Canyon X2

I had my tripod and remote so I had to shoot a least a few selfies.

A few photos with people to show just how high and narrow the canyon is.

It was the wrong time of year and day to get photos with sunbeams so we spent some time playing with the sand. It's so fine we could drop a handful or two on a sloped rock and shoot it long exposure to look like a waterfall.

 

Canyon X

 I know what you're thinking, he promised no more canyon photos, but this isn't Antelope, it's Canyon X. Actually I was scheduled to tour lower Antelope after doing upper Antelope but I found tours for X which wasn't as busy and still had photo tours, half the group size, twice the time, and tripods allowed.

 

just a little more Antelope then on to new stuff (I promise)

 

The area around this canyon is part of the Navajo Nation and they run all the tours and are awesome. Our guide knew every cool place to take photos.

It's a challenge to take selfies with a normal DSLR and no tripod, smart phones are better at some things.

This shows you just how deep the slot canyon is, what's amazing is how flat the bottom of the canyon is, very soft sand and perfectly flat.

Behind the scenes, the canyon is actually very busy, tour after tour so you have to be quick with all your photos and try to get them between groups to avoid people in every photo.

On 89A once you cross the Colorado River there is an area full of very odd and cool rocks.

Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. Very cool drive just north of the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
 

more Antelope Canyon

 Sorry there are so many photos but this place is amazing and around every corner it's "wow", this is so cool.

 

more Page AZ (upper Antelope Canyon)

 East on Page on 98 are several world famous slot canyons. In the morning I visited upper Antelope Canyon. You've probably seen the iconic photos of Antelope with beams of sunshine showing the the sand they toss in the air. To get those photos you have to be there the right time of the year and the right time of the day the sun is overhead. You also need time to setup and shoot enough photos to the get the perfect one. The used to have photo tours to allow you more time to do that but they are now so busy they scrapped all the photo tours. I was also there the wrong time of year and day so I struck out all 3 ways.

In spite of the above, touring the canyon is amazing.

Our transport to the canyon, you park at the road and they drive you through a dry river bed to where the canyon starts.

Entrance to upper Antelope Canyon. The canyon is about 100 feet high and some places narrow enough you can barely squeeze through.

It was hard to get sharp photos, it was mostly too dark but also very bright spots where the sun came in. This shot shows a little of the scale of the canyon.

A view looking straight up.