2010
The Light Within
My second Grand Canyon series concentrates on the world-within-a-world. By excluding direct sunlight from the frame, I explore intimate moments within the immeasurable space. Each crease and fold flows deeper, absorbing the high desert light that reflects every facet of the surrounding canyon walls.
A half mile below the rim, a world of buttes, towers and mesas emerge in every shade of the sedimentary palette — gray, tan, pink, red, orange, yellow and brown. The enormous scale of the canyon blends and diffuses their color and intensity according to distance and depth. In dramatic contrast, the 1.7 billion year old dark, veined granite gorge plummets another half mile as the Colorado River rushes through its belly. As the sun arcs across the canyon walls, Condors and Ravens soar the thermals.
