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I was lucky to be here after very abnormal June rains which left many water pools through out the area. Now why did the sky have to be so uneventful? Oh well next time. 8^)
A "leading lines" composition from white pocket, AZ, a photographer's playground. The clouds were also striated when the image was made which provided an unplanned balance between sky and stone.
Hope you like it as much as I did taking it!
Dave
I hadn't visited this area for six years. Glad I finally made it back. Kinda tough spot to get to, but worth the effort, especially after rains create these great puddles for reflections.
We were out at White Pocket the other night doing some Milky Way photography. My clients really liked it when my brother Ben posed on top of the hill in the background for nice scale. We had a beautiful, clear evening, but by morning some clouds rolled in and gave us a nice sunrise!
On the remote Paria Plateau in Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, White Pocket is a group of swirling, multicolored formations of Navajo sandstone, including domes, hoodoos, gullies and potholes. Arriving at White Pocket inside Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, you are initially struck by the contrast of white rock in smoothly rounded mounds and cliff edges, dotted with two imperial looking spherical beehives rock cones
On the remote Paria Plateau in Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, White Pocket is a group of swirling, multicolored formations of Navajo sandstone, including domes, hoodoos, gullies and potholes. Arriving at White Pocket inside Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, you are initially struck by the contrast of white rock in smoothly rounded mounds and cliff edges, dotted with two imperial looking spherical beehives rock cones
"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.
Walking into the center of the White Pocket is like stepping into another world. Incidentally, this shot shows the landmark's namesake; a pocket in this part of the world is a rocky place that holds rainwater puddles.
If you get out your map of Arizona and look up north along the Utah border for the biggest open area, with no development, then put your finger in the middle of that space, you’ll find the remote and unspoiled 280,000-acre Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. 490 square miles of geologic treasure, with some of the most spectacular trails and views in the world. If you look very closely, you’ll find White Pocket. A unique landscape like no other on Earth. It’s 35 miles on rough dirt and sand roads from the highway, should take you about an hour and a half in your four-wheel drive. It’s an astoundingly wondrous place.
There’s really nothing like seeing a Spielberg / John Williams film for the first time in the theater and getting all caught up in the science fiction fantasy of what would happen on earth if we suddenly discovered that we are not alone in the cosmos. The real magic of these films is their realism… it’s not so unbelievable that the reactions and trials and tribulations of earth would radically shift if we found extraterrestrial life. And when my mind wanders to that, my mind wanders to the places on earth where I feel the most connected to the stars and the cosmos and other planets. White Pocket, Arizona, just might be the surface of Mars, staring into the abyss of the Milky Way at night.
️- across Utah and Arizona, you are in the Navajo Nation. In Navajo, sacred land is referred to as Diné Bikéyah. This land belongs to the people. Hopitutskwa, Pueblos, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) land is also found across these two states and at archeological sites and natural sites. It is an honor to see them. White Pocket is most closely associated with Southern Paiute land.
I was very lucky to be able to do an overnight trip to White Pocket with David Swindler from ActionPhotoTours.com during my vacation in the US.
I was planning to do nightscapes and, as the weather was very rainy when we arrived, I was afraid that our trip would not be very productive.
Fortunately David immediately convinced me that the rain was a good thing, as there was not only a rainbow, lasting for almost an hour, but there were also many pools in unusual spots, allowing us to do reflection images, where it is normally not possible.
So we had great fun running from one pool to the next, shooting dozens of great images and I had the best photography teacher you can wish for.
After the rainy evening it eventually cleared at 2 am and I even got my nightscapes, before the clouds rolled in again at astronomical dawn, providing us with a colorful sunrise...
Perfect weather and timing! If you are in the area and need a guide or photography teacher, I can highly recommend David.
Now I have some very interesting processing work to do. Stay tuned!
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White Pocket does not need snow to be the white princess it is, but a little bit of ice and snow does give it a boost. If you are wondering about the title, the frozen foam on the ice cold water looks like snowflakes, falling from below.
...throttling my account, and for a while now. You see, when I ended my tour with Yahoo a few years back it didn't end well. False accusations were being thrown at me by the person who was managing me, who pretty much wanted to end the job I was hired for before I even started the tour. The thing is this. The week before I went on tour with Yahoo, I had made it into Explore for the umpteenth time, but since returning home I had
noticed after a year that my images were not getting as many hits and hitting Explore was now a thing of the past. Sales generated from people seeing my pics up here dried up, and the hits generally are much fewer than before. Flickr, and Yahoo have a lot of bots that do things. They showed me a few I could use while on tour. Call me paranoid, but I have a suspicion that since I went out and worked for them that they applied one to my account. Pretty petty if so.
Anyway, this is a picture from White Pocket in Northern Arizona. A beautiful place. I only wish I could show more people these things....
