Antelope

While driving across Arizona, we made a stop the world’s most incredible slot canyon, Antelope Canyon. It’s hard to imagine driving through Page Arizona that there is a secret beauty tucked away just a couple miles off the beaten path. Like Monument Valley this breath taking canyon is not a National Park but it is on Navajo protected land. This slot canyon brings in a huge amount of tourism because of its unique features. This is one of the most popular slot canyon’s to take pictures of, so if you’ve seen a picture of a slot canyon on the internet, it was probably Antelope. This canyon is basically in the middle of nowhere, but because of advanced technology and high end cameras is has become a huge destination for tourism especially professional photographers.

While visiting, my family and I went on a guided tour of the canyon, my mom brother and I just went on a regular tour, but my dad was lucky enough to go on a special photographers tour. The photographers tour was longer than the regular one, and in order to go on it you had to have a high end camera and tripod. The tour guides gave you extra time at each stop to take pictures, and they even made sure the area was clear so you could get a nice picture with no people in it. This was difficult because the canyon was packed, and every single person was glued to their phone trying to get the best possible picture. Even the regular tour guides knew exactly where to stand and what angle to hold your phone at to get the perfect picture.

I am so grateful to have these amazing pictures of the Antelope Canyon, because they truly are insane, but because it was so crowded and everyone was attached to their technology, I didn’t feel like I truly connected with nature when I was there. If not for cameras most people wouldn’t understand the beauty of Antelope Canyon, and because of technology there is a huge amount of tourism to this area. So, technology has both positive and negative affects on the geological wonder that is Antelope Canyon.

Here are some of the pictures my dad took at Antelope Canyon!!