Kanab Point for Sunrise over the Grand Canyon
Kanab Point at the exact moment of Sunrise Kanab point has everything I'd want in a Grand Canyon viewpoint. It's remote. My family had it all to ourselves. It's got great views at sunrise and sunset. It's got towering rock pillars and distant twisted dark canyons. It overlooks the confluence of two huge canyons: the Grand Canyon and Kanab Canyon. You can see all the way down to the water far below. It's pretty undiscovered as far as photography goes. After camping there overnight, I got up before sunrise and went to the point looking east. The sun will rise over Kanab Creek to the east and the main Grand Canyon with the Colorado is slightly to the southeast. You can include views in any direction except northwest. It drops off in sheer cliffs in all those directions. I shot with a variety of lenses to bring some specific things into focus, such as the Golden Rocky Towers with a 70-200 mm lens. I used the 17...