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Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico 2003

The is full frame of the next image to the right.

 

This was a magical moment; we had just come out of the dark and labyrinthian interior of the building, only to turn around and be presented with this fabulous cloud structure which had not been there when we went in. Sometimes, it all just works.

 

This image was made seventeen years ago; there were some other photographers nearby (see photo to the left), but they were acting strangely. After every shot they looked at the backs of their cameras, changed something or other, and then made another shot. Confident behind my old Hasselblad, I was pretty sure they didn't know what they were doing.

 

Pueblo Bonito (Spanish for beautiful town) is the largest and best-known great house in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico. It was built by the Ancestral Puebloans who occupied the structure between AD 828 and 1126.

 

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Uploaded on June 9, 2020
Taken on October 26, 2003