{"id":378,"date":"2013-04-11T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/?p=378"},"modified":"2013-04-11T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:28:16","slug":"arizona-trip-part-2-the-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/arizona-trip-part-2-the-grand-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Trip Part 2, The Grand Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

We arrived at the Grand Canyon shortly after sunset. It was pretty cloudy AND snowing, so it wouldn’t have made that much of a difference. The first thing you notice upon coming to the canyon is the sheer size. I’ve been there several times before, but it’s been quite a while. (As before, click any image to view it full-resolution).<\/p>\n

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After dinner, we decided to return to see if any “sucker holes” existed so I could get some photos of the stars. We got lucky. Below is a 10m shot taken at ISO 800. You can see star trails around Polaris. I’d point out it wasn’t completely clear the whole time.<\/p>\n

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I also did a 15″ shot of Auriga, which was just poking out of the clouds. The stars really were dazzling here.<\/p>\n

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Also visible here is Jupiter, just above the clouds.<\/p>\n

The next morning, we woke up at 5 AM to watch the sunrise. It was pretty cloudy, but there were some holes.<\/p>\n

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We spent the rest of the day at various spots throughout the Canyon’s rim. We also did a plane flight over the canyon through Grand Canyon airlines. Below are some of the best shots:<\/p>\n

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I did take a lot more images. I will soon post a link to some lower-res shots of all the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We arrived at the Grand Canyon shortly after sunset. It was pretty cloudy AND snowing, so it wouldn’t have made that much of a difference. The first thing you notice upon coming to the canyon is the sheer size. I’ve been there several times before, but it’s been quite a while. (As before, click any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qGdg-66","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}