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Antelope Canyon Gallery Page Up & Ready for Viewing!

Posted on June 7, 2010 by in JOURNAL, Snow and Sand - Journey West Feb 2 - April 2

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<div align="left">A guide took me out on flat desert ground and said, &quot;there it is.&quot; A small hole into a ravine is where I dropped into to stroll along approximately a mile into this narrow canyon. The light at high noon is best here as it plays on the walls of the canyon, changing the colors as well as the exposure with each moment! The shapes, the lines and the colors here fascinated me. The guide went ahead of me and played his guitar which beautifully echoed off the canyon walls. <div align="center"> <p><font size="+2"><b>*<br> </b><a href=

Below the ground lies this beautiful narrow canyon. About a mile long, I slowly wound my way through its cool sandstone walls and watched the light paint color that changed as quickly as it was painted. The canyons echoed a raven overhead and the beautiful guitar solo of one of the Navajo guides. <div align="center"> <p><font size="+2"><b>*<br> </b><a href= The images change from solid to ethereal when the blowing sand blows in with the light. Here you see the blowing sand shadows against the canyon walls. There are shapes and images to be made everywhere here. Look up, down, forward - and don't forget to look back from whence you came. Things always appear new from a different perspective. Such is in life as well. <div align="center"> <p><font size="+2"><b>*<br> </b><a href= Manual settings are the only way to go on any SLR camera. Any pro should tell her camera what to do, rather than letting the camera make that decision for her. Antelope canyon gave me many opportunities for some surreal play with white balance settings of my camera. In this image I manually set my white balance to about 2800 K to make this image appear "cool". I absolutely love how the sand settles into the dips and lines of the sandstone, as if Nature added thicker brushstrokes of oil to her painting. <div align="center"> <p><font size="+2"><b>*<br> </b><a href= The formations within the lower Antelope Canyon are statues carved by Nature. You see "pools" of sand deposited in the folds of the "statues" you see here. Ironically the best time for photography here is bright, sunny, and high noon - the time of day and situation that generally yields harsh shadows on most situations. Inside the cavern the high noon light casts its magic of color on the canyon walls as it enters through the narrow slits above. <div align="center"> <p><font size="+2"><b>*<br> </b><a href= The light streaming through the canyon changed the colors on the sandstone rock within constantly. In this image the light overhead casts pink and grayish lavender tones. The thin lines of shadows that you see is sand entering the canyon from the very windy day in the "real world" outside the canyon. I was bombarded with sand and came out with the dust of the journey on my cheeks and in my hair! <div align="center"> <p><font size="+2"><b>*<br> </b><a href=

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