The "Marble Canyon" of John Wesley Powell (2 versions - BW & color)

[Bo Zarts]

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
© 2017 Bo Zarts Studio

I am very partial to the B&W version of this image.

[MLAA]

1. Gorgeous

[cachukis]

2. Agreed. Having grown up with B&W,

I remember working on placing the color in my head. To this day, I feel better overcoming challenges to reality. Did you shoot in RAW? Torn between capturing the image as truth, to the image as art. Nice juxtaposition.

[Bo Zarts]

4. I only shoot RAW.

I don’t even waste card space with JPEG sidecars. But then, I really enjoy post processing.

[erronis]

3. On the screen, perhaps on print, I prefer the B&W also. But with my eyes

I love the lushness of the colors and the nuances.

I guess we still can't convey the real imagery through a camera lens, no matter the color depth. They eye/brain are remarkably adaptable to fleshing(?) out the colors and giving a living representation. Cameras are getting a lot better too (HDR?).

[Kali]

5. ha! you must have been there a few months after me

same sand bank with a landed paddler in early March of 2017






also the same view taken with a shitty tourist camera (also wind and dust blowing about 40 MPH)

[Bo Zarts]

7. Amazing! Same sandbar indeed!

I was there (on this shoot) two months later, in May 2017. Good catch Kali.

[Kali]

8. it's a great spot

did you see any condors?

[Bo Zarts]

9. Yes. Look closely here ..

On the curved lower beam of the main bridge substructure, halfway between midpoint and the far side of the river is a speck that is a condor. I’ll post some closer shots in a day or two.

[George McGovern]

6. Agreed, Bo Zarts.

Your partiality is justified. Beautiful.