ANTELOPE'S SPIRITS

The old and tired 2012 is now gone forever, and the New Year is here! With it, I just sent out my JANUARY NEWSLETTER announcing the new Print Of The Month: for the next 30 days, you'll be able to purchase "THE VEILED BRIDE" below at our POTM reduced price! This, as well as the rest of the pictures in this gallery, really look amazing on print, the selenium-toned B&W tonalities just sing. More on Antelope Canyon and more pictures after the break.

The Veiled Bride

This month's POTM is out of the newly posted ANTELOPE'S SPIRIT, a gallery featuring images of Antelope Canyon. One of the most photographed locations in the South-West U.S.A., Antelope Canyon is often portrayed in ultra-saturated & ultra-bright colours. My experience of it, however, was very different: to me, Antelope Canyon more than a Vegas-like light-and-colour show is an intensely spiritual place, and its rocks, sculpted by time and water, inspired me a more intimate vision. I left behind what is really a monochrome of reds in favour of a monochrome of greys, and followed the suggestions and images created by the soft lines, the rough textures and the contrasts of light and shadows. In Antelope, time and water sculpted the soft sandstone in incredible shapes which can come alive as almost anything your eyes want and can find:

The Mummy

The Wild Beasts

It can inspire you to go Towards the Light:

Towards the Light

Or Towards the Darkness:

Towards the Darkness

In short, it is a place nothing short of amazing. The gallery contains 28 images, and as much as I would like to share them all here, I'll limit myself to a few more:

The Wave

The Waterfall

Upper Antelope

OK, this is about it for today! Please check ANTELOPE'S SPIRIT on my Fine Art website for the rest of the pictures.

Now for the technical stuff: while I was traveling around the South-West U.S.A. with a view camera equipped with a digital back, due to the narrowness of the canyon and the sand flying everywhere, I chose to leave the big view camera at the Hotel and to go in light. All images shown here have been shot with a Panasonic GF1 with various lenses, mounted when needed on a Gitzo tripod equipped with an Arca Swiss Cube head; Cokin P-Series filters have been used, including a Circular Polarizer & various P-Series ND Grad filters. Photos have been developed in Capture One Pro and finished in Photoshop CS6. Subscribe to my NEWSLETTER for more tips and tricks on how to shoot in a Slot Canyon!

Thank you for reading this far, and stay tuned - more coming soon...

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