Deep shadows and bursts of overhead sunlight, paired with limited sight lines and cramped spaces, created some interesting photographic challenges in Lower Antelope Canyon. At times I found myself flush with the same on-the-edge exhilaration I might feel clinging to rock on a very steep climb (more on that later!). Anchored between sandstone ledge and sandy floor, bent to catch an image that would live only in my own mind until the shutter snapped… it was an intense yet fun way to spend a morning.
More than once, light became the subject not simply an essential element in creating the photograph:
Here, as the sun makes its daily route from east to west, its rays thread sandstone windows at predictable times.
A handful of sand tossed into the light beam highlights its path creating an awed hush amongst observers, broken almost instantly by a flurry of camera shutters.
Great moment and great pictures.