Dave Ficke
October 2025 - South Rim of The Grand Canyon
About the Image(s)
This is a pano of the south rim of the grand canyon. My focus was a high horizon and focusing on the canyon
Nikon D850, using a 24-7-mm lens and at F6.3, Iso 160 at 1/80 second. Using a tripod with a pano bracket.
Post - stitched images together and then adjusted shadows, highlights and cropped. You can see the Bright Angel Trail at the bottom of the image - an easy 7.8 miles DOWN and no surprise, a gruling 7.8 miles back up to your hotel. All in one day!
1 comment posted
The Grand Canyon is one of the most photographed landscapes in the world where the subject itself delivers great impact. And here you captured scale, depth, and texture. - but it's also a difficult place to get strong compositions, because the interest is down and the sky is up - and getting both in a frame with strong visual interest isn't easy. Having said that, you've done a great job of stitching and captured nice sidelight adding depth and dimensionality, highlighting ridges and valleys and the golden light on canyon walls is a strong visual asset. While snow always adds to landscape images here, I think the area in the lower right of the image detracts from the rest of the image. BTW- I did Bright Angel Trail once. Never again! :-) Posted: 10/07/2025 13:34:10