The Rugged Grand Canyon
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
The Rugged Grand Canyon
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
The Grand Canyon was carved by the Colorado River. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
It is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile. Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests that the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark
Image copyright 2018 Jon Burch Photography
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October 29th, 2018
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Jerry Bokowski
This view from near Mather Point is wonderful, Jon. I have done a number of paintings from here that also feature Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid. In my opinion, it is the ultimate challenge for a landscape painter or photographer to capture Grand Canyon but this represents it well. I did a large 48”x60” painting of this view during an early morning storm I named “Transcendent Golden Dawn” that took 5 weeks to do..Fav / Like
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