Daily Photo – Meteor Crater, Arizona

Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater (Click image for larger view)

One of my goals for 2012 is to post a photo daily. It’s the first of the year so this is the first photo!

I took this photo of Meteor Crater back in 2006 while flying on a commercial jet from Las Vegas to Houston. Meteor Crater is about 40 miles west of Winslow, Arizona. If you find yourself in the area it’s well worth a detour. There’s a visitor center on the northern rim with good views into the crater. For the more athletic, you can actually hike down into the crater. I’m not that athletic. Still, there are not many places on this planet where you have such open access to a moonscape (or marsscape given the reddish tinge to this image). No wonder conspiracy theorists think the moon landings were a hoax!

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Production Data

Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Lens: Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM AF Lens (B&H)
Processing: Lightroom 3.6
Processing: Photomatix 4.02
Processing: Photoshop CS5
Processing: Topaz Adjust 5

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2 Comments

  1. Brings back happy memories, I took the detour but Mavis had a bad head, Sun got to her I think SHE WASN’T IMPRESSED, The 80 mile detour wasn’t worthy it. BUT IT JOLLY WELL WAS! I looked at the climb down, thought of the climb UP and chickened out, contented my self with a walk round the rim, this gave her plenty of time in the Visitor Centre (to cool off?) and the opportunity to learn more.(note the careful use of language).

    NASA didn’t help their image by useing the crater for training, giving rise to several realistic images.
    Came across this as I was going to wish you a Happy Birthday! so I’ll do it now, I guess it is one of the few you get at home. Dad.