Chinle Wash From Tsegi Overlook
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Chinle Wash From Tsegi Overlook
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Red sandstone cliffs rise majestically above a verdant landscape of trees and shrubs. The expansive canyon under a bright blue sky creates a stunning contrast with the surrounding arid terrain.
Tsegi is a Navajo word that means “rock canyon.” From the Overlook an expansive view, with sheer cliffs soaring 400 feet or more from the floor of the broadening wash, edged with cottonwoods and other greenery can be seen. In the rainy season, the Chinle wash might be a swiftly running stream, but when it’s dry, the creek bed becomes a sandy highway. There are Navajo families with rights to land in the canyon going back well over a hundred years. Some of their modern day descendants still raise crops and tend sheep on their homesteads, most stay in traditional hogans during the warmer months, but moving to town in the harsh winters.
First Ruin can be seen at the far left...
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition.
Image copyright 2024 Jon Burch Photography
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October 27th, 2024
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