The misty morning haze turned the sky red as the sun rose behind East Mitten Butte and created quite a spectacular view from my balcony on the third floor of The View Hotel in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. As the sun got closer to East Mitten I realized it would “rest” for a brief moment atop the mitten’s thumb. The most streamed Beatles song, “Here Comes the Sun” was “streaming” through my head as I watched the sun’s morning ecliptic through the sky. Only the words in my head were, “Here Thumbs the Sun.”
[…] I wanted to photograph the sun positioned directly atop East Mitten’s thumb again as I did two days ago. I used a wider angle lens than my prior shot to show more of the landscape around the rock […]
[…] awe as the orange orb of the sun rose and appeared to rest briefly atop East Mitten’s thumb. (Click here) to see that shot that appeared in this blog in 2021. This past August, there were monsoon clouds […]