Bright Angel in Morning Light
Grand Canyon National Park
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Oct. 11, 2024 Jean and I were up early around 5am to drive the 55 minute drive from our campground at Jacobs Lake to the North Rim visitor center. We arrived right before sunrise only to discover that the trail to Bright Angel Point was closed for repairs. Disappointed, I scouted around for another location to shoot from. I discovered a overlook just below the Grand Canyon Lodge on a narrow outcrop that extended some 50 yards out from the canyon wall. I walked out to the overlook and this was the scene from it. I waited a while after sunrise for the light to extend down into Bright Angel Canyon some. While most of the trees in the canyon are evergreens there are a few scrub oaks and shrubs that are ablaze in fall color, especially along the right side of the panorama. It turned out to be one of the clearest days during this years visit. If you zoom into the image on the south rim you can clearly see the South Rim Visitor center along with the trail that descends down to the bottom.
I shot this at 400mm focal length. The great distances to the nearest objects from the overlook allowed me to shoot this without using focus bracketing There are 610 individual images, 10 rows x 61 columns, used to create this shot. My settings were f/11, 1/640th sec. ISO 400
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