out west was so different from the Appalachians - image sharpness was so much easier, as I rarely had to worry about wind disturbing any trees or water flow vibrating my tripod. I found these close shots of the canyon to be very interesting, because they aren't your typical strong-foreground type of shot - I guess there's exceptions to any rule. Someday when I'm not a poor graduate student I would love to return here with an actual telephoto lens to really get some close shots. Until then, the 17 - 40mm on an APS-C sensor camera will do!
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.South Rim of 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).
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Early morning view of the Grand Canyon.
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The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet or 1,800 meters). 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 the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests that the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.