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title: "Monument Valley in the wrong light"
date: "2025-09-13"
time: "12:30"
location: "Monument Valley"
country: "United States"
lat: 36.998
lng: -110.0985
photos: 2
weather: true
weatherData: { tempMin: 11.8, tempMax: 23.1, code: 51, precipitation: 0.1, windMax: 21.1, source: "open-meteo", recordedAt: "2026-09-06T08:32:19.330Z" }
---

Arrived at midday, when the buttes are flat and grey and look like a postcard left in a window. Waited six hours and got the other version.

This is Navajo land, not a national park, and it is run entirely differently — better signposted about what you may not photograph.