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When I take clients out to White Pocket, they are often overloaded. There is so much cool stuff all around - you simply don't know which way to point your camera! To help this group out, I took out my camera and got down lower to the group to bring out these foreground stripes. This is a simple hand-held shot at the hyperfocal distance. No focus stacking or anything special. Once they saw the result, many new compositional possibilities started to jump out at them.
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Here's another shot from a snowy White Pocket. It's a neat effect when the brainrock gets coated like this. Who knows if I'll ever see this much snow at White Pocket again. Temperatures were pretty warm, so a lot of the snow had melted by the time we took this shot. I actually liked having a little of the underlying rock showing to give more contrast to the landscape.
It was nice seeing fall colors at White Pocket last night. Our clients really enjoyed shooting all the water puddle reflections and we had nice clouds even though the forecast called for bluebird skies. We're off again to White Pocket this afternoon. If you've never visited this place, book a tour with us for 2019!
I recently took this image with a client out at White Pocket. When we left camp, the skies looked completely clear and we weren't expecting much of a sunrise. But we couldn't see these thin clouds in the pre-dawn darkness and it wasn't long before they lit up beautifully and turned the landscape a shade of magenta.
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White Pocket has mind bending rock formations that left me in awe of another area of amazing geography and beauty!
White Pocket, Arizona, in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs wilderness. White Pocket is really an amazing place, as if got on another planet, but it is difficult to get because of the deep sand road.
My wife called this way "road to a heart attack"
Pentax K10D
smc PENTAX-DA* 16-50mm F2.8 ED AL [IF] SDM
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Despite the increasing adversities encountered getting to White Pocket at Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness I keep going back to this magical place.
Increasing adversities were two cars, which never should attempted getting there and obviously got stuck in the deep sand. An overwhelming amount of people and tents brought in by local guide companies and their guides behaving like this is THEIR place. One of these guides had the nerve to harass me as I was there with two friends of mine, new to White Pocket, and I was showing them around. She thought she could scare me that BLM rangers will penalize me for taking friends to the White Pocket and ‘guiding’ them around. Last but not least, a helicopter showed up in the late afternoon to rescue one of the many people roaming around and who injured herself to the point that she was not able to get back to the car and drive to the closest health care center.
The secret is trying to blend all this out, knowing exactly what you want to shoot and just wait until everybody is gone and use the low light.
Nikon D810
Nikon T&S 19mm f/4.0
10s at f/8.0
RAW ISO 100
05/18/2018
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I'm excited to head back to the desert Southwest after being away for a month. With warm sandstones, sun-bleached wood, and vivid sunrise and sunset hues, I can't wait to see what it has in store for me. This spot has long been a favorite composition of mine. We took this shot during one of our spring workshops this year. I love my 12mm Sony lens!!
A perfect puddle for the lonesome tree. I was struggling on where to start with all the photos from the trip. Obviously it had to be a lone tree.
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
Sean Bagshaw and I spent a couple mornings in this area. The light was beautiful as it bathed the landscape. People may not believe me when I tell them there has been no saturation added, in fact I had to tone down the reds, because they were too intense after I added some contrast.
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It's nice to see the water in White Pocket again. It's been pretty dry out there for several months. My clients always love photographing the reflections here on days when the winds are calm.
It's hard to believe winter is now here! One of the highlights of our workshops this month was visiting White Pocket with a little dusting of snow. Being so close to the winter solstice, we were able to get the sunburst in the perfect position! We are eagerly looking forward to many new and amazing photo opportunities in 2021. Make sure you join our email list since we'll be announcing the rest of our 2021 workshop line-up in early January!!
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First light of the day shines over the White Pocket, a fascinating unreal world, deep in to the Vermilion Cliffs.
Going to White Pocket is worth the drive, but to reach White Pocket requires driving 17 miles on a rough one lane cattle road through deep sand. If you attempt the drive, I strongly advise you to have a high clearance four-wheel drive vehicle capable of off-road driving in axle deep sand.
White Pocket is a small area (a pocket) of extreme eroded, swirling and twisted multicolored sandstone formations and slickrock dunes. Unlike the Wave, no permit is required. It’s remoteness and difficulty to reach keeps people away. Nevertheless, remember that it is an extremely fragile environment and the utmost care should be taken to preserve this beautiful place. This is a very remote area, there is no water, no restrooms and no shade.
