Passing Storm

[Alisa]

I hope you're not all tired of seeing Black Canyon Photographs! Here is another one I was able to capture after a storm has passed.

CC always welcome.

 

[AlanLichty]

Not even close to being tired of this place - especially with this addition. I love the striations in the rock face and seeing the river at the bottom for a sense of scale with some nice skies above. Neat shot.

 

[Alisa]

Not even close to being tired of this place - especially with this addition. I love the striations in the rock face and seeing the river at the bottom for a sense of scale with some nice skies above. Neat shot.

THANK YOU!!

 

[JimFox]

How awesome Alisa! This looks fantastic! I really like how the storm is being lit up. I hope my shots from there turn out even half as good.

 

[Alisa]

How awesome Alisa! This looks fantastic! I really like how the storm is being lit up. I hope my shots from there turn out even half as good.

THANK YOU! Yeah, can't with to see some from your trip!

 

[Douglas Sherman]

What a wonderful image, Alisa. This is a classic area for intrusive igneous geology. Those lighter lines are called dikes and are formed when magma from a source below this area wells up into cracks in the overlying rocks. I wish I had had the opportunity to take this image under these conditions. I would have sold it a bunch of times for geology textbooks.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Thanks for sharing these. This is my favorite so far - the pegmatite bands on The Painted Wall add so much interest.

 

[Zeph]

I agree with the group here, this is a much stronger image, nice seeing the river that carved this canyon. Do you have a vertical take on this Alisa? I think that bush could add more FG interest and have a bit more river shone.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Bravo! This is my back yard and I have been up there a time or two. But I have a hard time processing my images, the lighting never seems to be quite right. You have done an excellent job with it!

Right now it's filled with smoke

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is a very dramatic shot Alisa, I love the look of those bands in the cliff and the sky is awesome. This is a place we have all probably seen while driving through, but we see very few images taken here and now we have, and what a delight that is.

 

[JimFox]

Congrats on the Daily Featured Post Alisa!

 

[Bob Israel]

Love the patterns in the rocks. Nice image!

 

[Kyle Jones]

Very cool! Like Zeph I think I'd like to see a little room below the bush.

 

[Alisa]

Thank you all for the awesome compliments and CC! Kyle and Zeph I’m not sure I caught more of the bush it was very windy that evening so I was trying to cut it out of the picture Incase I couldn’t capture it not moving. I will look. Thank you Jim!!

 

[MonikaC]

Great drama for an often foreboding place, Alisa! I know of so many tragedies, epics & near-epics that have unfolded here and this mood suits it perfectly.

 

[Bart Carrig]

Alisa: One of the best pictures I've seen of Black Canyon; the marbleized walls with the stormlight above are striking.

Bart

 

[BarryHamilton]

What Bart said! Excellent!