Simple Click – The View
The view from The View, gorgeous start to what turned out to be a magical day. This is from the balcony of our room, star burst courtesy 45 PC-E
Then Came the “Calm”
So after being blown about the valley, the road, the planet, we found a location before sunset where the wind was only 20mph. Got the grit out of my teeth, changed my hair color back to gray from red, and made some clicks. The clouds as the storm moved through were KILLER! We’re safe and warm back in the lodge but they are saying it might snow here tonight. Cross your fingers for me!
Photo captured by D3x, 85PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
And then the Weather Changed
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In fact this was the weather for the majority of the day. Right now I have to be careful to not brush my mustache or else my keyboard is covered in red dust! The pile of camera waiting back on the bed for me to clean is nasty! That’s right, even with the clouds of dust, the red rain that fell (because of all the dust in the sky), I kept on shooting. It was Great! Now the video crew wasn’t that thrilled with the shooting process, but they loved the results. Dang, this is fun!
The Start of a Perfect ….
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After pulling an all nighter doing star trails (which turned our freakin cool), we started a little after sunrise with breakfast and then scouting. This place is just AMAZING! The photographs I’ve seen of Monument Valley don’t all seem to do it justice so that’s my challenge and it’s a whopper of a challenge. Part of solving that challenge for myself is getting to know the place and to know the place, you have to know the folks who call it home, the Navajo. So, I spent a few hours today with the Jackson’s who live at the bottom of the Valley on the 17mile drive. Got to know Albert real well and what you see here is his office everyday. It was a very special time learning about how the Navajo regard MV and a huge challenge to bring that out in my images and videos we’re filming. You’ll here more about all of that as the week goes one so stayed tuned!
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
It Only Took 50yrs!
Yeap, Sharon & made it to Monument Valley for the first time today. This was our first view and it didn’t disappoint. We’ve seen many a beautiful image made here which has always pulled us in. We are very fortunate to be here with perfect photo weather and spring green just coming up.
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Couldn’t have planned better if we wanted to. Even better, we’re here with a film crew from Kelby Training as we’re creating a two part Romancing The Landscape series. So you’ll be able to see all the successes and failures and explore this gorgeous place for the first time right along side us. It’s going to be a great week, well blog clicks as I go.
Photo captured by D3x, 70-200VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film
Platte Junk Yard #2
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The highnoon light, its contrast and simple one image HDR make this stuff so easy it’s fun!
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Then I started to see faces in the junk. I let it suck me in one or two clicks and then I shake out of it because that tends to be a slippery slope.