South Rim, Grand Canyon

stirinthesauce

Been a busy spring and finally getting a chance to process all the images from our Southwest trip in late March, early April.

Here are just the ones from the Grand Canyon. We camped 2 nights at the South Rim. Days were nice, nights were cold. Not to crowded yet which made for an enjoyable trip. This was our honeymoon trip (belated just a bit as we got married in December) but did manage some sunset/dusk shots. All shot on my first DSLR, a Canon 350d. Both my 5d and 20d were in for repair work at Canon. Did shoot some film as well, may add those to this thread at a later time.

One thing we first noticed upon arriving was the vastness of it all. This place is HUGE! Attempting to capture on film/sensor the magnitude of it was a futile attempt. One must visit to really gather a sense of the space involved. We did an all day hike down into the valley and still only made it halfway (or less) down.

#1 Just for scale, included an overlook crowded with tourists


#2 sun sets on the south rim


#3 dusk


#4 our hike down on day 2


#5 night 2 dusk


#6


#7


So many to choose from, just a sampling from that 2 night/3 day trip. Up next will by Zion and Bryce.

-Jon

joe-bob

I visited the north rim 5 years ago and had a similar experience when I first saw it - my jaw fell open at the shear scale of it all.
These are great shots.

stirinthesauce

joe-bob wrote: »

I visited the north rim 5 years ago and had a similar experience when I first saw it - my jaw fell open at the shear scale of it all.
These are great shots.

Thanks!

Yeah, can't even describe the vastness and grandeur of it all.

coscorrosa

I really like the shadows and light in #2, I would have been tempted to zoom in a bunch (> 200mm) to just isolate that part, it would have lost some of the sense of scale but made for an interesting abstract. Similarly there's a nice S-curve in #5 that might have been good to isolate with a long lens although I like the comp as-is on that one.

stirinthesauce

Thanks for the feedback Ron, I appreciate it.

In reference to #5, does this work better?



I had edited this but not uploaded to my website.

Mathieu05

I like #5 as well... really nice!

stirinthesauce

Mathieu05 wrote: »

I like #5 as well... really nice!

Thank you