Away the Darkness
A nice, quiet sunrise this morning. No drama. Just beautiful.
For the new folks, I don't retouch my pictures. I don't process them at all. (On the rare occasion I do, I'll tell you.) So you'll see a light here, and a light there.
The truth is important.
And the truth is, I'll lose this view to "progress". Roads, homes, businesses. Heck, on the right side of the frame, Vulcan Materials is literally tearing a mountain down for the rock. There's a lot of money in building "materials". And, evidently, not much money in a sunrise view. Well, at least not for the Public.
My sunrise view will be the sunset view for many, many trophy houses. You can see them dotting the hills just to the north (left) of this view. And every one of them puts up a light to drive away the darkness — to mar the view.
I urge you to think about what a view — for everybody -- is worth.
"I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. Man cannot improve on it; not a bit. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children and your children's children and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.
Keep the Grand Canyon of Arizona as it is." — President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1903
For the new folks, I don't retouch my pictures. I don't process them at all. (On the rare occasion I do, I'll tell you.) So you'll see a light here, and a light there.
The truth is important.
And the truth is, I'll lose this view to "progress". Roads, homes, businesses. Heck, on the right side of the frame, Vulcan Materials is literally tearing a mountain down for the rock. There's a lot of money in building "materials". And, evidently, not much money in a sunrise view. Well, at least not for the Public.
My sunrise view will be the sunset view for many, many trophy houses. You can see them dotting the hills just to the north (left) of this view. And every one of them puts up a light to drive away the darkness — to mar the view.
I urge you to think about what a view — for everybody -- is worth.
"I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. Man cannot improve on it; not a bit. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is to keep it for your children and your children's children and for all who come after you, as one of the great sights which every American, if he can travel at all, should see.
Keep the Grand Canyon of Arizona as it is." — President Theodore Roosevelt, May 1903
Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR
122mm
F8@2.5 seconds
ISO 400
GND filter
DSB_5024.JPG
©Don Brown 2026
122mm
F8@2.5 seconds
ISO 400
GND filter
DSB_5024.JPG
©Don Brown 2026
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