Antelope Canyon
Visiting Antelope Canyon is something I have wanted to do for at least 15 years, ever since I saw my first picture of it and was mesmerized by the flow of the rock and the colours found there.
It is a nondescript (from the outside) slot canyon about 20 minutes from Page, Arizona. You can only get to it via a guided tour, so we opted for 2 hours inside and it was definitely not enough (although Christine may disagree…for me it went by like a gunshot).
We jumped into the back of a pickup truck for the ride to the entrance.
It was so beautiful inside I thought my chest might burst. There were a few other photographers there as well (three of whom I know…how coincidental is that!) and we were all buzzin with the same energy…it was a lot of fun.
A lot of these images look like abstracts, but what you are looking at is the rock itself, lit from above and reflected through to the ground. Absolutely breathtaking.
One of the really cool things about this canyon is that, if you go at the right time of day (and we did, although totally by accident — 11am for the record), then single beams of light fall into the canyon through the twists of rock overhead, lighting up the interior with reflected light.
It was everything I had hoped it would be, and more. I’m already wanting to go back! Absolutely the highlight of the trip. I can’t wait to get some of these printed up huge for our living room!
…Mike
