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Spotlight on the American Southwest: Monument Valley – Part 2

by Alberto Cueto on November 17, 2009

in Landscapes, Locations, Travel

Early Morning Shooting In Monument Valley’s Backcountry
There we were, a fellow photographer (also from Los Angeles) and myself, at 5:40 in the morning one day in April 2009, waiting in the lobby of Monument Valley’s View Hotel. The native Navajo music playing over the lobby’s speakers filled the empty hotel lobby, and my fellow photographer [...]

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Spotlight on the American Southwest: Monument Valley – Part 1

by Alberto Cueto on November 17, 2009

in Landscapes, Locations, Tips

Monument Valley is one of my most favorite places on this planet.  It is quite a feat to find the words to appropriately describe this location, but in the next couple of blog postings, I am going to give it a shot. Few landscapes in the world come close to paralleling the mystical Monument Valley [...]

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Spotlight on the American Southwest: Horseshoe Bend

by Alberto Cueto on November 15, 2009

in Landscapes, Locations, Tips

The landscape of the American Southwest abounds with crazy and whimsical rock and geologic formations. There are rocks that look like pancakes (or UFO saucers), a Mexican sombrero, mittens, a mother with her child, and more. There is even a geologic formation just north of the Mexican hat that resembles a long gooseneck, [...]

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