American Southwest Photography Tours, Workshops, and Stock Images by Branson Reynolds

The essence of the "Ancient Ones" is felt throughout the Southwest. From small quartz flakes stil resting where they fell from the wrinkled hands of the old maker of arrowheads, the still bright pieces of thousand year old pottery shaped by the grandmother, the fresh looking fingerprints in the long dried mud of the hidden grainery, to the massive walls of Pueblo Bonito, the spirit of the "Old Ones", the Hisatsinom of the Hopi, permeates the land.

 Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, Largo Canyon, Mesa Verde, Butler Wash, Cedar Mesa, Ute Mountain—names that echo the distant past. These are places of the Anasazi, ancestors of today’s Pueblo people. The anasazi and their contemporaries, the Mogollon, Hookham, Salida, Mimbres, Tonto, Sinagua, Patayan, called home a vast region including today’s Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, southwest Colorado, and lands south far into Mexico. Their Great Houses, some with thousands of rooms with massive five story walls covering many acres, were the largest buildings north of Mexico until the advent of structural steel in the 1880’s. And in the deserts of northern Chihuahua is the Puebloan city of Paquimae which covered three square miles—and had running water! 

 Join me to wander the interior passages of Pueblo Bonito, follow verdant canyons to secret places where quartz chips and broken pottery still lie, and gaze questioningly at beautiful abstract designs and human and animal figures carved into the sandstone cliffs deep in Largo Canyon.  We’ll connect with the lands and places of the "Long Ago People", and we’ll enjoy pleasant days of photography and wonder. 

 Date: June 8-14, 2008

Cost: $1,385 Single Supplement $250

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Please fill out the tour application and  payment options below.

 Registration and Payment: You may reserve a space (50% deposit or full payment) with your credit card / Pay Pal account (click here) or send a check to: Branson Reynolds, POB 3471, Durango,Co 81301

Arrival/Departure Point: Durango, CO

Nearest Large Airport: Albuquerque or Denver with shuttle flights to Durango 

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