I’m Back from Arizona

Wow, it’s been over three weeks since my last post! The business has kept me very busy lately. I’ve taken on a few new photography students recently and had several submission deadlines to meet. All of this has kept me from posting on the blog.

Last week my wife Sally and I took a road trip out to northern Arizona to photograph Lower Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend (at both sunrise and sunset), Marble Canyon, the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, and finally Shiprock peak in New Mexico. And while I’m not a wildlife photographer I was lucky enough to photograph a condor at the twin Navajo bridges in Marble Canyon and I also photographed a Kaibab Squirrel.  I’ve just begun to process the images and hope to share a new shot each day over at least the next week.

We had both great and not-so-great weather on the trip. As was to be expected, it was hot as hell in Page with the mercury peaking at over 100 degrees Farenheit and hardly a cloud in the sky on our first couple of days. My greatest weather concern wasn’t the heat, but rather the smoke from a forest fire burning on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park which we could see from the lodge at Marble Canyon. Discovered on July 29th, the lightning-caused Aspen Fire has scorched over 4,000 acres on the Walhalla Plateau. The smoke from the fire had filled the canyon obscuring visibility. Not exactlly ideal photography conditions. Luckily for us, a few hours after our arrival a line of thunderstorms advanced up from southern Arizona through the Grand Canyon region, cleansing the air of the smoke and providing photogenic skies.

I’m going to get things started by sharing this image of rain falling into Bright Angel Canyon over Phantom Ranch. This was my last image of the evening as I was chased off the rim by an intense thunderstorm that was producing a lot of lightning.

Late evening rain. North Rim - Grand Canyon National Park

This image of a late evening rain falling into Bright Angel Canyon as viewed from the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park and others like it are available for purchase at my website AdamSchallau.com.

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