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Monument Valley is a 30,000 acre, Navajo Tribal Park located on the border of Arizona and Utah within the 16 million-acre Navajo Reservation.
Monument Valley was initially a lowland basin and for hundreds of millions of years layers of eroded sediment from the early Rocky Mountains was deposited in the basin and cemented into rock. Then a slow, gentle uplift from the constant pressure below the surface elevated the horizontal strata. 50 million years of nature have worn down the plateau to create the wonders of today’s Monument Valley.
Photographing Monument Valley from Hunt’s Mesa during sunset and sunrise involves a harrowing jeep ride with a Navajo guide, and camping overnight on the Mesa. This shot captured the valley in the early morning light.

Wm Christiansen Photography is about the work and play of Bill and Deb Christiansen. Bill is a photographer, author, and mansplainer. Deb is a publisher, documenter, and rhetorical question asker. Bill was born and raised in Southwest Michigan and has lived in the Schoolcraft area since he married his beautiful wife Deb fifteen years ago. He fully invested in his photography passion with the time (and money) that came with retirement after a forty-year career with The Upjohn Company and successor companies, including Pfizer. Whether photographing in the area or when he and Deb travel, Bill seeks out interesting locations and plans the images he expects to capture, but the unexpected shots that find his lens often provide the most...