The minimal shadows cast by cliffs and walls in this photograph from 2008 show that it, like its matching Lindbergh image, was taken sometime close to noon. The Park Service had removed historic structures, believing that they distracted from the Chaco Culture structures and features that the park was established to protect. Photograph by Adriel Heisey, 2008. Both photographs are from Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Southwest Archaeology, by Charles A. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Adriel Heisey, edited by Maxine E. McBrinn, with essays by Linda J. Pierce and Erik O. Berg (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2015

The minimal shadows cast by cliffs and walls in this photograph from 2008 show that it, like its matching Lindbergh image, was taken sometime close to noon. The Park Service had removed historic structures, believing that they distracted from the Chaco Culture structures and features that the park was established to protect. Photograph by Adriel Heisey, 2008. Both photographs are from Oblique Views: Aerial Photography and Southwest Archaeology, by Charles A. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Adriel Heisey, edited by Maxine E. McBrinn, with essays by Linda J. Pierce and Erik O. Berg (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2015