Light Playing in the Grand Canyon
This was just about the last shot of my morning at Yavapai Point before I headed off to warm up and get some breakfast.
I had begun at 0615 in order to get a good spot ahead of what I thought would be large crowds. As it turned out, nobody else appeared for 30 minutes and then only a handful or so thereafter. This was taken shortly before my departure at 0830.
The view is looking slightly west of due north with Isis Temple in the centre of the shot. The sunlight and shadows give a lot to look at. In the foreground, some 870m below my vantage point, can be seen much of the trail from Havasupai Gardens out across the Tonto Platform to Plateau Point.
In the skies above, lenticular clouds are breaking up. There was a stiff wind from the east all day, the precursor to incoming stormy weather that reduced visibility to less than 50m the following day.
Scanned from a negative.
Light Playing in the Grand Canyon
This was just about the last shot of my morning at Yavapai Point before I headed off to warm up and get some breakfast.
I had begun at 0615 in order to get a good spot ahead of what I thought would be large crowds. As it turned out, nobody else appeared for 30 minutes and then only a handful or so thereafter. This was taken shortly before my departure at 0830.
The view is looking slightly west of due north with Isis Temple in the centre of the shot. The sunlight and shadows give a lot to look at. In the foreground, some 870m below my vantage point, can be seen much of the trail from Havasupai Gardens out across the Tonto Platform to Plateau Point.
In the skies above, lenticular clouds are breaking up. There was a stiff wind from the east all day, the precursor to incoming stormy weather that reduced visibility to less than 50m the following day.
Scanned from a negative.