Sunday, April 08, 2012

My Pre-Easter "Sunrise Service."

So, I was at the Grand Canyon, waiting for the sun to come up.

It did.

And I took pictures.

It was Good Friday morning - not Easter - but I was part of a pretty slick "sunrise service."

It was awesome.
After the sun peeped over the horizon, the golden light slowly "flowed" into the dark canyons.

It began to illuminate the stunning array of limestone colors.

It was worth getting up at 5:00am.

And stumbling in the moonlight down to the tram stop to catch the Sunrise Shuttle.

The National Park Service offers these vistas every day.

My buddy had gone online to snag a South Rim Kachina Lodge room and we had watched the sun settle slowly in the west the day before.

This is the fantastic view from the room.

We hopped on an electric-powered NPS bus to go to a great scenic overview.

Yes, it was called the "Sunset Special."

Actually there are several excellent photography spots and the driver made helpful suggestions as he assured us we would arrive in plenty of time.

My brand new $10 National Park Senior Pass meant I avoided having to pay the $25 entrance fee.

(Please click on the photos for more details.)

My Canon S90 came through again to capture some lifetime memories.

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Monday, November 01, 2010

Just A Face In The Crowd....

This appears to be the "Early Bird" souvenir towel.

Don't know how many were made but I got this at 9:00am before the noon start of the Rally.

Edged my way to the center near the second large screen but crowd crunch was fierce.

Ended up to the left of the stage with some more elbow room - and a place to sit on my small blanket. Unfortunately a media stand blocked my view.

But there was a great Jumbo-tron for an excellent view of the onstage activity.

And the SIGNS!






Very creative and funny.

I stood among a very mixed-age crowd. Some older but most younger.

A well-behaved group of people.

When the assemblage was told to do a Hand-Wave, one could see that the ripple took a long, long, long time to reach back toward the Washington Monument.


Later I heard that admittance to the actual Mall was closed by the National Park Service around 11 am.

I still have not heard an "official" estimate of the crowd size but certainly believe it was more than 150,000.

There were at least that many ahead of me trying to get on the Metro afterward.


























Wow. I took a lot of pictures with my Canon S90. Click on these to see more detail. Thanks for coming by.

If you were in the DC crowd and I didn't say "hi" I'm sorry.)

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