Antelope Canyon Raking Light TruLife Acrylic Wall Art

from $210.00

Upper Antelope, but pointed at the wall rather than the floor. Here the shaft passes across the frame instead of landing in it, and the interest is what it does on its way through — grazing one face of the corridor at a shallow angle so the ribbing on the sandstone throws its own small shadows, and leaving the opposing wall lit only by what bounces back. Handheld, in the few minutes the alignment lasted.

The fine parallel lines the light is grazing are older than they look. Around 190 million years ago this was a sand sea, one of the largest dune fields in Earth's history. Each dune had a steep lee face down which sand avalanched, and every avalanche left a layer; buried and cemented, those layers survive as cross-bedding. They weather at slightly different rates, leaving a ridged surface that raking light finds and flat light would lose. Every line here is the preserved face of a dune that stood for a season.

TruLife Acrylic — The premium option, and the fullest version of this image: full glossy-acrylic depth with a museum-grade anti-reflective surface. Most of this frame is shadow, which is exactly where a reflection lands first — here the dark stays dark and the shaft keeps its edge, in any light. Beyond the anti-reflective surface it carries superior UV protection and scratch resistance, the most durable of the acrylic options as well as the fullest.

Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version

Made to order · Allow 3–5 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns

The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.

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Upper Antelope, but pointed at the wall rather than the floor. Here the shaft passes across the frame instead of landing in it, and the interest is what it does on its way through — grazing one face of the corridor at a shallow angle so the ribbing on the sandstone throws its own small shadows, and leaving the opposing wall lit only by what bounces back. Handheld, in the few minutes the alignment lasted.

The fine parallel lines the light is grazing are older than they look. Around 190 million years ago this was a sand sea, one of the largest dune fields in Earth's history. Each dune had a steep lee face down which sand avalanched, and every avalanche left a layer; buried and cemented, those layers survive as cross-bedding. They weather at slightly different rates, leaving a ridged surface that raking light finds and flat light would lose. Every line here is the preserved face of a dune that stood for a season.

TruLife Acrylic — The premium option, and the fullest version of this image: full glossy-acrylic depth with a museum-grade anti-reflective surface. Most of this frame is shadow, which is exactly where a reflection lands first — here the dark stays dark and the shaft keeps its edge, in any light. Beyond the anti-reflective surface it carries superior UV protection and scratch resistance, the most durable of the acrylic options as well as the fullest.

Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · ChromaLuxe Metal version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version

Made to order · Allow 3–5 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns

The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.