reguli wrote:
It is very difficult to take photos of scenes that are not known in the Grand Canyon. Visits, movies and television spots are the old acquaintances. However, this place has a special charm because it combines grandeur, beauty and danger. Walking the rims is one thing but venturing down the lower paths is quite another. If I was 30 years younger, I would have ventured down to the Colorado River, but with my age and my wife's insistence that I not do crazy things, I had to settle for going down only about 300 feet (vertical) along the Bright Angel road. A few days later I found out that a 41-year-old woman had died as a result of the effort to go down to the river. Speaking of photography, this is one of the most difficult places I've ever been to photograph. The permanent fog that emanates from the canyon itself by evaporation and the reflections of the sun are an extreme challenge for photographers. The delivery that I am making is three days in the place going through all the points of the south rim. I did one of the panoramic shots with all the tools required by the technique, tripod and gimbal, but I did the rest freehand and I don't regret it because the result was quite good. The most difficult photo was the one at sunset. First of all, the best sunsets are near Hermite Rest, the end of the bus line. But this place cannot be reached by car because it is closed to visitor vehicles, so you have to be careful to take the last bus because otherwise you will have to sleep outdoors all night. But apart from being aware of the time of the buses, the cold and the wind were overwhelming, my wife demanding to leave and me extending my photography session as long as I could. We finally got back to the hotel quite late at night but not before we came across a deer at the Tusayan exit, which if it wasn't going too slowly I would be in the hospital today.
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