Day 5 began by shooting the night sky and sunrise from our hotel balcony at The View hotel. The desert floor made a nice foreground and the Three Sisters monument rocks made a wonderful silhouette against the morning sky.
We then packed up and headed toward Page, AZ. We arrived at the tour area of Upper Antelope Canyon around 12:15, just in time to join up with a tour. We took the longer photographer's tour and there was only 4 of us plus our guide, Gabriel. This is the off season and tourist numbers are really down which gave us plenty of time to get great shots. Other tour groups would pass through occasionally and Gabriel did a wonderful acting as traffic cop to hold up people while some of our long exposures finished.
After photographing Upper Antelope Canyon, we crossed the road and bought photographer's passes to Lower Antelope Canyon. This allowed us 2 hours of unguided time to photograph to our hearts content. We followed a tour group down to the entrance, but they moved quickly on and we took our time and for much of the time had the place to ourselves.
After finishing our time in the slot canyons, we grabbed some food in Page, AZ and headed for a night drive to Bryce's Canyon. More on that tomorrow.
The short video below is a nice summary of our day.
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Can't wait to talk to you about this place. Wild looking great colors
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