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Four horizontal images taken with RRS tripod "pano bracket" and stitched with Adobe LR6''s new pano tool.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
Native American memorial at Little Bighorn Battlefield.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
Took a 10 day trip with my parents around National Parks in Utah, Arizona and Nevada.
Arrived in Monument Valley and was welcomed with a thunder and lightning storm. Epic isn't even the word.
Angel of Independence known as El Ángel and officially known as Monumento a la Independencia. Seen on a roundabout on Paseo de la Reforma in downtown Mexico City.
The Monument, a 466m rock pinnacle which resisted weathering by glaciers in the last Ice Age (c.20,000 years ago) on the shores of Lake Manapouri in Fiordland National Park. Some peaks of the Hunter Range all but obscured in the mist behind.
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Using a 600mm lens to get a distant view of Penshaw Monument. I was stood in a location just outside Pity Me and Penshaw is just over 7 miles away as the crow flies. I used the Sky Replacement Tool in Photoshop due to the sky not having any detail.
Das Monument Valley liegt in der Four-Corners-Region, an der Grenze zwischen Arizona und Utah, westlich der Staatsgrenzen zu Colorado und New Mexico in einer Höhe von fast 1900 m und wird bevölkerungsstatistisch in die beiden Schwestergebiete Oljato, Arizona und Oljato, Utah geteilt. Die Temperaturen im Monument Valley variieren zwischen −3 °C im Winter und durchschnittlich 30 °C im Sommer. Der Niederschlag beträgt durchschnittlich 20 cm im Jahr und fällt teilweise als Schnee. Niederschläge, Temperaturunterschiede sowie der Wind haben wesentlich dazu beigetragen, die heutige Landschaft zu formen.
Monument Valley is located in the Four Corners region, near the border between Arizona and Utah, west of the state borders with Colorado and New Mexico at an altitude of almost 1900 meters and is divided population randomly into the two sister territories Oljato, Arizona and Oljato, Utah . The temperatures in Monument Valley vary between -3 ° C in winter and an average of 30 ° C in summer. The rainfall averages 20 inches a year, and falls partly as snow. Rainfall, temperature differences and wind have contributed significantly to shaping the present landscape.
QUELLE: WIKIPEDIA
A titanium monument dedicated to the first man in space - Yuri Gagarin, located Gagarin Sq, Moscow. While returning to Moscow, Yuri Gagarin landed at Vnukovo airport then moved to Kremlin passing the exact location by Leninsky Prospekt thus the name of the square and a monument projected by P. Bondarenko in 1980.
Fort Beaufort’s Victoria Bridge over the Kat River is the oldest triple-arch stone bridge in South Africa with a foundation stone laid by Lady Napier back in 1840. The bridge, now a national monument, is still in use.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first American president. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure (excluding brick) and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet (169 m).
Construction of the monument began in 1848, and was halted from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the intervention of the American Civil War. Although the stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and other finishing touches were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source.
The original design was by Robert Mills, but he did not include his proposed colonnade due to a lack of funds, proceeding only with a bare obelisk. Despite many proposals to embellish the obelisk, only its original flat top was altered to a pointed marble pyramidion, in 1884.
The completed monument officially opened October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the world's tallest structure, a title previously held by the Cologne Cathedral. The monument held this designation until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was completed in Paris, France.
Monument Valley in the Navajo Nation in the northeast corner of Arizona during golden hour. Amazing view and well worth the long drive!
9 shot pano for the photo geeks.
Monumento al General Baquedano y a los hérores de la Guerra del Pacífico. Tumba del soldado desconocido
Ok, next up are my Monument Valley shots. I actually did two paid photography tours with Phillips Photography while we were there. It's the first time I've ever done a guide photography tour and I'd highly recommend them. Our guide, Ray Begay, knew great spots to shoot from based on the time of day, knew a lot about photography, and he had access into areas not open to the public and accessible only by 4 wheel drive vehicles.
162 s long exposure of the monument in the grounds of the St George Hotel near Paphos in Cyprus at after sunset in the transition between gorden hour and blue hour.
The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. This massive granite structure is prominently located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854.
On 8 July 2011 the Voortrekker Monument, designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk, was declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Heritage Resource Agency.
Source: Wikipedia
Camera: Canon Eos 650D
Lens: EF-S10-22mmF/3.5-4.5-USM
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 14 mm
Shutter Speed: 1/125
ISO: 100