Sacred Land of the Navajo Nation

msoo

I travelled the land of the Diné in search of wisdom. What I found,
is nothing more wonderous in imagery and the soft timbre of a flute
by Chief Tsosie, a spirit guide, if you may. Into the land of the
Díyín diné’é, the holy people and the sacred land of Navajo Nation.

To get there, I traversed hard and dry terrains of sand, rocks,
canyons, ready to plunge my fragile body of this world into the
deep sharp depth of the dangerous canyons as a sacrifice to
the Fire God of Navajo.




Abandoning the burden of a tripod :P , I took all these imagery
in a negative EV environment without one. Most of which, I had
to employ the "Hands of Rock" technique, passed down to me
through generations and generations of the indian people.
Without further ado, the Navajo Nation, full gallery here:

http://www.soocool.com/gallery/list.php?exhibition=132&u=27725|0

#1. Eyes of the Coyote




#2. Sands of Time, Surrounding Me




#3. Ballet of Lights




#4. The Burning Bush




#5. Sacred Canyon




#6. Jóhonaa’éí (Sun Bearer)




#7. Díyín diné’é (The Holy People)




16 images in total, all can be found here:

http://www.soocool.com/gallery/list.php?exhibition=132&u=27725|0

- MS

msoo

Oh, almost forgot about a self-portrait.




and of course, one special image of the Chief,


"Haashch’ééłti’í (Speechless Talking One, Talking God)"




Enjoy,
MS

Sam

Great shots, and commentary.

Sam

USAIR

Very well done goos job

Thanks
Fred

Owen

Excellent, and welcome to Digital Grin!

This one in particular:

msoo

Thanks a lot, Sam, Fred & Owen!

- MS

Dee

Michael
Welcome to dgrin, hope you share more of your wonderful projects and photos here with us.

I love "eye of the coyote" the best of all...

Are those self portraits? Did you find a place to put the camera to take those (I guess?).

What a great idea to have a spirit guide show you their sacred lands. Looks like you had a good trip.

ebwest

Really vivid colors and lighting. The portraits really stand out.

One question, on the "Burning Bush", was there a reason you cut the end of the branches off on the right side?

Thanks for sharing,

msoo

Hey Dee, good to see you here. I signed up on dgrin a while back
cuz Andy seems to be always around and I enjoy his IR work but
has never really posted anything. Will try to do so more.

Thanks for comments!! ;-)

- MS

msoo

ebwest wrote:

One question, on the "Burning Bush", was there a reason you cut the end of the branches off on the right side?

Thanks for sharing,

The right side is actually another branch from another tree and is
extremely distracting.

- MS

ryan_wedemeyer

3,5,6- should have shot vertical.

DanielB

#2 and 7 are awesome

ryan_wedemeyer

ryan_wedemeyer wrote:

3,5,6- should have shot vertical.

looking again, i meant 1,2,5,&6. i got the numbers confused.

with number 6, you should have included his feet.

your poses are kind of static and badly cropped - work on your composition, look for good examples of photos of people in landscapes, and take inspiration from those.

the scenery is amazing.

JimM

Great shots! Wonderful self portrait!

ultravox

Well said story with v.good photos. Well done.

Antonio Correia

Wonderfull place and pictures.
Makes me to go there...:):