Grand Canyon
 

...coming soon. I'm about to leave for a trip to New Mexico and Arizona, so expect no posts from me for a week, and some pictures when I get back!

You're so lucky! Looking forward to the pictures.

The Grand Canyon and the redwood forests in Washington state are two of the things I abosolutly have to see sometime before I leave this world.

HM, if you can swing it, check out Grand Canyon National Monument, downstream, on the north rim. At the Park the river is 5k ft down but also 25k ft "out". At the Monument the river is 3k ft down but only 1k ft "out".
Have a safe journey. :biggrin:

Ditto

I'm back, but it may take some time to sort through, resize, and post pictures - I took 326 . It was a pretty cool trip. The weather wasn't ideal, which affected the colors on the pictures, but also made some good clouds in the canyon.

We didn't make it to the north rim, which I believe is closed in the winter anyway.

I got a little time. :)

If you get Irfanview, which is freeware, you can batch all 326 images and tell it to cut down the size and adjust the quality. To create 326 smaller images will probably take less than 10 minutes. You can even stack them on top of each other into filmstrips.

Bruce - heh, cool!

Rich - Thanks, on someone's (perhaps yours) suggestion on a different thread, I picked Irfanview up, and have been using it for resizing. I haven't played with all the options yet. But since I don't plan on posting over 300 pictures, I still need to sort them into "cool" and "crap" piles by hand. Then I can play with batch resizing.

Let me know what the file size is on average. If you want to post them online for a few weeks so everyone can see them, I can probably spare you some web space.

Wow. I dream to see it.

we visited the north rim in the early 90's. i have a really cool pic of jinx in the mist on my desk at work, but i guess i never scanned it. here's another one, tho:

Wow, great pics!

I have a few of the Copper Canyon in the north of Mexico from last summer if anyone wants to see them...

Yes, I've seen ads for Copper Canyon in magazines. Wondered what it looked like. Start a Copper Canyon thread. :thumbsup:

Hee... I'll try to put a few more up tonight. I've got 'em all resized and ready to go as soon as I have a bit of time to spare.

Our first day, we went to Tent Rocks, an amazing little site without even a sign on the highway. Luckily, my brother went to college in Santa Fe, so he knew about it. It is essentially a huge hill made of extremely soft sandstone which erodes very quickly. Rocks and boulders would protect the sandstone under them from the rain, creating a cone or pillar with a rock on top. Eventually, the rock falls off, leaving a teepee-shaped formation. Hence, Tent Rocks.