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Description
Note the Plaque on the rock wall.
I was inspired by vseger’s striking photo of Rainbow Bridge:
to re-visit my own Rainbow Bridge photos.

This image, posted some time ago, is my first photo ever of Rainbow Bridge, as well as only the second I ever made using a large format camera:

With one exception, all of my images are from the “other” side of Rainbow Bridge - the now largely, unseen side of Rainbow Bridge.
The Navaho Nation has “requested” that visitors to Rainbow Bridge use the viewing platform and not walk under the bridge to this other side.
Actually the main concern is the large sightseeing trips visiting Rainbow Bridge each day when a hundred or more people at a time would suddenly descend upon the site.

One summer day, I took the morning sightseeing cruise from the Wahweap Lodge near the Glen Canyon Dam out to Rainbow Bridge, but stayed when the boat returned to Wahweap.
Some four hours later, I took the afternoon cruise back to Wahweap.

During that four hours, I boldly crossed over to the other side and had Rainbow Bridge to my photographic self.

The important thing about this “other” side is that it basks in the sunlight which makes it far more photogenic.
The side seen from the viewing platform is not sunlit and thus, always appears, as something of a silouhette.
The is also a plaque on this other side honoring the first party of whites to see the bridge (though Native-American tribes in the area were well aware of it).
Mike’s Boy (surely that was not the name given to him by his Navaho parents), who was part of the expedition is honored on the plaque.

Camera, etc.: Linhof Technika 3 View Camera with Schneider 75mm Super Angulon lens; Schneider 150mm ‘normal’ lens; 240mm APO-Symmar lens on Fuji Velvia 4x5 sheet film

Description
Note the Plaque on the rock wall.
I was inspired by vseger’s striking photo of Rainbow Bridge:
to re-visit my own Rainbow Bridge photos.

This image, posted some time ago, is my first photo ever of Rainbow Bridge, as well as only the second I ever made using a large format camera:

With one exception, all of my images are from the “other” side of Rainbow Bridge - the now largely, unseen side of Rainbow Bridge.
The Navaho Nation has “requested” that visitors to Rainbow Bridge use the viewing platform and not walk under the bridge to this other side.
Actually the main concern is the large sightseeing trips visiting Rainbow Bridge each day when a hundred or more people at a time would suddenly descend upon the site.

One summer day, I took the morning sightseeing cruise from the Wahweap Lodge near the Glen Canyon Dam out to Rainbow Bridge, but stayed when the boat returned to Wahweap.
Some four hours later, I took the afternoon cruise back to Wahweap.

During that four hours, I boldly crossed over to the other side and had Rainbow Bridge to my photographic self.

The important thing about this “other” side is that it basks in the sunlight which makes it far more photogenic.
The side seen from the viewing platform is not sunlit and thus, always appears, as something of a silouhette.
The is also a plaque on this other side honoring the first party of whites to see the bridge (though Native-American tribes in the area were well aware of it).
Mike’s Boy (surely that was not the name given to him by his Navaho parents), who was part of the expedition is honored on the plaque.

Camera, etc.: Linhof Technika 3 View Camera with Schneider 75mm Super Angulon lens; Schneider 150mm ‘normal’ lens; 240mm APO-Symmar lens on Fuji Velvia 4x5 sheet film