Antelope Canyon near Page Arizona has been a place I have wanted to see for a very long time. Recently the opportunity presented itself and I must say the formations are fantastic. The image above gives you an idea of the scale of the canyon as the photographer on the lower right side shows.
Antelope Canyon is made up of both the Upper and Lower Canyons. It is the most visited and photographed canyon in the United States. The Navaho name for the upper canyon is "Tse bighanilini" which means "the place where water runs through rocks". The lower canyon is named "Hasdestwazi" or "spiral rock arches".
A flash flood danger always exists, especially during monsoon season. Rain does not have to fall nearby for flash floods to occur. On August 12, 1997, 11 tourists including 7 from France, 1 from the United Kingdom, 1 from Sweden and 2 from the United States were killed in a flash flood in the Lower Canyon. Very little rain had fallen that day in the vicinity, but an earlier thunderstorm had dumped a large amount of rain into the basin 7 miles upstream.
Thus ends our information session for today.
Live well and prosper.
Dennis
Here is an image taken recently at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. This is taken from the Park Avenue Lookout at the head of the trail. The trail winds through the image near Courthouse Towers.
I just returned from the southeast of Utah, namely Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. The above image is of "newspaper rock" which is about 65 miles south of Moab, Utah. I can't imagine what the stories on the rock would actually tell one, but it would make for interesting reading if one spoke "pictorial" language.
It is a peaceful Sunday morning and I have a day off work! Traditionally a family day I will spend some time with my grandson and then enjoy a family dinner.
Today while sitting in front of my computer screen, a new photo appeared that I didn't remember taking. It was obviously from the Monument Valley Area, but I hadn't previously processed it. I liked the rock formations but the sky was just blah! I searched my files for an appropriate sky and found the one above. The only problem was the sun in the sky was shining from the right while the sun on the rock is obviously from the left. Well not to be too concerned about that, I opened trusty photoshop and merely selected the sky image and rotated it horizontally to make it appear that the sun was coming from the left. Then it was a simple matter to "copy" and "paste" the rocks onto the new sky. Voila!
Antelope Canyon near Page Arizona has been a place I have wanted to see for a very long time. Recently the opportunity presented itself and I must say the formations are fantastic. The image above gives you an idea of the scale of the canyon as the photographer on the lower right side shows.
