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Back to some photos from our early June vacation.  These are from Monument Valley, Utah.

We finally made it!

We stayed at “The View Hotel,” which is the only hotel actually in Monument Valley.

Each room has a balcony that overlooks the Valley, hence the name “The View.”

Immediately Rich was on that balcony!

This is part of the view.

And from another direction.

This is a look down on the front lobby of the hotel.

There’s an excellent gift shop within the hotel.  When I saw the Hopi Kachina dolls in the window, I immediately photographed them in silhouette.

Another view of the Valley from the hotel.

This one is sort of funny in that we asked someone to take our picture.  The point was to get some background in, too!

There were many western movies shot in Monument Valley.  Each evening the hotel played a movie, projecting it onto the outside wall where people gathered outside, under the stars, to watch.  We could see and hear it (just at the right volume) from our balcony.  That evening it was Fort Apache.

The next morning, many people with camera and equipment gathered to take pictures of the sunrise.  I was right there with them!  These are some of my favorites from a couple mornings.

The road snaking through the Valley is what we traveled the next day.

Several of these images I quite like, and I’m hoping to incorporate some into future artwork.

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