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"Tomorrow is another day" is becoming more and more a guess with increasing age. (Waltraud Puzicha)
1DX - TS-E 17 - 4,0 - ISO 3200
(HDR from 5 captures 15, 10, 5, 2,5, 1 sec. with Luminance HDR)
One of the stone monsters that makes up Monument Valley, or Tse’Bii’Ndzisgaii, valley of rocks. This formation is called "Stagecoach" presumably as a tribute to John Ford, though I suspect there is a Diné (Navajo) name for it- if anyone knows it please share.
Navajo tradition describes the Diné (the people) arriving at this, the fourth world, which despite its abundance of game and the presence of corn, was also inhabited by terrible monsters. These monsters were neutralized when Spider Woman passed on the magic needed to turn the monsters into stone to The Twins, who were 2nd generation peoples of the fourth world. The buttes of Monument Valley are the remnants of these monsters.
Visiting Monument Valley, an area of freestanding sandstone rock that straddles the borders of northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah, is truly an out-of-this-world experience. According to NASA, created during the Permian period, the Valley once formed part of a seafloor where sediments and sandstone piled up in layers for millions of years. Tectonic forces raised the slab above the water line and created a plateau. Then water and wind chipped away at the sedimentary rock and removed the softer materials, eventually resulting in the towering structures that we see today. The area is now home to the Navajo Nation, and is called Tsé Bii’ Ndzisgaii (Valley of the Rocks) by the Navajo.
Means the "valley within the rock" in the Navajo language of the people of this area.
Northwards view into Monument Valley from the Navajo reservation. Utterly peaceful compared to the very busy park to the north.
(This is a cropped image rather than a stitched pano.)
Mystery Valley, Arizona, USA
The morning sun graces three frequently photographed buttes of Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii
(Valley of Rocks/ Monument Valley). Although clear skies had been forecast for this morning we were fortunate to have some scattered clouds to provide some color and texture to the sunrise sky. As always there was a crowd gathered at “Forrest Gump Hill” (now on Google maps). It amazes me no one has been hit there, but of course you can see cars coming from a long way away.
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One of the most otherworldy and beautiful places I ever got to see.
Canon TS-E 17mm 4.0L via Sigma MC-11 on Sony A7rII with NiSi 150mm polarizer
The faded light of the setting sun from the left, and the warm light of the full moon rising, create unique lighting for this rugged landscape.
Like the giant skeletal spine of an ancient dragon, the upheaval of a thin lava wall forms a fin like structure that stretches for miles away from Shiprock -- a sacred rock formation to the Navajo people.
The stars above appear to be influenced by this otherworldly formation as they streak upward following the contour of the earth.
Tsé Biiʼ Nidzisgaii is theMonument Valley.
Literally, the word translates to rock(s)—within—white-streaks-around, or thereabout. Colloquially, it’s “the streaks that go around in the rocks.” You’ll notice these streaks as the various rock layers in the Valley.
There are similar places described by the “streaks” in the rocks in Navajo, most notably the Grand Canyon.
This was shot within 24 hours of Scotland's solar summer solstice.
For me, using my camera this time of year is highly unusual - in fact, I can look at the stats: unless I am on holiday somewhere at a lower latitude, May-August is the slowest time of year for producing images.
This is for a few reasons. One, summer used (*see below) to be my busiest time in my job, but not anymore. Two and certainly the most significant - I've avoided shooting from Spring Equinox to Autumn Equinox simply because the sun is so gosh dern high at 56 degrees north.
This year I was keen to change that, because, to be honest - I really need to get over it and get used to dealing with it better. My sleep is utterly awful around summer solstice and this year has been no different, but I am at least in control of how often I enjoy my favourite passtime, more recently on a cycle which my fatass needs to be on more often. We've been migrants here for 13 years and summer solstice simply can't continue to be something I wish away, especially when where we live is truly ridiculously beautiful.
