Professor Todorov Garners Honorable Mention in WaPo Travel Photo Contest

WASHINGTON POST -- In February, Todorov flew his single-engine Piper Warrior plane over Monument Valley, on the border of Arizona and Utah.

“Monument Valley is just spectacular,” he said. “I’ve always wanted to capture the glory of that area.”

He said the landscape below was relatively empty when he took the flight.

“It was really just like a distant, remote planet,” he recalled.

Todorov, a professor at San Francisco State University’s School of Music, captured this vista with his Nikon D810 — while piloting the plane.