Monument Valley 23 - That Way
by Allen Beatty
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Monument Valley 23 - That Way
Artist
Allen Beatty
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Photograph - Photographs
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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 images known to generations and here we see probably one of the most iconic images.
This view is not actually in Monument Valley proper but on RT. 163 as you approach MV. But as I spied this out of the corner of my eye I had to stop and capture it.
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June 26th, 2016
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Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 7/7/16
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