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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 .
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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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.
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 ...
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.
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
October Milky Way over White Pocket region, Vermillion Cliffs Nat'l Mon., northern Arizona. I used Low Level Lighting last week to enhance the texture of the bleached-white sandstone or "cauliflower rock" in this unique area. In the wet seasons, these depressions fill up with rain water runoff and serve as waterholes for wildlife and cattle.
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EXIF: One 15 sec exposure, f/2.8, ISO 6400, 15mm lens on a Canon 5DM3.
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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
“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple."
― Terry Pratchett , Jingo
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Während unserer letzten USA-Reise haben wir erneut White Pocket in Arizona besucht. Diese spektakuläre Location ist sehr entlegen und nicht einfach zu erreichen, aber auch absolut lohnenswert. Bei der Erkundung der markanten Gesteinsformationen von White Pocket erschlug mich einmal mehr die Fülle an tollen Fotomotiven!
During our last trip to the USA, we visited White Pocket in Arizona again. This spectacular location is very remote and difficult to reach, but absolutely worth the effort. While exploring White Pocket's impressive rock formations, I was once again overwhelmed by the many great photo opportunities!
Ort: White Pocket, Arizona, USA
Sony a7 IV + FE 16-35mm GM II @ 17mm | ƒ/16.0 | 1/60 sec | ISO200 | GND8 Soft Filter
Milky Way over Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness after rain, leaving behind filled pools and clear skies.
Composite images to provide sufficient detail to the ground and minimize noise:
Landscape: ISO100 f/8 60s
Sky: ISO3200 f/4 20s
This is 3 exposures blended together using my advanced Photoshop tonality control and multiple exposure blending techniques. I produced a video detailing these techniques, it's available here: www.zschnepf.com
Another from my recent trip to the SW with fellow Photo Cascadia member Sean Bagshaw.
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Image created during the Lake Powell photo tour I organized last year. After the houseboat portion I added a “through the deep sand” portion for some of the participants by driving to White Pocket. Present image was the last of this day at White Pocket with the very last light of the day caressing the landscape with a faint red velvet.
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Explore Az Day 2/3 – This is another shot from my trip to the middle of nowhere Arizona. Every time I turned around there was some impressive rock formation. This wasn’t one of the most impressive rock formations but I love all the lines and the shadow of the tree.
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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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Here is an iconic view of White Pocket with a moody sky to top it off! Who doesn’t love the Desert Southwest?
If you do nothing else in this life... get out and see places you never thought could exist. For me, White Pocket is one of those places... the ability to lose oneself into the harsh but beautiful desert environment of rock and sandstone is just something most people never get to experience. Looking through my images from this very quick trip, only leaves me wanting to return for a longer period of exploration.
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White Pocket is a little area hidden in the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness. Despite being a small area it offers a variety of compositions that cannot be fully explored with a single trip there. Besides, each visit to the area offers quite different light and weather conditions which makes each visit a unique experience. For further information about White Pocket I recommend reading my travelogue.
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Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, AZ. How do you measure time in a timeless place? I should be exhausted...reaching somewhere this remote is no small accomplishment. The drive is something to have a healthy fear of, and the trouble you can find yourself in out here is not something to be taken lightly. Having taken all morning on bad and worse roads to get here, we set up camp and explored. White Pocket has dangled in my imagination for years, but I had no real sense of it, I was not prepared for what I found. Cones, domes, ledges, potholes...my feet ache from gripping slickrock ramps at angles dangerous to be on, my body sore from contorting behind a tripod and balancing so as not to fall, my eyes full of too much information. The hours of the day melt away as I wander a world tipped on end, petrified rivers of color pouring down and across a fun house floor that tilts and undulates underfoot. There are layers of history I can’t comprehend. I seem to grow from child-like delight into an adult who calculates light and shadow and how to make it work. By twilight I am seeing an afterglow, a deeper, brighter and richer radiation of color as if exaggerated in reminiscence. Later, after picking my way by headlamp across rock faces that didn’t seem that hairy coming up, I think of the places I want to see, or see again. Despair begins to creep in, the intersection of time and opportunity. I feel it slipping away. How do you measure time, in a timeless place? Against your own mortality, I guess. There is a sad knowledge that my time is inconsequential here. Such sacred places are older than all my lifetimes, but I hope they are part of what I always seek, and that I find them again, in time, somehow, like I found you.
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.
As if my last few posts weren't an indication, I'm going through my Arizona archives. On this early morning, I only took one photo of this composition. Now I wonder why. I really do like it. I must have been headed somewhere specific, and this scene caught my eye.
"White Pocket" is a distinctive rock formation in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona USA.
Well worth the drive through sand and rocks!
This is in the "Arizona Strip", a section of Arizona north of the Colorado River (Grand Canyon) only accessible by crossing the Navajo Bridge north of Flagstaff on the east side or going through Nevada and/or Utah on the west.
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