I let it get good and dark before walking back to the Lodge from Bright Angel Point. These are about the same photo, the second with flash. I lightened the top one a little!
(1/6, f4, 21mm, ISO 1600)
(1/6, f4, 21mm, ISO 1600, on camera flash)
(1/2, f4, 17mm, ISO 1600)
This is cropped from a single photo.
(1/2, f4, 17mm, ISO 1600)
About this time I started thinking I should have brought my tripod along to Bright Angel. I hadn’t planned to take these very dark shots and it would have made a lot more latitude in ISO and shutter speeds. Some of these are hand held, and some are braced on the rocks.
The lights from the Lodge and the huge outdoor fireplace on the patio.
(1 second, f4, 28mm, ISO 1600)
Venus over the Grand Canyon.
(1.5 seconds, f4, 28mm, ISO 1600)
Looking back at Bright Angle Point (or the trail to it…)!
(1, f6.7, 28mm, ISO 1600, -2 stops, on camera flash)
As I walked back near the Lodge, I saw a dancing red glow ahead of me. When I puffed up the last hill and collapsed on a bench (the North Rim is over 8,000 feet high!) I saw the first thing to make me actually consider getting an iPad*. There was a young lady waving one over her head, with a very nice star chart on the iPad, and it moved and rotated as she did, and it would flash the lines connecting the Constellations, and then the original concept/image of what the Ancients saw in the sky. It was really neat! And useful, too
*Apple neglected to include a USB port, the computer industry standard for connections, on the iPad. Not even a Firewire port, which Apple really likes…so there is no easy way to connect thumb drives, keyboards, external hard drives, or anything else. I am not a bluetooth fan.
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~Curtis on the north Rim!
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