Moon Fin

Gibbous Moon and Red Rock

MichaelStephenWills

Driving from the Petrified Forest National Park my son, Sean, and I arrived at Chinle, Arizona the evening of Monday, November 2, 2003.  No time to rest or eat after checking into the Best Western he and I reached the White House overlook and trail head with the sun low in the sky, the sun sets 6:45 pm these last few days of Daylight Savings.  The Navajo Reservation observes Daylight Savings, so the click jumps crossing the border from Arizona to Reservation.

I was 50 at the time and with Sean graduated from SUNY Maritime and fresh from a tour at sea we made good time to the canyon floor.  I wanted to catch the White House in the setting sun.

This morning, 14 years later, I published a fine art photograph from that trip.

Looking along the canyon, over thick stands of Russian Olives, I caught the risen moon, in gibbous phase, against a mid-canyon freestanding fin of red sandstone of the southern canyon wall.

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Moon Fin

Click for the first posting of this series, “Portrait of a Navajo Guide”.
Click for the next posting in this series, “White House Overlook”

Copyright 2017 Michael Stephen Wills Photography

25 thoughts on “Moon Fin”

  2. The colours are just so beautiful I will have to try and find words for it. I wonder whether they drank
    some of the sun.
    Great with the moon rising against a clear blue sky.
    thank you Michael
    miriam

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