Monument Valley Morning Twilight and Butte Silhouettes Arizona

by Shawn O'Brien

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Monument Valley Morning Twilight and Butte Silhouettes Arizona

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Shawn O'Brien

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Photograph - Fine Art Print

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Famous sandstone buttes rising up from the arid desert floor silhouetted against the morning sunrise twilight in Monument Valley Tribal Park at the border of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Many more Monument Valley images and digital artworks can be found in Monument Valley gallery.

Monument Valley (Navajo: Tse Bii Ndzisgaii, meaning valley of the rocks) is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona-Utah state line, near the Four Corners area. The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163.

Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known films, and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."

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January 6th, 2015

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