If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. :) This is a 7 image full +/- 12mm lateral stitch resulting in a 13,400 pixel wide panoramic in a 21:9 cinematic ratio. Instagram is utterly pointless at this and I'm going to keep slagging it off until it changes, the habits of the global population changes, or I'm deid.
5DSR + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL
*Not no mo'! For, I have physically and metaphorically passed that torch to a much more capable and excellent person than I who will maybe/possibly/hopefully be joining us on this walk of the Water of Life later this year.
One of her adventures.
Model: Ásdís Eva. Shot today in -4c. The bravest girl in town. : )
The dress is made by Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir, If design.
Canon Eos 5D & Canon TS-E 45mm f/2.8
The last time I shot from this exact spot was 2012, but last night it occured to me on the way home when I noticed this tower was illuminated, which is rare these days.
Remarking on this building back in 2012 as a New Town resident, I said: "It's a favourite of mine, perhaps only because it's always in constant familiar view." Well, nowadays it's always in familiar view too, due to working in the area rather than living in it.
Aiming to get back up on a nearby roof which has a great view of this tower from the other side. Soon. Shame this isn't a functioning church any longer - imagine having keys to THAT tower and getting to pop up anytime you wanted!
Five vertically stitched horizontal frames.
5DSR + TSE 24L II + Hoya CPL
After a couple weeks of mostly Yosemite I'm back to going through my photos from the southwest in April. Most of my favorites are from Antelope Canyon so bear with me.
Tse Bighanilini is the Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon, the most frequently photographed of the two Antelope Canyons (and probably in the world). It seemed that no matter where you looked it was photo worthy, even though it's really all been done before.
The protruding rock formation is what caught my eye here, and the background rock frames it nicely. The dynamic range was problematic in the canyon primarily when shooting up towards daylight, where you have dark shadow at the bottom and blown out light at the top. But, the underlying shot here (it's a combination of 3 exposures) was a little unusual in that it was somewhat flat and low-contrast through most of the shot, but blown out at the top.
To achieve some greater contrast I blended a marginally darker exposure into the darker areas effectively boosting the contrast a little with a B&W layer mask (not unlike doing a curves adjustment), and then blended in some of the darkest exposure around the top (with another B&W layer mask), this time to recover some of the highlights. The end result was like a really complicated and time-consuming way of doing a basic curves adjustment - I guess you learn through trial and error.
As I've said before, if you find yourself int he American Southwest with a camera you owe it to yourself to take a tour here, even if it has all been done before. It's really gorgeous was actually just a lot of fun too.
You can see more photos from this trip in our group pool here, along with photos from my fellow travelers JohnRav and LionTX.
Nikon D40 | Sigma 10-20@20mm | f/8 | 1s | ISO200 | Tripod
The Navajos call this sacred rock, Tsé Bitʼaʼí, which means, Winged Rock. On maps it is identified as, Shiprock. Whatever you may call this 30 million year-old volcanic plug soaring into the sky, it is a special place - an icon of the Navajo Nation and of the Four Corners Region of New Mexico.
This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Mult-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75 lens with a Smardy IR 720 filter using Rollei IR 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
" Approach it and there is no beginning;
follow it and there is no end.
You can't know it, but you can be it,
at ease in your own life.
Just realize where you come from:
this is the essence of wisdom."
Lao Tse, Tao Te Ching
When the sun is completely blocked by the moon, the total solar eclipse occurs, a layer of white gauze will wrap around the black sun.
If you look closely in a telescope, you can even see its textures as delicate as silk, extending from the edge of the black sun till somewhere times beyond the diameter of the sun.
This layer of gauze is the sun's upper atmosphere, the solar corona. Only when the total solar eclipse occurs, it has the chance to be seen by our naked eyes.
A friend took me to see this place tonight. An amazing building. This shot is stitched from 2 shifted shots with the TS-E 17 mm and then corrected for perspective distortion.
Lighting info:
1 x 580ex at 1/4 power on axis fill with another 580ex at 1/2 power through a SBIII on the RHS.
See here for the set up shot.