What a week we had in Monument Valley! No two sunrises were alike. Some were more colorful than others. We had lots of clouds, some bald skies, billowing thunderheads, and even fog! When I first peeked out about 5:00AM Friday morning, our last shoot before heading home, I could see nothing because a dense fog enveloped the entire valley. It was the thick, tule fog variety that clings to the ground and completely obscures visibility, the kind of fog that causes 100 car pileups on I-5 in the Central Valley of California. By 6:00AM the fog began to reveal the mittens and buttes. Over the next 2 hours, the fog teased us by completely obscuring the landmarks, then it would partially disappear as the winds cleared it away, only to return in a dense cloud. Some of the monuments seemed to attract fog like the one clump that clung to the base of East Mitten for about 30 minutes, and enveloped its thumb. By the time we had to call it quits a little after 8 AM, none of the monuments were visible. The fog had settled onto the valley floor and stayed there.
Very dramatic, beautiful!