Monument Valley 12 - Totem Poles and Cairn
by Allen Beatty
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Monument Valley 12 - Totem Poles and Cairn
Artist
Allen Beatty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Monument Valley (Navajo: , meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona-Utah state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.
Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best known films, and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."
Many of it's buttes, mesas, and mittens are iconic images known to generations.This monument is actually called Toem Pole but I made it plural because there are several formations.
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June 21st, 2016
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Elizabeth McTaggart
Beautifully composed from the Cairn in the foreground to those soft, barely there clouds in the distance ~ Perfection!!