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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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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?
A cow decided to join us for sunset one evening at White Pocket. I don't know about you, but I'm surprised that they still allow cattle ranching at White Pocket. You would think this area is equally deserving of protection as Coyote Buttes. What do you guys think?
While I really want and need to see The Wave.......... White Pocket. White Pocket. Always White Pocket.
The crazy twisted landscape of White Pocket with it's blinding rocks and fast moving shadows made this long exposure a bit challenging. Love the end result though with the sky giving the land some competition
White Pocket is such a great place for night photography, which is one reason why I get so many requests to organize overnight trips. Here's a shot we got last month on a particularly calm night. There was a slight film on top of the water which you can see if you look closely. But luckily for us, the wind was very calm. For the critics out there, I know that this image isn't level with the horizon. I did this on purpose since I find that the eye cares more about the background peaks looking level than if the reflection lines up vertically. The image looks off-kilter when perfectly level.
I was gifted with some awesome poofy clouds and large pools of water for my first ever visit to White Pocket. They made for some really cool shots 😊
Ambling along the slick rock ridge of White Pocket at sunset is an exercise in walking amount colors.
Infinity because the White Pocket is infinitely beautiful. Infinity because it has infinitely many compositional possibilities. Infinity for the third time because it took nearly infinite time to form itself. Infinity and beyond.
Forces of erosion have sculpted some incredible patterns in the rocks of white pocket. Must have taken eons...
Coyote Buttes South really is one of those places that defies the imagination. How could natural forces make something that looks so sculpted and perfect?
Early morning light reflects the Citadel, as golden hour ebbs over the crest of the Citadel to brightened the Monolith. Learn more about this photo from my website expose post.
There are so many facets to White Pocket. I think that might be the place where I've taken most photos per Sq foot. The climb down to this puddle was worth getting the morning reflections.
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
One of my favorite qualities of sandstone is how it catches ANY type of light- daylight, sunset, blue hour, and just glows. The color explodes out of the rock.
Vermillion Cliffs is a dream.
White Pocket, Arizona. Not the best light, but it's always fun to find a pool of water in the desert and get a reflection shot.
Happy Friday! We've been getting some great clouds and a few storms recently. Here's a shot from an outing to White Pocket a couple days ago. Capturing daytime lightning is not easy without a lightning trigger. During this storm, we noticed that the first bolt of lightning was almost always followed by a second bolt. I told my clients to wait until they saw the first bolt and then take several quick shots after that in hopes of a follow-up bolt. Sometimes you'll get lucky!
My client and I arrived in White Pocket just after a heavy thunderstorm. Nobody else was there and we had a nice rainbow to photograph for about an hour. With all the rain, there were pools where I've never seen them before. This shot is one such example, taken during twilight. We later got up at 2AM and the skies were perfectly clear to shoot the Milky Way. By 4AM clouds rolled back in and we got some nice sunrise color. You can't really ask for more perfect photography weather than this!
Tent was chilly, turned on my headlamp before 1st light, then walked the sandy trail (again) westward to photograph the morning at White Pocket, AZ. And to be honest, there really wasn't early toast...just another energy bar and some watered down sports drink for breakfast as the otherworldly scene unfolded with the gathering light.
After a rainy evening the sky suddenly cleared at 2 am, allowing us to take the Milky Way nightscapes I was hoping for.
Of course we took advantage of the reflective pools left by the rain.
This image was taken at the same spot I photographed during golden hour: flic.kr/p/K21iyJ
It is a composite of 3 exposures:
- 180s @ ISO 1600 for the rocks
- 40s @ ISO 6400 for the reflection
- 20s @ ISO 6400 for the sky
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
I think White Pocket would look fantastic under any conditions but it’s truly spectacular with a bright sunset peaking over the rocks and the brilliant sun truly illuminating the deep colors and hues of the landscape.
For World Photography Day- a word of thanks. Thankfulness for a wide world of wonders to capture in the shutter of my camera and thankfulness for having my art appreciated.
After two trips to this out of this world place via guided tours, I decided that I wanted to experience sunset and and sunrise at White Pocket. We rented a 4x4 Bronco and drove the deep sandy and rocky road out into the back country to get the freedom to explore as much as we wanted and car camp for sunset and sunrise. It definitely didn’t disappoint.