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Grand Canyon National Park

Immensity is the sensation of when you are in a place like this and can't see the limits on the horizon.

La inmensidad es la sensación de estar en un lugar como este y no ver los límites en el horizonte.

Grand Canyon National Park Arizona, United States September 2016

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• Michelangelo.

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Another great view from the Grand Canyon National Park. This is the view to west from Yavapai Point Taken during sunset. This is one of the most popular locations on the south rim as it is the closes to the park visitor's center. Shooting it after sunset is a bit challenging as most of the canyon is way darker than the sky. I used a 0.9 Lee ND grad filter to get this, usually i never go above a 0.6 ND grad for sunsets.

Thanks for visiting hope you all have a great week ahead.

• Albert Camus.

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Another shot from the south rim just after sunset. I am not exactly sure where the location for this shot I but this one is another interesting view point from the south rim. Thanks for visiting and the words of encouragement. Hope you all have a good Wednesday…

• Henry Morton Stanley.

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My second shot from Mather Point. While its customary to take the shots at this location pointing west as the sun slowly lights up the North rim walls, the massive boulder standing eastwards piqued my interest and I went to take a shot of it before I took the picture I posted yesterday. It did cost me the prime spots at Mather point but I really loved the texture of this rocks and the glow of the sky. I wish now that I had spent a bit more time here for the sun to actually rise.

Anyways if you find yourself at this location don’t make the same mistake I did and see if you can get some interesting shots facing the sun, trust me you won’t be disappointed. Thanks for visiting and your wonderful comments and faves, and have a nice Thursday.

.... sunset pano in the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

... over the Grand Canyon

... the peaks of Grand Canyon National Park

• Henry David Thoreau.

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Another shot of Yavapai Point at sunset. This time I used my wide angle lens for getting the shot. This was one location at the Grand Canyon where I reached before everybody else and had the location all to myself to set the camera up for the sunset. Of course it got filled up a soon as sunset was happening but I had all the time in the world to change lenses and take photos at my leisurely pace.

Hope you all enjoy the shots, thanks for visiting…

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• William Shakespeare.

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When we first visited the Grand Canyon’s south rim, I completely underestimated the scale of the place. I had a whole list of places earmarked for photographs but only later realized the amount of time needed to get from one point to the other. A lot of the photos we took on our first trip ended up being from the spots near the visitor center.

Mather Point is one of the easiest spots to reach from the visitor center and it provides a nice panoramic glimpse into the magic that is Grand Canyon. Yavapai point nearby has a better view but Mather point is easy to get to when racing against time to get a sunrise shot. The sunlight was peaking through as we were setting up. The sunrise is always magical at a canyon even where there is not much drama in the sky. The light was pouring over the canyon rim and creating fantastic drama against the shadows.

The layers of the Grand Canyon.... panoramic view as seen from Mather Point.

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Here's a B&W pano of the Grand Canyon at sunset for a change of pace....

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A snow storm sweeps across the Grand Canyon on my one and only visit to the park back in 2009. Sitting on the edge of the canyon, sunlight broke...

• Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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This was taken on the same day of the perfect inversion in the earlier pictures I posted. I believe this was taken at Yavapai Point, which is another very popular destination on the south rim due to its close proximity towards the visitor center. I initially thought I will steer clear of this location and stick to less popular vista points but due to the clouds on the desert view road which were on the East I decided to try this location. And I hit pay dirt.

We reached early and had the location all to ourselves and I decided to try the panorama stitch I tried at the Griffith Park observatory. The problem was due to the unique elevation of the canyon and the fact that the actual interesting stuff is down in the canyon it’s almost impossible to use your tripods pano function and one has to carefully align exposure and composition manually in the freezing cold. I clipped some edges and almost fried my computer making this image but I am really satisfied the way it came out.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it. Thanks for visiting and have a great Monday…

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• Emily Dickinson.

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The Grand Canyon National Park has always been one of my favorite spots to photograph. The love affair started with the first visit when I was lucky enough to watch a perfect cloud inversion. Since then, every time we visit, we have had some of the best conditions. But even at such a spectacular location, photography can be a challenge. I have myself had quite a few experiences where I have been underwhelmed with the results.

When I first visited the park, I was quite intimidated by the dramatic variation in the scene's dynamic range. My first approach was to try HDR processing. While HDR images can pull out the texture's details very well, this type of processing makes the image look very unrealistic. I mean, if there are bright elements in a scene, your brain will expect dark areas. It took me a while to learn what was missing in my photography. The dark regions of the image are the part that adds mystery and depth to a scene.

I was not too happy with the composition as I believe I added too much sky in the image, but I love the details in the canyon part of the picture. You can see how the dark areas' presence brings the viewer's attention to the brighter areas of the scene and allows them to see the canyon's details. Learning this little secret has affected the way I see, compose, and edit an image.

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Sunrise, Hopi Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, USA.

This would look nice printed at about 4 feet long.

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