Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: Navajo Land Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: Famous and incredible Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest, in Arizona. There are two seperate, scenic slot canyons that are accessible by guided tour only.
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: Formed by erosion of Navajo sandstone due to flash flooding and other sub-aerial processes. Over time narrow passageways eroded away, deeming the corridors and smoothing hard edges to form flowing shapes. Each inch of represents 1000 years of making.
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: After flash flood that killed 11 hikers, Navajo Nation government turned Antelope Canyon into a protected area, implementing stronger restrictions on who can visit, and when. As o past couple years, tour companies need to be majority Navajo-owned, and there are guidelines on how tour companies could operate there.
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Caption: Canyon is famous for series of photos included in Windows 7 desktop background, as well as Britney Spears video for “I’m not a girl, not yet a woman.’
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: No one can deny, that there’s not a beauty to this place, but it’s one of the most wonderful and frustrating experiences I’ve had. Photographer doesn’t have to do a lot of work here, canyon is ultimate photographer’s dream. But, with the rise of Instagram this place has become one of the most photographed place in the States, if not further.
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: Tour includes 8 people, and it starts every 15 minutes and it goes for 45 minutes. In canyon, at the same time there are approximately 100 people, so most of the energy is spent trying not to walk directly into somebody else, or trying to find that angle when no one is in your shot.
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Caption: Photography helps me engage with my surroundings, notice details that otherwise I would miss, and it helps me to process what I am experiencing. But here in this canyon, it felt like there are so many stories to be heard from Navajo Tribe, that I wanted to put my camera down and just be. Just listen.
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: When visiting places like this, remember to connect with locals, to hear their stories, to respect history, nature and culture, not just to cross off that bucket list of ours.
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Picture of Antelope Canyon
Caption: I always want to leave a place better then I arrived there, and this was a great reminder that following masses and trying to capture that best angle, is not worth sacrificing the real story and experience behind these monumental lands.
