Perhpas the world's most photographed slot canyon - Upper Antelope Canyon near Page, AZ.

-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), January 26, 1999

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Wow - pretty amazing beam of light! Looks unreal (although I'm not implying it is!) Composition and colours are pleasing but it's the beam of light that makes it a great picture. Any particular technique involved that you'd like to share?

-- Ralf Hafner (hafner@physics.ox.ac.uk), January 26, 1999.

I agree, you seem to have captured the exposure and subject very nicely. However, It leaves me wanting to see where the sunbeam goes and on what it lands.

nice

Cheers

-- Bill Wyman (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), January 26, 1999.

superb exposure. spot? if some "honeycomb" produced this, i'm going to the camera store.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), January 26, 1999.

Hi Pete,

Yeah, wow, very nice. I agree with all other comments on exposure and I like the composition too. (Although I do agree with Bill that I want to see where the light is ultimately falling. Maybe this is the beginning of a series?)

Regards,

-- Jim Harrison (hphoto@earthlink.net), January 26, 1999.

1. Light - of course it's real. The fine dust stirred up by photographers and other people hangs in the air and makes shafts of light quite visible - when the sun's in the right place. 2. Speaking of photographers and other people, that's where the light beam falls. I didn't have any interest in a photo including them. Maybe I should have. 3. This was shot on centerweighted, aperture priority. This is contrary to what I usually do - manual exposure based on spot metering - but that was the advice I was given. I'd never shot in such a place before, so I just blindly took the advice. I used Elite II - 100 with +2/3 compensation dialed in for reciprocity correction. All exposures were f/16 and >10 seconds. Thanks for the interest.

-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), January 27, 1999.

A very striking image. That beam of light is incredible. It looks like you got the exposure just perfect. I too want to see where the light is going but can understand why you didn't want to include the people. Very nice.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), January 28, 1999.

Just a me too with respect to my appreciation of this image. What an impressive shaft of light!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), January 28, 1999.