Apr 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
I’d asked Bruce a few days back how one gets to the Totem Pole formation. I’d seen a photo from there I’d liked and wanted to see if I could take it myself. Well Bruce said he’d take us there which is all we thought we were going to do this afternoon. Man, were we wrong!
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What you see here is the formation right next to Totem Pole, Ya Be Chei. The clouds were great right at this moment so spent probably more time here then I should have but couldn’t pull away from it.
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This is Totem Pole. You might not recognize it from this angle, but if you ever saw the movie The Eiger Sanction, you saw Clint Eastwood on top of this from an aerial view. Did I get the shot I wanted? Nope, I’ll be coming back in Sept for that one, wrong time of year. Bruce said not to worry, in Sept he’d take us to the top of the Mesa so we could photograph the Valley from the air. How cool will that be?!
Photos captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Apr 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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This is Susie Yazzie. You might not recognize her as she is now 93 (wouldn’t know it by how nibble and strong her hands are) but you’ve most likely seen Josef Munich photo of her at the loom from decades ago. And if you’re really good with faces, she was in John Ford movies made here in the 40s and 50s! i just happened to ask about her and Bruce said that was the grandmother of the clan. So we drove right over to her home and meet her. It was simple a very, very special moment!
The photography was pretty darn simple because the light was amazing. The Hogan has a hole in the center letting in light as the front door which always faces east had killer light bouncing in. I just had to kneel and shoot. A very special moment for us!
Photo captured by D3x, 24f1.4AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Apr 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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We have had an amazing week here at Monument Valley! After putting in 4, 12hr days creating new online classes for Kelby Training (can’t wait to see them!) we took today to spend some time with our new friends the Jacksons. They took us to some of the places folks pay to go on the back road tour and to some places only the Navajo go. There simple is no words for our experience.
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Here we’re at Eye of the Sun playing “tourist.” The natural formations of Monument Valley were we spent the day in 4 wheel drive are simply amazing! You can see the size of this place with Stephanie standing there shooting up. We went to the back of the formation and laid against the wall and shot out with the Fish to capture the entirety of the location. But this is NOTHING compared to the rest of our day. The opportunities this profession keeps affording us just boggles my mind. We are just incredibly fortunate!
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E / 16Fish on Lexar UDMA digital film
Apr 24, 2010 | Landscape Photography
Having never traveled this small corner of North America before (circled all around it but never ventured in), I am like a kid in a candy store with all the landscape has been offering us!
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This is what’s left of the Suburban after going down one road, it was kinda rough. You might be thinking, “this is like the greatest landscape offerings the southwest has to offer?” But I thought it was pretty darn cool as the owner got inside and drove off after I made this click. Yeap, this “heap” is still be driven and is not some abandoned truck we found in a field. In fact, finding such vehicles has been near impossible.
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Then there is this big ass rock sitting out in the middle of nowhere New Mexico. This is Ship Rock and you’ll see it on the horizon long before you arrive to it. There is a thriving town nearby with the same name but the rock itself (a damn mtn) is all by its lonesome out on the flats.
One of these images became a killer lesson for the new Romancing the Landscape series coming soon to Kelby Training. Both are one image HDR but other than than, I wonder if you can guess which one became a lesson? Time will tell.
Photos captured by D3x, 14-24/200f2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Apr 23, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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All of today’s shots are straight out of the camera, not only was the shooting that spectacular, I simple didn’t have time to do anything other than click the Action in Photoshop. I do know the whole crew has been uploading for hours now and just now seeing their images and video footage. Just a amazing day in a new locale that just put on a show that is hard to express in words or show in images.
Apr 23, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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As far as I’m concerned, we found heaven today called Valley of the Gods. I am SO bush league tired because besides filming 12hrs today (killer stuff) for Kelby Training I shot over 1400 images. If asked, this was one of the top ten days of shooting in my 30yrs!
