...as I am composing this on my iPhone in a hotel room in Williams, AZ after spending two days at the Grand Canyon. It was simply more than the human mind can absorb at once.
First of all, stuff in the distance looks like a matte painting that changes depending on your point of view. There is no real way to judge "far" from "far", other than the fact that some stuff in front moves slightly in respect to the stuff in back. In other words, the parallax effect.
It's the closer in stuff that's really interesting. Every ten feet along the rim trail presents a new and wonderful camera shot, provided you have the guts to get close enough to the edge to take it. It's ridiculously scary dangerous. There's guard rails only in a few select locations. People routinely go out onto outcroppings of rock, inches from the edge, with drops of several hundred feet on either side. The mind boggles.
Anyways, here I am, face redder than the cliff face, after burning roll after roll of virtual film. Tomorrow, we head for home.
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