Grand Canyon South Rim

In December of last year I traveled with friends over to Las Vegas, and this short break included an overnight stay at the Grand Canyon south rim. Although the weather was very cold with snow and ice on the ground, plus temperatures getting as low as -12 during the night, it did mean the sky was clear and so able to catch both the sunset and sunrise.

I used a SteadePod camera stabiliser in place of a tripod, which did help to minimise shake on occasions, particularly as it was difficult to avoid hand shake because of the cold. My fingers did start to hurt after awhile when I took off my gloves to frame and shoot.

For your information the SteadePod has a long metal wire with a foot pad attached which you can either loop around your belt or place underneath your foot to keep the tension. I purchased my SteadePod from 7dayshop.

I traveled with two cameras, the Olympus OM-D EM-5 DSLR and the Olympus OM4ti film camera. I shot Fuji Velvia 50 slide film with the Olympus OM4ti film camera.

These are the panorama shots watching the light effect on the south rim as the sun light faded (the sun set from behind)

This panorama shot is at sun rise (the sun rose from the right)

And these are later on, once more of the canyon made an appearance.

After checking out moved further on for a different view at Mather point