Monument Valley Views No. 9
by Roger Passman
Title
Monument Valley Views No. 9
Artist
Roger Passman
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Prints/limited Edition Prints/licensing
Description
Monument Valley, one of the Navajo Nation Tribal Parks and, perhaps, the best known of those parks. In visiting here you experience one of the most majestic - and most photographed - points on earth.
This great valley boasts sandstone masterpieces that tower at heights of 400 to 1,000 feet. framed by scenic clouds casting shadows that graciously roam the desert floor. The angle of the sun accents these graceful formations, providing scenery that is simply spellbinding.
The landscape overwhelms, not just by its beauty but also by its size. The fragile pinnacles of rock are surrounded by miles of mesas and buttes, shrubs, trees and windblown sand, all comprising the magnificent colors of the valley. All of this harmoniously combines to make Monument Valley a truly wondrous experience.
This series of images represents visions of Monument Valley during my fourth visit to the park. The first visit was one of awe and wonder. Over time, the visits presented narrowed visions of the wonderful carved mesas, butes and spires as if newly seen again for the first time. This latest visit provided a number of views of the park that I had not seen before, nor will I see again. Ways of framing, of showing the so well known formations came to me as I wandered through the self-guided loop drive.
Driving north from the entrance to Monument Valley Tribal Park on US 163 one may see Eagle Mesa and Sitting Hen Butte on the left side of the road. While technically not within the boundary of the park, these two formations are actually in the Valley of the Gods just to the West of Monument Valley in Utah, they are formed of the same Navajo Sandstone that is found within the park itself, the two remain a part of the Navajo Nation; I am including Sitting Hen Butte and Eagle Mesa in the images photographed in the Monument Valley Series. They appear to have been one in the same mesa with the effluent of the two formations merging into one another. Time and weather separated them into what we see today. As time goes by, Eagle Mesa, a rather small mesa to be sure, will continue to erode as will Sitting Hen. Come back in 20,000 years and who knows what we will see.
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May 12th, 2017
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