Canyon de Chelly: Pronounced <i>'canyon duh-shay.'</i> Hiking up from White House Ruin (pictured here) some thirty years ago, I stopped to rest. While doing so, along the trail two...

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Mar 23, 2018 18:28:38 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Pronounced <i>'canyon duh-shay.'</i> Hiking up from White House Ruin (pictured here) some thirty years ago, I stopped to rest. While doing so, along the trail two Navajo women appeared, descending into the canyon. Struck as I was by the sheer awesomeness of the place, I asked if they lived there, and said something lame like, 'I have to tell this to someone who lives here: this is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.' One said she did live there and nodded; the other replied that she lived just up the road in the community of Many Farms, but that she comes often to see her sister. After a brief pause, she continued "and we come here for Power." Cultural differences aside, it wasn't difficult to understand what she meant. Its part of why returning is good, from time to time.

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Mar 23, 2018 18:39:22 #

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Amen.

Mar 23, 2018 19:09:11 #

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Neat!

Mar 23, 2018 19:11:34 #

pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA

Very nice.

Mar 23, 2018 19:39:48 #

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

Beautiful shot, Cany. I like your story too!
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Jerry

Mar 23, 2018 20:16:56 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

chevman wrote:

Beautiful shot, Cany. I like your story too!
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Jerry

Thanks, Jerry. And thanks, folks. The story is 100% factual and true. And I told it for a purpose.

Why do I get little sense of any 'real' connection between (many) shooters and the things they shoot? Are things/places/people just 'interesting' or 'pretty' or whatever in some photographic way? or do they Matter (yes, with a capital 'M') less superficially? Please don't set about answering those things to me. Answer them to yourselves.

Mar 23, 2018 22:45:39 #

illininitt

I like the first one.....wish I could have seen the colors on the second.

Mar 23, 2018 22:45:39 #

illininitt

I like the first one.....wish I could have seen the colors on the second.

Mar 23, 2018 23:18:02 #

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

It is a special place. Nicely done.

Mar 23, 2018 23:30:52 #

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

illininitt wrote:

I like the first one.....wish I could have seen the colors on the second.

Can't show you that B&W shot in color because I shot it on B&W sheet film (5"x7" TriX) in March of 1988. Here's a color (digital) shot from when I was last there last October, but obviously from a different view point.