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51 images Created 22 Mar 2009

more off than on the beaten path in the desert of the North American Southwest

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  • The monsoon rains in Northern Arizona rise the water level of the Little Colorado River and make for spectacular chocolate waterfalls. Photo taken shortly after sunset.
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  • Ancient groves of redwoods, the painted desert and petrified forests extend across Arizona and New Mexico. While tourists are flocking to the National Park area, I am fortunate enough to explore my extended neighborhood that still holds many hidden areas of this geological time frame, and lets me join the solitude and utter silence of this vast desertscape.
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  • sunset in a remote desert area of wind carved hoodoos and buttes
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  • For a very short time the sun (almost) broke through, before the fog closed the curtains again
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  • When leaving my home in the high desert, a 40 minute drive to this location, Wupatki National Monument, I had second thoughts about making the trip. The sky was cast over, the sun behind the clouds. Yet 30 minutes later when I dropped in elevation to 5000 ft before i reached my destination, the clouds started to brake up and an hour later the sky put on a sunset show that I never would have expected. Shows again, you never know if you are getting the photo or not. Wupatki was a thriving community 800 years ago, built in what is now northern Arizona.
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  • Hoodoos in Blue Canyon in northern Arizona
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  • the rock formation has been going through a metamorphosis by patiently wating over millions of years, still changing
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  • an ephemeral mirage in the painted desert landscape of norhtern Arizona
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  • Maroon Crater.jpg
  • Mather Point at sunset
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  • Sunset over Coal Mine Canyon in northern Arizona
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  • Shiprock, located in northwestern New Mexico, is an impressive example of a volcanic neck. This volcanic formation has several Navajo legends attached to it.
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  • A Navajo cowboy is posing for tourists to take a shot with the camera in Monument Valley.
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  • A group of Japanese tourists taking aim at a paid Navajo cowboy who is posing Hollywood style.
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  • in Northern Arizona, coal Mine Canyon area
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  • off the beaten path in northern Arizona
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  • Sunset over San Francisco Peaks, Northern Arizona, photo taken from Birdsprings area
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  • Laguna Pueblo with Mount Taylor in background, New Mexico
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  • Traveling between Ganado and Chinle, Arizona I drove right into the thunderstorm
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  • I discovered this part of the painted desert landscape laltely in Northern Arizona
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  • Graffiti on a windmill in Navajoland
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  • Sand Dunes with Painted Desert Background
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  • It is not the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado
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  • Crotaphytus collaris, Northern Arizona,
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  • Males have blue on throat and side of belly
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  • print this one!
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  • Round Rock in Diné Bikeyah at sunset
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  • have been coming back to this place many times over the years, imagining how to best catch the 'otherworldliness' of this area. This long exposure photo with the clouds taken long after sunset reflects very well what I have been feeling all along about this place in northern Arizona, close to the Utah border. What you see is the core of an ancient volcano, everything else around it has been eroded away.
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  • This hoodoo is located in a remote, roadless area in Arizona. Taken at sunrise, the black and white version makes it very timeless and gives it even more of a feeling of mystery.
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  • This hoodoo is located in a remote, roadless area in Arizona. Taken at sunrise, the black and white version makes it very timeless and gives it even more of a feeling of mystery.
    Eye of the Needle II.jpg
  • coyote buttes south, once a very remote area, has become an industrial tourism destination
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  • Spectacular Sunset near Winslow, Arizona, Arizona
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  • It always appears tom that these rocks in the desert are standing in perfect silence, motionless, waiting...this night they are illuminated by a full moon. Painted desert in the background.
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  • train tracks, going west towards Flagstaff, Arizona, with San Francisco Peaks at horizon
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  • I took this photo from my home in winter, when morning mist was rising from the desert at sunrise
    Morning Mist over Miriam Crater.jpg
  • a group ofwild  horses drinking water in the painted desert in Navajoland.
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  • A unique shot of an iconic place: the moodiness of the weather is casting a mystical light on Horseshoe Bend.
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  • Milky Way over Wukoki, Wupatki National Monument
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  • Light at Play at the Grand Canyon
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  • Oak Creek at Red Rock Crossing in Sedona
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  • A field of sunflowers stretching to the horizon in Sunset Crater National Monument
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  • Fall in West Fork, Oak Creek Canyon
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  • a petrified tree looking like a pile of wod in the Painted Desert
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  • Apache Plume is one of our showiest native western shrubs. Beginning in late spring and continuing through summer the plant blooms with single white flowers that set fluffy pink seed heads.
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  • A flaming sunset at the Wukoki site, Wupatki National Monument, in northern Arizona
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  • Canyon Diablo Railroad Bridge in Northern Arizona
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  • Putting things into perspective
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  • Time and natural elements have etched a fantasy world of strange rock formations, hoodoos, spires, pinnacles and arches.  Right next to this area, oil is pumped up continuously from wells. It is right in the middle of Navajoland where oil is being exploited, let's hope that this area will stay protected.
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