It may just be a personal quirk but it is good to know where you are going. So, we make up reasons. One of these is to visit places where movies were supposed to have taken place or where they were filmed. Today, we visited the most Holy Monument Valley where Saints John and John (Ford and Wayne) produced their good works. The bottom photo is a former storage shed at Goulding's Lodge, Restaurant, Souvenir Shop, and Museum. In the movie, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, this is the quarters of Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) at Fort Stark. For those who know the movie, I did look for Sergeant Quinncannon's whiskey bottle with no success.
The top photo was taken a few steps from the other photo. Stagecoach was also filmed in the Valley and I suppose this angle commemorates that movie. The museum has photos, posters, and other things from the movies.
Driving through the area you pull over and take photos of wonderful vistas and dramatic rock formations. You drive on and go over a ridge and you pull over and take photos of dramatic vistas and wonderful rock formations. It dawned on me, not for the first time, that we who grew up with film cameras still pick and choose our shots instead of blazing away with a digital that has seemingly endless capacity.
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