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Grand Canyon


Grand Canyon
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Copyright: Mert Serter (mserter) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 49 W: 19 N: 29] (905)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-03
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon Digital Rebel, Canon 18 - 55mm EFS
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-01-17 10:41
Viewed: 443
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt mountain lions and enjoy the scenery.

The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4 to 24 kilometers), and attains a depth of more than a mile (1,600 m). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted.

The first recorded sighting of the Grand Canyon by a European was in 1540, García López de Cárdenas from Spain. The first scientific expedition to the canyon was led by U.S. Major John Wesley Powell in the late 1860s. Powell referred to the sedimentary rock units exposed in the canyon as "leaves in a great story book". Long before that, the area was inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon walls.
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Excellent but I would have cloned out the sky.
Alfred

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  • Lix Gold Star Critiquer [C: 73 W: 0 N: 7] (193)
  • [2007-01-17 10:58]

Hi Mert
wonderful view...thank for this very nice postcard

Alessandro

Very beautiful shot of the Grand Canyon. The colors are rich, not washed out like in some other shots and postcard pictures I've seen before. Wonderful with the bit of sky left above to give a sense of depth while also understanding how enormous and vast the canyon is. Gorgeous lighting and shadows and I love how you left some of the foreground rock in at the left. TFS!
-Lara

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  • limba3 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1081 W: 436 N: 421] (13302)
  • [2007-01-17 16:43]

Hi
Superb view. I am pleased that I can also examine it.
Anna

Selam,
Harika bir jeomorfoloji fotoğrafı olmuş.
Eline sağlık.
Kemal

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