Grand Canyon photos, November 2008

I finally finished processing my Grand Canyon photos... Of something like more than a 1000 that I shot, I ended up keeping somewhere around 100 or so, and flagging only about 23 as favorites.

Here are my favorites, collected together in one place via Smugmug keywords. And here is a slideshow of those favorites.

I ended up separating the photos into several small galleries, devoted to specific sections or places on the rim, including Hermit Road from Trailview Overlook to Hermit's Rest, Mather Point, the Rim Trail between the Village and Yavapai Point, Desert View, Lipan Point, and miscellaneous shots from the West Rim Drive.

After this experience, I am tempted to stick to night shots. Or at least give up on big landscapes. I found it really hard to get satisfying shots, whether because of the haze, the lighting, or my own lack of skill. I also had an adventure during processing when somehow the Samsung monitor profile used in Windows color management seemed to begin behaving badly, so all of a sudden photos were showing up in Lightroom in a bizarre sepia. I had to remove the Samsung icm file and then everything was OK again.

Here are a few that I was really proud of...





I really liked this shot, which almost looks like a painting, as a result of the haze...