Grand Canyon
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While I generally prefer to get the shot without bystanders, I think the people in this shot help lend a sense of scale to the size of the Grand Canyon at this particular spot..
widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth :-)
Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941
grand canyon, arizona
The storm broke and my spirits sank, I hadn't come half way around the world to witness a thunder storm. Nevertheless, I took my photos, this would be my one and only time. The lightening flashed and thunder rolled across the sky as the rain fell, but not where we were. Shafts of sunlight broke through and I knew mine was a unique and wonderful experience.
We were lucky to have all that cloud coverage, otherwise it would have too much contrast in the rock formations. I believe this was in the lower rim of the canyons in the state of Arizona.
The day became mostly cloudy around mid-day. Late afternoon, though, the clouds began to break while a few showers formed and moved through the canyon. Spectacular.
This mid-afternoon image has a nice color palette with a lot of cloud action and maybe some rain off to the far left.
Grand Canyon, Arizona.
mon expo coups de coeur de décembre 2016
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As shown in this picture the weather in the Grand Canyon varies according to the elevation it falls on, snow in Arizona usually occurs at 6000 feet or higher with rain taking over below this elevation.
The South rim of the park can get up to 60 inches of snow annually while the northern rim can get upwards of 144 inches of snow, below the rims and along the river you would be lucky to get 8 inches of rain a year with snow being unheard of normally.
The Canyon is its own micro climate temperatures can vary from 100+ degrees in summers to -20 in winter but summer is the most deadly to tourists, they are unprepared for the heat so many cases of dehydration/sunstroke are common.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mmmm 2.8 G2 Lens at 70mm 1/80s, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia,
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
As the song says “What a difference a day makes”, we were flying out on a red-eye flight at midnight from Phoenix so we went back to the park early to see if we could get a few shots and not be totally skunked from the day before, this shot is of the Canyon facing east from the south entrance.
The first thing to strike you about the canyon when you see it is the immenseness of this natural world wonder, the Canyon is 446 km long, 29 km at its widest point and reaches a depth of over 1,857m in spots.
A river runs through it is an understatement in this case as this grand design was carved by the sheer force of the Colorado river and 16-17 million years of stick-to-itiveness.
There is no place on the planet that exposes as much of the earths crust to humans for inspection and study, scientists have carbon dated the deepest layers to almost 2 Billion years ago, it is a geologists paradise.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mmmm 2.8 G2 Lens at 45mm 1/15s, f/16 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia,
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
The park turned 100 years old in 2019 and has seen a lot of traffic over its years just in 2017 alone there were 6 million visitors to the Canyon and most to the Southern rim.
If solitude is your goal at the canyon you need to head to the North rim, it is only open from April to November due to weather access issues but in summer when the temps soar at the Southern Rim to triple digits it is 10 degree cooler to the North.
It is a 4.5 hour drive from rim to rim in the Canyon so plan accordingly, the North rim is better accessed from Las Vegas than places in Arizona and with over 350 miles of marked trails and 250 miles of river to float through there is enough adventure for everyone North or South.
I took this with my D750 and Tamron SP 24-70mmmm 2.8 G2 Lens at 52mm 1/100s, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia,
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.