Monument Valley, Az
John Wayne and John Ford has
made this area famous. John Wayne is the cowboy actor and John Ford the director.
John Ford did most of his western movie using the Monument Valley as the background.
From 160 you turn north on 163, which take you to Monument Valley. These pics
was taken with the Mamiya 645 AFD with the P45 digital back, most all of the
pics are taken in June of 2006, starting 1:00 pm on. Also, these pictures
was taken on the public dirt road. If you do take a Indian guide tour, you
will be able to go into the restricted area, that only the Indian guides have
permission to go to.
This picture was a panoramic with 5 images using the Mamiya
645 AFD, P45 digital back and
with the 55 mm lenses. What you see is the dirt road that loop you around
the valley area, I did
wait until most of the car is not on the dirt road, I do shoot from left to
right, this is my second set, when I start shooting my second set, that Indian
was not there, not until I was taken my last images of the set, is when I
notice him there, he help make the picture. From left to right, Sentinel Mesa,
Big Indian, West Mitten Butte, East Mitten Butte and Merrick Butte. The dirt
road is bad but if you have to, you can use your car to go threw the dirt
loop, but a 4 wheel drive would be the best.
The left pics is left of West Mitten Butte and the right is of right of West Mitten Butte.
View of West Mitten Butte and the butte and
mesa behind it.
Left is the Merrick Butte and
corner of Thunderbird Mesa on the right.
View back toward the Merrick Butte and East Butte.
The same area, shot with a Canon Rebel converted to Infrared only, with 19 mm Carl Zeiss lenses.
Formation outside of Monument Valley and the road view on
US163 from Utah going to Monument Valley.
Monument Valley is a very large area, there are some great
looking formations outside of
Monument Valley and can be seen on the road. I will be going back to Monument
Valley
and photograph some of the others part of that great valley. As said before,
if you get a Indian guide, you will be able to go into the restricted area
of Monument Valley, that only
could be enter with a Indian guide or tour.