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Mountain Sheep Canyon

Mountain Sheep Canyon – Navajo Lands, Arizona

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Jul 232011
 

Fracture, Mountain Sheep Canyon, Navajo Lands, Arizona. Shot with a Sony α900 and a Zeiss 24-70mm lens at 24mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f13 for 1/2 of a second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. One of the interesting aspects of writing a blog is finding out what posts are the most popular. WordPress offers a nice statistics section in their content management system that tells you the number of visitors, search criteria used to find your site, and a counter to the most visited pages. Interestingly, in my mind at least, there have been quite a few searches and visits to many of my Mountain Sheep Canyon images. Mountain Sheep is small, hidden jewel, located outside of Page, Arizona on Navajo Lands. The canyon is only accessible through a photographers trip offered by Carol Bigthumb of Adventurous Antelope Canyon Tours.

Unlike Upper and Lower Antelope, Mountain Sheep Canyon is what I refer to as an open top slot. It has a straight in entry and only requires a little bit of scrambling. It takes some effort to get out to the canyon through sandy washes but the canyon receives few visitors making it a special place to photograph. Because of the wide open top light can be intense and often many of the formations are blown out. The better photographs come by looking for the reflected light on the canyon walls and creating compositions that focus on the lower parts of the canyon. The light changes rapidly and you should look for compositions during the trip in and out.

Slots are formed by the erosive forces of water that flow during flash floods through the sandstone drainages. Rocks, sand, tree limbs and other debris contribute to the carving of the canyon walls and are often deposited along the floor after a flood. The fast moving water scours the walls revealing intricate and colorful layers of stone. In many cases the water is caught in whirlpool like eddies that over time carve out chambers and alcoves in the rock. Ultimately this is how rooms in slot canyons are formed. The image above shows the beginnings of a small alcove where the swirling water has begun to carve a semi circular space in the stone. The group of rocks in the alcove are transient visitors and may move on during the next flood.

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Hozógo nasádo (Navajo): Walk in Beauty

Bob

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Mountain Sheep Canyon – Navajo Lands

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Apr 122011
 

Mountain Sheep Canyon, Navajo Lands, Arizona. Shot with a Sony α900 and a Zeiss 24-70mm lens at 50mm. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f11 for 1/2 of a second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. Today’s image is from Mountain Sheep Canyon located on Navajo Lands just outside of Page, Arizona. Mountain Sheep is what I refer to as an open top slot canyon. The top portions of the canyon are wider and more open than a more traditional slot canyon like Upper or Lower Antelope. Open top slots allow more light to enter the canyon which can make shooting more difficult because of the extreme contrasts of light. It is generally best to shoot in open top slots early in the morning or late in the afternoon to take advantage of lower sun angles which will allow you to shoot glowing walls illuminated by bounced and reflected light. When you find yourself in an open top slot at the wrong time, with higher sun angles, you can still find great shots by concentrating more on the details and patterns contained within the sandstone.

This image is a case in point. I ended up in Mountain Sheep in the early afternoon and was greeted with less than ideal conditions due to the amount of sunlight flooding the canyon. I decided to use this as a challenge and see if I could focus more on vignettes within the canyon. So I looked for patterns and interesting formations within the walls and curves of the canyon. In this image I was struck by the curving striations and contortions that gave way to smoother walls. I was also fascinated by the petrified sand caked on the canyon walls. This material was left by flood waters and over time was baked and hardened by the sun. The sand is literally fused to the wall and would require a hammer and chisel to break it away. There is a subtle glow on the surfaces created by reflected light bouncing off the canyon walls behind my camera position. This light helped illuminate the beautiful lines and striations in the sandstone.

The RAW file was processed in Adobe Lightroom and finished in Photoshop. Mountain Sheep Canyon is located on the Navajo Reservation and is only accessible with a Navajo Guide. I first visited the canyon in 2009 and have been back on four other occasions. If you would like to visit the canyon please contact Carol Bigthumb at Adventurous Antelope Canyon Tours.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hozógo nasádo (Navajo): Walk in Beauty

Bob

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Fracture – Antelope Canyon, Navajo Lands, Arizona

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Jan 222011
 

Fracture, Antelope Canyon/Mountain Sheep Canyon, Navajo Lands, Arizona. Shot with a Sony α900 and a Sony SAL 20mm lens. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f16 for 1 second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. I am heading out for a week and wanted to get a new image up before I took off. Though the title says the shot is from Antelope Canyon, it is actually a shot in a small, open-top slot, called Mountain Sheep Canyon. It is within a few miles of Upper Antelope Canyon and is available to photographers through my friend and guide Carol Bigthumb of Adventurous Antelope Canyon Tours. It is a short canyon but it is full of beautiful details and amazing contortions wrought by the forces of wind and water. This image illustrates how water actually carves out the canyons during flash floods. As water runs through the canyons it can get trapped in small recesses and begins to swirl. As it does so the water carves away at the stone and the recesses become larger and more undercut. As the water rushes through it can rip away and fracture the stone as well as polish the surface revealing beautiful striations. Depending on the time of day the light in the canyons is amazing. The glow on the right wall is the result of bounced, or reflected, light off the wall just behind the cameras position. This is the kind of light I search for and I love to create compositions that juxtapose this light with shadowed areas. In most instances shooting in an open-top slot requires more diligent composition as the light can be more harsh. If you can get in the early morning or late afternoon the light can be softer.

The image was processed in Lightroom and finished in Photoshop.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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Mountain Sheep Canyon – Convergence

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Aug 212010
 

Convergence, Mountain Sheep Canyon, Navajo Lands. Shot with a Sony α900 and a Sony SAL 20mm lens. Image exposed at ISO 100 at f16 for 1/2 of a second.

Hi everyone and welcome to today’s post. This image is from Mountain Sheep Canyon on the Navajo Reservation. This shot is all about the idea of leading lines. I have written about leading lines in past postings as a compositional element to help draw the viewer into the image and then “lead” them through the shot. Leading lines can be subtle references such as a line of trees or groups of rocks or they can be quite obvious as in this shot. The shot was taken in a very narrow section of the canyon. The sky was so bright overhead that a shot inside the narrow area was impossible. I was still getting some nice bounced and reflected light but needed a different viewpoint. The compositional solution was to get higher and shoot down the slot. This was easier said then done and took me about 20 minutes to shimmy up and locate the tripod. I am really not more than about 6 feet up but the change in camera position viewpoint was significant. From here I could really accentuate the sandstone striations on both walls and allow a convergence of the lines with the path. Normally I like to have my leading lines lead to the main point of the image. Here the leading lines are the main point. The sheer feeling of movement along the layered compression of sandstone is my main subject. The lines draw you in from the bottom of the shot and lead you down the path. But while the lines are the subject I have allowed the viewer a door to get out. The lines all converge on a single, subtle glow of light. The light at the end of the path. The light that draws you forward to something new. Beyond that light are new discoveries to be made.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Bob

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