I camped here overnight, enough time for sunset and sunrise photography. This is sunrise at 7am.
8 vertical images stitched together which results in a more than 13.000 pixel image.
Image is part of the South-West Tour.
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Technical Details;
Camera; Canon EOS 1Ds mkIII
Lens; Canon 24-70mm 2.8L USM
Exposure; 1/8 sec
Aperture; f16
ISO; 100 RAW
Filter; polariser
Tripod; Gitzo 3541L
Ballhead; RRS BH-55 with B2 AS II clamp
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Some interesting light and shadow out at White Pocket. You can always find interesting compositions out here!
White Pocket is looking really nice these days with all the rain we've been getting. Here's a shot from a client outing a couple days ago.
Here's my home away from home! We've been getting some great sunsets out at White Pocket recently. Here's just one example....
I spent a mind expanding (yet chemical free) two weeks in the Southwest desert with Zack Schnepf and Tony Kuyper. We visited places that should only exist in the imagination and the light was hypnotic. This is a phase of twilight I call "Salmon Light" for the pink-orange glow it casts on the land. We patiently waited for it each day even though it only lasts for about 10 minutes in the morning and evening. More coming soon, but I have so much new material it is hard to find a starting point.
🇪🇸 Hoy os subo otra fotografía del reciente viaje a Estados Unidos 🇺🇸.
🇬🇧 It was the first sunrise of two that we spent in White Pocket (Utah). At first it was quite cloudy but suddenly many colors began to come out, the case that I was in a low point of the area with high walls and I could hardly get those colors with my camera, plus I could not find interesting points of interest to them. So I made a 180 degree turn and decided to fly the drone without planning anything, to gain altitude and see what I could get and finally I made this great 360 degree panoramic.
Era el primer amanecer de dos que pasábamos en White Pocket (Utah). A primera hora estaba bastante nublado pero de repente empezaron a salir bastantes colores, el caso que estaba en un punto bajo de la zona con paredes altas y a penas podía sacar esos colores con mi cámara, además que no encontraba puntos de interés interesantes hacia ellos. Asi que di un giro de 180 grados y decidí volar el drone sin planificar nada, ganar altura y ver que se podía sacar y finalmente realicé esta gran panorámica de 360 grados
This is a shot of the well known lone tree at White Pocket nestled among the super interesting "brain rocks."
I took this shot on a recent client outing to White Pocket. The landscape here can look so bizarre - hence why I named this shot Alien Planet Milky Way. We used a single stationary light strategically placed to give even light to both foreground and the background peaks. I offer overnight trips to White Pocket if you ever want to learn how to take shots like this.
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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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
Desert rock formations in late afternoon light. White Pocket, AZ. I visited this magnificent and remote location in far northern Arizona as part of a guided photography tour. This was definitely worth it, to visit a lesser-known spot at the perfect time of day. This landscape is an amazing world of colorful rock, with deep blue sky above. This particular spot was in a gap in the western 'wall' of the formation; an alien world of rock awaited on one side, with the high desert plateau on the other side. Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, AZ.
I thought that the clouds somewhat parallel the cleavage pattern in the rocks.
One thing about traveling to some of these more remote areas, be very careful about trying it on your own. This area required several miles of off road travel. There was a driving trail as such but a 4-wheel drive and skill in navigating loose sand is necessary. And of course, the trails/roadways are not marked so your other task would be just finding the location.It is much easier to pay to join a "photo tour". Much less worry and minimal cost difference.
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White Pocket
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Arizona
March 2025
White Pocket, tucked within Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona, is a hidden gem of swirling sandstone, otherworldly rock formations, and vibrant colors. Its landscape—a mesmerizing blend of white, red, and orange sandstone—has been sculpted into domes, ridges, and brain-like textures over time. Adventurers are drawn to its alien beauty, where each turn reveals a new geological marvel. Its remote isolation enhances the mystique.
Here's another shot of some March Milky Way during an overnight client outing to White Pocket. It was well below freezing so we were glad the wind wasn't blowing like it was the evening before. Since the foreground puddle was frozen solid, I didn't think we would get any kind of reflections. However, once I got the image on the computer, I realized it would have been much better with the full tree reflecting on the ice. Oh well...