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I got to spend a fantastic week touring northern Arizona with my oldest son (MANY thanks to FM'ers who provided invaluable advice in the Travel forum!!!). As this was primarily a hiking, climbing and spelunking adventure trip, photography took a major back seat (which was admittedly VERY difficult  ) and I ended up with minimal camera gear to save on backpack weight. I decided to go with the a1 and FE28-60 lens combo for it’s small footprint and weight, and while somewhat skeptical of the combo initially I ended up absolutely loving both the convenience and the results from that little workhorse of a lens.
I mounted the camera to my upper chest backpack strap with a Peak Design Capture Clip, which allowed me to effortlessly unclip, shoot, and return the camera while hiking. We hiked over 10 miles and 8,000 vertical feet in and out of the Canyon in two days, and never once on the often arduous hiking and climbing did I feel concern for the camera in the Capture Clip.
I also learned right away that photographing something so incomprehensibly large as the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley is really quite difficult. I ended up using my son in many images as a foreground object to provide interest and scope to the incredible vastness of these environments. Anyway, here are some of my favorite snaps, thanks for looking!
Shot on a1, 28-60 at various focal lengths, aperture and SS, mostly at 100ISO w/manual focus:
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If you look you can see our trail towards the right as it switchbacks around the mesas:
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I think this is my favorite image to somewhat show the grandness and scale of the Canyon; we're roughly 1,600 feet below the South Rim:
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Much to mom’s dismay he takes after his dad …
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I love following our “South Kaibab” trail route all the way to the right edge of the image, with the white “Z” shaped switchbacks leading us down toward the Colorado River:
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Also loved touring MV:
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This was the view from our cabin porch. The sun was just rising directly behind the right monument, faintly lighting the foggy valley:
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Yesterday, my two year old started picking up my flash and trying to put a lens cap on it so I got hopeful... Then, she tried to eat it and dropped it on the floor...hahaha!