Grand
Canyon Moonlight
Images
From an October 2003
trip
Photography by Chris Schiller
Click on thumbnails for a larger image
All of these images
were time exposures of between 5 minutes and 20 minutes.
With the full moon
illuminating the canyon walls, and the long exposures,
the images look
like they were taken in daylight. The streaks from
the stars reveal
them as nighttime photographs. The brightest star path
in the above image
is Mars. This image was taken looking downriver from
the camp below President
Harding rapid.
Moving clouds add
veils and gauze to the scenes...
Everything circles
the polestar.
The earth spins slowly,
spins quickly. The nights in October
are long;
look away and the moment is gone.
Casseopeia and the
Little Bear.
That's 241/2 mile
rapid there in the shadows.