Nankoweap, Mile 52, October 11, 2006

At Nankoweap, a high wall rises on the east side of Marble Canyon. It goes all the way to the rim. You can drive to this rim if you know which dirt roads to follow and it's a very severe slope from there to the bottom. A spectacular sight it is, representing the entire depth of the canyon here.

This is the river near our camp. Using the LAB color space, I corrected out the evening blue cast. Some will way that certain images including this one are too red, but the Grand Canyon is a reddish place! Yes, the red color on the rocks here may look strange, but it's based on information in the image from the camera. LAB color tends to accentuate such differences. If in time I don't like this tendency, I can redo the photo in the regular RGB color space. But it would be less dramatic.