Monument Valley and Hunts Mesa - trip planning: Going to spend 4 days at the View in Monument Valley, middle of October. Want to take a guided photo trip up to Hunt's Mesa

choward_ab Loc: Alberta, Canada

Going to spend 4 days at the View in Monument Valley, middle of October. Want to take a guided photo trip up to Hunt's Mesa - looking for recommendations including guides and shots not to miss. Also any tips for the valley in terms of shots and guides.
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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

My testimonial is for Phillips' Photography Tours, for at least 1 full day. We went to areas in the valley where you need a licensed guide and to Mystery Valley, again available only for guided tours. They picked me up at the View Lodge. You can tour in your own car, at your own pace and see everything except where a guide is needed. Do that as well. Be sure to shoot from the View overlook at both dawn and dusk.

The Watcher

Hopefully by October they will have the wildfires in California under control. Friends are telling me how bad the smoke has been in southern Utah and northern Arizona. I’ve been doing outdoor work in northern Nevada and the smoke from the California and Nevada fires, plus the extra hot weather have forced us to put somethings on hold.

SafariGuy

choward_ab wrote:

Going to spend 4 days at the View in Monument Valley, middle of October. Want to take a guided photo trip up to Hunt's Mesa - looking for recommendations including guides and shots not to miss. Also any tips for the valley in terms of shots and guides.
Thanks

If you are going up on Hunts Mesa I highly recommend doing the one overnight trip to get sunset and sunrise shots as well as the milky way if you are so inclined. They provide dinner cooked over open fire and breakfast....well worth the view and images you will be able to get. I am attching a shot from Hunts Mesa and everyone needs a shot from John Fords point.

photoed

Hunts Mesa an unusual view of Monument Valley looking north. I did the trip many times back in the late 1970's when I worked for the Navajo Area Indian Health Service. That was an era before guides were required. The Director of the Kayenta Clinic drew me a map. That was right after a B-52 struck the mesa top. The USAF improved the road, but over the next 4 or 5 years erosion took its toll and it became a rather challenging Jeep road. It is on my bucket list to do again.

photoed

Hunts Mesa an unusual view of Monument Valley looking north. I did the trip many times back in the late 1970's when I worked for the Navajo Area Indian Health Service. That was an era before guides were required. The Director of the Kayenta Clinic drew me a map. That was right after a B-52 struck the mesa top. The USAF improved the road, but over the next 4 or 5 years erosion took its toll and it became a rather challenging Jeep road. It is on my bucket list to do again.

JayRay Loc: Missouri

Beautiful captures!

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

choward_ab wrote:

Going to spend 4 days at the View in Monument Valley, middle of October. Want to take a guided photo trip up to Hunt's Mesa - looking for recommendations including guides and shots not to miss. Also any tips for the valley in terms of shots and guides.
Thanks

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the f/stops here Loc: New Mexico

I will have to agree with Phillip’s tours. Our guide really understood what photographers were looking for ... and succeeded.

choward_ab Loc: Alberta, Canada

Thanks for the input - nice photos!

laverne12

gorgeous

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I toured Monument Valley (1 day) in 2009 and I have almost the same exact shot of the horse and rider--I think it's the same horse and rider, actually.

Nice pics!

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

I was just there in July. I used Quanah Parker as a guide. We were supposed to do a night MW shoot, but it was totally overcast - so we went out at 4AM. Here are some of my shotes with him of sunrise over the Totem Poles and from my balcony at the View.

jayluber Loc: Phoenix, AZ

Sorry - here are my photos and if you want to contact Quanah I can send you his contact info...

The others are too large - but you can see them on my flickr site https://www.flickr.com/photos/157533168@N03/ or under jay Luber under people.

MV is off the charts beautiful. The room at the View is expensive but the food there is surprisingly inexpensive and the portions are huge....

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choward_ab Loc: Alberta, Canada

Love the rainbow shot. The last time we were there we took a lot of shots from our room balcony - none as good as this one.