Monument Valley 1999

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

Note: The photographs and text below are from a trip taken in April, 1999. A year later in April, 2000 I lead a landscape photography workshop to this same location. For a portfolio of images from that trip, as well as work by some of the workshop's students and co-instructor Steve Kossack, please seeMonument Valley 2000.

A visit toCanyon de Chellydone on the same trip will be of interest.

So, you want to get away from it all. If so, then these are the places to go. In addition to being about as far from civilization as you can get in the lower 48 states, they also happen to be two of the most spectacular locations for photography in the Southwest.

As usual when planning a trip like this I highly recommend reading Robert Hitchman'sPhotograph Americaguides; in this case #27 from Nov/Dec 1993. I won't attempt to replicate here the excellent job that Hitchman does, but instead offer some personal experiences and anecdotes.

Yellow Stripe Hwy, outside Monume...

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