Gallery Notes - Arizona
This small collection of images from Arizona concentrates almost entirely on the Grand Canyon National Park and the road to the South Rim from Flagstaff. The Grand Canyon has presented probably the most difficult photographic challenge of any landscape location. The canyon has extraordinary scale - 5000 feet of depth and 20 miles of cross distance - but there is no wide-angle from the rim that can adequately represent the hugeness. All the imagery is in the micro-detail; the towers, buttes and cliffs all catch light and imply scale. Below the rim the landscape reveals itself as Kaibab, or the "mountain upside-down", and our journey takes us down the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim via Indian Garden to Plateau Point, overlooking the inner gorge of the Colorado river.
To the west of the main centre of the South Rim is the side reach of the Havasu Canyou and the Havasupai people - "people of the blue-green water". The trailhead at Hualapai Hilltop lies some 80 miles from Kingman and the 10 mile, 3000 foot-descent to Havasu Falls makes a magnificent expedition into Native American country, still relatively untouched, where horses and mules are standard transport.
