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Monument Valley
If this can be the highlight of your trip, after you have seen Antelope Canyon… it actually is! We stayed at the wonderful ‘View Hotel’, which absolutely deserves its name because all the guest rooms have a balcony from which you can enjoy a once in a lifetime opportunity to see – and take pictures of 🙂 the majestic natural monuments, mesas, and buttes, created by erosion in all their glory, at sunrise, sunset or star gazing during the night! You can take all these amazing photos from the comfort of your own balcony! Starts at night and finishes with the best star trail pictures at night! I had to reduce…
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Antelope Canyon
Antelope Canyon was one of the most amazing places we have seen in our US holiday this year! The slot canyon was formed by erosion of sandstone, primarily by flash flooding, but also the rainwater is cutting into the stone walls, smoothing the hard edges in such a way as to form the “flowing shapes’ in the rock. It is a spectacular looking place and understandably very popular with photographers, which was a bit frustrating at times. The people running the tours are very nice and they try to accommodate everyone, but in order to do that, they have to rush you through. You can…
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Old Jacaranda Tree at Sydney Uni is no longer there…
As of last week, the 88 years old Jacaranda tree at Sydney University was found uprooted in the Quadrangle. It lay there, but it was still full of purple flowers, making such a romantic departure… Only last year I posted a lot of photos of this tree in my Flickr gallery, so I can show here past and present: The Jacaranda tree was the most famous in the city and very loved by Sydney Uni students, past and present, maybe because it made such a nice backdrop for the graduation photos. My son graduated from Sydney Uni, and this is why we cannot help feeling a bit sad about it… The…
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Horseshoe Bend – Colorado River
The next stop after Grand Canyon was the small town of Page where we visited two amazing places: Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon -both breathtaking, ‘WOW’ places, like nothing we have ever seen before. And both posing different challenges for photographers! At Horseshoe -a meander of Colorado River- you stay on the edge of the cliff and look down approximately 300m, so vast and beautiful! But I was surprised there is nothing to protect you from falling to your certain death, I did not see any rail or any sign of warning… Well, this is probably my Australian mentality speaking, it would be ridiculous to fence out the whole Grand Canyon… It…
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