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Glen Canyon

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

On January 11th on a flight from SFO to DFW we flew right over Southern Utah and Norther Arizona. Snow was everywhere, so I snapped some photos with the M3. My Monument Valley shots still need some work, but this picture of the Colorado River turned out beautifully:

35,000 Feet

Someone on Flickr asked if this was really the Colorado River, or maybe it was the Green River. I have to admit, I wasn’t sure where the Green River connected with the Colorado so I had to go look. Here is the satellite picture of the Colorado River from Google. I rotated it to give it a similar perspective to what we had flying Southeast. Looks like my guess was good: