The Lost Sunrise of Monument Valley
Published Friday, November 14, 2008 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post
Friday November 14, 2008
Location: Monticello, Utah
Yesterday I raced down to Monticello and touched base with Fritz Pipkin at his store in the center of town. I set up an interview for this morning and having the rest of the day to kill I decided to head down to Monument Valley to capture what promised to be a beautiful sunset.
I left around 1pm and arrived at around 3 still lots of time before the sun went down. I've seen some extraordinary places on this journey and in seeing Monument Valley I assumed there had to be more. I decided to head down to Kayenta and then back up around the Valley on the south side. I assumed that along this vast stretch of highway I'd encounter more magical buttes and just in time to capture the reds of the setting sun. Oh how wrong I was!
I went around the Valley only to end up far away from anything worth shooting when the sun was in it's prime... I missed the sunset, and it left me miserable. It's been a hard back to the van, with poor eating, a body racked from driving, an anxious dog, unshaven, unshowered, and in the middle of nowhere when all I want it to be the somewhere where I just was where I decided to go against my intuition to nowhere..hehe.
Anyways, I pull into a nice sleep spot, shave and bath out of a stainless steel mug.. and try my best to let a bad day go... and realize that everything is where it needs to be.
This morning I woke up and headed back into Monticello do do my interview with Fritz and his wife Barbara. I had a great interview and now I'm doing my laundry after a good breakfast of bacon and eggs before I head east towards Mesa Verde. I have a blog on Monticello and Fritz.. but it'll have to wait for later this eve or tomorrow when I have more time to write.
peace,
d
Location: Monticello, Utah
Yesterday I raced down to Monticello and touched base with Fritz Pipkin at his store in the center of town. I set up an interview for this morning and having the rest of the day to kill I decided to head down to Monument Valley to capture what promised to be a beautiful sunset.
I left around 1pm and arrived at around 3 still lots of time before the sun went down. I've seen some extraordinary places on this journey and in seeing Monument Valley I assumed there had to be more. I decided to head down to Kayenta and then back up around the Valley on the south side. I assumed that along this vast stretch of highway I'd encounter more magical buttes and just in time to capture the reds of the setting sun. Oh how wrong I was!
I went around the Valley only to end up far away from anything worth shooting when the sun was in it's prime... I missed the sunset, and it left me miserable. It's been a hard back to the van, with poor eating, a body racked from driving, an anxious dog, unshaven, unshowered, and in the middle of nowhere when all I want it to be the somewhere where I just was where I decided to go against my intuition to nowhere..hehe.
Anyways, I pull into a nice sleep spot, shave and bath out of a stainless steel mug.. and try my best to let a bad day go... and realize that everything is where it needs to be.
This morning I woke up and headed back into Monticello do do my interview with Fritz and his wife Barbara. I had a great interview and now I'm doing my laundry after a good breakfast of bacon and eggs before I head east towards Mesa Verde. I have a blog on Monticello and Fritz.. but it'll have to wait for later this eve or tomorrow when I have more time to write.
peace,
d
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