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26-SEP-2017 jimmsp

Breaking Dawn

Monument Valley, AZ

Related to the songs "A Beginning" and "A Hard Day's Night", and "Here Comes the Sun".

I shot this in HDR, 3 shots, as dawn was breaking. This shows "the Mittens" on the left. I saw a National Geographic training video which had a B&W segment which inspired me to convert this shot.
Converted with NIK.

Canon EOS 80D ,Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
1/320s f/7.1 at 24.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Guest 20-Oct-2017 11:06
Forget the song. Awesome shot.
Thanks for waking up early to take it.
Canon Image Challenge15-Oct-2017 15:25
No, no long night exposures. I was too tired to stay up. But after a good night's sleep, getting up before dawn was easy.

And yes, the night sky is spectacular, as I saw once on this trip.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge15-Oct-2017 14:14
Did you by chance do any long exposure night photography, according to dark sky finder that should be a spectacular location for night photography. Paul
Canon Image Challenge15-Oct-2017 03:23
Paul,
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley

Jim
Canon Image Challenge15-Oct-2017 03:19
Paul - this is up on the boundary of Arizona and Utah in Navajo Land. It is on the reservation and run by the Navajo. It is reasonably remote, but only a one day drive from Green Valley; about 6 hours from Phoenix.
This is shot from my hotel balcony; I was up and starting to shoot at 5:00 am.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge15-Oct-2017 01:50
Fantastic scene, is this a national park? It looks to be very remote, how do you get there? Paul