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This image is from White Pocket in Arizona. No matter where you point your lens, you will get a great image. In this one I was laying on the ground. Nothing new. I tried to balance the image with the two darker rocks on each side and lead the eye through the swirls to the cherry on top. I had to shoot images like this because there was nothing in the sky, it was just oppressively blue. Let me know what you think.
Out of everything on this trip, and usually, on most trips, what I look forward to the most is an experience with pure wilderness. On this trip, that came in the form of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and White Pocket.
Coincidentally, it's also the Bureau of Land Management's anniversary, today. The BLM is under The Department of the Interior, but is managed differently than The National Park Service. With this in mind, public land usage on BLM land can include grazing, fracking, mining, and could even be sold off by the federal government, which is currently a possibility. On the anniversary of this arm of The Department of The Interior, it’s an apt time to remember what their mission statement is: “to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.”
To me, that reads no differently than 1916 Organic Act that created The National Park Service and protects the wonders of the American landscape. And when you consider places like White Pocket, nestled in the wilderness of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, it should be apparent that no matter what branch of Interior is caring for it, the importance of saving and protecting these landscapes is paramount.
Buried deep in the wilderness of Arizona and down wild dirt roads that require a 4x4, White Pocket is a surreal and ethereal wonderland of carved and sculptural sandstone, stretching and undulating almost as far as the eye can see. It’s impossible to go to this amazing place and not be spellbound and to not let your imagination wander and try and make sense of the exquisite colors and textures at your feet. Places like this are a gift and a challenge. This is what is so vital and what needs to be protected at all costs.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR. Speak up and defend what is yours.
"Una falsa ilusión del viajero es que se encamina a lo desconocido. El mejor viaje es un salto en el vacío. Si al otro lado hubiera un destino familiar y agradable, ¿Qué sentido tendría ir hasta allí?".
Paul Theroux.
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Coconino county, Arizona, USA.
"EN CONCLUSIÓN
Me gustaría decir: amo profundamente el cine; adoro pescar ideas y me encanta meditar. Me entusiasma estimular la unidad. Y creo que la estimulación de la unidad trae consigo una vida mejor. Tal vez la iluminación todavía quede lejos, pero se dice que cuando caminas hacia la luz, a cada paso que das, las cosas brillan más. Para mí, cada día es mejor. Y creo que estimular la unidad en el mundo traerá la paz a esta tierra. Así que: paz para todos.
Que todo el mundo sea feliz. Que todo el mundo esté libre de enfermedades.
Que haya buenos auspicios por doquier. Que nadie conozca el sufrimiento.
Paz."
David Lynch: “Atrapa el pez dorado”. 1946 - 2025.
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA.
This was taken at White Pocket in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. This was a fun area to explore with lots of interesting geological features, like the polygonal cracks seen here. It was also blissfully quiet with very few people -- probably due to the 1&1/2 hour drive down a rough road with deep sand requiring letting air out of your tires and a high clearance 4-wheel drive vehicle.
"Un paseo está siempre lleno de importantes manifestaciones dignas de ver y de sentir. De imágenes y vivas poesías, de hechizos y bellezas naturales bullen a menudo los lindos paseos, por cortos que sean. Naturaleza y costumbres se abren atractivas y encantadoras a los sentidos y ojos del paseante atento, que desde luego tiene que pasear no con los ojos bajos, sino abiertos y despejados, si ha de brotar en él el hermoso sentido y el sereno y noble pensamiento del paseo. Piense cómo el poeta ha de empobrecerse y fracasar de forma lamentable si la hermosa Naturaleza maternal y paternal e infantil no le refresca una y otra vez con la fuente de lo bueno y de lo hermoso. Piense cómo para el poeta la instrucción y la sagrada y dorada enseñanza que obtiene ahí fuera, al juguetón aire libre, son una y otra vez de la mayor importancia. Sin el paseo y sin la contemplación de la Naturaleza a él vinculada, sin esa indagación tan agradable como llena de advertencias, me siento como perdido y lo estoy de hecho".
Robert Walser - El Paseo - 1917.
Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA.
"Al convertirse en humano, el hombre adquirió, junto con sus piernas rectas y su andar a grandes zancadas, un impulso migratorio o instinto para recorrer largas distancias a lo largo de las estaciones; este impulso era inseparable de su sistema nervioso central; y, al deformarse en las condiciones de asentamiento, encontró salidas en la violencia, la codicia, la búsqueda de estatus o la obsesión por lo nuevo."
Bruce Chatwin, Anatomía de la Inquietud
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Coconino county, Arizona, USA.
Out of everything on this trip, and usually, on most trips, what I look forward to the most is an experience with pure wilderness. On this trip, that came in the form of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument and White Pocket.
Coincidentally, it’s also the Bureau of Land Management’s anniversary, today. The BLM is under The Department of the Interior, but is managed differently than The National Park Service. With this in mind, public land usage on BLM land can include grazing, fracking, mining, and could even be sold off by the federal government, which is currently a possibility. On the anniversary of this arm of The Department of The Interior, it’s an apt time to remember what their mission statement is: “to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.”
To me, that reads no differently than 1916 Organic Act that created The National Park Service and protects the wonders of the American landscape. And when you consider places like White Pocket, nestled in the wilderness of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, it should be apparent that no matter what branch of Interior is caring for it, the importance of saving and protecting these landscapes is paramount.
Buried deep in the wilderness of Arizona and down wild dirt roads that require a 4×4, White Pocket is a surreal and ethereal wonderland of carved and sculptural sandstone, stretching and undulating almost as far as the eye can see. It’s impossible to go to this amazing place and not be spellbound and to not let your imagination wander and try and make sense of the exquisite colors and textures at your feet. Places like this are a gift and a challenge. This is what is so vital and what needs to be protected at all costs.
THIS IS WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR. Speak up and defend what is yours.
Who needs The Wave when you can have a sunset here and not worry about permits?
Buried deep in the wilderness of Arizona and down wild dirt roads that require a 4×4, White Pocket is a surreal and ethereal wonderland of carved and sculptural sandstone, stretching and undulating almost as far as the eye can see. It’s impossible to go to this amazing place and not be spellbound and to not let your imagination wander and try and make sense of the exquisite colors and textures at your feet. Places like this are a gift and a challenge. This is what is so vital and what needs to be protected at all costs.
Hidden in the vastness of Vermilion Cliff Wilderness's uniqueness. It took me uncountable trips to this place to finally have it the way I envisioned it at my very first view of this spot.
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White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona. Foreground shot in blue hour. Sky shot with Canon R5 and RF 20 mm f/1.4L VCM, ISO 640, 2 minute tracked exposure, f/2. White Pocket offers innumerable and amazing foregrounds for astro-landscape photography, on top of the pristine night skies.
I hate when fellow photographers tell other photographers what to do. Especially when it’s “don’t shoot in direct sun”. How else would I have gotten this shot with these striking colors and framing if not for the sun?
While I really want and need to see The Wave.......... White Pocket. White Pocket. Always White Pocket.
Ambling along the slick rock ridge of White Pocket at sunset is an exercise in walking amount colors.
Desert rock formations still glowing red 30 minutes after sunset, White Pocket, northern Arizona. I visited this location as part of a guided photography tour, and we were rewarded with magnificent scenery. Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
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.
you can buy my art at james-sage.pixels.com
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.
you can buy my art at james-sage.pixels.com