Stunning timelapse footage of the Grand Canyon for the SKYGLOW Project featuring, among other things, a phenomenon called ‘full cloud inversion’ where clouds become trapped between the canyon walls, rising up to the brim of the cliff face like a sea of dry ice.
Once or twice a year, but almost never with the clear sky backdrop pictured here (last Friday), a temperature inversion phenomenon appears to fill Arizona’s Grand Canyon to the brim with fog – cool air trapped at the bottom of the canyon, held in place by a layer of warm air above, creating low level clouds.
(Video: Paul Lettieri. Pix: Erin Whittaker, Ben Mayberry)
Incredible 25 second exposures of a lightning storm at the east end of Arizona’s Grand Canyon captured last month by photographer Rolf Maeder.
Here’s how he edited the print.
