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Receding Storm over Canyon de Chelly National Monument, March 26, 2024
Called “Tseyi” by the Navajo, “the place within the rocks,” Canyon de Chelly (Pronounced Canyon de “Shay”), has been home to native families who have raised livestock and farmed along Chinle Creek seen here below the distant cliffs, since the seventeenth century. Prior to the arrival of the Dine’ (the name by which the Navajo prefer to be called), a succession of indigenous people inhabited this area going back almost five thousand years.
On this day, within an hour’s time, rain, snow, and finally sun all made dramatic appearances. The storm in the distance marches away, leaving the remaining daytime hours to highlight sandstone cliffs, part of the Colorado Plateau, along Chinle Creek, a tributary of the San Jan River.
The compositional challenge in photographing vast scenes such as this is to find what I call “context,”–a foreground element that is a basic component of the scene itself that leads the viewer’s eye into the image. The sandstone rock at foreground left serves this purpose. It is sharp, well delineated by texture-revealing cross lighting, serving the purpose previously described.
My Nikon D-850, equipped with a 24-70mm f2.8E ED Zoom Nikkor at 26mm focal length, appropriately stopped down to an aperture for deep depth-of-field, provides the sharpness required of every element in this grand view of Canyon de Chelly and the magnificent clouds racing away.
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