Sun and shadows play on sandstone waves and red sand inviting one further into the narrow canyon. Details: Arizona’s slot canyons are often a couple stories tall but only a few feet wide. Their walls twist into fantastical shapes with beautiful colors and striations around every bend. This image tries…
The morning sun bathes the rim of Horseshoe Bend in orange light as the Colorado River passes by in the shadows below. Details: Horseshoe Bend is an icon of the American West, and like many places, its glory is really on display at sunset and sunrise. After spending an evening…
The sun shines through a tiny crevice illuminating the beautiful carved red walls of a sandstone slot canyon in Arizona. Details: the sandstone slot canyons of northern Arizona are a photographer’s dream with stunning and impossible looking compositions everywhere you look, especially up. Even a few minutes of time…
A graceful silhouette with flowing hair of sandstone emerges from flowing walls of carved sandstone in a slot canyon in Arizona. Details: Arizona’s slot canyons of sandstone are narrow, colorful and spectacular! While many of the walls look like striated waves, some feature dramatic formations resembling human and animal…
The rays of the rising sun shine through the thumb of the East Mitten in Monument Valley, Arizona as West Mitten looks on. Details: This was an amazing morning. It was freezing cold, but the cloudless sky offered the promise of seeing the sun as it first broke the horizon….
Light and shadow on waves of red and purple sandstone resembling a tossing sea. Details: the slot canyons of northern Arizona are incredible. The narrow openings cause the light and shadows to fall in unique and dramatic ways that change throughout the day and accentuate the already mesmerizing lines…