• Leo Rosten

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I am not a 100% sure where I took this picture but I am almost certain it’s at Yaki point on the South Rim. I just liked the way how the cliffs stood out against a never ending sea of cloud and fog. The sun had already rose by the time I took this shot and was lighting up these cliff sides rather brightly. I loved the play of clouds, light and shadows here and just the massive scale of the place.

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• Richard Bach.

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When I moved to the west coast of the United States, one of the places that I wanted to explore was the Grand Canyon, National Park. It was not an easy drive as it takes about 9 hours of driving just to reach the park and it took us almost a year before we could get enough time off to get to the park. It required driving all night just after coming from work on a Thanksgiving week Wednesday to get to the park and getting up at 4 am in the morning to get to our sunrise spot at Yaki Point.

Initially, we were very disappointed with the clouds that filled the whole canyon blocking any view down. But a park ranger we met at the bus told us about how rare a phenomenon the perfect inversion is at the Grand Canyon. Anyways I am glad I was there to enjoy this amazing moment.

From a technical perspective, this was a simpler shot that only required a 2-stop ND grad coupled with a wide-angle lens. Composition wise I kept the sky to a minimum as it didn’t have much going on there and included as much of foreground as I could, I also focused at the hyperfocal distance to keep as much of the frame in sharp focus.

• Frederick Douglass.

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Another shot of the perfect inversion from Grand Canyon National Park. The person in the frame is my sis in law who was with us for the trip. She has not traveled much and it was nice to see her go bonkers even in the extreme cold which awaited us during sunrise.

Today is my birthday and it was an awesome bday present to wake up and see that my picture was an explore number 1 on my Birthday.

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Rose Kennedy.

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Another sunrise shot from the Grand Canyon trip. I think I took this later when the sun was above the horizon and when the light started coming in strong. I am really stoked that this occurred right in front of me, usually I am not even close to that lucky.

• Eliot Porter

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While we were at the Yaki Point on Thanksgiving for sunrise shoot we had a chance to witness a rare perfect inversion occurring at the Grand Canyon. The problem was at that time I didn’t know it was a rare even and was bored and little pissed that the clouds were denying me the shots I wanted. So I was wandering around looking for interesting things to shoot and found this tree which was being lit by perfect light from the morning sun and I had to take the shot.

I fell in love with the light on this shot, I just wish I had the presence of mind to get a Pano for this shot and include some more of the Canyon. Thanks for visiting, Hope you all like it.

One of my most favourite photos. I took it 5 years ago and it was on flickr for a long time. Today I gave it a new processing. I learned a lot in the last 5 years and even my older photos can be enhanced by my new post processing techniques.

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• Mary Ellen Mark .

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Here is another one of the panoramas I took during the rare perfect inversion that happened at Grand Canyon during the thanks giving weekend. This shot was made at Yaki point on the South rim just after the sunrise. This shot is composed of 20 images and I wanted to show the immense depth of the canyon being filled with the clouds. The added glow in the sky and under the clouds we just the cherry on top. This is one of my favorite shot from the trip and I so glad I got to witness this stunning event.

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• Henry David Thoreau.

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I cannot believe it has been almost seven years since our first trip to the magnificent Grand Canyon National Park. Looking back, it is hard to believe how unprepared I was for the journey. First of all, being new to the southwest, I had no clue about the high desert. In my mind, all deserts were hot and dry, so we packed light jackets and mostly summer clothing on our first trip. We drove up pretty late to the hotel, but I remember seeing small patches of white and wondering what they were.

We woke up around 4 am for our first sunrise shoot of the trip, walked outside, and realized the temp was in the low 20s with a decent amount of wind. I remember layering as much as possible before heading out again. I realized later that the small patches of a white substance that we kept on seeing were snow patches. I learned a lot about the deserts and how altitude influences their behavior during that trip.

This shot was taken during sunrise at Yaki Point. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed that I could not see the canyon floor because of the clouds. I even mentioned that to a park ranger and asked her if it is common during the colder months. When her face becomes serious, and she took off towards the rim, I knew something was up. Later she told me that its such a rare phenomenon that she has only heard about this happening before. When you have a national park service ranger behaving like a first-time visitor, you know you have got something special.