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Antelope Canyon Beam #1
A beam of sunlight briefly
illuminates a tumbleweed at the bottom of Antelope Canyon near
Page, Arizona. The canyon, called a slot canyon, is very
narrow, giving sunlight little chance to reach the bottom. As a
result, the beams last for mere minutes. |
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Antelope Canyon Beam #2
A beam of sunlight briefly
illuminates the floor of Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon near
Page, Arizona. The canyon, which is carved by flash floods,
is very narrow, so sunlight gets little chance to reach the
bottom. As a result, the beams last for mere minutes. |
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Antelope
Canyon, Three Beams
Three vibrant shafts of light appear in a narrow passage in
Antelope Canyon, a slot canyon carved by violent flash
floods in Page, Arizona. The beams form only when the
sun is nearly overhead, lighting up the blowing sand that
fills the canyon, which is dozens of feet deep. |
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Antelope Canyon
Texture #1
This view of the Antelope Canyon near Page,
Arizona, ceiling shows how little light reaches the base of
the slot canyon. The top, which gets the most sunlight is yellow
and orange. The little light that makes it down below colors
that sandstone purple. |
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Antelope Canyon
Texture #2
With just a narrow crack in the
ceiling of Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona, little
sunlight reaches the floor by mid-afternoon. It took a
one-minute exposure to show the color and detail of this portion
of the slot canyon call. |
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Antelope Canyon
Texture #3
The curved walls of Antelope
Canyon near Page, Arizona are carved by flash floods. |
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Antelope Canyon
Texture #4
A tumbleweed is trapped in the
narrow, curved walls of Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona. |
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Antelope Canyon
Texture #5
The curved walls of Antelope
Canyon near Page, Arizona are carved by flash floods. The
dramatic lighting is the result of little sunlight reaching the
bottom of the narrow slot canyon. |
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Antelope Canyon Weeping Eye
The weeping eye, located near the
entrance of the upper Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona,
is visible in the upper left corner of this image. During heavy
rains, water collects in the indentation and leaves a trail as
it runs down the slot canyon wall. |
