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GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK PHOTOGRAPHY PRINTS
Grand Canyon National Park photography prints for sale from a collection of fine art nature photos featuring pictures of the rugged beauty of Grand Canyon National Park by Jess Lee. These pictures are offered for sale as Fine Art Limited Edition prints. Enjoy beautiful landscape pictures of the Grand Canyon area with luxurious prints of the dramatic scenes of the Grand Canyons, North and South Rims. A place of ever-changing light, these beautiful pictures of the Grand Canyon will add beauty and warmth to any room in your home or office! All of these images are presented in Luxurious Fine Art Prints are available in several styles and presentations, which can be seen below each photo after you make your selection. Order now by selecting the style and size for your luxurious wall art from the menu below your print.
HOW TO VIEW AND PHOTOGRAPH GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
The Grand Canyon is simply awe-inspiring in size and grandeur and it is difficult for photographers to convey the feeling of being there. The North Rim includes Cape Royal and Point Imperial. The South Rim has many stunning viewpoints such as Yavapai Point, Yaki Point, Grandview Point, Desert View and others. A favorite time of year to capture the dramatic views at the Grand Canyon is August with fantastic clouds and thunderstorms.
Grand Canyon National Park is one of the most iconic and breathtaking natural wonders in the United States. The park's awe-inspiring beauty has inspired countless photographers to capture its majesty and magic through their lenses. It has been said that one photographer, in particular, whose work captures the essence of Grand Canyon National Park, is Jess Lee.
If you're a lover of fine art photography and are looking for a way to bring the beauty of Grand Canyon National Park into your home, you should definitely check out this photography gallery page. On this page, you'll find a stunning collection of images of the Grand Canyon, from sweeping vistas to intimate details of the landscape.
One of the things that sets Jess Lee's work apart is his attention to detail and his ability to capture the essence of the Grand Canyon in his photographs. He has a deep understanding of the park's geology, ecology, and history, and he uses that knowledge to create images that are not only beautiful but also informative and educational.
If you're a fan of fine art photography and are looking for a way to bring the beauty of Grand Canyon National Park into your home, you won't be disappointed with Jess Lee's photography gallery page. His stunning photographs capture the essence of the park and are sure to be a conversation starter in any room. So why not take a few minutes to explore his gallery page and see for yourself why Jess Lee is one of the most talented photographers working today?
Grand Canyon Print and Wall Art Purchase Options
My photographs of Grand Canyon National Park are available for you to purchase as Fine Art Prints or Wall Art and place in your home or office. They are for sale as Frameless or Framed Lumachrome® HD Trulife® Acrylic Prints, Exhibit Mounted Metal Prints, and Fuji Crystal Archive Paper Prints. After selecting the desired photo, just select the type and size of print you would like to purchase in the area beneath the photo.
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Jess Lee is a talented fine art photographer who specializes in capturing the beauty of the natural world. He has spent years photographing Grand Canyon National Park and has created a stunning collection of images that showcase the park's beauty and majesty. His photographs capture the colors and textures of the canyon, the vastness of the landscape, and the play of light and shadow on its surfaces.
In addition to his stunning photography, Jess Lee also has years of experience photographing Grand Canyon National Park. He knows the park intimately and has spent countless hours exploring its nooks and crannies, searching for the perfect shot. His expertise and knowledge make him the perfect photographer to capture the beauty of this iconic landscape.
About the Grand Canyon
"Grand Canyon National Park was designated as such in 1919. The Park is located in central Arizona near Flagstaff, covers over 1.2 million acres and receives over 6 million visitors each year. It is an exciting place to be for Landscape and Nature Photography.
The Park includes 277 miles of the Colorado River. The Grand Canyon is a mile deep and up to 18 miles wide and displays layer upon layer of geological history. Hiking to the Canyon floor is one of the most difficult hikes there is and is only attempted by a small number of people.
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).[5]
Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted.[6] While some aspects about the history of incision of the canyon are debated by geologists,[7] several recent studies support the hypothesis that the Colorado River established its course through the area about 5 to 6 million years ago.[1][8][9] Since that time, the Colorado River has driven the down-cutting of the tributaries and retreat of the cliffs, simultaneously deepening and widening the canyon.
