Upper Antelope Canyon outside Page, Arizona part of the Navajo Parks and Recreation.

Upper Antelope Canyon is one of around one hundred slopt canyons in the Navajo Nation, east of Lake Powell, Arizona. What makes Antelope Canyon unique is it's "A" shape. The other slot canyons are all "V" shaped. This creates a narrow but passable canyon, with only a small opening to let light in to the canyon floor. Between the months of May and August, while the sun is most overhead the canyon, each day a play of light unfolds telling the story of hundreds of years of flash flood erosion. The flash-floods start around 5 miles an hour as they enter the canyon and speed up to around 30 miles per hour before they exit the opposite side. As much as two feet of sand was washed from the canyon earlier in the week, before I took these pictures.

Antelope Canyon is accessable only by guided tour. The day these were taken, there were close to 12 trucks, with 8-10 people each, were in the canyon at a time. It was difficult to get the long exposures nessisary in the dark canyon with so many people passing through. Luckily I fell behind and had a bit of time to propperly prepare. Antelope Canyon is a must-see for anyone intrested in Geology, Photography, or Native American heritage.

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