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Horseshoe Bend is the name for a horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States. The bend is locally known as "King Bend." It is located slightly downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, about four miles or 6 km south of Page. Accessible via a ¾-mile (1.2 km) hike from U.S. Route 89, it can be viewed from the steep cliff above. According to Google terrain maps, the overlook is 4,200 feet above sea level and the Colorado River is at 3,200 feet above sea level making it a breathtaking 1,000 foot drop.
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USA, Arizona, Coconino County, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The Famous Horseshoe Bend of the Colorado River during a storm.
Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River near the town of Page, Arizona, United States. The meander is located slightly downstream of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell, about 6 kilometers south of Page. There is a lookout 1.2 kilometers walk (partly paved, partly unpaved) of the U.S. Route 89, where the meander can be viewed. The Horseshoe Bend can be visited daily from sunrise to sunset.
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KCS 4006 rounding the bend from the KCS Godfrey Sub to the KCS Roodhouse Sub in Roodhouse, IL. MVNKC will make a quick pick up here in town before they couple back onto the rest of their train and continue their trip towards the KCS Knoche Yard in Kansas City.
Horseshoe Bend is a horseshoe-shaped meander of the Colorado River located near the town of Page, Arizona, in the United States.
Horseshoe Bend is located 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Page. (Wikipedia)
A short ford from Mexico, horses graze and water along the United States bank of the Rio Grande. My vantage point was the Rio Grand Overlook along the Ernst Ridge Trail in Big Bend National Park in west Texas.
For at least 12,000 years, until the winter of 1824, the Bend area was known only to Native Americans who hunted and fished there. That year, members of a fur trapping party led by Peter Skene Ogden visited the area. John C. Frémont, John Strong Newberry, and other Army survey parties came next. Then pioneers heading farther west passed through the area and forded the Deschutes River at Farewell Bend.
I waited until noon so the sun can be directly above, but I still got shadows. Maybe it wasn't exactly at noon, I don't remember 😁. I reached out as far as I could without falling over. I wish the sky had a bit of interesting clouds that day, but it is what it is. This formation looks like Jabba the Hutt, lol.
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Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton National Park. This was taken in September 2009 just after I left :(
Thanks Jeff for taking it... beautiful :)
Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona
I've always wanted to shoot Horseshoe Bend, which is part of the Colorado River Valley and located within Grand Canyon National Park near Page, Arizona. It's just one of those iconic shots that every landscape photographer seems to have, it's an amazing location and scene, and frankly, I was a bit tired (or perhaps jealous) admiring everyone else's great shots and not having one of my own. Fortunately, I got the opportunity to visit "the Bend" during my recent trip to the Southwest with Kevin Benedict and Sky Matthews.
Despite seeing literally hundreds of shots of from Horseshoe, I was not prepared for just how close you needed to get to the edge of the cliff to get the shot and just how sheer a drop off it really is - literally a thousand feet straight down despite what appears in the pictures to be a gentle slope off the edge. Making matters even more precarious was that the ground was still covered in snow which had become icy after several days of melting and refreezing. Needless to say, I was quite apprehensive as I approached the edge of the cliff (which has no rails for safety) to set up for my shot. In the end, I think my shot was well worth the effort (its pretty high up there among my list of personal favorites). That said, as I type this description, I am admittedly a bit queasy recalling my hour or two on the lip of the Bend. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do. Thanks for looking!
Whelp, we have returned home after a successful epic adventure! So much processing to do, but I want to get right back on the ball of at-least-daily photo posting. We briefly visited the Hoover Dam at the beginning of our trip (July 5), and this is from the Memorial Bridge, overlooking the dam and the bendy road.
CSXT 3324 leads manifest train CSX M653 eastbound out of Big Bend Tunnel in Talcott, West Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.
A different view than my last posting. This photo was taken at 21 mm vs. 14 mm which makes it less wide but also make things appear a bit closer. It was taken from a different location and is also framed differently.
The clouds provided by a recently passed storm soften the light at the Horseshoe Bend created by the erosion of the Colorado River. The site is located near Page, AZ and is upstream of the Grand Canyon and shortly downstream of the the Glen Canyon Dam that forms Lake Powell. As with other sites, people endanger themselves by doing such things as sitting on the edge of the cliffs which rise about 1,000 ft above the river.
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Nikon 14-24 mm f/2.8 at 21 mm
1/250 sec at f/8 ISO 250
October 21, 2015
A TRRA yard job is pulled across the V&C Belt at Big Bend for headroom with the 308/3008 slug set for power. Remnants of the Illinois Terminal's Venice High Line over the south end of Madison Yard can be seen in the trees in the background.
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Graffiti vom Künstler Martin Bender. Dieser hat sich u. a. in der Volmestadt Hagen einen Namen mit seiner Kunst im öffentlichen Raum gemacht.
Graffiti by the artist Martin Bender. He has made a name for himself with his art in public spaces in the Volmestadt Hagen, among other places.
Sunset at Big Bend near Page, AZ, USA. Straight down perspective with a view up to the horizon. I was sitting with my legs dangling off the edge. If you look a few months back in my feed you can see just that.
Horseshoe Bend, one of the most photographed areas on the Colorado River, located just north of Grand Canyon and outside Page Arizona. It's a 1,000 foot (300 m) drop from the top of the cliffs to the ground below. For this reason, I mounted my camera on a 18 foot pole (Pixie Pole) and extended it out horizontally over the cliff to take this photo. DSC_0829A
The Pixie Pole can be purchased here: www.polepixie.com/pixiepole.cfm