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans, who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it.[10] The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.[11]
Geography
The Grand Canyon is a river valley in the Colorado Plateau that exposes uplifted Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata, and is also one of the six distinct physiographic sections of the Colorado Plateau province. Even though it is not the deepest canyon in the world (Kali Gandaki Gorge in Nepal is much deeper), the Grand Canyon is known for its visually overwhelming size and its intricate and colorful landscape. Geologically, it is significant because of the thick sequence of ancient rocks that are well preserved and exposed in the walls of the canyon. These rock layers record much of the early geologic history of the North American continent.
Uplift associated with mountain formation later moved these sediments thousands of feet upward and created the Colorado Plateau. The higher elevation has also resulted in greater precipitation in the Colorado River drainage area, but not enough to change the Grand Canyon area from being semi-arid.[12] The uplift of the Colorado Plateau is uneven, and the Kaibab Plateau that the Grand Canyon bisects is over one thousand feet (300 m) higher at the North Rim than at the South Rim. Almost all runoff from the North Rim (which also gets more rain and snow) flows toward the Grand Canyon, while much of the runoff on the plateau behind the South Rim flows away from the canyon (following the general tilt). The result is deeper and longer tributary washes and canyons on the north side and shorter and steeper side canyons on the south side.
Temperatures on the North Rim are generally lower than those on the South Rim because of the greater elevation (averaging 8,000 feet or 2,400 metres above sea level).[13] Heavy rains are common on both rims during the summer months. Access to the North Rim via the primary route leading to the canyon (State Route 67) is limited during the winter season due to road closures.[14]
Geology
Diagram showing the placement, age and thickness of the rock units exposed in the Grand Canyon
Rockfalls in recent times, along with other mass wasting, have further widened the canyon
The Grand Canyon is part of the Colorado River basin which has developed over the past 70 million years,[15] in part based on apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry showing that Grand Canyon reached a depth near to the modern depth by 20 Ma.[16] A recent study examining caves near Grand Canyon places their origins beginning about 17 million years ago. Previous estimates had placed the age of the canyon at 5–6 million years.[17] The study, which was published in the journal Science in 2008, used uranium-lead dating to analyze calcite deposits found on the walls of nine caves throughout the canyon.[18] There is a substantial amount of controversy because this research suggests such a substantial departure from prior widely supported scientific consensus.[19] In December 2012, a study published in the journal Science claimed new tests had suggested the Grand Canyon could be as old as 70 million years.[20][21] However, this study has been criticized by those who support the "young canyon" age of around six million years as "[an] attempt to push the interpretation of their new data to their limits without consideration of the whole range of other geologic data sets."[17]
The canyon is the result of erosion which exposes one of the most complete geologic columns on the planet.
The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon range in age from the 2-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 270-million-year-old Kaibab Limestone on the Rim. There is a gap of about a billion years between the 500-million-year-old stratum and the level below it, which dates to about 1.5 billion years ago. This large unconformity indicates a long period for which no deposits are present.
Many of the formations were deposited in warm shallow seas, near-shore environments (such as beaches), and swamps as the seashore repeatedly advanced and retreated over the edge of a proto-North America. Major exceptions include the Permian Coconino Sandstone, which contains abundant geological evidence of aeolian sand dune deposition. Several parts of the Supai Group also were deposited in non–marine environments.
The great depth of the Grand Canyon and especially the height of its strata (most of which formed below sea level) can be attributed to 5–10 thousand feet (1,500 to 3,000 m) of uplift of the Colorado Plateau, starting about 65 million years ago (during the Laramide Orogeny). This uplift has steepened the stream gradient of the Colorado River and its tributaries, which in turn has increased their speed and thus their ability to cut through rock (see the elevation summary of the Colorado River for present conditions).
Weather conditions during the ice ages also increased the amount of water in the Colorado River drainage system. The ancestral Colorado River responded by cutting its channel faster and deeper.
The base level and course of the Colorado River (or its ancestral equivalent) changed 5.3 million years ago when the Gulf of California opened and lowered the river's base level (its lowest point). This increased the rate of erosion and cut nearly all of the Grand Canyon's current depth by 1.2 million years ago. The terraced walls of the canyon were created by differential erosion.[22]
Between 100,000 and 3 million years ago, volcanic activity deposited ash and lava over the area which at times completely obstructed the river. These volcanic rocks are the youngest in the canyon."
