The most powerful photos ever taken that perfectly capture the United States life. Capturing a good photo is not just a matter of knowing the right settings but you need to feel the atmosphere and composition.

Monument Valley

Sunset over the Nevada desert

MGM Grand Las Vegas

Grand Canyon

Hoover Dam

Petrified Forest, Arizona

Arches National Park-Utah

Garden of the Gods, Denver

Hiking in Boulder, Colorado

Capitol Hill, Washington DC

Arlington Cemetery

Storm over Central Park, New York City

World Trade Centre Memorial, NYC

Times Square

Empire State, NYC

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Monument Valley is the most famous example of the classic American West landscape, located on the border of Arizona and Utah. Crimson mesas and surreal sandstone towers rise hundreds of feet into the air, some as tall as 1,000 feet. Valley’s rock formations are noteworthy mainly because they resemble animals or other familiar images (e.g., Bear, Rabbit, Stagecoach). Monument Valley is a Navajo Nation Tribal park and charges a fee of $5 per person for access to the loop road through the valley. The area is entirely within the Navajo Indian Reservation near the small Indian town of Goulding, established in 1923 as a trading post.

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