A month ago, as part of a short vacation in Arizona, I visited the Grand Canyon. This was my second trip there, having first visited in Winter 2003 as part of a year of round-the-world travels.
Anyone who’s visited (and perhaps tried to take photos of) the Grand Canyon will tell you the same thing – no photo can do this place justice. To appreciate its vastness and complexity you just have to be there standing on the rim quietly contemplating the hundreds of millions of years it has taken to form.
Still, I took my camera and grabbed a few shots just for old-times-sakes.
As I was coming round a corner of the trail I spotted a Crow on a tree and grabbed a quick snap. Looking at the snap, what struck me was not the bird itself, but the shape of the tree as it stood in semi-silhouette about an hour before sunset. As I looked around I saw more of these incredible shapes – twisted tree branches carving out distorted routes through the sky. I decided to take some shots specifically to turn in to 2-bit images (i.e. solid black and whites – no colour, no shades of grey, just solid black and white).
So here we have… 2-Bit Grand Canyon Trees.
