I am pretty discontent with the photos I brought back form the Grand Canyon. I think though that most people are. The range of brightness is so extreme that a camera metering in average mode will produce a poor compromise between the bright sky and shadowy recesses of the canyon. The task is made more difficult for those not able to descend below the rim, because the horizon is then boringly flat. Point the camera down from there, and you get a nice close-up shot, but hardly one capturing the essence of the whole canyon. Time to go back maybe, armed with a little knowledge about how to bring out detail in shadows, and with the willingness to drop down a few hundred metres and simultaneously capture in one picture the upper part from below and the lower part from above.

Bright Angel Canyon

Colorado River from the eastern end
of the Desert View Drive

Little Colorado Falls

Little Colorado Falls

Mount Hayden, taken from
Point Imperial, north rim

Grand Canyon near Shoshone Point

Mount Hayden, taken from
the north rim

Grand Canyon from south rim

Close-up of Little Colorado Falls

Part of Wotan's Throne seen from
Cape Royal, north rim

 

Horseshoe Mesa from Grandview Point,
Desert View Drive, south rim

Telephoto into the canyon,
location not recorded

Cliff walls of the north rim, Grand Canyon

Colorado River from Desert View,
Desert View Drive, south rim

Colorado River at sunset from
Lipan Point on the south rim

Telephoto of a rock outcrop,
seen from Cape Royal, north rim

Close-up of Little Colorado falls

Tourists enjoying a south rim
overlook on the Grand Canyon

Hoover Dam, south-east of Las Vegas

Power lines in the Black Mountains,
south-east of Las Vegas

A worse-for-wear sign at a
remote gas station

Inventive Indian sign on Highway 64,
south-east of Grand Canyon

In a Walmart in Bullhead City

Inventive Indian sign on Highway
64, south-east of Grand Canyon

Goods train near Flagstaff

Abandoned car on dirt road
to Little Colorado Falls

Goods train near Flagstaff

Abandoned car on dirt road
to Little Colorado Falls

Spring in Sedona Canyon

Extreme fire risk in
Coconino National Forest

Painting on a wall near Flagstaff

Flowers in memory of an
accident victim, Route 66

Bear Butte, a sacred mountain
to the native Indians

London Bridge at Lake Havasu City

Raven seen on south rim, Grand Canyon

1950s police car at
Jerome State Historic Park

Blue heron near Flagstaff

Photographers at
Horseshoe Bend near Page

Blue heron near Flagstaff

   
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