7 Top Tips For Photographing Monument Valley

Above, West and East Mittens and Merrick Butte at sunrise. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

For those who plan to travel to Monument Valley Tribal Park that is located at the Arizona-Utah border, photographing it is a must.

Monument Valley is famous for being the location of such movies as Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers and Forrest Gump, just to name a few.

For photographing Monument Valley, Digital Camera World has seven tips that will come in handy.

They begin with:

For many, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is the American West. It’s been the backdrop to countless movies and the subject of some spectacular landscape photography over many decades, Monument Valley on the Arizona Utah border is a destination that requires some research if you are to get the most out of it. 

The classic view in Monument Valley is of three Navajo Sandstone buttes called West Mitten Butte, East Mitten Butte and Merrick Butte. There are many other compositions to try your hand at, but the view of these three buttes – as captured while standing next to the visitor center, of course – is the image most photographers want to capture. The joy is to get that image on your own terms, both at sunrise and sunset, and possibly at night, too, without ignoring the rest of the richly photogenic area. 

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