Southwest Trip, Part Two - the North Rim and Antelope Canyon

[eregyrn]

(Previously: Death Valley and Zion National Park)

Our next objective, after Zion, was the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Comments

[jenlev]

Holy bat dren, these are exquisite. Especially the Antelope Canyon shots...just. Plain. Wow.

[barkley]

That sunset on the north rim that first night there was just PERFECT in every way. I am feeling all zen just thinking about it again.

[destina]

So, so beautiful. I especially appreciate you posting those pics of the sunset. Amazing.

[okojosan]

So how does one get from the north rim to the south rim easily? Is there a bridge across the canyon somewhere?

Those Antelope photos, hnnng, so beautiful. I will go there some day, I will I will.

The bison photos remind me of when I was in Chile. Our tourist van stopped to look at some wild guanacos, and all the fucking tourists jumped out of the van and ran towards the guanacos, which then took off up the hill out of sight. -_- I guess bison are more confident.

KAIBIB SQUIRREL! They are so cute!

[eregyrn]

So how does one get from the north rim to the south rim easily? Is there a bridge across the canyon somewhere?HA HA HA HA! No

[okojosan]

Haha I've been wondering about that South Rim/North Rim question for YEARS! My mom helped drive me out to Los Angeles back in 1993, and of course we did all the tourist things along the way. We visited the South Rim of the GC and at the time I heard of people visiting the North Rim and wondered how they got over there, because as we were driving along Interstate 40 I never saw any bridge or "this way to the North Rim" signs. And the Canyon starts well east of where most of the scenic photos are taken. I mean just driving along the gorge before it widens out into the enormous canyon was impressive enough.

I do remember Hoover Dam, so yeah we never got near the North Rim I guess. Actually, are there helicopter rides across the canyon or are the winds to unsteady?

I have a friend who lives in Arizona who has taken photos from the glass walkway that extends out over the canyon. Were you near that? Oh wait, I guess you haven't done the South Rim report yet. :D

[katie_m]

I do wonder if Antelope Canyon is genuinely redder at midday.

[eregyrn]

You know, I'm betting not. Because we got there near 1pm, or 1:30 pm, IIRC. We weren't THAT far off midday. I think the famous red-orange-ness of all the photos is because to shoot in the low-light of the canyon, and to make it so that you actually get the shafts of light, instead of everything being really washed out, you have to put cameras on low-light-level settings (and as I understand it, the best shots are taken with even longer-exposure settings). Like, you can see in my before/after above that in the first shot, I don't get as much of the depth of the background, because that setting couldn't capture enough light. So I kind of bet that with those low-light settings, it somehow results in the reddish tones.

He didn't have me set it on anything that specified warmer tones. He was just giving me settings that compensated for low light.