Saturday, 10 January 2009

Grand Canyon ~ view # 2


This was taken on day 2, it was as if someone had lifted a veil and the whole Canyon was bathed in a rather surreal light, that made the sandstone glow, the landscape looked almost lunar like. Harriet said it reminded her of a cake, I can see what she means, I have just done a bit of CS3 fiddling on curves levels and saturation, ( I have visited one blog, where they believe any adjustment on any image to be wrong .....so I hope like me you disagree), I hope I have done the Grand Canyon justice, it is a spectacular place and moved me more than words can say.

8 comments:

Rune Eide said...

It reminded me of the pictures we have seen from Mars recently - nothing like any place I have seen on Earth. I hope you brought many GBs!

PD Thank you for the comment. It's nice to get noticed...

Firefly the Travel Guy said...

The Grand Canyon is one of the (many) places accross the world that I would like to visit one day. Yet another great photo. I'm jealous about your visit to the GC.

Karin said...

Absolutely breath-taking. I'm sure nothings beats seeing it first-hand, but you did a superb job on capturing the magnificence!

Troy Shorter said...

Ohh Ann, this is fantastic, it's just so picturesc, i'm sure Karins right and nothing can beat it first it hand, WOW, i hope to see the real thing one day :) x

Perry said...

Yes, great capture. Awesome colors and not over saturated. :-)

Pixels we made to change, that's why we re-use them over and over in our cameras. Ansel Adams, perhaps history's greatest landscape photographer spent many hours in the darkroom making a single print, correct. He pokes, prodded, dodged and burnt all he could for the perfect print. He would *love* to be able to do what we can editing images. Photojournalism is the only place where adjusting levels, cropping and nothing more is allowed.

sharad said...

breathtaking!!:)

William Alexander López said...

Great landscape, it has a beautiful view !

Well done.

Shutterspy said...

Ooh, nice! :)