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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.
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.
Ambling along the slick rock ridge of White Pocket at sunset is an exercise in walking amount colors.
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 😊
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
Forces of erosion have sculpted some incredible patterns in the rocks of white pocket. Must have taken eons...
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.
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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!
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 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
"White Pockets" is a colorful rock formation in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument - Arizona USA about 3 miles from the Utah border.
The white parts of this area are called "brain rock".
A "pocket" in the Arizona desert is a depression in the rocks that fills with rain water.
This is in the "Arizona Strip", a large section of Arizona north of the Colorado River (Grand Canyon) only accessible by crossing the Navajo Bridge north of Flagstaff or going through Nevada and/or Utah.
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.
Taming the shadows at white pocket is really an interesting experience. A lot of the area is deep in shadow way before golden hour, but the reflected light and shadows tend to accentuate the colors.
This is another shot of my overnight trip to White Pocket. After a rainy evening, there were reflective pools in very unusual places. This is one example of them.
This is a 5 image focus stack, a technique ensuring excellent sharpness at all depths. It was tought to me by David Swindler of ActionPhotoTours.com
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