My family and I rolled up to the south rim of the Grand Canyon trying to catch the sunset. There were tons of thunderstorms everywhere that had been...

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My wife has been pestering me a bit about not having a proper winter picture in my portfolio even after spending a lot of time in the Northeast. I mean she has seen the shots of frozen ponds and landscapes which I have taken but really wanted some show covered shots. So when we got to Grand Canyon and took the east rim road we were pleasantly surprised to actually see a nice fresh layer of snow on the ground. When we got to the desert view vista, we took a small walk by the rim and finally just before the desert view tower I found this amazing scene. It took me about 15 minutes to set my camera up for this shot on the tripod and then we waited for a small break in the clouds just to get some depth. What you are actually seeing here is a panorama stitch of about 20 shots which were painstakingly stitched together. I need to rally update my computer I don’t think it can handle all these 36 megapixel pano stitches.

Thanks for visiting hope you liked the shot..

Grand Canyon panorama, stitched from 7 portrait format images. My shadow and the funky corners ruin the bottom part.