It happens every year I'm told. Someone fell from the canyon edge last Thursday. 400 feet and the end was his death. There's no way for the park service to limit access to the often steep drops that are all over the canyon. They have long walks that traverse the edge and it's very easy to walk out onto a protruding rock and wonder at the beauty. One false step and there's no way to return. I spend lots of time on these outcroppings as my panoramas require shots down into the depths of the canyon. But I'm very careful, always looking where my feet are and what the condition of the ground is. There are small rocks and loose dirt so you have to be exceedingly careful. Tragedy can and does happen here and all one can do is be very aware of the place you're occupying. My condolences to the family of this victim. It is a warning but rarely heeded...
Raindrops...
I'm sure you've grown tired of these sweeping panoramas of Grand Canyon and want something else. Me too quite frankly. It's fun (and challenging) to get the images and takes a fair bit of processing (and some luck) to get the spectacular results but repetition can be boring. So today something a bit different. It rained yesterday in Grand Canyon. Of late that's a rare thing. Big thunderclouds swept the canyon and we got quite a downpour. I was sitting in my truck, watching the raindrops course down the window and decided to take out my camera and see what happened. I had the 16-35mm on so depth of field is always hard to shorten but I moved right up to the glass and set the f-stop at 4. Even close up this lens gives amazing clarity. I had the camera set for a bracketed shot so there was plenty of material to work with. I ran the images through Photomatix and, as is my custom, worked with the black and white points plus strength until I was happy. Then into Lightroom for some final tweaking. I like the result ... don't you?
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| Raindrops - 24mm(1.6 crop),f/4,HDR,ISO 100 ,license CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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