There was an amazing blue light in the canyon this day....

-- Jeff Kelley (thocker@ix.netcom.com), January 16, 1999

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As the image was building on my monitor's screen I was facinated by its painterly quality. Although the composition of the foreground is nice, IMO it is perhaps about 1/2+ stop overexposed for my taste. I see a lot of hotspots on rocks. Did you scan from a negative/slide or a print? If it is not from a print, hopefully you have a lot of detail stored in the negative. I would rescan it a little darker,

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), January 16, 1999.

The blue tones in the canyon provide a different view than I've seen before. I like it. Was the lighting altered by atmospheric haze?

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), January 16, 1999.

Thanks for the comments.

This is scanned from a negative. It was only slightly hazy and mostly cloudy. I only got this one shot with the unusual blue *haze* . On my monitor it looks just about perfect. No hot spots, so I guess that has to do with monitor calibration differences. I have printed this as wide as sixteen inches and it is very impressive at that size.

-- Jeff Kelley (thocker@ix.netcom.com), January 16, 1999.

Whoa ! So you too got this stunning blue canyon shot ! Very nice. I personally shot this kind of pictures before the sun start to shine, shooting the Colorado River snake shape while lookingeast from Grand View Point. My eyes were able to see its blue color too, but with Velvia, it is even more vibrant. As suggested by one poster, this one you took looks overexposed by 1 stop IMO. It is not destructive though. On the composition side of the question, I don't find it very apealing. But it is such a strange mood to have the GC painted with a this unusual and cool light that you are forgiven. BTW, I shot mine before the start of a very sunny and bright day in April 1998. It is real ! Bye now.

-- Vincent (vincent_leflohic@hp.com), January 20, 1999.