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What words could I conjure to adequately describe this? My heart raced with excitement, my senses ignited. That is the desert's allure. To be in such a place of barrenness and still feel the thrum of life.
Greater White Pocket area, very fragil, therefore without coordinates, hope you understand.
I was looking for another photospot when I suddenly stood in front of this slightly overhanging wall that shone in many warm and cold colors in the indirect light of the early afternoon. The wall is several meters high and about 20 meters wide. Apparently, wind and sand have cleared the rock layers over many years.
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Here is another sunrise shot from my White Pocket trip.
There are so many great photo spots at this site! It belongs to the bucket list of any landscape photographer...
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This photo was taken a number of years ago when we visited Whitepocket, Arizona. It was a bumpy ride getting to Whitepocket with our guide, Jackson Bridges, but the area was amazing in terms of variation of the landscape. This photo was taken in the "Brain Rock" section of Whitepocket just as the sun was beginning to rise above the horizon around 6 am. We had to leave Page Arizona around 4 am to get there for sunrise.
At a place like White Pocket in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument you hope for a sunset to match with the amazing landscape. On the day I visited the sunset conditions initially looked promising as this shot shows, but it never lit up the clouds where I needed them to go with the landscape.... It was still a fantastic day, though, just to be out there.
The otherwordly gorgeous geology at White Pocket is one of my favorite places on the planet Earth. We drove to the trailhead with a Toyota 4Runner and explored the area freely around the sunset.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Colorado Plateau, Arizona.
This image is part of my Southwest set.
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Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
This image is part of my Southwest set.
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"Todos los seres humanos son también seres de ensueño. El soñar vincula a toda la humanidad en su conjunto."
Jack Kerouac.
Uno de los lugares más espectaculares de Arizona, perdido en la inmensidad.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Coconino County, Arizona, USA.
The reflective pools at White Pocket do not last very long. So you have to be there after a strong rainfall and in order to captre the rocks in the light of the setting sun, the rainclouds have to part during the golden hour.
All this nearly impossible to plan for. Sometimes you just have to be lucky...
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During last year photo tour in West South of USA, we also visited a beautiful area between Utah and Arizona, called White Pocket.
White Pocket has some of the craziest sandstone formations I have ever seen. New surprises are waiting behind every corner.
This is just one example of the different hues and shapes that can be found within the same narrow field of view.
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Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
This image is part of my Southwest set.
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Can you see the crocodile?
Rock formations and colors draw me and hold my attention--I don't need cute names. But when I first noticed this formation, the crocodile jumped out at me, and my mind would not let go of that first impression.
Memories of extensive photo sessions in the American Southwest.
The image has been re-edited from RAW and digitally enlarged.
En el noroeste de Arizona en Mojave, cerca de Fredonia.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Arizona, USA.
On our vacation to Utah we took a trip to White Pocket, Arizona. It was a very beautiful place, with amazing and unique landscape of sandstone. We were going to rent a 4x4 but decided to hire a guide from Dreamland Safari Tours out of Kanab Utah www.dreamlandtours.net/ . Our guide was Andrea, she was great.
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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Colorado Plateau, Arizona.
This image is part of my Southwest set.
From the parking area sign:
This area is a spectacular exposure of red, pink, and white contorted sedimentary rock layers. The bedrock here consists of the Early Jurassic age Navajo Sandstone. The Navajo Sandstone is composed of frosted, well-rounded, fine-to medium-grained quartz cemented by calcium carbonate.
Approximately 190 million years ago, this area was part of a region covered with deep, shifting sand and complex dunes comparable to the modern day Sahara Desert. The dune field encompassed parts of Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming. The large-scale, high-angle, crossbeds, which can be up to 25-feet wide are characteristic of windblown deposits and are examples of what was once a large dune field.
At that time, periods of monsoonal moisture supported plant and animal life. Organisms left evidence of their existence in this area in bio-turbated beds. Bio-turbation in this area is caused by the mixing of sediments by ancient, burrowing insects and spiders.
The various shades of red, pink, yellow, and brown rocks are due to the oxidation of iron-bearing minerals within the sandstone. The red and pink colors are attributed to the presence of the mineral hematite, while the yellow and brown colors are produced by the minerals limonite or goethite.
The beautifully swirled appearance of the rocks are due to an exceptional exposure of unusually soft sediment deformation and slump sediments. Soft sediment deformation occurs when separated layers of sediment are flooded and/or sheared due to gravitational forces, changes in ground water, or earthquakes.
Thick, massive beds have characteristic polygonal cracks produced by tensile stress and exposed by weather processes. Many theories exist regarding the origin of polygonal cracks, including thermal contraction, moisture cycles, and the drying process of these sediments.
This image made with a Nikon D300 and Tokina 11-16mm.
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I can't get over how cool White Pocket is. It might be a chore to get there, but once you arrive, it's truly a photographer's wonderland. The possibilities for compositions are infinite.
Just wandering around it was like being on another planet. We were so fortunate, too, to find water in the pockets which we were hoping for, but not sure if we'd find them empty or full.
Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona.
This image is part of my Southwest set.
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What do you do when great light comes and a downpour starts? Do you keep on shooting, risking damage to the camera? Do you panic? Perhaps, you keep cool and just keep on shooting. Perhaps you run. Well, I eventually ran because the lightning was too close, and I could not keep the lens dry. So, this is brought to you by a photographer on the run.
Time for another White Pocket shot:
I was incredibly lucky to be able to capture this colorful sunrise at the famous Dragons Tail at White Pocket.
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one of the many motifs of the exceptional location White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument/Northern Arizona.
“Vive, viaja, vive aventuras, bendice y no te arrepientas.”
Jack Kerouac.
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA.
Desert rock formations glowing red in the last light of day, White Pocket, northern Arizona. I visited this location as part of a guided photography tour, and we were rewarded with magnificent scenery at sunset. Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
A huge thunderstorm cloud heading towards us while at White Pocket. Having water pools reflecting the huge cloud and surrounding sandstone formations was the perfect addition to an already amazing scene.
Por caminos perdidos al noroeste de Arizona en Mojave, cerca de Fredonia.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Arizona, USA.
White Pocket has always been on my photography bucket list.
My buddy Steve and I almost attempted it several years ago when we were in the area to shoot the Milky Way at Toroweap on the north rim of the Grand Canyon, but we kinda freaked out about getting stuck in the sand, and missing the photo trip we had paid for to go there.
Yes, we wimped out; because in reality, it really wasn't that difficult to get there. But then again, I wasn't driving so I wasn't white knuckling it the whole drive like he must've been.
Well, this year, we made it happen, and in my mind it was worth it, even if the clouds that were in the sky when we got there fizzled out before sunset.
There are certainly an infinite number photo opportunities there, including this one, known as Lollipop Rock, the name of which I didn't even know until after being there.
It's also not overcrowded like many other places in the Sourthwest, and as an added bonus, there was water in the pockets, for which the area gets is name, from the torrential rains that fell a few days before we got there.
As I wrote above, I was semi-bummed that the clouds fizzled out, but not enough to put a clouded sky in after the fact in Photoshop.