HOLY COW IVE BEEN LAZY! Sorry guys haha I'm still doing this blog. I will be updating my Flickr a lot faster than this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaghost365/ Yet not all the photos I post on this blog will be on my flickr.
After our stay in the hotel that I personally think was priced too high for what we got. (hah so stingy) We headed to Lower Antelope Canyon. When I think Canyon I normally think of this vast space such as Yellowstone. This place completely changed that view for me. I didn't even realize we were at the canyon when we pulled up. Everything is a good ten feet underground and it's almost completely flat on top. Since the canyon isn't owned by a state park and by the local Indian reservation there was a 50 dollar fee for a maximum of two hours of photos.
Something to know if you ever go there (You really should it is such an amazing place) you need to have a DSLR and a tripod in order to get the photo pass where you don't need a tour guide. (You will have to have some long exposures for good photos... i didn't use the tripod and it got frustrating at times)
The place is so magical the rocks were so smooth in the canyon. You have to climb these really thin ladders down into the lower parts some of the ladders were unnecessary but that made it all more hilarious.
Once we finished our two hour photo adventure in Antelope we continued on to Zion National Park Utah. Every place we go has taken my breath away but this one took the cake thus far. The mountains towering over us right as we drove in were so fantastic. Right as we arrived it started hailing but luckily once we got to where we were to sign in for our permits the sun returned and shrouded the mountain peaks in a beautiful mist.
A huge word of advise if you ever go to Zion and have to talk to a ranger in the Backpacking table. If you ever get a handsome guy with long brown hair, green eyes and great facial features? DON'T LISTEN TO A WORD THAT COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH.
First off he told us that the overnight backwoods camping isn't the best in Zion. Then he told us the places we want to go if he were us he would find one place to stay and drive to them. But what was the best is where he recommended us to stay, he told us of two places. The first one was a free RV park that when we arrived I swore someone was going to shoot us with the looks we got driving into that mud hole of a campground. Then the second spot and I quote "Just jump the fence at highway marker 24" yet when we arrived at mile marker 24 there was a HUGE no trespassing sign and we would have to park our car on the road. In Minneapolis? I would of done it in a heartbeat, but when one is living out of the car and has most of everything we need in it we had to play it safe.
Thus our two hours of driving trying to find a cheap place to camp began. We finally settled on a RV park that had tent camping by a river. It was actually a really nice comfy place to stay. That might of been also cause I had a new sleeping bag that actually zipped.
Other Photos I liked:
Since I'm still learning with Fstops I played with them a lot in this canyon. Got some fun effects.
This was one of the three tour guides that passed us with their group while we were down there. They would play on their wooden flutes for... effect? He was really friendly though, one of the three that could play without squeaking ever so often.
I really felt like I was on another planet here.
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