North Canyon Pool

North Canyon comfort

River Hall

Cardenas Creek Panorama

Vermillion Cliffs; Marble Canyon

Nankoweep; Grand Canyon

Palisade sunset

Elves Chasm Falls

The Kayaker

Deer Creek

Matcatameba

Zion December

Towers of the Virgin

Moon setting on West Temple at sunrise

This view, with the snow mantled flora, kept calling me back. Each new mood was compelling and so many ways to process the image.

Amidst all the blizzard on the rim and storm clouds down inside the canyon (it rained at Phantom Ranch in the morning) I patiently waited for a clearing of the lower reaches to get this layered photo at Mather Point. It never cleared quite as much as I would have liked, but I waited patiently, took what I could get. With a bit of over-processing, I managed to force this out the shot. Hoping for a better opportunity this morning before we hit the road again, but in the meantime I was pleased with this "insurance shot."

Clarence Dutton, Captain of the Ordinance, was a principle geologist involved in exploring and mapping the Grand Canyon. (tg) "The earth suddenly sinks at our feet to illimitable depths. In an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, the awful scene is before us." So Clarence Dutton wrote of his encounter with Point Sublime, and so it has always been, even today, with anyone who peers over the rim of the Grand Canyon. But no one before him saw what Dutton did, and no one since has been able to see anything else. -Stephen J. Pyne, from his forward to the Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District

One more share of our most excellent day on the Durango line. Wonderful to get to sit back for the day, let someone else do the driving, and enjoy the best weather we have had in days.

I was standing on snow-covered branches with no firm ground underneath me when I made that shot. The camera was on a tripod, but there was nothing solid holding the tripod up, when I made this long time exposure. I made quite a few shots in the hopes that I would get lucky.