Whenever I post a panoramic image to NPN, I'm less than thrilled with quality - the compression doesn't help the image! ;) So, this time, I'm inserting a link to one of the first images that I've scanned:
http://www.timmulholland.com/places/GC/LRC1.html
The confluence of the Colorado River with the Little Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is a really beautiful place that I hope that you all are able to enjoy someday, for those of you who haven't already...
Tim...that is very original....I love your exposure at that time of the day...beautiful colors and it just really takes us there....powerful work...regards, Rajeev.
Tim, Excellent! Great (and original) comp, Excellent exposure control and shadow detail in the rock upper left. Beautiful color contrast and I really dig that sky blue water.
John
Thank you everyone for your very kind comments - I appreciate 'em!
Todd - thank YOU very much for the assist! I didn't think about using html in my post - but, now I've learned.
The blue water is from the dissolved calcium carbonate and lack of other forms of turbidity. The falls are all formed from travertine, which is just precipitated calcium carbonate (aka, limestone).
It was very interesting to "feel" my reactions to this particular area. The nature photographer/naturalist in me was put off by seeing all of the people swimming and sliding around in the area - but it did look like fun! (don't you just hate those moral conflicts? Which is why we have the Wisconsin Dells up here!) But, it was nice that another hundred meters upstream and more, that the photographer touristas got to have their fun! ;)
And, Bill, I can relate to the issue of muddy water vs. blue water. About seventeen years ago, I backpacked down to Havasu Falls in September, only to find it a muddy waterfall, rather than a blue waterfall. I spent a couple of days there. On the morning that I packed out at 6:00 am, I could make out that the water had turned back to blue - ARGH! ;)
Tim!
Posted by Doug Andrews on May 31, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Love the low angle pano. Very creative shoot. Well done.
Tim, this is one of the nicest shots I've ever seen of the Little Colorado confluence! I've never been lucky to see it this way, it's always been very brown and once it was putting so much silt into the Colorado River that the Colorado turned from a beautiful clear dark green river to a brown river and stayed that way to about mile 175 where it finally started to clear up.
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The confluence of the Colorado River with the Little Colorado River in the Grand Canyon is a really beautiful place that I hope that you all are able to enjoy someday, for those of you who haven't already...
Fuji G617, f/45, polarizer, 1" (?); Velvia 100 (at asa 80)
Tim!
I'm here to help...
I love your near total absence of a horizon line. Great idea.
One of these days I will see it blue.
I've been to the confluence twice. On both occassions the Little Colorado was more mud than water.
John
Todd - thank YOU very much for the assist! I didn't think about using html in my post - but, now I've learned.
The blue water is from the dissolved calcium carbonate and lack of other forms of turbidity. The falls are all formed from travertine, which is just precipitated calcium carbonate (aka, limestone).
It was very interesting to "feel" my reactions to this particular area. The nature photographer/naturalist in me was put off by seeing all of the people swimming and sliding around in the area - but it did look like fun! (don't you just hate those moral conflicts? Which is why we have the Wisconsin Dells up here!) But, it was nice that another hundred meters upstream and more, that the photographer touristas got to have their fun! ;)
And, Bill, I can relate to the issue of muddy water vs. blue water. About seventeen years ago, I backpacked down to Havasu Falls in September, only to find it a muddy waterfall, rather than a blue waterfall. I spent a couple of days there. On the morning that I packed out at 6:00 am, I could make out that the water had turned back to blue - ARGH! ;)
Tim!