Entries from Ann-alog: a pixel remix tagged with 'Grand Canyon'
Photog's bookshelf: Eliot Porter
Fern Glen Canyon, Colorado River mile 168, Grand Canyon National Park Earlier this month, I blogged about my project to assemble a small reference library on photography. Here is a write-up of one of my first additions to my...
Defining success, part 2
Matkatamiba Canyon mile 148 I wrote my last post about defining success during the interval that I teach a winter photography short course for Lifelong Learning. I talk a lot in class about what makes a successful photo outing...
Ten more from 2009
Winter feeding in Sanpete County On New Year's Eve at just before 10 pm, I hit a milestone in the two-plus year goal of establishing a workflow for cataloguing, ranking and labeling my RAW files: all of 2008 and...
Crossing bridges one at a time
Twin Marble Canyon bridges, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area The good news is that the books are done, bound and in a shipping container somewhere on the high Pacific. The bad news is that I am attempting to update...
Print-a-week Challenge: update 3
Deer Creek Falls, Grand Canyon National Park With my travel schedule, I haven't updated in a while about the Print-a-week Challenge in the lead-up to PhotoCamp 2010. I did make some prints last week, shipped them straight away. This...
Star Trails-PhotowalkingUtah on Saturday
Grand Canyon Voyage, Day 9 About one hour after sunset on the 9th day, I started yet another star trail. I had never done night sky photography before this trip--wasn't really interested when I shot film and the older...
4 cameras at Camp 5
Camp 5 Still in the Inner Gorge, we made camp early enough that I could get out all of my gear: D700 for most everything, D2X as a back-up and for wide angles (I don't have a full-frame wide...
Eco-graffiti-Grand Canyon National Park
Granite Rapid near mile 93, Grand Canyon National Park The Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon draws the walls closer together speeding up the current the Colorado River and making its rapids much more dangerous. John Wesley Powell's men...
Day 3: Nankoweap Granaries
Nankoweap Granaries One of the reasons we chose to float the Grand Canyon in April with CRATE was the opportunity for more hiking time than a typical 8-day motorized trip. Same river distance in 11 days equates to three...
Mile 50 camp, Grand Canyon National Park
Mile 50 from Lee's Ferry on the Colorado River The guidebooks mark 280 miles from Lee's Ferry to the Lake Mead takeout points. On our 11 day voyage, we made it to mile 50 on the second night, making...
Lava Falls, Grand Canyon National Park
Lava Falls, Grand Canyon National Park The second half of our rafting party gets the thrill of a lifetime in the Grand Canyon's biggest rapid. I have barely had time to scan through the 42 GB of images I...
Grand Canyon Lodge at sunset
Sunset behind the Grand Canyon Lodge at the North Rim Even though the sunset didn't bounce into the Grand Canyon the day I was there, I did make the files I needed to composite this image. I knew in...
Inevitable dust - North Rim, Grand Canyon NP
Sunrise at Bright Angel Point, Grand Canyon National Park I scored a last-minute reservation at the North Rim for the last night of my tour through Arizona for the Highway 89 project. Not that I spent much time in...
Twin bridges over Marble Canyon, Arizona
Twin bridges over Marble Canyon and the Colorado River Arizona's first state highway, U.S. 89, was mostly complete from Nogales to Flagstaff by 1926. The segment from Flagstaff to the Utah line took much longer. Lee's Ferry over the...
Regardless of the price of gas...
Lower Yellowstone Falls Regardless of the price of gas, visitation at the two biggest NPS units on Highway 89 was at record levels in June. The USA Today reported that Yellowstone had 612,000 tourist visits in June, while the...
Day of the Condor story
Condor with layered textorizer effect I wrote a story about the day I photographed the condors at the Grand Canyon on my main website. I used the story text to make the textorizer2 file of the condor. It's a...
Wait just a few more minutes
Sunset at Yavapai Point, Grand Canyon National Park The day I saw the condors at El Tovar started out with a clear blue sky. Over the course of the afternoon, it clouded over with potential. I parked my car...
On Being a Woman Photographer
Desert View Watchtower (1932) - Mary Colter, Architect [Updated 2007.10.15 - I've been collecting links to great women photographers - gathered in my Women in the Field archive to share. Email me with suggestions to grow this list.]I couldn't...
Condors over the Grand Canyon
Condor #41 over the El Tovar Hotel at the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park The storm started to break up as I arrived at the Grand Canyon area on Sunday. The snow wasn't sticking since it was...
Clearing Storm - Grand Canyon National Park
Mohave Point, Grand Canyon National Park The big snow storm before Christmas spread from SLC all the way to middle Arizona, so we accelerated our departure by 24 hours. Two punctured tires, a stop at Cabela's for hand-warmers, a...
