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The "Wave" is aNavajo sandstonerock formation located in the American southwest , near the Arizona and Utah border. It is an area made world famous by photographs of its marvelous crimson undulating forms. The location was first widely publicized in Germany, in magazine articles and a movie 'Faszination Natur' by Gogol Lobmayr in 1995. After its' discovery, word spread to the photographic world quickly via the internet. The "Wave" which is located in on the slopes of theNorth Coyote Buttes, in theParia Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wildernesswas soon overwhelmed by the photographic community. As is often the case, a lemming like rush towards an object of public obsession, overlooks objects of equa...

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