Upper Antelope Canyon
I first went there in 2006, to tell you the truth, I did not know where that place is located at. The morning of the trip, I saw a tour truck going west on Hwy 98, so I figure it is in that direction, which I was right. If you see those smoke stacks, of the power plant, the entrance to the Upper Antelope Canyon is just before that plant on 98. I guess I was lucky, there is no wind when I was there, I did travel there on June 20th, 2007 and no wind on that date either. It is just a warning, some people say when it is windy, sand and dust flys everywhere.
This picture was taken on 19th of June of 2006, at about 12:00 noon, which the sun is about to be at its apex of the year. That is why you see the light shaft, going striaght down to the canyon floor. The camera used was the Mamiya 645 with 35mm lens and a Phase One P45 digital back. The reason I used that camera, is because it is 16 bits and my tif file size is 112 mags. I really like that place and hoping to go back there year after year.
If there is no dust in the canyon, you will not see the light
shaft, you will see
where the light hit on the canyon floor. The images was taken
with the Mamiya
645 with 45mm lens and P45 digital back.
There are different chambers at the canyon,
there also many people
but the Indian guides will help stop people from getting into your
pictures. There are 5-10 different groups in the canyon at any one
time. But noon is the mad time, when the light shaft is at its best.
Mamiya 645, 45mm lens, P45 digital back.
This is the Upper Antelope Canyon welcome center, since it is on
Indian land and a Indian family owns it and not the government,
there is no fancy place to sit or air condition.
As of June 2007, you do have to paid to
get into the Indian land and do have to paid to go into the Upper Antelope
Canyon. They do have two prices, a tour price and a photographer price. One
is 1 hour and the other is 1 1/2 hours. If you are using a 35 mm DSLR, full
frame, a zoom lenses around 24mm-70mm will be a good choice. Shooting digital
is the only way to go, on my 2006 trip, there was a photographer using a pano
film camera and his exposure time, with the filters was 6 minutes and mine
was 30 seconds, using my Mamiya 645 with 35mm lens and P45 digital back.