At Page, begun as the consturction camp for the building of the Glen Canyon Dam in the 1960's, we spent one day motoring on Lake Powell and then toured the dam. Another day was spent in upper and lower Antelope Canyon, adjacent to the town on tribal land next to the huge, smoggy Navajo power plant. This slot canyon is a mecca for photographers, well catered to by the families that own it. Sunlight on the upper reaches make the fantastic water-carved sandstone forms glow like hot coals. If there are other slots as photogenic, no one seems to photograph them. Perhaps the rest were lost to the rising waters of the lake, along with the other natural and cultural beauties that Glen Canyon held.

In the spring of 2003 we made a quick trip from Albuquerque back to the Bay Area through northern New Mexico/Arizona and southern Utah. The images of the land and sky are inevitably clichés, each taken at spots used by generations of film makers, photographers and tourists. The familiarity unfortunately tends to obscure the fact that these are among the most extraordinary landscapes on earth.