Grand Canyon Sunrise

[Yan Zhang]

For some time, I have been fascinated by viewing Galen Rowell's mountainous pictures, and wanted to get some chance to take pictures on mountains and canyons.

In November 2008 I went to Grand Canyon (South Rim) and stayed there two nights. I didn't get good shots in the first morning because I was not so familiar with the location, also the light condition was not ideal. But I identified one location that I thought would be good for a sunrise view. So the second early morning, I got there and waited for the light. Luckily it turned out to be a quite special sunrise, though it just lasted less than 10 minutes, I managed to take the following picture - its color was not so often in that season as other people told me.



Shooting information:
Camera: 400D
Lens: 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
Aperture: 11.0
Focal length: 17.0mm
Shutter time: 3s
ISO: 100
Filter: 2-stop ND grad (Hard)

Thanks for your comments.

[Roxy]

First of all..WOW!
A magic location with spectacular valley view and well portrayed in your shot.
I must ask, though, is this colour real or enhhanced?
If not, it is amazingly red!
I hope you got a few more pics in that wonderful light.

[Yan Zhang]

rrox,

Thanks for your comments.

Yes, the color is real, no color saturation was applied as any enhance would be too much.

[Theron]

Yan Zhang

That is a super shot. It makes me envious. I live about five or six hours north of the Grand Canyon. I have a trip to canyon lands and arches national park planned in about a month. That is only about four and one half hours south of my home.

Theron

[Yan Zhang]

Theron,

Good to know you are living so closer to the canyons (I live in Sydney Australia), so you would have many chances to visit there. I lost my driver's license in Phoenix last time, so I had to take Open Road Tour bus to get Grand Canyon. Here is another picture I took in the afternoon.

[crisscross]

mostly just jealous of spectacular location, colour and the shooting position, but wonder if it would be worth squeezing a little more detail into (or is out of?) the bottom right and far wall? Not leson 1 PP, but could be worth it.

[Theron]

Theron,

Good to know you are living so closer to the canyons (I live in Sydney Australia), so you would have many chances to visit there. I lost my driver's license in Phoenix last time, so I had to take Open Road Tour bus to get Grand Canyon. Here is another picture I took in the afternoon.

If you ever come back again give me a holler. If my schedule permitted we could take some shots together.

Theron

[ajith.rajeswari]

Good colorful shot Yan.

[Yan Zhang]

Dear all,

Thanks for your comments.

Theron: I like to come back to Grand Canyon if possible, and will let you know if I come.

[Brigitte]

That´s a very amazing photo and the colours (light) are fantastic.

greetings,
Bridget