Daily Nature Fix: Black & White Slot Canyon. (Original Photos)

Good evening nature buffs. Tonight's Daily Nature Fix was kinda inspired by @daveks. He often posts a lot of awesome landscape photos of the Canadian Rockies and surrounding areas, but he also mixes in a lot of black and white photos of them as well. As I said a few weeks ago, I'm USUALLY not a big fan of black and white for landscapes... BUT, there are exceptions. It seems like landscapes with a lot of stone/rock showing, like the Canadian Rockies, can be enhanced by going greyscale. Ansel Adams mastered this. I was looking through some of my photos for scenery featuring a lot of rock, and I came across a block of images from Antelope Canyon in northern Arizona. It's a long, narrow slot canyon made out of red sandstone. Ya cant get more rock than that, really. So here we go:

The canyon is about a quarter mile long, sometimes only around 4 feet wide, and 100f feet tall/deep. These photos were taken while standing on the canyon floor and shooting straight up towards the sky. The smooth and curvy lines have been carved out by a millennia of ancient water flows... from flash floods, to perhaps extinct rivers even. Rainstorms, even miles and miles away, can fill this canyon nearly to the top in an instant. It's actually very dangerous, and you could be completely runaway of the distant storm.

Thought the canyon is stunning in full color... all rusty red and orange colors, it does work in black and white too. In fact, photography Peter Lik's "Phantom" depicts a sun beam hitting Antelope Canyon's floor and the dust being kicked up has a slight humanoid shape to it, and it's set to black and white. Well, that photo sold for $6,500,000 and is the most expensive photograph ever sold, to my knowledge. By the way, I'll sell either of these two photos for HALF that! ;-)

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