Our last major stop was the neighborhood around Page, Arizona. The main attraction here was Antelope Canyon, which is a slot canyon carved into sandstone by water. There isn't much water in it now, but when it rains there can be flash floods and some rather scary videos of water raging through these canyons.
There are actually two canyons. When people think of the classic Antelope Canyon photo with a light beam coming down into the slot with maybe some misty-looking sand in the beam, they're thinking of the Upper Canyon - narrower and darker and much more heavily visited than its sibling downstream. Both are definitely worth visiting. Ideally one would go between 10 AM and 2 PM, when the sun is high enough to shine into the slot, but we didn't make the reservation early enough to snag one of those spots.
The resulting photos here are still interesting. The light that hits the top of the canyon wall is warm in color; direct summer sun reflecting off red-orange sandstone. Lower parts of wall is more lit by skylight and has cooler light temperatures. Straightforward shots of the slot canyon itself (which I took but didn't turn out to be that interesting) have consistent colors because they're all low-wall-skylight colors, and with a color correction of around 5500 K the resulting image has different shades of red and orange.
But aiming upward and looking specifically for that wall-depth color gradient results in some cool shoots. I took a little artistic license here and exaggerated these color temperature differences by pulling the color correction down to around 4200 K, which turns the lower-wall skylit areas pink-purple, while preserving the orange color of the direct-sun areas of the wall.
