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Managed a week off around New Year, visiting some of the great natural wonders in the South West.The south rim of the Grand Canyon was near freezing with icy winds blowing up the cliff faces from the valleys below. From the rim itself, the lack of fall on the Alpa SWA became frustrating as everything you wanted to look at was below the horizon.

Once into Monument Valley and then Valley of the Gods (just north of Mexican Hat) it felt like we were inhabiting a Road Runner cartoon.

Restricted myself to taking only one camera and a few lenses for my first foray into shooting landscape. It was a holiday after all. I must say, nothing prepared me for the vastness of the scenery. Putting wide lenses on just pushed everything too far away. Yet going back to longer lenses narrowed down the field too much. My answer at the time was to stay with the longer lens and stitch a few frames together. Of course using the Alpa / P45 to stitch five or so frames together (to produce a 1.2Gb file) was possibly, just possibly taking things a little too far.

Final visit on New Years Day was to Canyonlands National Park and then Dead Horse Point State Park for the last rays of afternoon sun. Simply amazing views with very little to really give you a sense of scale.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 at 11:52 pm and is filed under Photography, Travel.