Beautiful late day side lighting hits the cross bedded sandstone of the White Pocket in Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
The day's fading soft light shows off the Swirl in all its glory. Very windy so had to use a 6-stop ND filter to try to get rid of the "surf" in the pond. Visited the White Pocket with Action Photo Tours.
Rock seems to flow at the base of the White Pocket Castle. It is difficult to capture photographically the amazing geography of this place. I was hoping a three shot vertorama would help! A person standing in the upper right adds a bit of perspective.
The full moon sets toward South Coyote Buttes lit by the rising sun, and framed by formations at White Pocket populated by a couple of corvids (probably ravens, but possibly crows). (#3)
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Somewhere deep in the Vermillion Cliff Wilderness is a place called White Pocket. Getting there is a challenge and only people that have the appropriate car should adventure there, otherwise you will end up stuck in the deep sand!
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I spent the past week on the Paria Plateau, including a visit to White Pocket, a chaotic mix of twisted, folded, mutilated sandstone (Navajo, of aeolian origin). One of my favorite features (dubbed the "dragon's tail") is this series of ridges that has bands within bands, cuts, and alternate white and red layers. The scale here is difficult to determine- the actual scale is larger than it may seem- on the skyline in the middle you can see an old fence line. The photo is shot right at sunrise, so the light is a wee bit harsh, but the colors are true. Stacked using 3 images for sharper focus throughout. (#2)
A place which had its beauty to be visited back when it was not run over by hordes that do not know how to drive in deep sand and do not know how to behave out there in the wilderness. Now it is still wild country, but with wild people. The secret of visiting the place is to focus on the wilderness and try to forget everything else.
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Nikon D810
Nikon 19 mm f/2.4 T/S
1.8s at f/9.0
RAW ISO 31
10/17/2018
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Interesting geology at White Pocket, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
See previous photo for a wider shot.
On the remote Paria Plateau in Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, White Pocket is a group of swirling, multicolored formations of Navajo sandstone, including domes, hoodoos, gullies and potholes. Arriving at White Pocket inside Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, you are initially struck by the contrast of white rock in smoothly rounded mounds and cliff edges, dotted with two imperial looking spherical beehives rock cones
Tough to not imagine ancient formations lurking below the surface, only to be revealed with the passage of time and then eventually eroded away.
If you don't already recognize it, this is White Pocket! With beautiful lines and textures, it's one of my favorite places to photograph. I took this during our Southwest Expedition with Photopills in 2022. A lenticular cloud structure developed over the rock formations along with some spotlighting. When I sat down to work on the image, it just screamed for a monochrome treatment.
As a co-founder and organizer of the Outsiders Photography Conference, I'll be heading back to the Southwest soon. I look forward to seeing many familiar faces in Kanab, March 3-5! Message me if you'd like to join us last minute .
This is another shot from my White Pocket overnight trip with David Swindler from ActionPhotoTours.com
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This shot is a follow-up to the one I posted a couple days ago from White Pocket. It's almost like monsoon season is coming early this year in July! You can see the storm bearing down on us in the distance. A small pocket of light managed to briefly break through the clouds and we were able to capture this stunning scene. It's days like this when I love being a photographer, and even better when my clients get to partake in the fun!
This place behind the famous "Lollipop Rock" offers a great view of the Monolith at White Pocket but lacks foreground. Determined not to give up, I contorted my body (and tripod) on the sloped sandstone to create leading lines and two bumps on the horizon. The light assisted in keeping the shot balanced. At least so I think ...
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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Warm low light from the setting sun accentuates the creases and contortions of sandstone twisted by forces of nature. From a former post:
The formations of White Pocket defy any logical explanation (at least for someone lacking a background in geology). The rock is all of a similar age (Navajo Sandstone), with variation in the white, orange, and red associated with different chemical states of iron, due to different amounts of oxygen in the sediment. The twisting of the layers, along with the variation in color, make it very unique and beautiful. The deformation (twisting) occurred when the sand was saturated with water and prior to its becoming rock. Some interesting potential explanations for the magnitude of the twisting and contortions include a massive landslide triggered by an earthquake, a meteorite impact, or an extreme precipitation event. See cedarandsand.blogspot.com/2012/07/white-pocket-confounds.... for an interesting discussion of the geology of White Pocket.
Can you find the robin?
n.b. I've desaturated the blue here considerably- clear windy atmosphere
Been a long long time since I've posted a pic. Might as well start with some images that have been floating around my hard drive. Here's a shot from February from White Pocket.
“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple."
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Antony Spencer--"Deserts of the Southwest" Photo Workshop
On the remote Paria Plateau in Arizona's Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, White Pocket is a group of swirling, multicolored formations of Navajo sandstone, including domes, hoodoos, gullies and potholes. Arriving at White Pocket inside Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, you are initially struck by the contrast of white rock in smoothly rounded mounds and cliff edges, dotted with two imperial looking spherical beehives rock cones