Next Day

[BarryHamilton]

After the day and evening at Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly, I made it the next morning to Shiprock, New Mexico.
I hoped to get there before dawn but underestimated how long it would take to get there from Farmington (could find NO hotels in the town of Shiprock!).
Still short of my ultimate destination (the turn-off near the spine), the sky offered up some lovely anti-twilight and color, so I had to pull up and take a shot.
Looking mostly westerly and unless I'm mistaken, which is highly possible, those are the snow capped Carrizo Mountains some 25 miles distant in the background.

 

[AlanLichty]

I like the subtle pastel shades in the clouds here - the blue light highlights this outcrop quite nicely.

 

[Ben Egbert]

That's an impressive rock, nicely imaged.

 

[JimFox]

That’s pretty cool Barry. Glad you got this color.

If I don’t camp and stay at a hotel, I always go for Farmington, and my reasoning is usually my destination is Bisti, but if the weather looks like sunrise will not be good at Bisti, so often Shiprock will have a good sunrise. So then I will take the 40 min drive to get there instead of Bisti. So I like Farmington simply for the versatility. Distances can be hard to judge, especially since it is quite a bit extra of a drive from the town of Shiprock to the actual Shiprock rock.

 

[BarryHamilton]

That’s pretty cool Barry. Glad you got this color.

If I don’t camp and stay at a hotel, I always go for Farmington, and my reasoning is usually my destination is Bisti, but if the weather looks like sunrise will not be good at Bisti, so often Shiprock will have a good sunrise. So then I will take the 40 min drive to get there instead of Bisti. So I like Farmington simply for the versatility. Distances can be hard to judge, especially since it is quite a bit extra of a drive from the town of Shiprock to the actual Shiprock rock.

Yeah, it's a lot bigger country than one realizes, until they have to drive it!
Thanks!

 

[Mike Lewis]

The first and my favorite of the set of 3 you posted. The mountains and that amazing sky really add to the very nice pre-sunrise light to make this very special.

ML