One Second by Marc Adamus

One Second by Marc Adamus

On this morning we drove 4 hours before dawn after changing plans on account of snow hitting the red rock sandstone of the Escalante where we had been residing. Looking at the satellites I knew the storm was likely to break around dawn, and when we arrived at the Grand Canyon at 7am the first light was just coming in. As the morning went on waves of light and snow alternated across the rim. One minute snowing so hard you could barely see and just seconds later clearing perfectly as the light danced across the many layers below us. I hand-held all the shots, reacting fast with a long lens, taking hundreds of exposures. This image depicts snowfall catching the light as a lone peak in the canyons below does the same.

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