For eight years, at least once a year, I wandered through Lower Antelope Canyon, a Navajo Tribal Park, with my 4x5 and 8x10 cameras...

Antelope Heart

Antelope Canyon Navajo Nation Park, Dinetah

For eight years, at least once a year, I wandered through Lower Antelope Canyon, a Navajo Tribal Park, with my 4x5 and 8x10 cameras, looking for amazing compositions of color and swirling, flowing sandstone forms. Photographing in Lower Antelope Canyon with large format cameras and lenses and with color slide film is extremely challenging. First, the equipment is bulky and heavy and navigating the canyon requires climbing up and down ladders and shimmying through narrow walls and with limited space for foot placement. Second, the number of film holders one can carry through the canyon is limited. Third, isolating compositions is very challenging. The canyon floor is 120 feet below the surface stream bed, so light is very low. The goal is to find the most colorful places of reflected light, avoid including walls that are so dark they will not show up on film, and also avoid the bright highlights that will "blow out" the film. Large format lenses do not permit much light to shine through to see well enough to focus, so usually I am only able to find an edge of a wall or ceiling, use that edge to obtain a sharp focal point, then stop the lens aperture all the way down and hope everything else that is important to the image comes into focus. The light is so low that exposures are typically 30 seconds to four minutes long. All that said, however, the results can be electrifying and absolutely gratifying when everything comes together. In 2014, I ventured through Lower Antelope with my 1898 Rochester King 8x10 view camera. To reduce weight, simplify the process of composition and maximize my returns, I took only one lens into the canyon, and planned to shoot 5x8 inch compositions--two photographs on each single sheet of film. Somewhere in the heart of Antelope Canyon, I found this composition. When I saw the glowing, flowing bands of orange and yellow, I did not hesitate to use a full sheet of my precious film. The colors and flowing sandstone forms were exquisite. The combinations of blue, purple, orange, and yellow, S-curves and swirls, set off by the deep shadows in the upper left and lower right corners, was everything I hoped for.

Photo © copyright by Michael Lynn Roberts.

Lumachrome TruLife Ultimate Acrylic Print

Antelope Heart print

LUMACHROME TruLife Acrylic: The ULTIMATE in acrylic fine art prints.

Lumachrome luxury fine art prints face-mounted to TruLife Acrylic exceed the limitations of traditional printing processes. Lumachrome prints allow 3D-like details to emerge from the depths of the image. The transparency layer is infused with iridium particles and encapsulated between the TruLife Acrylic and the white poly surface base layer.

Qualities include: • Brilliant Colors Lasting Over 120Yrs • Superior Color Gamut vs Traditional Fujiflex Prints • Incredible 3D Depth and Dimensionality • Unsurpassed Detail and Ability to Hold Highlights • Superior Shadow Luminosity and Detail • Radiant Glowing Response Under Art Lighting

These are face-mounted, UV-protected acrylic prints, frameless, and ready-to-hang. For details, see this page.

If needed, custom sizes also can be provided. Contact Michael if you need a custom size.

Please allow 21 business days for printing, finishing, and delivery.

Select a print size:

Roma Framed Lumachrome TruLife Ultimate Acrylic Print

Antelope Heart print

This is the same LUMACHROME TruLife Acrylic fine art print shown above PLUS framed in Hand-Crafted Italian Roma Moulding for an added, exceptional level of artistic presentation!

Choose your frame style from this page, then place your order below for the framed print. I will email you to confirm your order and to find out which frame style you want. Ordering the artwork YOU LOVE, framed YOUR WAY is as easy as that!

Lumachrome luxury fine art prints face-mounted to TruLife Acrylic exceed the limitations of traditional printing processes. Lumachrome prints allow 3D-like details to emerge from the depths of the image. The transparency layer is infused with iridium particles and encapsulated between the TruLife Acrylic and the white poly surface base layer.

Qualities include: • Brilliant Colors Lasting Over 120Yrs • Superior Color Gamut vs Traditional Fujiflex Prints • Incredible 3D Depth and Dimensionality • Unsurpassed Detail and Ability to Hold Highlights • Superior Shadow Luminosity and Detail • Radiant Glowing Response Under Art Lighting

If needed, custom sizes also can be provided. Contact Michael if you need a custom size.

Please allow 21 business days for printing, finishing, and delivery.

Select a print size:

Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Print

Antelope Heart print

These Giclee canvas prints are like nothing you have seen. They are created with 8 color OIL BASED PIGMENT INKS on the finest canvas using custom tone curves. You will be blown away by the oil like original quality of these Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Prints. These prints have incredible photographic resolution, clarity, vibrancy and Dmax, producing amazing photographic image quality. Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Prints are waterproof and don't crack like water based canvas.

Characteristics:

VIBRANT COLORS

OIL PAINTING QUALITIES

RICH DEEP BLACKS

These are Gallery-Wrapped, UV-protected canvas prints, unframed, and ready-to-hang. For details, see this page.

If needed, custom sizes also can be provided. Contact Michael if you need a custom size.

Please allow 21 business days for printing, finishing, and delivery.

Select a print size:

Roma Framed Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Print

Antelope Heart print

This is the same Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Fine Art shown above PLUS framed in Hand-Crafted Italian Roma Moulding for an added, exceptional level of artistic presentation!

Choose your frame style from this page, then place your order below for the framed print. I will email you to confirm your order and to find out which frame style you want. Ordering the artwork YOU LOVE, framed YOUR WAY is as easy as that!

These Giclee canvas prints are like nothing you have seen. They are created with 8 color OIL BASED PIGMENT INKS on the finest canvas using custom tone curves. You will be blown away by the oil like original quality of these Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Prints. These prints have incredible photographic resolution, clarity, vibrancy and Dmax, producing amazing photographic image quality. Ultimate Quality Satin Finish Canvas Prints are waterproof and don't crack like water based canvas.

Characteristics:

VIBRANT COLORS

OIL PAINTING QUALITIES

RICH DEEP BLACKS

Please allow 21 business days for printing, finishing, and delivery.

Select a print size:

Prints are delivered by FedEx and should arrive within 3-4 weeks or sooner. I will email you the tracking link once the print(s) have shipped out.