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I conducted a photo tour of the Navajo Nation in mid November, 2014. We explored Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, the Chukka Mountains, remote and rarely visited Coal Mine Canyon and we traveled to a few locations in Utah. The sandstone scenery was spectacular, and we enjoyed some spectacular autumn color.

We also connected with people. One of the people we met was Teddy Draper, Sr., who is one of the famous "Code Talkers" of World War Two. Draper and his fellow Navajos translated battlefield radio commands from English to Navajo to English again. While the enemy could listen in to radio transmissions, they couldn't translate them. We met Mr. Draper on Veterans Day.


A Mystical Moment Of Reflection

A colorful landscape, ghostly figures and strange architectural elements are blended in reflection in window glass at the edge of Monument Valley, part of the vast territory of the Navajo Nation of the American Southwest. This may not be my best photo. However, it's one of my favorites, because it's an image that was right in front of me that would not ordinarily be accessible to the normal visual and photographic process. I've trained myself, though, to look for reflections, and this one has a dream-like quality to it, a sort of Image Quest dimension dimension, if you will.
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The Night Sky Above Monument Valley

With a DSLR, it's usually possible to see the night sky, dimly, through the viewfinder, and frame a photo. For this photo, I used a 30mm f/2.8 lens, wide open, on a Sony A6000 mirrorless camera, which doesn't have an optical viewfinder. Seeing with an electronic viewfinder in the dark is almost impossible. So I had to make a few practice shots to get the composition I wanted of innumerable stars above a sandstone butte. The butte was illuminated by the lights of Gouldings Lodge, where I was staying with my photo group, 50 yards behind me.
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Old Glory Still Waves

Near Monument Valley, Arizona.
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Footbridge in Canyon de Chelly

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Windmill and Mud Near Coal Mine Canyon

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