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A panoramic fine art photograph capturing a dramatic summer monsoon storm over the Grand Canyon. The high-detail image features a lightning strike descending from dark, heavy clouds over the distant North Rim, with the Colorado River visible in the canyon floor below. The rugged, colorful sedimentary layers of the canyon are highlighted by a mix of shadow and soft, filtered light.
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Canyon Storm

Canyon Storm aptly illustrates the power and beauty of a summer storm in monsoon season in Grand Canyon National Park

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The feeling I have when my toes are over the edge of a cliff looking at the vastness before me is overwhelming. It’s hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend how far I can see. As the sense of scale settles in, realize the details I can’t see. Canyon Storm drives this point home.

Made at the South Rim of Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park, Canyon Storm depicts an isolated thunderstorm cell, lightning included, as it drifts down the canyon during the summer monsoon season. The canyon is so big and so deep that it generates its weather. This weather operates according to the rules of the canyon and not the surrounding countryside.

Brief, fierce storms are common in the summer. Torrential downpours are the norm, but the storms pass quickly, leaving a sunny afternoon in their wake.

This photograph was made while I was standing in one of those downpours. The storm was swirling all around me, which provided the best colors. Wet rocks and landscape appear so different, and so vibrant, than when it is dry. There was nothing for it but to embrace the rain to create Canyon Storm.

And sure enough, the thunderstorm dissipated before I knew it, leaving only this memory.

See Also

  • Royal Sunset The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is home to some of the most stunning views imaginable. Royal Sunset showcases one of those views.
  • Needle’s Strike Lightning strikes the Needles District in Canyondlands National Park, Utah. Needles Strike records the moment of the strike, and power of lightning.

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