Tag: grand canyon
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China’s Yellow Mountains with NIK Silver Efex Pro 2
We took hundreds of pictures of the fog wrapping China’s Yellow Mountains but we simply couldn’t find a way to process them that met our expectations. After many months of trying our clever Photoshop tricks, we decided to dust off the NIK Silver Efex Pro 2 plugin and give that a go. These images are…
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That time we nearly died at Hanakapi’ai Falls
OK, let’s clear up the title. Nobody died. Nobody nearly died. But hell, it sure felt like we were on the very edge. For hour after hour. We’re building our list of top 5 hikes. So far positions 5 & 4 are open. At 3 is the Grand Canyon. In number 2 position is Mt…
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Grand Canyon Golden Falls
If you’re going to carry a tripod all the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you may as well use it for something interesting. This is Angel Falls. And it is spectacular. You get to climb up behind the water and look out over the alien landscape. To get some idea of just…
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Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon
Deanna and I booked a 3 day hike with ‘Just roughin’ it‘, down the North face of the Grand Canyon, across the width, and up the South face. To use the vernacular of the kids, it was awesome. Three days carrying everything we needed to camp, eat, hike and generally survive. None of this would…
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Lessons in battery life at Clear Lake
Shooting star shots takes a lot of juice. Often you’ll find people jacking their cameras in to car batteries, generators, all sorts of devices in an attempt to keep them shooting through the cold nights. Me, I just buy more batteries and keep an eye out for when they’re getting flat. A good fresh battery…