Descending Cedar Ridge into the Grand Canyon

[Ryan10]

I saw the lights slowly moving down the ridge, and knew I had to get some long exposures. This was Friday morning at ~6AM or so. I wish I was able to get longer light trails of the hikers. I took 3 images at ~300 seconds each, but there wasn't much to blend in terms of the hiker's lights. I think I got all that I could see as the trail may wind down more on the other side of the ridge.

As it is, this is a single image at 300 seconds.

Descending Into the Canyon by Ryan Luna, on Flickr

 

[BarryHamilton]

That's pretty cool, Ryan! Nicely done!

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice way to tease out a new way to shoot that place. This works.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ryan,

That is very creative. I like those hiker lights.

 

[Ryan10]

That's pretty cool, Ryan! Nicely done!

Thank you Barry.

Nice way to tease out a new way to shoot that place. This works.

Thanks Alan. It was tough getting out of the tent at 4:30.

Hey Ryan,

That is very creative. I like those hiker lights.

Thanks. I was really hoping the trail was on the near side of the ridge, but nope.

 

[Ryan10]

There is a picture I saw from an amazing photographer on Flickr that took a hiker light trail going up from Whitney Portal to Lone Pine lake that was the inspiration for this shot. Her's was far better executed.

 

[lionking]

I like where you going with this, i wish the highlights were not blown and the dark parts were brighter...